Global Survey of Academic Freedom Issues in 2015 [Post 17 of a Series]
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Sub-Saharan Africa, Part 2 In a March 2015 opinion piece for the Globe and Mail, Busani Ngcaweni and Robert Nkuna address the role of political dissent in the reshaping of South Africa’s universities and of the nation itself. Ngcawenu and Nkuna begin by drawing an unsettling contrast: “Allister Sparks believes apartheid…