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RAS Events
Andrew Mitchell, Mark Malloch-Brown and Kofi Annan share a joke at the RAS Annual Lecture 14 Feb, DRC beyond the 2011 elections Speakers: Theodore Trefon, Kris Berwouts, Marco Jowell, Eric Joyce MP, Harry Verhoeven and Madame Marie-Thérèse Nlandu Mpolo Nene Chair: Richard Dowden (Director, RAS) 07 Feb, Book Launch - Getting Somalia Wrong: faith, war and hope in a shattered state - By Mary Harper (African Arguments) Speakers: Mary Harper (Author and BBC Africa Editor), Abdi Aynte (Al JAzeera English) and Nuradin Dirie (Consultant and advisor on Somalia). Chair: Richard Dowden (Director, RAS). 24 Jan, Book Launch - Looking for Transwonderland: travels in Nigeria - By Noo Saro Wiwa Speakers: Noo Saro Wiwa (Author), Michela Wrong (Journalist/writer) and Dele Fatunla (Writer and Commentator on Nigeria) Chair: Mpalive Msiska (Birkbeck College) 17 Nov, 'Beyond Aid' - Britain, Africa and Agriculture Speakers: Christie Peacock (former CEO, FARM-Africa), Mark Thomas (Project Director, Food Retail Industry Challenge Fund, DFID, Nathan EME Ltd) and Karima Ola (Managing Director of the African Development Corporation.) Chair: Richard Dowden (Director, Royal African Society) 26 Oct, Book Launch - One Day I Will Write About This Place - By Binyavanga Wainana Speakers: Binyavanaga Wainana (Author) and Dr Wangui wa Goro (Cultural commentator on Kenya) Chair: Kibny'Aanko Seroney (Journalist) 5 Sept, Africa-UK roundtable conference: Educating the Diaspora Speakers: Valentine Nkoyo (International Service and Leader of the Moi Primary Project), John Atibela (Community Development Services Alliance - CODESA) and Felix Olakulehin (University of Leeds.) Held in collaboration with Activ8 Leeds 7 Sept, Countering Food Insecurity in East Africa Speakers: Sally Healy (associate fellow of the Africa Programme at Chatham House), Patrick Watt (Director of Policy and research at Save the Children and Nuradin Dirie (independent analyst and former senior special advisor for UNICEF.) Chair: Lord Chidgey 16 June, Pride versus Prejudice: analysing the criminalisation of homosexuality in Africa Speakers: Jide Macaulay (Pastor and Author, House of Rainbow), Godwyns Onwuchekwa (Justice for Gay Africans Society) and Dr Oliver Philips (University of Westminster). Chair: Ellah Allfrey (Deputy Editor, Granta) 15 June, China and the Changing Face of Africa Speaker: Dr Martyn Davies (CEO Frontier Advisory) 17 May, Democratic Transitions in Central Africa? Speakers: Dr Phil Clark (SOAS), Zachary Lomo (Former Director, refugee Law Project, Makerere University) and Mareike Schomerous (Research Consortium Director, The Justice and Security Research Programme, LSE.) Chair: Thomas Mawan Muortat (commentator on South Sudan) 9 May, Cote d'Ivoire: a new model of intervention? Speakers: Daniel Balint-Kurti (Global Witness and Journalist, formerly based in Abidjan), Xavier Chatel (French Embassy), Dr Tom Young (SOAS) and Adam Berthoud (Head of Emergencies Technical Unit Save the Children) Chair: Richard Dowden (Director, Royal African Society) 19 April, Juggernaut Jonathan? - Nigeria Elections 2011 Speakers: Oba Nsugbe (QC, Pump Court Chambers), Richard Dowden (Director, RAS) and Dipo Salimonu (Journalist, The Africa Report) Chair: Dele Ogun (Lawyer