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How did Zimbabwe get here? Exclusive extract from forthcoming book

How did Zimbabwe get here? Exclusive extract from forthcoming book

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...

Ivory – battle lines being drawn over the trade in tusks ahead of CITES summit in South Africa

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...

Africa’s rising middle class: time to sort out fact from fiction

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’...

Soweto uprising – 40 years on: the role of Wits students

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...

Observing Uganda’s 2016 Presidential Election

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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