Decades after decolonization and independence, the fact is, that with very few exceptions, Africans who want to obtain PhDs still need to go abroad. By and large throughout Africa, anthropologists are found in joint departments in which they are a minority. In the few places where stand‐alone departments do exist and/or larger contingents of anthropologists are to be found on official faculty rosters, many offices are likely to remain empty for months at a time, as senior lecturers dedicate most of their time to successive short‐term consultancies through which they are able to pay their bills and survive, while leaving their classes to be “taught” by undergraduate teaching assistants.