and commentator on Nigeria) 08 April, Libya briefing - internal dynamics of collapse Speakers: George Joffe (Cambridge University) and Mans Nyberg (UNHCR) Chair: Baroness Stern 30 March, Inaugural Annual Lecture - Kofi Annan: Africa and the world food security system Speakers: Kofi Annan (Former UN Secretary General) and Andrew Mitchell (Secretary of State for International Development) Chair: Lord Malloch-Brown (Chair, Royal African Society) 17 March, Litigating colonial atrocity - Mau Mau and Herero Speakers: David Anderson (Oxford) and Robert Murtfield (SOAS) Chair: Phil Clark (SOAS) 14 March, Microfinance - 'credit should be a human right.' Speakers: Milford Bateman (ODI), Maude Massu (CARE) and Kate Maclean (KCL) Chair: Kate Meagher (LSE) 8 March, Africa's Missing Millions: illicit financial flows Speakers: Dev Kar (GFI) and John Christensen (Tax Justice Network) Chair: Paul Blomfield MP 7 March, A Just Defiance: The Bombmakers, the Insurgents and a Legendary Treason Trial Speakers: Peter Harris (Author) and John Battersby Chair: Richard Dowden (Director, RAS) 21 Feb, Making History in Mugabe's Zimbabwe
Speakers: Blessing Miles Tendi (Author), Clare Short (Former Secretary of State for International Development), Sue Onslow (LSE) and Tiseke Kasambala (Human Rights Watch) Chair: Jocelyn Alexander (Oxford University)
15th Feb, Launch of Granta 114: Aliens - The Participant and The Observer
Speakers: Mark Gevisser and Dinaw Mengestu Chair: Ellah Allfrey
2nd Feb 2011, Oil and governance in the Gulf of Guinea
Speakers: Dr George Frynas (Middlesex Business School) and Dr Ricardo Soares de Oliveira Chair: Anthony Goldman (Independent consultant on West Africa)
20th Jan 2011, Orlan Ryan - Chocolate Nations: living and dying for cocoa in West Africa
Speakers: Orla Ryan (Author), Sophi Tranchell (Divine Chocolate) and Prof Chris Cramer (SOAS) Chair: Adrian Hewitt (ODI)
14 Jan 2011, Ian Scoones - Zimbabwe's land reform: myths and realities
Speakers: Prof Ian Scoones (IDS), Robin Palmer (Oxfam and formerly Oxford Univeristy) and Sibona Mtisis (ODI) Chair: Prof Stephen Chan (SOAS)
6 Dec 2010, Ann Bernstein - the case for business in developing economies
Speakers: Ann Bernstein, Richard Morgan (Anglo-American) and Dr Francis Teal (Oxford University) Chair: David Goodhart (Editor, Prospect)
1 Dec 2010, Chad: collateral damage of under-nutrition
Speakers: Samuel Haunstein Swan (ACF), Alex Merkovic (ACF), Hannah Roberson (ACF), Prof Roy May (Coventry University) and Dr Laura Hammond (SOAS) Chair: Dr David Styan (Birkbeck college)
16 Nov 2010, Contrasting perspectives on China in Africa
Speakers: Sanou Mbaye, Stephen Marks (Pambazuka), Lucy Corkin (SOAS, Africa-Asia Centre) and Jing Gu (Institute of Development Studies) Chair: Dan Large (Africa-Asia Centre)
15 Nov 2010, West Africa in Focus - Guinea Bissau: coups, drugs and international ignorance
Speakers: David Stephen (Former Un Representative to Guinea Bissau), Dr Edward George (Economist Intelligence Unit), Dr Jose Ligna Nafafe (Birmingham University) Chair: Dr Toby Green (Kings College London/Amilcar Cabral Institute)
9 Nov 2010, Tanzania's elections 2010
Speakers: Andrew Mushi (Birmigham University), Dr Matteo Rizzo (Cambridge University), Ben Rawlence Chair: Richard Dowden (Director, Royal African Society)
