Abstract

African debilitating unemployment crisis has been mainly because of the low standard of higher education (HE). Building on’ Postcolonial Theory’ (PT), this article examines the current situation, causes and solutions to African HE challenges. By exploring issues related to over-reliance on outdated curriculum, poor teaching pedagogy, low government expenditure on education and ineffective education policies, we hope to contribute to the knowledge of ways to improve HE, labour force and Sustainable Development (SD). This conceptual article argues that increase in access to HE which has been the policy agenda in the last three decades in many Africa countries is not the solution to the education crisis, rather focus should be on skills development, vocational education and less emphasises on degree qualifications.