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African Human Rights Law Journal
On-line version ISSN 1996-2096
Print version ISSN 1609-073X
Abstract
APPIAGYEI-ATUA, Kwadwo. Students' academic freedom in African universities and democratic enhancement. Afr. hum. rights law j. [online]. 2019, vol.19, n.1, pp.151-166. ISSN 1996-2096. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1996-2096/2019/v19n1a8.
This article makes a case for the need to recognise students' right to academic freedom as a necessary and vital component in the academic freedom matrix in addition to that of the university and academics. It seeks to affirm this position by exposing the various categories of rights that students are entitled to enjoy on and off campus. The conclusion reached is that the academic freedom of the three actors (university, academics, students) are indivisible, interdependent and interconnected; and that the suppression of students' right to academic freedom has the consequence of denying them the right to engage democratically on the university campus which could spill over into their involvement in realpolitik in the real world.
Keywords : academic freedom; students' rights; Kampala Declaration-University of Ghana.
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