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The Efforts to Restore Intellectual Freedom in Africa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2021
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One of the most encouraging things to happen recently in Africa is the growing concern among local people with the need for respect for civil and political rights. In the forefront of this new movement are many of the continent’s intellectuals. Their agenda includes a more general call for respect of the rights of all citizens but also a particularly strong plea for greater academic freedom. For example, declarations in support of academic freedom were passed by the Association of University Teachers in Zimbabwe 1989 and by delegates from autonomous staff associations in six institutions of higher learning in Tanzania in May 1990. Both these initiatives came about as a result of government decisions to abrogate the autonomy of the universities as laid down in the acts once adopted by national law-makers to guide the operations of these institutions.
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Goran Hyden is Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida and an Affiliate of its Center for African Studies. He was elected to the Board of the African Studies Association in October 1990. He is co-editor of two books relating to the subject of this article: with Michael Bratton, Governance and Politics in Africa, Boulder, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1991; and with Ronald Cohen and Winston Nagan, Human Rights and Governance in Africa, Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1992.
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