by chloe | Dec 27, 2014 | Africa
Originally posted on the School of Advanced Study blog. Keith Somerville, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS), who was able to observe at first-hand, developments in South Africa, helped to organise the recent Mandela: Myth and...
by chloe | Dec 22, 2014 | Africa
Trevor Grundy is a British based journalist who lived and worked as a reporter and broadcaster in Central, Eastern and Sothern Africa from 1966-1996. Today he is an author and researcher based in Kent, Southern England. trevor.grundy@zen.co.uk It’s 20 years since the...
by chloe | Dec 16, 2014 | Canada & the Caribbean
Join us at the launch of Creole Music of the French West Indies, A Discography on 23 January 2015 at 6.00pm The biguine is a genre of rhythm-based music and song that probably originated in Martinique, and epitomises black Creole music from the French Antilles. The...
by chloe | Dec 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies It is a year since Nelson Mandela was laid to rest. His death was mourned around the world – and rightly so. Few could hold a candle to Mandela and we all felt our collective loss. But the...
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