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Africa’s rising middle class: time to sort out fact from fiction

by Jack Saffery-Rowe | May 27, 2016 | Africa, Imperial and Postcolonial History, Regions, The Commonwealth

  By Professor Henning Melber, Senior Research Fellow, ICWS Image credit: Botschaft-MadagaskarSince the turn of the century the middle classes of the global South have taken centre stage in economic policy circles. Animated by diversification of some countries’...

Soweto uprising – 40 years on: the role of Wits students

by Jack Saffery-Rowe | May 20, 2016 | Africa, Imperial and Postcolonial History, The Commonwealth

  By Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, ICWS It is hard to believe, but it is 40 years since the pupils of Soweto confronted the apartheid state. It was the beginning of the end of white rule in South Africa. But the children – many of them very young – paid a...

Commonwealth, Sustainable Development Goals and T20 Cricket: some ‘Ivory Tower’ reflections

by chloe | May 16, 2016 | The Commonwealth

by Dr Balasubramanyam Chandramohan PhD, FRSA, FHEA, ICWS Senior Research Fellow Bank Holidays are a good time to let some thoughts break through normal routines of academic life. As I sit facing across the window, with a magnolia tree in full bloom and not many yards...

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