by chloe | Jul 17, 2015 | Africa
by Keith Somerville, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies* Without belabouring the Chinua Achebe motif, Botswana’s conservation community is less at ease than it is used to being but the country is still far from seeing things fall apart....
by chloe | Feb 27, 2015 | Africa, Asia, Imperial and Postcolonial History
by Chris Moffat, ICWS Early Career Researcher in Commonwealth Studies The Hidden History of Decolonization: What do the ‘migrated archives’ reveal about British withdrawal from Empire? Last Friday, 20 February 2015, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies convened an...
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 | Sep 26, 2014 | Africa
Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London The tiny Red Sea nation of Eritrea is at peace, yet its people are flooding across its borders. As many are being caught reaching the shores of Europe as come from Syria,...
by chloe | Sep 15, 2014 | Africa
by Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies A month ago the South African Parliament was brought to a halt. The Speaker had been unable to bring to an end a demonstration on the floor of the Chamber.. The august Victorian building,...
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