Eighteen of Africa's most distinguished scholars have contributed to this major and timely work, including Claude Ake, Archie Mafeje, Ali Mazrui, Issa Shivji
and Joseph Ki-Zerbo. As a first step towards greater consideration of
the nature of the research environment in Africa and to reflect on the
social and material context of research as an intellectual activity,
CODESRIA co-organised a major conference on academic freedom and
research in Africa in Kampala in 1990. A selection of the conference
papers are contained in this volume. The papers cover the relationship
of capital and the state to academic freedom, the historical processes
which have shaped intellectuals in Africa, issue of autonomy and
democracy and the question of funding relationships, and the difficulty
of alliances that question the right to independence.
The book is divided into five sections: Reflections; Methodological Perspectives; Global Influences andLocal Constraints; Intelligentsia and Activism; and Organizing Academics.
The book is divided into five sections: Reflections; Methodological Perspectives; Global Influences andLocal Constraints; Intelligentsia and Activism; and Organizing Academics.
