Ten student leaders at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) were arrested following protests against the university administration’s decision to increase academic fees by 30%...
The Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA) expressed concern over the decline in academic freedom within public universities. They highlighted issues such as political interference...
In February 2020, the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Governing Council terminated the appointments of seven lecturers, including Professor Oluwatoyinn Ogundipe and Dr. Taiwo Oyedeji, who...
During the 2019 Sudanese Revolution that led to the ousting of President Omar al-Bashir, universities became central sites of protest and subsequent repression. On April...
Following the outbreak of conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region in November 2020, academics of Tigrayan ethnicity faced widespread and systematic persecution. At Addis Ababa University,...
On June 24, 2022, Zimbabwe Republic Police arrested more than a dozen student leaders at the University of Zimbabwe during a peaceful demonstration against a...
Dr. Stella Nyanzi, a medical anthropologist, feminist scholar, and researcher at the Makerere University Institute of Social Research, was arrested after publishing a poem on...
Professor Tawana Kupe unexpectedly resigned from his position as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Pretoria in June 2023, six months before the end of his...
A study presented at the National Symposium on Academic Freedom revealed that 25% of academic staff at public universities refrained from exercising academic freedom due...
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Africa Coalition for Academic Freedom (ACAF) is an initiative aimed at championing academic freedom concerns across the African continent
