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...
by chloe | Jul 30, 2018 | Africa, The Commonwealth
by Sue Onslow, ICWS Deputy Director Zimbabwe has long been particularly important to the moral purpose of the Commonwealth. Indeed, in the 1970s, Commonwealth support enabled Joshua Nkomo to meet world leaders in closed session at the Commonwealth heads of government...
by chloe | May 1, 2018 | Africa, The Commonwealth
By Dr Sue Onslow, Senior Lecturer in Commonwealth Studies and Deputy Director Rejoining the Commonwealth has been a key element of the mood music of Zimbabwe’s foreign policy of ‘robust reengagement’ with the international community under President Emmerson Mnangagwa....
by chloe | Nov 28, 2017 | Africa, The Commonwealth
by Dr Balasubramanyam Chandramohan, Senior Research Fellow The recent events that led to change of leadership in Zimbabwe resulted in the creation of a ‘new’ Zimbabwe. However, there are more continuities than changes in the power structures at the systemic level, and...
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...
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