by louisa | Mar 26, 2020 | Asia, Bangladesh, Media Freedom
By William Crawley, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. William Crawley was invited by the Bangladesh High Commissioner in London to speak at the commemoration of the anniversary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth one hundred...
by chloe | Apr 24, 2018 | Imperial and Postcolonial History, Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, The Commonwealth
by Susan Williams, Senior Research Fellow How one addresses the question of the Commonwealth’s relevance depends on one’s perception of ‘the Commonwealth’. It is known globally as an international association, bringing together 53 ‘independent and equal...
by chloe | Apr 22, 2018 | Africa, Imperial and Postcolonial History, Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, The Commonwealth
by Melanie Torrent, Senior Research Fellow Back in October 1995, the admission of Cameroon to the Commonwealth during the Heads of Government Meeting in Auckland was a fairly controversial affair. Within Commonwealth circles, a number of experts believed the country...
by chloe | Apr 20, 2018 | Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, The Commonwealth
by Rehnuma Sazzad, Associate Fellow To be, or not to be, is not the question we generally associate with the Commonwealth. Given the historico-political ties binding the former colonies with the mother country, the relevance of the organization has never been...
by laura | Jan 5, 2016 | Africa
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...
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