1. I owe a debt of gratitude to my hosts in the Department of Sociology at the University of Witwatersrand, where I served as Visiting Professor in July and August, 1996. Special thanks to Glenn Adler, Belinda Bozzoli, Eddie Webster as well as to the students who invited me to give the Feetham Memorial Lecture.

2. This speech was delivered on August 14, 1996, as the Richard Feetham Memorial Lecture on Academic Freedom in Africa, an annual event at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, since 1959, when Chancellor Richard Feetham and many colleagues refused the government’s order, under the Separate University Education Bill, to segregate the University. (Previously, Wits and the University of Cape Town were “Open Universities,” and admitted students without regard to race or color.) When the Bill became Act in 1959, thousands of students and staff marched through the streets protesting the State’s attempt to enforce apartheid in the universities. Other speakers in the Feetham lecture series have been, inter alia, Robert Kennedy, Alistar Sparks, Bishop Desmond Tutu, and Goban Mbeki.

3. Some passages in this section are adapted from James A., Caporaso and James H., Mittelman, “The Assault on Global Education,” PS: Political Science & Politics, 21, 1 (Winter 1988) pp. 36–44 Google Scholar; and James H. , Mittelman, “Academic Freedom, the State and Globalization,” in Mamadou, Diouf and Mahmood, Mamdani, eds., Academic Freedom and Democratic Struggle (Dakar: Council for the Development of Economic And Social Research in Africa, 1994), pp. 141-9Google Scholar.