Events

Location: Room 11.13 Social Sciences Building Ray Bush is Professor of African African Studies and Development Politics at the University of Leeds.

Location: Social Sciences Building 11.13  'Good governance and respect for sovereignty' Sir Edward Clay (former High Commissioner to Kenya) will give a LUCAS Seminar.

Location: LUCAS Event in the University's Theatre Workshop CANCELLATION: Unfortunately due to the volcano in Iceland Zakes Mda has been unable to travel for this event. We plan to hold this later in the year or in 2011. Zakes Mda is a South African novelist, playwright and author of Black Diamond and The Madonna of...

Location: Room 11.13, Social Sciences Building Dr Anna Mdee (John and Elnora Ferguson Centre for African Studies, University of Bradford), will give the seminar ‘Student volunteering in Africa: neo-colonialism, cultural (mis)understanding and patronage networks’  

Location: Room 11.13, Social Sciences Building Joerg Wiegratz (PhD Student, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield) will give the seminar titled: ‘Marching towards market societies in Africa? The case of Uganda’

Location: Room 11.13, Social Sciences Building Professor Allison Drew (Department of Politics, University of York), 'Models of armed struggle: the impact of Algeria's war of independence on Umkhonto we Sizwe's theory and practice'

Location: Room 11.13, Social Sciences Building Dr Devon Curtis from Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge gives a seminar titled "Politics and the Practice of Peacebuilding through Power-sharing in Burundi".

Location: Room 11.13, Social Sciences Building Dr Phil Clark from the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford gives the seminar: 'Justice for Genocide: Accountability and Reconciliation in Rwanda'.

Location: Room 11.13, Social Sciences Building Dan Branch from the Department of History at the University of Warwick gives the seminar: 'The Cold War and Domestic Politics in Kenya, 1964-69'