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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Martin Plaut is the former Africa Editor of BBC World Service News. His research interests are: African politics and economics, colonies & colonization, emigration & immigration. He is the author of "Understanding Eritrea: Inside Africa’s most repressive state", Hurst, October, 2016."Promise and Despair: The first struggle for a non-racial South Africa, 1899 – 1914", Jacana Media, 2016 and "Robert Mugabe" Ohio University Press, 2018, with Sue Onslow.

BSoc Sce, University of Cape Town
BA (Hons), University of the Witwatersrand
MA, University of Warwick

Experience

  • –present
    Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Instititue of Commonwealth Studies

Education

  • 1978 
    University of Warwick, MA