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The autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a prominent African in late 18th-century Britain, is quoted, anthologized and interpreted in dozens of books and articles. More than any single contemporary, Equiano speaks for the fate of millions of Africans in the era of the transatlantic slave trade. This study attempts to create a rounded portrait of the man behind the literary image, and to study Equiano in the context of Atlantic slavery

Examining the relationship between higher education policy and the state, the book focuses on the ways in which the changing concepts of the nature of the state and its role have had an impact on the development of higher education policy in the last thirty years. The authors study the dynamics behind the shift from state-subsidised independence to ambiguous but increased dependence on and deference to the state's policies. Employing the latest extensive research and interview material, the book looks at: the major changes in higher education policy, the changes in the nature of the state, the changes in states machinery for policy implementation, how policies emerge, and how continuous they are, the influence of interest groups and elites on policy-making and implementation, the changes in institutional government. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1945-1997. (HoF/text adopted)