Brown Chimphamba
Brown Chimphamba is a
1993 referendum which ended the rule of Hastings Banda's Malawi Congress Party. He was also the Vice Chancellor of the University of Malawi
.
Academic Freedom 2011
He was head of the Academic Freedom Commission in 2011, where democratically elected President
Bingu Mutharika had a standoff with the lecturers at UNIMA.[1] This was the result of a lecturer, Dr Blessings Chinsinga being summoned by the police Inspector General Peter Mukhito for comparisons Chinsinga drew in a political science class with regards to the Tunisian uprisings in 2011 that resulted in the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak.[1] It led to the firing of Dr Blessings Chinsinga, Jessie Kabwila-Kapasula, Gaston Kanchedzera, Edge Kanyongoro and Franz Amin. It also led to student protests at the University of Malawi. The six-man Commission of Inquiry, headed by Prof. Brown Chimphamba, was convened by Mutharika 'to define academic freedom, investigate the cause of the stand-off and propose measures to avoid future ones'.[1]
Sources
References
- ^ a b c "Mutharika's TV address on university impasse misleading – CCASU | Newstime Africa". Archived from the original on 2011-10-09. Retrieved 2011-06-14.