by chloe | Nov 16, 2017 | Africa
How did Zimbabwe get here? What is going on? What is likely to happen? The short answer is a combination of short-term factors, and long-term trends, economic structural pressures, political policy choices, and personal power agenda. Read this extract from Robert...
by Jack Saffery-Rowe | Jul 14, 2016 | Africa
by Professor Keith Somerville, ICWS Senior Research Fellow Ivory and elephants have for decades been very emotive topics among conservationists, wildlife departments and NGOs in states which have elephant populations and in Western countries which believe they have a...
by Jack Saffery-Rowe | May 27, 2016 | Africa, Imperial and Postcolonial History, Regions, The Commonwealth
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’...
by Jack Saffery-Rowe | May 20, 2016 | Africa, Imperial and Postcolonial History, The Commonwealth
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...
by chloe | Feb 22, 2016 | Africa, Human Rights, The Commonwealth
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...
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