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Who will defend the defenders of social justice, human rights and democracy?

It is all of our responsibility to defend brave people such as Uganda’s Jimmy Spire Ssentongo, Agather Atuhaire, Bobi Wine and Kenya’s Kasmeul McOure

#FeesMustFall cost 18 varsities more than R460m in damage to property alone.

Party political meddling threatens future of universities

Campuses elsewhere in Africa have seen the damage done by student activism influenced by political parties, a matter that has raised concern at South Africa’s higher education…

Graduates attend the 68th graduation ceremony where more than 14 000 students received degrees, at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, on January 19, 2018. (Photo by Michele Sibiloni/AFP)

Scandals embarrass Uganda’s Makerere University

Graduation at the ‘Harvard of Africa’ nearly didn’t take place — because the university ran out of gowns

Baring it all: Supporters of Ugandan human rights activist Stella Nyanzi are roughed up by police at court. (Sumy Sadurni/AFP)

Silencing the ‘rudest’ woman in Uganda

For academic Stella Nyanzi, obscenity — radical rudeness — is an act of rebellion against the repressive Museveni regime

Dr Nyanzi remains incarcerated to this day in Luzira Women’s Prison. (AFP)

In Uganda, posting a poem about Museveni gets you jailed

The charge is "misusing a computer." Dr. Stella Nyanzi remains incarcerated to this day in Luzira Women’s Prison

Nyanzi is a formidable activist in Uganda who has been imprisoned for expressing her views before. (Facebook)

Stella Nyanzi: The formidable feminist foe Museveni has failed to silence

She has campaigned for the rights of girls, women and LGBTQIA+ people in Uganda and leads Pads4​GirlsUG a campaign to provide free sanitary pads

Ngugi wa Thiong’o (John McCann)

Transformation began 50 years ago

The first bid to place Africa at the heart of literary studies took place in Kenya

Brian Gitta: “We have yet to celebrate…the media attention is good and we are getting lots of interest in partnering with us. Before we celebrate we have to get something concrete from all these partnerships.”

Ugandan invention revolutionises malaria testing

An award-winning device created by a Ugandan engineer and his colleagues could replace expensive blood tests

Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price

20 years after the ‘Mamdani affair’, the old adversary rejoins UCT

The academic who took on the university’s ‘bantu’ curriculum has returned, marking a ‘path towards decolonisation’

Fear: Students clash with police during a protest against the motion to scrap the presidential age limit — seen as a way for Museveni to seek a sixth term as leader

Uganda rows over Museveni’s rule

As MPs scuffle over the president’s ageing reign, protesters take the battle to the streets

As expected

Post-colonial universities are trapped by their past

Mamdani looks at the history and ideologies that have shaped African universities and points to Afrikaans as an example of successful decolonisation

Getting more out of Africa’s media education

At Ibadan Polytechnic in Nigeria, Jonathan Adejunmobi has a hard job teaching journalism. For a start, there’s not even water to flush the toilets. Then, the school he heads has…