This article is based on the idea that the appropriation of university governance in sub-Saharan Africa is registered in a globalization paradigm. In fact, sub-Saharan academic systems are socialized to governance by external actors, namely international institutions, specialized institutions and university cooperation agencies which give African academic systems a foundation of new managerial technics. Sub-Saharan academic systems adopt this foundation and integrate it into a reform process. These reforms are concrete answer to the standardization of university governance, thereby allowing them to cooperate with Western universities, as well as financial and specialized institutions to obtain technical and financial resources. Sub-sahrians academic systems are included in the university governance phenomenon, which is a topical issue in a knowledge economy.