Higher Education Convening Tanzania: Students own governance and leadership development in democratization of universities: case studies of university of dar es salaam and mzumbe university

While there are several other stakeholders in a university system, students are considered to be one of the key stakeholders. Therefore, to attain university good governance, the students’ own governance through quality leadership must be of high standards. However, despite its critical importance, the students’ leadership in African universities has not been analyzed enough by many scholars. The paper discusses the students’ own governance using two cases studies. One of the case studies is on students’ government democratization processes at the University of Dar es Salaam and the other is on a need of embedding students’ leadership development programmes at the Mzumbe University.