Dimensions of Higher Education in Africa

I rocked by struggles for democracy, whose scope and intensity suggest a fundamental rupturing of the postcolonial order and a profound yearning for a new socioeconomic and political dispensation. Intimately engaged in these broad struggles for the “second independence,” African intellectuals have also been waging battles for their own academic freedom, against the social forces and actors that control and constrain the academic research environment and the production of critical ideas-namely, the state, civil society, the institutions dominated by the intellectuals themselves, and foreign donors and Eurocentric academic cultures. This hook, a product of the conference sponsored by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) on academic freedom, held in Kampala in 1990, addresses these issues with urgenc