Sartorial Commandments: ABU’s Assault On Freedom of Expression, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú

All over the world, the university has always given everyone the environment to thrive and come up with great ideas, innovation and discovery, not minding their appearances nor beliefs. The university has always been the place where individual creativity sometimes contests the boundaries of acceptance. That is why it is confounding that an institution of ABU’s standing is seeking to legislate how an individual should appear.

Within the university community, lecturers and administrators are expected to be disciplined, determined, patient and engaging. It should reward intellectual hard work and original thinking. Unfortunately, the rot in the larger society has taken firm root within the academic community. Universities are established for learning and the search for truth. The vitality of Nigerian universities came under threat long ago and the threat is now existential. Our institutions of learning are no longer spaces for contesting ideas, seeking and learning the truth, but a coliseum for gladiators to struggle for control and power. For what it is worth, the tensions playing out in our intellectual spaces is deliberate and organised.

Within the university community, lecturers and administrators are expected to be disciplined, determined, patient and engaging. It should reward intellectual hard work and original thinking. Unfortunately, the rot in the larger society has taken firm root within the academic community. Frequently, the intellectual space rates emotions over intellect and places denunciation over argument. Is this normal? It is not. Nigerians should call out these anomalies.

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