2 - African Diaspora and the Search for Academic Freedom Safe Havens: Outline of a Research Agenda

This article examines assumptions concerning the extent to which being in exile influences academics’ possibilities exercise academic freedom, particularly when articulating views on African political and social issues that might be inconvenient established authorities. Two main questions are addressed. First, do academics need diaspora their including freedom of expression free speech, beyond walls university its consecrated teaching research? Second, factors such as disciplinary background, country origin, reasons for migrating from Africa period living influence propensity publicly express home countries? The begins by conceptualising diaspora, ‘extramural’ freedom.