by laura | Jan 5, 2016 | Africa
By Keith Somerville, ICWS Senior Research Fellow Buhari and the Bulldozer gets to grips with graft – combatting corruption in Nigeria and Tanzania. A demonstration of the diversity but also shared problems of structure and agency in Sub-Saharan Africa This month my...
by laura | Dec 18, 2015 | Africa
By Keith Somerville, ICWS Senior Research Fellow In early December 2015, it was reported that eight lions from the Marsh Pride in Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Game Reserve had been poisoned by Maasai herders illegally grazing their cattle there. The Mara reserve is a...
by laura | Dec 11, 2015 | Africa, Human Rights
By Henning Melber, ICWS Senior Fellow ONCE upon a time, anti-colonial movements were fighting for human rights against oppression and injustice. Representatives of these agencies claimed a moral high ground. As the “Wretched of the Earth” they expected and demanded...
by chloe | Nov 11, 2015 | Africa, The Commonwealth
by Dr Sue Onslow, Senior Lecturer in Commonwealth Studies There is a remarkable public amnesia in the UK that 50 years ago on 11th November, Southern Rhodesia defiantly declared its independence from Britain. In a highly theatrical performance, and under the gaze of a...
by chloe | Oct 22, 2015 | Africa, Human Rights
by Henning Melber, ICWS Senior Research Fellow The principle in dubio pro reo (“in doubt for the accused”) is that one is innocent until proven guilty are fundamental principles of justice. But another motto suggests that justice delayed is justice denied. The...
by chloe | Aug 6, 2015 | Africa
by Keith Somerville, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies* One of the major announcements by President Obama during his brief but highly symbolic visit to Kenya this weekend was that he would implement “urgently needed steps” to restrict the sale...
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