Deported African Academic Visits Dublin

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | press release Saturday February 11, 2006 15:35 by Shane Mac Giollabhui - TCD macgiols at tcd dot ie dept. of politics, TCD 0868654466

Lecture 1 in MDG series

Prof. Kenneth Good visits Ireland to address the student body of TCD, and general public, on development and democracy in Southern Africa.

On Wednesday, 22 February in the first of a series,
the Department of Economics at Trinity College, Dublin presents

‘Millennium Development Goals’ Lecture #1:

‘Development and Democracy in Southern Africa’ by Prof. Kenneth Good

‘Democratic Governance is the glue that holds all other development priorities
set out across the MDGs together.’
Mark Malloch Brown, Chef de Cabinet to the UN Secretary-General

Prolific author and human rights activist, Kenneth Good was Professor of Political Studies at the University of Botswana and a resident of the country for 15 years. On 31 May 2005, Prof. Good was taken from the country’s High Court by security personnel and, seven hours later, put on a plane out of the country. His 14-week challenge to the declaration in February 2005 by President Festus Mogae that he was a Prohibited Immigrant on grounds of being a threat to national security had failed.

In the first in a series of lectures, Professor Good examines the fragility of democracy in Southern African and the political obstacles that inhibit achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in one of the world’s richest, but most unequal, regions.

All are welcome to attend Prof. Good’s lecture, which will be held at
6 p.m. in the Walton Theatre of Trinity’s Arts Block