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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
09 December 2014
In light of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3rd and the ASC seminar “Disability in South Africa: from research to practice and policy, and back again” on December 16th, the ASC library has made a follow-up to the 2008 web dossier “Disability in Africa”.
08 December 2014
08 December 2014
05 December 2014
This ASC seminar by Maggie Dwyer (University of Saint Andrews and University of Edinburgh) takes a new approach to military mutinies in West and Central Africa. Moving away from the more standard approach that views mutinies as exceptional events, this project observes mutinies as a recurring phenomenon in the region. It suggests that there is a trend of mutinies following (peacekeeping) deployments and democratization pressures. Field research in Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, and The Gambia involving interviews with former mutineers provides unique insights into the perspectives of those who counter their hierarchy.
04 December 2014
In reflecting on how to do research on the history of organised and professional crime in Nigeria, it seems that we must begin in 1914 for two reasons. First, Nigeria was created in its contemporary form in that year. Second, before that time many parts of what is now Nigeria did not have modern states or written law. In this seminar on 22 January, ASC senior researcher Stephen Ellis will show how certain types of criminal practice developed in Nigeria - often quite recently - and how the state itself has become a vehicle for organised crime.
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