A new book explains the manifestations of the oil curse in Nigeria and Angola since independence.
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Citizens have been denied their right to elect officials at the grassroots and this has allowed the central government to maintain rigid control of the country’s regions.
No other photographer in southern Africa has documented war in the way that John Liebenberg did. He captured the life and the conflict of both sides in his body of work.
Controversy around Winnie Madikizela-Mandela continues in death as it did in life.
Angola’s president-elect, João Lourenço, has a reputation for relative probity. But, he’s unlikely to rock the boat as Eduardo dos Santos remains party chairman.
For a military battle whose outcome is still hotly contested 30 years later, the impact was so remarkably clear – independence for Namibia, peace for Angola and the death knell for apartheid.
Top contributors
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Senior Research Associate, Institute for the Future of Knowledge, University of Johannesburg
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Visiting Professor, University of Kent
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Brunel University London, Brunel University London
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DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory, University of the Western Cape
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NRF/British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow under the SA-UK Bilateral Chair in Political Theory, University of the Witwatersrand
