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Staff at Think Africa Press regularly speak to field-leading specialists to keep abreast of the latest analysis. Some of our conversations are published at Experts Weekly.
| Olumide Abimbola | Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
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| Martyn Davies | Chief Executive Officer of Frontier Advisory (Pty) Ltd |
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| Peter M. Lewis | Director of African Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University |
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| Nancy Welch | Assistant Programme Officer, Central and East Africa, NED |
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| Sahlu Haile | Senior Programme Advisor for the Packard Foundation |
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| Sylvie Brunel | Professor of Geography at Paris-Sorbonne University |
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| Barbara E. Harrell-Bond | Founder of Refugee Studies Centre and Director of the Fahamu Refugee Programme |
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| Ian Scoones | Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, Co-Director ESRC STEPS Centre, Sussex |
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| Bongani Masuku | International Relations Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) |
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| Di McIntyre | South African Research Chair in Health and Wealth. Health Economics Unit, University of Cape Town |
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| Raoudha Ben Othman | Professor of Linguistics |
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| Abukar Arman | Former Somali Special Envoy to the United States |
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| Neville Isdell | Co-Chair, The Investment Climate Facility for Africa |
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| Chris Kwaja | Lecturer and Researcher, Centre for Conflict Management and Peace Studies, University of Jos |
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| Thomas R. Lansner | Visiting Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs of Sciences-Po Paris |
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| Yasmine Ryan | Journalist |
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| Meredith Alexander | Head of Trade and Corporates at ActionAid |
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| Sarah Leah Whitson | Director of the Middle East and North Africa division of Human Rights Watch |
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| Jean-Pierre Guengant | Research Director Emeritus for the Research Institute for Development |
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| Emma Murphy | Professor of Middle East Political Economy |
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| Graham Von Maltitz | Senior Researcher, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research |
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| Randolph Kent | Director, Humanitarian Futures Programme, King's College, London |
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| Hugo Slim | Founding Director of CforC |
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| John Painter | Professor of Theology, Charles Sturt University |
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| Chola Mukanga | Director at Zambian Economist |
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| Michael Jennings | Senior Lecturer in the Department of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies |
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| Olivier Vallée | Consultant to the International Monetary Fund |
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| Nabila Hamza | President of Foundation for the Future |
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| Giorgia Doná | Reader in Refugee Studies |
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| Patrick Bond | Professor of Political Economy at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Director of Centre for Civil Society |
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| Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto | Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester |
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| Carina Tertsakian | Senior Research on Rwanda, Human Rights Watch |
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| Ron Capps | Peacekeeping Program Manager, Refugees International |
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| Angela Ward | Adjunct Professor in European Union and Human Rights Law at University College Dublin |
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| Andrea Lari | ||
| Akin Akintayo | Nigerian Blogger and Social Commentator |
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| Mukesh Kapila | Professor of Humanitarian Affairs, University of Manchester |
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| Keith Hart | Professor of Anthropology Emeritus |
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| Gary K. Busch | Author and Political Analyst |
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| Andrea Nightingale | Director of MSc in Environment and Development, University of Edinburgh |
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| Ihsan Alkhatib | Assistant Professor at Murray State University, Practising Lawyer and Prominent Blogger |
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| Mohamed-Salah Omri | Lecturer in Modern Arabic Language and Literature |
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| Alastair Fraser | Faculty Member, Politics and International Studies (POLIS) University of Cambridge |
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| Sonia Languille | PHD candidate, School of Oriental and African Studies |
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| Reno Omokri | VP - Africa of Trippi & Associates and Founder of Build Up Nigeria project |
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| Martha Bakwesegha-Osula | Senior Programme Officer, Interventions Department at ACCORD |
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| Kim Mancini | ||
| Youssef Courbage | Director of Research at the Institut National d'Études Démographiques, Paris |
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| Sven Richter | Head of Frontier Markets at Renaissance Capital |
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| Phil Clark | Lecturer in Comparative and International Politics, with Reference to Africa, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |
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| Mahmood Mamdani | Executive Director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research at Makerere University |
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| Brett Cohen | Principal Consultant, The Green House |
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| Margaret Owen | Director, Widows for Peace Through Democracy |
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| Frank Afful | Political Commentator |
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| Tenkir Bonger | Professor of Economics and Dean, School of Business Studies, Mulungushi University, Zambia |
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| Blessing-Miles Tendi | Author and DPhil researcher at Oxford University |
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| Thapelo Ndlovu | Deputy Chair of the Botswana Council of Non-Governmental Organisations (BOCONGO) |
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| Holly Reed | Assistant Professor of Sociology, Queens College, CUNY |
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| Ha-Joon Chang | Reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge |
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| Nichole Zlatunich | Consultant to Partners in Population and Development |
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| Richard Dowden | Director of the Royal African Society |
