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Title: | Academic Freedom in Africa: The Dual Tyranny |
Author: | Mazrui, Ali A. |
Year: | 1975 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 74 |
Issue: | 297 |
Period: | October |
Pages: | 393-400 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | higher education academic freedom Education and Oral Traditions Law, Human Rights and Violence |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/721683 |
Abstract: | Concentrates on an interpretation of the situation of academic freedom as it exists at the moment. The author, who first gives a definition of the problem, believes that intellectual freedom in Africa is up against a dual tiranny: the political tyranny of governments and the Euro-centrism of academic culture. In the article the author works out these two themes. Conclusion: our institutions of higher learning should find the will to transcend external dependency and the skills to survive domestic pressures. |