ACAS Bulletin

Contents: Editor's Note ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN AFRICA • PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE: Jack Mapanje • 'INTRODUCTION' TO ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN AFRICA • POPULAR STRUGGLES AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN CAMEROON • THE RECOLONIZATION OF AFRICAN EDUCATION • THE LIMA DECLARATION ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND AUTONOMY OF INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING • THE KAMPALA DECLARATION ON INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY • ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN NIGERIA • COMMITTEE FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN AFRICA • ACAS IN ST. LOUIS • U.S. GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS ISRAELI MILITARY TECHNOLOGY TO SOUTH AFRICA • BELGIUM APPEALS FOR U.S PRESSURE AGAINST ZAIRE • FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS • The newsletter includesTHE COMMITMENT OF THE INTELLECTUAL by Paul Baran. The newsletter discusses the IMF (International Monetary Fund), the World Bank, the Civil Liberties Organization (CLO), the University of Dar Es Salaam Staff Assembly (UDASA), Dr. Mamood Mamdani of the University of Makarere, Mikuyu Prison, the University of Malawi, the Malawi Censorship Board, the University of London, unjustifiable imprisonment, the Poetry International Award, Wole Soyinka, Dr. Farouk Ibrahim el Nur, the University of Khartoum, Islam, Chancellor College, SADCC (Southern African Development Coordination Council), the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights, Ushari Mahmoud, Edwin Wongibe, the National Coordination of Opposition Parties and Associations (NCOPA), CPDM, Sadou Hayatou, SDF, the Cameroon Democratic Union (CDU), capital, civil society, Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC), Prince Dika Akwa, the Union Nationale pour Ia Democratie et le Progres (UNDP), Maigari Bello Bouba, Samuel Eboua, Adamou Ndam Njoya, the National Democratic Party, University of Maryland (Eastern Shore), AA Biya, the University of Yaounde, C. George Caffentzis, Silvia Federici, structural adjustment programs, the World University Service, the UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education, Ibrahim Babangida, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian National Police, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Jibril Aminu, the Nigerian Education Commission, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Dr. P.F. Wilmot, Kaduna Polytechnic, the University of Benin, the University of Lagos, the Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC), Dr. Pade Badru, the University of Port Harcourt, the Abisoye Commission, Festus Iyayi, Salihu Mohammed Lukman, detention, Gbenga Olawepo, Gbenga Komolafe, the Student Union Activities (Control and Regulation) Decree 47, Awolowo University, the African Studies Association (ASA), Robert Manley, the Liberian crisis, Tetteh Kofi, the debt crisis in Africa, Carol Thompson, destabilization, post-apartheid South Africa, Secretary of State James A. Baker, President Bush, sanctions, the Convention for the Limitation of the Spread of Missile Technology, Armscor, President Mobutu Sese Seko, Etienne Tshisekedi, Bernardin Mungul-Diaka, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, University of Rochester, the Institute for International Coopertion and Development, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.