• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford) , Dan Hodgkinson (University of Oxford) , Michaela Collord (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Mondays, 5 pm
• Organising department: Oxford Department of International Development

Monday 18 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Discipline and Dissolution in Rebellion: How internal governance explains insurgent violence in Sierra Leone”
  Zoe Marks (Edinburgh)

Monday 25 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Angolanidade: race and class in postwar Luanda”
  Jon Schubert (Leipzig)

Monday 1 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Democracy versus Diversity: Ethnic representation in a devolved Kenya”
  Dominic Burbidge (Oxford)

Monday 8 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Africa after the Commodity Super-Cycle”
  Ian Taylor (St Andrews)

Monday 15 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Darfur: Colonial violence, local politics and state formation, 1916-1956”
  Chris Vaughan (John Moores)

Monday 22 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Constructing Space for Tourism: the role and impacts of trans-frontier conservation areas in Southern and Eastern Africa”
  Christine Noe (Dar es Salaam)

Monday 29 February 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Making Sense of Israeli-African Relations”
  Yossi Melman (Jerusalem Post writer on intelligence and strategic affairs formerly with Haaretz), Naomi Chazan (Professor emerita at Hebrew University and former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset)

Monday 7 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - "Capturing the White Ant: After the ICC in Africa"
  Adam Branch (Cambridge)

Monday 16 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The End of Africa Rising
  Ian Taylor (St Andrews)

Monday 23 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Raising the Curtain: Revealing African movie-goers during colonialism
  Odile Goerg (Paris 7)

Monday 30 January 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Little Mogadishu: Eastleigh, Nairobi's Global Somali Hub
  Neil Carrier (University of Oxford)

Monday 6 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Authoritarian Origins of Well-Organised Opposition Parties: The Rise of Chadema in Tanzania
  Dan Paget (University of Oxford)

Monday 13 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Hisbah Islamic Police in Northern Nigeria
  Raufu Mustapha (University of Oxford)

Monday 20 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Ideology and Strategy: Understanding the Relationship Between Politics and Economy in Sudan
  Laura Mann (LSE)

Monday 27 February 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Politics in Burkina Faso (TBC)
  Richard Banegas (Sciences Po Paris)

Monday 1 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - History, legitimacy and Renamo’s return to arms in central Mozambique
  Justin Pearce (University of Cambridge)

Monday 8 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch for “After rape: violence, justice and social harmony in Uganda”
  Holly Porter (LSE)

Monday 15 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Bureaucrats and chiefs : the making of certificates of origin in Nigeria
  Laurent Fourchard (Sciences Po)

Monday 22 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Does this summer's Rwandan election matter?
  Will Jones (Royal Holloway)

Monday 29 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The materiality of voting: How to revisit African election
  Sandrine Perrot (Sciences Po)

Monday 23 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream: An Autobiography of Thought
  Arthur Mutambara (Former Deputy Prime Minister, Zimbabwe)

Monday 30 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Politics, ideology and authoritarian state-making in socialist Tanzania
  George Roberts (University of Cambridge)

Monday 6 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Police in Africa: The Street-Level View
  Oliver Owen (University of Oxford), Prof Jonny Steinberg (University of Oxford)

Monday 13 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Panel: Understanding West Africa’s Ebola Epidemic: Towards a Political Economy
  Dr Julia Amos (University of Oxford)

Monday 20 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - How international programmes politicise interwar societies: The case of women’s collective action in Burundi (1993-2015)
  Dr Marie Saiget (SciencesPo/CERI)

Monday 27 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Cultures of decolonisation: political change and student life in Nigeria
  Tim Livsey (University of Oxford)

Monday 29 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: We Do Not Have Borders: Greater Somalia and the Predicament of Belonging in Kenya (Joint event with the Horn of Africa seminar series)
  Keren Weitzberg (UCL)

Monday 5 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Political economy of independent Rwanda in historical perspective
  Pritish Behuria (Manchester)

Monday 12 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Persistent perceptions: High modern techniques, neo-liberal times, and enduring subjects in Burundi’s rural Rural Integrated Villages!
  Yolanda Weima (York University, Canada)

Monday 19 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: The Struggle over State Power in Zimbabwe: Law and Politics since 1950
  George Karekwaivanane (Edinburgh)

Monday 26 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Turbulence and Order in Economic Development: Institutions and Economic Transformation in Tanzania and Vietnam
  CANCELLED
  Hazel Gray (Edinburgh)

Monday 5 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Party loyalists and political violence in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic
  CANCELLED
  Sa'eed Husaini (Oxford)

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Party loyalists and political voice in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic
  Sa'eed Husaini (Oxford)

Monday 30 April 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Turbulence and Order in Economic Development: Institutions and Economic Transformation in Tanzania and Vietnam (OUP)
  Hazel Gray (Edinburgh)

Monday 7 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The South African Special Branch v The New African 1962-4: Censorship by harassment of a radical journal
  James Currey (Founder of James Currey, publisher)

Monday 14 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Economies after colonialism: Ghana and the struggle for power (CUP)
  Lindsay Whitfield (Roskilde)

Monday 21 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Gulf and the Horn: Changing geographies of security interdependence and competing visions of regional order
  Harry Verhoeven (Georgetown University in Qatar)

Monday 29 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Zimbabwe’s 2018 Election Roundtable
  Sara-Rich Dorman (Senior Lecturer in Politics and IR, the University of Edinburgh), Farai Chipato (PhD candidate, Queen Mary), Nic Cheeseman (Professor of Democracy, the University of Birmingham)

Monday 11 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Life under lockdown in Nigeria
  Online via Zoom
  Various Speakers

Monday 8 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Life and Politics in Zimbabwe
  Arnold Chamunogwa (University of Oxford), Rudo Mudiwa (Princeton University), Ushehwedu Kufakurinani (University of Zimbabwe), Novuyo Rosa Tshuma (Emerson College)

Monday 15 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Politics in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique
  Paolo Israel (University of the Western Cape), Liazzat Bonate (University of the West Indies), Fredson Guilengue (Wits University & Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung), Brooke Parkin (University of Oxford)