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“Hands Off Africa” Marking the 60th anniversary of the All African People’s Conference in Accra in 1958

“Hands Off Africa” Marking the 60th anniversary of the All African People’s Conference in Accra in 1958

by anna | Feb 8, 2019 | Africa, Imperial and Postcolonial History

December 2018 marked the 60th anniversary of the All African People’s Conference (AAPC), which was held in Accra, Ghana, between 5 and 13 December 1958. Under the slogan ‘Hands off Africa!!’, the AAPC was a watershed moment in the history of Africa’s liberation from...
Swaziland – thinking the unthinkable to save rhinos by legalising trade in horn

Swaziland – thinking the unthinkable to save rhinos by legalising trade in horn

by Jack Saffery-Rowe | Sep 14, 2016 | Africa

by Professor Keith Somerville, ICWS Senior Research Fellow Swaziland has submitted a proposal on the legalisation of trade in rhino horn to the Conference of the Parties to CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora),...

No longer at ease – clouds on the horizon for Botswana’s conservation success story

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....

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