21 Oct 2010, 'Does Africa need fair trade?'
Speakers: Prof Chris Cramer (SOAS) and Orla Ryan (Author of Chocolate Nations: living and dying for cocoa in West Africa) Chair: Adrian Hewitt (ODI)
18 Oct 2010, 'The Lord's Resistance Army: myth and reality'
Speakers: Prof. Tim Allen (LSE) and Prof. Koen Vlassenroot (Ghent University) Chair: Dr Tania Kaiser (SOAS)
12 Oct 2010, 'Civil Society in Darfur: the missing peace'
Speakers: Theodore Murphy (Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue), Jerome Tubiana (independent consultant and commentator on Darfur/Chad) and Joanna Oyediran, (Sudan Program Officer for the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa). Chair: Sarah Pantulianao (Head of the Humanitarian Policy Group at ODI)
11 Oct 2010, 'Southern Ethiopia: a debate on the dams controversy'
Speakers: Professor David Anderson (Oxford University, Professor David Turton (Oxford University) and Dr Sarah Vaughan (Edinburgh University). Chair: Dr Camilla Toulmin (IIED)
4 Oct 2010, 'My Nigeria: fives decades of independence' - by Peter Cunliffe Jones
Speakers: Peter Cunliffe-jones (author), Oladipo Salimonou (Africa Confidential) and Bronwen Manby (Open Society Foundation) Chair: Michael Peel (Journalist, the FT)
29 Sept 2010, South Africa: legacy of the World Cup
Speakers: Renee Horne (journalist), Steve Bloomfield (former journalist and head of international marketing board of South Africa), John Battersby (journalist) Chair: June Bam-Hutchison
23 Sept 2010, John Githongo: 'What next for Kenya?'
Speakers: John Githongo(Former Kenya anti-corruption Tsar), Michela Wrong (author and journalist), Prof. Justin Willis (University of Durham) Chair: Sir Edward Clay
14 sept 2010, African women writing resistance (book launch)
Speakers: Ann Serafin (teacher of African literature), Ellen Banda-Aaku (Writer), Sylvia Aboa-Bradwell (Writer and Director of African Peoples' Advocacy), Yaba Badoe (writer) Chair: Margaret Busby OBE
6 Sept 2010, Africa: the view from China
Speaker: Liu Guijin (Chinese Representative on African Affairs and the Special Envoy for Darfur) Chair: Prof. Stephen Chan, SOAS
3 Sept 2010, Nigeria: a new investment climate
Speakers: Rt Hon. Segun Aganga (Nigerian Finance minister), Arunma Oteh (former Vice President of the African Development Bank), Oba Otudeko (Chairman of Honeywell Group Ltd, First Bank of Nigeria Plc, Fan Milk Nigeria Plc, Zain Nigeria and the Nigeria-South Africa Chamber of commerce), Prof Barth Nnaji (Presidential Advisor on Power), Bismarck Rewane (MD, Financial Derivative Co. Ltd). Chair: Lord Malloch Brown
15 July 2010, Unravelling Jos: Terrorism, Corruption, Religion
Speakers: Uche Onyeagucha (Nigeria House of Representatives), Salihu Lukman (CEO, Good Governance Group); Dele Ogun (Lawyer and head of the Genesis Project); Chikwe Ihekweazu (Consultant, Health protection Agency, UK) Chair: Titi Banjoko (Founder and Director of Africa Recruit)
16 April 2010, What's Next for Zimbabwe?
Chair: Richard Dowden (Royal African Society)
18 March 2010, Namibia at 20
Chair: Oona King, MP
10 March 2010, China-Africa Security relations: significance, challenges and policy implications
Speaker: Chin-Hao Huang (Joel Micah Schwartz Fellow,University of Southern California) Chair: Dan Large (Africa-Asia Centre)
4 March 2010, The World Cup 2010: Context and Content
23 February 2010, Accessing Medicine
10 February 2010, How China is influencing Africa's development
11th January 2010, Kenya: Still on the brink?
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