African History & Politics Seminar
Michaelmas Term 2009
Department of International Development
Department of Politics & International Relations
Faculty of History
Mondays at 5 pm, Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development (ODID), 3 Mansfield Road.
Week 1 Monday 12 October
Alec Russell, Financial Times, London
Bring me my machine gun: the battle for the soul of South Africa
Week 2 Monday 19 October
Giles Mohan, Open University, Milton Keynes.
The politics of concession: Chinese ‘aid’ and African development
Week 3 Monday 26 October
P. Roessler, Politics & IR.
Ethnic Power-sharing, Coups, and Civil Wars in Africa
Week 4 Monday 2 November
Daniel Volman, Africa Security Research Project, Washington DC.
Africom, Obama, and the militarization of Africa.
SPECIAL SEMINAR: Friday 6 November
John Githongo, Kenya’s former anti-corruption Czar.
Kenya's National Software Failure: The Asymmetry between Identity, Governance and Livelihoods
Week 5 Monday 9 November
Abdul Raufu Mustapha, ODID & Lindsay Whitfield, DIIS, Copenhagen.
Is Africa Democratizing?
(Followed by the launching of Turning Points in African Democracy, Mustapha & Whitfield, eds., 2009)
Week 6 Monday 16 November
Murray Last, University College, London.
The book and the nature of knowledge in Muslim Northern Nigeria: 1457-2007.
Week 7 Monday 23 November
Christian Højbjerg, Aarhus University, Denmark.
‘Root Causes’: The Role of Culture, Religion, and Memory in a West African Civil War (Liberia/Guinea).
Week 8 Monday 30 November
Adrian Hadland, Democracy & Governance Programme, HSRC, Pretoria.
Characterising the state in Africa's emerging democracies
Convenors: Abdul Raufu Mustapha & Ricardo Soares de Oliveira.