by chloe | Aug 6, 2015 | Africa
by Keith Somerville, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies* One of the major announcements by President Obama during his brief but highly symbolic visit to Kenya this weekend was that he would implement “urgently needed steps” to restrict the sale...
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 | 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 commonwealth-oral-history-project | Jun 3, 2013 | Africa
Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies Keith Somerville raised several important points in his review of John Simpson’s controversial coverage of white poverty in South Africa. As a former colleague at the BBC and a fellow research...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | May 30, 2013 | Africa
Keith Somerville, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies It is hard these days to get the ANC and the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) to agree on anything. But the BBC’s World Affairs Editor, John Simpson has managed it. How? With a...
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