The proliferation of new threats against academic and intellectual freedoms across Africa has emanated mainly from the deepening of neoliberal cultures in society and in higher education institutions, driven, in part, by a worsening economic crisis.
Against this backdrop, there is an urgent need for a renewed drive to safeguard these freedoms across Africa, according to the concept note that framed the international conference, ‘Academic Freedom in Africa: Revisiting the Kampala Declaration’, organised by the Senegal-based Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).