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Africa in Transition

Sub-Saharan Africa

by  |  on December 21st, 2010  |  0 comments

Over at the Council on Foreign Relations John Campbell has a new blog, Africa in Transition, that you should be reading (I have added it to the blogroll as well).  Campbell is the Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for African Studies at CFR, is a former ambassador to Nigeria, and served as political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria during South Africa’s 1994 elections.

Campbell has a new book, Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink, and CFR has produced a series of short background videos on key issues in Nigeria to accompany the rollout of the book. Given the upcoming elections in Nigeria in 2011 Campbell’s work could not be more timely.

 

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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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