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Title: | The Limits of the 'African Miracle': Academic Freedom in Botswana and the Deportation of Kenneth Good |
Author: | Taylor, Ian |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | Journal of Contemporary African Studies |
Volume: | 24 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | January |
Pages: | 101-122 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Botswana |
Subjects: | academic freedom freedom of speech academics deportation Education and Oral Traditions Politics and Government Law, Human Rights and Violence |
About person: | Kenneth Good (1933-2020) |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589000500513804 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4E12A811FBB7508A0A12 |
Abstract: | On 31 May 2005 Kenneth Good, Professor at the University of Botswana, Department of Political and Administrative Studies, was deported from Botswana. President Festus Modae had declared him a prohibited immigrant. No further official reasons were given and throughout the Court of Appeal hearing against the expulsion order, the government counsel refused to say what crime Professor Good was alleged to have committed in order to be deported. The present article discusses the Good case and its implications for academic freedom in Botswana, as well as Botswana's reputation as the 'African miracle'. It also details the failure of the University of Botswana to protect and defend one of its professors. The author co-authored an academic paper with Good criticizing the growing autocracy in Botswana and the over-concentration of powers centred on the presidency. Good presented the paper at the University of Botswana on 23 February as scheduled, only days after he received the initial deportation order. Bibliogr., notes. [ASC Leiden abstract] |