by virginiafiguero | May 14, 2014 | Africa
By Keith Somerville, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and teacher at the Centre for Journalism, University of Kent. He is editor of the Africa – News and Analysis website. The release of the latest Boko Haram...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Apr 4, 2014 | Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific, Canada & the Caribbean, Human Rights
By Mandy Banton, Senior Research Fellow, ICWS; formerly of the UK National Archives Despite rumours and half-truths long in existence, the official line that no locally created records of former colonial governments were transferred to London at independence was...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Mar 27, 2014 | Africa
By Richard Bourne OBE, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Nigeria, put together by Lord Lugard in January 1914, has just been celebrating its centenary. This is slightly less of a hooley than the celebration of 50 years of independence in...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Oct 17, 2013 | Africa
Elephants are a keystone species in ecological systems, thinning woodland, creating areas of grassland or savannah and having a massive influence on the flora but also the other fauna of an area. Where they survive in Africa they are generally a threatened species –...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Jun 3, 2013 | Africa
Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies Keith Somerville raised several important points in his review of John Simpson’s controversial coverage of white poverty in South Africa. As a former colleague at the BBC and a fellow research...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | May 30, 2013 | Africa
Keith Somerville, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies It is hard these days to get the ANC and the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) to agree on anything. But the BBC’s World Affairs Editor, John Simpson has managed it. How? With a...
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