Our In Their Own Words section brings you email interviews conducted with those at the cutting edge of research into politics across Africa, helping you to stay at the forefront of emerging debates and current analysis in the region.
In the final interview in our series of ‘reflecting back, looking forward’, we talk to Alex Cobham who is Head of Research at Save the Children. The perspectives expressed here are his own and may not reflect those of Save the Children. We have staggered our New Year interviews at DiA across the first two [...]
As the new year is getting under way, Democracy in Africa has asked key groups and individuals to reflect on developments in Africa during 2012, and look forward to 2013. We have invited them to share with us their insights and predictions, their hopes and their fears. Here, we speak to René Claude Niyonkuru, Executive Director of the Association [...]
To mark the new year, Democracy in Africa has asked key groups and individuals to reflect on developments in Africa during 2012, and look forward to 2013. We have invited them to share with us their insights and predictions, their hopes and their fears. Here, we speak to John Caulker, Executive Director of Fambul Tok in Sierra Leone. [...]
To mark the new year, Democracy in Africa has asked key groups and individuals to reflect on developments in Africa during 2012, and look forward to 2013. We have invited them to share with us their insights and predictions, their hopes and their fears. Here, we speak to Caroline Kende-Robb. Caroline is the Executive Director of the [...]
To mark the new year, Democracy in Africa has asked key groups and individuals across Africa to reflect on developments in 2012, and look forward to 2013. We have invited them to share with us their insights and predictions, their hopes and their fears. In the first of this series, we talk to the Zimbabwe Democracy Institute [...]
Global Policy Forum, an independent policy watchdog that monitors the work of the United Nations, released a report last week entitled ‘Dangerous Partnership’. In it, they explored the relationship between the UN and Private Military and Security Companies. In this interview, we speak to the report’s author, Lou Pingeot, about her findings. She argues that [...]
According to a report by MPs on the International Development Committee of the UK Parliament, too much European Union development aid is going to middle income countries and not enough is going to the world’s poorest people. Does this mean that European governments are pulling the wool over our eyes by claiming to maintain aid levels when in fact they are diverting spending to projects that most of us wouldn’t actually consider to be aid at all? To get the answer to this question, we interviewed he Chair of the Committee, the Rt. Hon Malcolm Bruce.
Dr Blessings Chinsinga on presidents, plots, and political vision in Malawi.
The last year has been an eventful one in Malawi. In this interview, Dr Blessings Chinsinga gives us his views on the political and economic landscape of the country, critiquing Joyce Banda’s lack of vision in leadership and exploring her prospects at the polls in 2014. Since Joyce Banda became President on 7th April 2012 [...]