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Zainab Shallangwa
Cultural Studies
University of Maiduguri (Nigeria)

Rethinking Academic Freedom in Fettered Spaces: Perspective(s) of a Female African Researcher
Wann 22.12.2022
von 12:15 bis 13:00
Wo KG 1 HS 1221
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Teilnehmer Universitätsoffen / open to university members
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Rethinking Academic Freedom in Fettered Spaces: Perspective(s) of a Female African Researcher

 

The concept of Academic freedom could be relative to/in different cultures, traditions and religions just as freedom itself is arguably relative. In essence, what constitutes academic freedom, in meaning and realization, may differ, depending on variables like culture, class, gender, religion, location and individuals’ realities. For instance, the vastness of the African continent (in landmass and population) further amplifies the nuances of the subject of academic freedom.  Against this background, drawing heavily from my lived experiences as a postcolonial female/woman researcher in, arguably, a cultural and religious conservative Northern Nigeria, I will argue for the need to rethink the concept of academic freedom in the light of the enormous multi layered cultural and religious fetters of restrictions within which most of the female/women academics are forced to operate and survive in the global south. I will also attempt to establish what academic freedom means to me, and, by implication, my contemporaries. In essence, I will seek to provide answer[s] to the reasons the academic space in Northern Nigeria seems fettered for female/women researchers, and what strategies can be deployed to address and perhaps reduce such threats to academic freedom as it exists in such an African context.