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Lee Kuan Yew’s Caribbean rescue in the Commonwealth
by Sir Ronald Sanders, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies Lee Kuan Yew, who led Singapore for three decades, died on March 23rd. He was a remarkable man who is best remembered for courageous leadership that converted a tiny island with virtually...
Vanuatu and Tuvalu – inadequate response to human suffering
by Sir Ronald Sanders, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies People on the East Coast of the United States of America (US) and the Caribbean should consider how best they might lend a helping hand to the people of the islands of Tuvalu and Vanuatu...
Exploring the ‘Hidden Histories’ of Decolonization at the ICWS
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...
The unhelpful geopolitics of energy in the Caribbean
Originally posted on Caribbean News Now. by Sir Ronald Sanders, ICWS Senior Research Fellow US commentators are predicting the death of PetroCaribe, the Venezuelan oil initiative in the Caribbean, and the ascendancy of United States as the dominant player in the...
Mandela: Myth and Reality – a chance for considered reflection
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...
Was the world’s best- known secular saint a Communist after all?
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...
Creole Music of the French West Indies – New Explorations of an Iconic Musical Style
Join us at the launch of Creole Music of the French West Indies, A Discography on 23 January 2015 at 6.00pm The biguine is a genre of rhythm-based music and song that probably originated in Martinique, and epitomises black Creole music from the French Antilles. The...
Legacies of Mandela – Myth and Reality
By Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies It is a year since Nelson Mandela was laid to rest. His death was mourned around the world – and rightly so. Few could hold a candle to Mandela and we all felt our collective loss. But the...
Eritrea’s Exodus
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,...
Are the Economic Freedom Fighters a Threat to South African democracy?
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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