Commonwealth
Opinion
What Brexit means for the Commonwealth
By Sue Onslow, Senior Research Fellow, ICwS By voting to leave the European Union, Britain’s future relationship with its fellow Commonwealth members has assumed both a greater significance and a greater degree of uncertainty. Before the poll, the uniform message from...
The Commonwealth and Brexit
By Dr Eva Namusoke, Postdoctoral Research Officer, ICWS, Commonwealth Oral History Project The campaign ahead of the EU referendum on Thursday 23rd June has been bitterly fought by both the Remain and Leave camps, with rhetoric and statistics bombarded at voters on a...
Nigerian corruption and crime – a fantastically corrupt culture or the result of a particular history?
By Professor Keith Somerville, Senior Research Fellow, ICWS Just before May’s anti-corruption summit in London, British prime Minister David Cameron, made his now infamous public gaffe when he boasted to the Queen in a rather a silly, schoolboyish way that,...
Africa’s rising middle class: time to sort out fact from fiction
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 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 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...
Observing Uganda’s 2016 Presidential Election
By Dr Eva Namusoke, Postdoctoral Research Officer, ICWS The 18th February saw long-anticipated elections in Uganda, where the incumbent President Yoweri Museveni of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) faced his stiffest opposition in his 30 years in office. With...
Africa’s Long Road and Current Developments
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...
Kenya’s Marsh Pride: What future for lions, people and development?
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...
Human Rights are Never Domestic
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...
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