Government and the universities in East Africa: I—On academic freedom in Africa

“Self-Government in Modern British Universities”,Science and Freedom, VII, 7 (December, 1956), p. 6. Ashby, Eric, and Anderson, Mary, “Autonomy and Academic Freedom in Britain and in English-Speaking Countries of Tropical Africa”,Minerva, IV, 3 (Spring, 1966), pp. 317–364. See Crawford, Malcolm, “Thoughts on Chemical Research and Teaching in East Africa”,Minerva, IV, 2 (Winter, 1966), pp. 170–185. Recently Tanzania's future internal policy was set out in the Arusha Declaration under the slogan “Socialism and Self-reliance”. A conference has just been held in Dar-es-Salaam to see how the University College could be brought into line with this policy. Resolutions from the conference call for socialisation of the college and the institution of compulsory courses in political education which would occupy the students' time both in ideological study and practical work. If such resolutions were implemented—and it would be extremely difficult for the college to resist them—the students would lose still more freedom of choice of what subjects they wanted to study and time to study them in. See also below, pp. 451–452.