Despite its Imperial origins, the Commonwealth has a strong radical tradition. If it wants to remain relevant to Africa in the 21st Century, that radicalism needs to be rediscovered.
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The audio version of a long read on the forgotten history of the man who invented Durex condoms.
This is the story of Lucian Landau, the forgotten man who invented the technology that made Durex boom.
He's a brooding, taciturn figure, who has dominated Eritrean politics since the 1970s, and there are few signs of an effective challenge to his rule.
The April 1994 election proved to be a watershed for South Africa.
It's unclear how relations between Addis Ababa and Asmara will develop but the warmth has largely gone.
Al-Bashir's ability to play a skillful combination of internal and external balancing acts, plus ruthless repression and a divided opposition, kept him in power for three decades.
Concern at the role of fake sites in influencing South African public opinion has been growing over time.
Leaders go in and out of fashion, making statues built in their memory a tricky issue.
Kenya is attacked far more than Ethiopia or other eastern African states by al-Shabaab militants.
Given the range of support for President Omar al-Bashir it isn't surprising that he's managed to resist pressure to step down.
It is difficult to see how the EU can allow its key African migration work to be supervised by Eritrea.
The lifting of UN Sanctions is unlikely to end internal and external pressure for reform and greater democracy in Eritrea.
For black South Africans, the hard lesson was the same as it had been during the Boer war: support for Britain would bring few rewards.
As South Africa became an international pariah, it began working in shady ways through even more shady operators, including getting arms from the Soviet Union and China.
Sería un error ridiculizar lo que se ha logrado en la región, pero aún queda mucho camino por recorrer.
It would be a mistake to ridicule what's been achieved in the Horn of Africa, but obstacles remain.
The Eritrean ports of Massawa and Assab will hum with life once more as trade flows through them.
Few believed they would see an end to two decades of hostility between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Israel is deporting thousands of Eritrean asylum seekers to Rwanda, while in the US, many face being sent back to the country they fled.
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Professor in the History of People, Place and Community, School of Advanced Study
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Professor of Hispanic and Latin American Studies and Director, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study
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Director: Human Rights Consortium and Reader in Human Rights, School of Advanced Study
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Director of the Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study
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Associate Research Fellow, School of Advanced Study
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Lecturer in French Studies, School of Advanced Study
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Digital Collections (Scholarship) Manager at King’s College London Archives and Research Collections; Visiting Fellow in Digital Humanities, School of Advanced Study
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Research Associate at the Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study
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Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study
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Visiting Scholar, Stanford University and Teaching Fellow, School of Advanced Study
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study
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Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Professor of British and Commonwealth History, School of Advanced Study
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Research Assistant, Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study
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Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities, School of Advanced Study
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Reader, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study