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| Tsitsi Matekaire | Programme Manager, WOMANKIND Worldwide |
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| George Gathigi | Andrew Mellon Fellow at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts |
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| Cahiers de la liberté | Activist Bloggers |
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| Norman Mabasa | Chairman of the South African Medical Association |
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| Ben Judah | Policy Fellow at the European Council of Foreign Relations |
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| Sara Yeatman | Assistant Professor, Department of Health and Behavioural Sciences, University of Colorado |
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| Robert Rotberg | President Emeritus of the World Peace Foundation |
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| Steve Itugbu | Former Media Advisor to the Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo |
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| Jean-Germain Gros | Research Fellow in the Center for International Studies at the University of Missouri |
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| Jack McConnell | Former First Minister of Scotland |
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| Chris Jennings | Principal, Health Alert Communications |
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| Max Boykoff | Assistant Professor and Senior Visiting Research Scholar |
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| Sokari Ekine | Nigerian Social justice activist and blogger |
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| Mercy Abang | Communications Coordinator for Enough Is Enough, Nigeria |
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| Frederick Golooba-Mutebi | Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Social Research, Makerere University |
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| Hein Marais | South African Political Analyst |
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| Nasir El-Rufai | Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory in Nigeria |
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| Placide Tapsoba | Director for Sub-Saharan Afirca for the Population Council |
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| Christopher Cramer | Professor of the Political Economy of Development, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |
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| Harry Verhoeven | Researcher at the University of Oxford |
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| Allehone Mulugeta Abebe | International Lawyer and Diplomat |
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| Menelaos Agaloglou | Researcher, Center of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of the Peloponnese |
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| Raquel Rolnik | Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context |
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| Gaim Kibreab | Course Director of Refugee studies at LSBU |
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| Paul Beran | Outreach Director, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University |
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| Ali A. Mazrui | Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University |
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| Brian Peterson | Associate Professor of History at Union College |
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| Daniel Large | Research Director of the Africa Asia Centre at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |
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| Amna Guellali | Researcher on Tunisia for Human Rights Watch |
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| Jonathan Bhalla | Research Manager at Africa Research Institute |
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| Maria Burnett | Senior researcher in the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch |
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| Dave Peterson | Senior Director of the Africa Programme at the National Endowment for Democracy |
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| Stephen Chan | Professor of International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |
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| Britta Rennkamp | Researcher for Energy, Environment and Climate Change Group, University of Cape Town |
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| Rama B. Rao | Professor of the Faculty of Economics and Mangement at the National University of Rwanda |
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| Joel Hayward | Head of King's College London Air Power Studies Division |
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| Eric Reeves | Full-time Sudan researcher and analyst |
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| Tolu Ogunlesi | Poet and Features Editor for Nigerian newspaper 234NEXT |
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| Tewodros Melesse | Director General IPPF |
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| Stephen Obeng Gyimah | Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Queen's University |
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| Sonja Uwimana | Assistant Program Officer,Sudan. National Endowment For Democracy |
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| Owen Skae | Director of the Rhodes Business School, South Africa |
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| Tshiamo Rantao | Chairperson of Botswana Network of Ethics Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA). |
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| Oge Okoye Onubogu | Program Officer for West Africa at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) |
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| Zach Warner | Doctoral Student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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| Monica Coralli | Researcher in Urban Planning, Ecole Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris La Villette |
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| Okolo Ben Simon | Lecturer in International Law, University of Nigeria, and Program Director at the Centre for Human Security, Peace and Sustainable Development |
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| John Boardman | Emeritus Fellow of the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford |
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| Immanuel Wallerstein | Senior Research Scholar, Yale University |
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| Anthony Day | Associate, Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment |
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| Makeen F Makeen | Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies |
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| William Lambers | Author and world hunger specialist |
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| Daniel Maxwell | Associate Professor and Research Director Feinstein International Center, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University |
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| Renee Horne | Senior PhD candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies |
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| Wonkie.com | Best Politics Blog, South African Blog Awards 2010 |
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| John F. May | Lead Population Specialist, Africa, World Bank |
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| Zibani Maundeni | Senior Lecturer, Political Science, University of Botswana |
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| Keith Hart | Co-Director of the University of Pretoria's Postdoctoral Programme on the Human Economy |
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