Why build an archive for African higher education research?
A large proportion of African scholarship is invisible or “lost”. The work of African researchers is not routinely indexed by the large databases that function to organise and map the record of scholarship. This may be a result of the documented bias of the well-known citation indexes, or may be a consequence of the weak circulation of paper-based African journals that do not reach a wide readership, even within the African region. Librarians are known to struggle to obtain copies of locally published articles, papers and research reports. This is also partly due to poorly developed bibliographic control systems in the region. The widely acknowledged importance of higher education as a driver for human, social and economic development has brought about additional impetus to improve the quality of higher education systems on the Continent. AHERO is a central repository for existing research that may be used to inform practice, reduce unnecessary duplication of research effort , serve as
