Kenya: Between Hope and Despair Date: Thursday 9th February 2012, 7-9PM Venue: Room G2, SOAS Panel discussion with authors Daniel Branch (Kenya: B...

Getting Somalia Wrong? Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State Date: Tuesday 7th February 2012, 6-8PM Venue: Brunei Suite, SOAS Book launch wit...

Date: Thursday 19th January, 6-8pm Venue: Brunei Suite, SOAS Speakers: Author Mike Gould, Kaye Whiteman, Frederick Forsyth, Dipo Salimonu and Profess...

Date: Tuesday 17th January, 6-8pm Venue: Brunei Suite, SOAS The Ghost of Sani Abacha is a humorous collection of short stories from a master ironist. T...

Anthropology and Africa RAS Bristol Branch 11th Jan 2011 12:15 for 12:30, Bristol Commonwealth Society, 14 Whiteladies Road, Bristol, BS8 1PD Cos...

Date: Wednesday 26th October, 6:30-8:30pm Venue: Brunei Gallery Suite, SOAS Join us for this book launch with author Binyavanga Wainaina In this cla...

Date: Wednesday 7th September, 6-8pm Venue: Parliament, committee room 16 Description Since the UN finally declared an official famine in Southern S...

In collaboration with the Centre of African Studies, the Institute of English Studies and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London an...

ZAMBIA 2011 GENERAL ELECTIONS DIASPORA ZAMBIANS & STAKEHOLDER INTERACTIVE FORUM A Discussion for Peaceful, Free, and Fair Elections in Zambia 6-8pm,...

Date/venue Thursday 16th June, SOAS, G2, 6pm Description Across Africa homosexuals are persecuted for their sexuality; they are frequently condemned...

The Royal African Society invites you to the launch of Stephen Ellis’ Seasons of Rain: Africa in the World, 6pm, 7th June. The Author Stephen Ellis is ...

Speakers Dev Kar (Global Financial Integrity) Event description By 2008 Africa had lost upwards of $854bn in illicit capital outflows – twice ...

Speakers Peter Harris (Author - A Just Defiance) Respondent Rt. Hon Peter Hain MP Chair Richard Dowden (Director, Royal African Soci...

Dev Kar, Lead Economist, Global Financial Integrity By 2008 Africa had lost upwards of $854bn in illicit capital outflows – twice as much as its i...

African writers and writing forms an integral part of Granta 114: Aliens. Whether it’s the closely observed ecology of married life or the violent acts of cr...

The Africa-Asia Centre Venue Room T102, SOAS The year 2010 marks the fiftieth anniversary of China’s launch of education programs in nati...

Speakers Aly Verjee - political analyst, writer (Rift Valley Institute) Mawan Murotat - South Sudanese journalist/commentator Dr. Douglas Johnson – ...

The Gulf of Guinea supplies fifteen per cent of America's oil and has recently experienced an immense inflow of investment. But why are American, European, a...

SpeakersOrla Ryan (Author of Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa, Journalist, Financial Times) Respondent Professor Chr...

Speakers Estelle Kokot (South African Jazz Musician) Dr Sam Kasule (University of Derby) Rikki Stein (Fela's long-time manager) ...

You are invited to the launch of Zimbabwe's Land Reform: myths and realities - a panel discussion followed by a drinks reception In the year 200...

Action Against Hunger report launch The food security crisis in the Western Sahel has reached catastrophic proportions. Yet what is truly appalling ...

THE CENTRE OF AFRICAN STUDIES, SOAS, Lecture theatre G2in association with The Britain -Tanzania and The Royal African Society Andrew Coulson, Uni...

A panel discussion and launch of ‘Chinese and African Perspectives on China in Africa’ (Pambazuka Press) Speakers Sanou Mbaye is a Senegalese economist...

he Royal African Society’s ‘West Africa in Focus’ seminar series is a new venture taking a national perspective on complex regional issues. Aimed at students...

Speakers Richard Dowden (Director, The Royal African Society) Dr Matteo Rizzo (Cambridge University) Andrew Mushi (Tanzanian activist) Tanza...

In collaboration with Business Council for Africa Speakers: Jonathan Lawley Chair: TBC Event description Since the heady days o...

Thursday 21st October 6pm Museum of London Docklands, Wilberforce Theatre Speakers Professor Chris Cramer (Professor of the Political Economy...

In collaboration with Centre Of African Studies Speakers: Koen Vlassenroot & Tim Allen (Editors of The Lord’s Resistance Army: Myth and Reality) ...

Speakers Dr. David Turton (Senior Research Fellow, AHRC Omo Valley Project at the University of Oxford/Author) David Anderson (Professor African ...

Speakers Peter Cunliffe – Jones (Author of My Nigeria: Five decades of Independence Oladipo Salimonu (Africa Confidential) Bronwen Ma...

The 2010 World Cup in South Africa was a tournament infused with social commentary. Doubts were raised over South Africa's capacity and suitability to host t...

John Githongo has had a varied career as journalist, civil society activist and most famously Kenya’s anti-corruption tsar. Appointed in 2002 by President Mw...

African Women Writing Resistance is the first transnational anthology to focus on women’s strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa tod...

Speaker: Lord Mark Malloch Brown (Chair; Royal African Society, Former Minister of State for Africa, Asia and the UN, Former UN Deputy Secretary-General) wi...

Evening discussion with Governors Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers State), Dr Timipre Sylva(Bayelsa State), and Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta State) A discussion chai...