by anna | Feb 8, 2019 | Africa, Imperial and Postcolonial History
December 2018 marked the 60th anniversary of the All African People’s Conference (AAPC), which was held in Accra, Ghana, between 5 and 13 December 1958. Under the slogan ‘Hands off Africa!!’, the AAPC was a watershed moment in the history of Africa’s liberation from...
by anna | Nov 27, 2018 | Africa, Human Rights, Media Freedom, Uncategorized
Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies A combination of fragile democracies, autocratic regimes and weak civil societies has put internet access and social media in Africa at serious risk. With an estimated 27.7% of Africa’s 1.2...
by chloe | Jul 30, 2018 | Africa, The Commonwealth
by Sue Onslow, ICWS Deputy Director Zimbabwe has long been particularly important to the moral purpose of the Commonwealth. Indeed, in the 1970s, Commonwealth support enabled Joshua Nkomo to meet world leaders in closed session at the Commonwealth heads of government...
by chloe | May 1, 2018 | Africa, The Commonwealth
By Dr Sue Onslow, Senior Lecturer in Commonwealth Studies and Deputy Director Rejoining the Commonwealth has been a key element of the mood music of Zimbabwe’s foreign policy of ‘robust reengagement’ with the international community under President Emmerson Mnangagwa....
by chloe | Apr 22, 2018 | Africa, Imperial and Postcolonial History, Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, The Commonwealth
by Melanie Torrent, Senior Research Fellow Back in October 1995, the admission of Cameroon to the Commonwealth during the Heads of Government Meeting in Auckland was a fairly controversial affair. Within Commonwealth circles, a number of experts believed the country...
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