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Lesotho's Political Turmoil

Lesotho stands on the brink of serious political crisis. The tiny mountain kingdom never really moved forward after the country’s deeply controversial elections in 2007. A recent assassination attempt on Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili in which armed gunmen invaded Mosisili’s home only to be confronted with state soldiers who killed four f the invaders indicates that things could get very ugly very soon in the tiny capital city of  Maseru.

 

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Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is a Professor of history and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He is also Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s and on the 1981 South African Springbok rugby team's tour to the US. He is the author of three books, dozens of scholarly articles and reviews, and has published widely on current affairs in African, American, and European publications. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

Areas of Focus:
Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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