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Title: | Academic Freedom in Kenya |
Authors: | Savage, Donald C. Taylor, Cameron |
Year: | 1991 |
Periodical: | Canadian Journal of African Studies |
Volume: | 25 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 308-321 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | educational policy universities academic freedom Education and Oral Traditions |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/485222 |
Abstract: | The conflict between the universities and the government in Kenya has its roots in the late 1960s. Since then there has been ongoing and escalating confrontation between the university community and the government, which has now reached a state of permanent crisis. This article discusses academic freedom under President Kenyatta (1964-1978), the style of repression under President arap Moi since 1978, the aborted coup d'état of 1982, the 1988 constitutional changes, and the revival of antigovernment agitation in 1990. It shows that, over the years, the government has invented several new methods of university control. To date the regime has been able to repress and contain its critics in the universities, but it has failed to eradicate the syndrome of protest. Bibliogr. |