| ISBN | 9782869780309 |
| Pages | 388 |
| Dimensions | 216 x 140 mm |
| Published | 1993 |
| Publisher | CODESRIA, Senegal |
| Format | Paperback |
Academic Freedom in Africa
edited by Mahmood Mamdani
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.
About the Editor
Mahmood Mamdani
is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Departments of
Anthropology and Political Science at Columbia University in the United
States. He is also the Director of Columbia's Institute of African
Studies. He is the current President of the Council for Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Dakar, Senegal.
Mamdani's
reputation as an expert in African history, politics and international
relations has made him an important voice in contemporary debates about
Africa.
His book Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism won the 1998 Herskovits Award of the African Studies Association of the USA.
In 2001, he was one of nine scholars to present at the Nobel Peace Prize Centennial Symposium.