03/5/2022
RAS Director, Dr Nicholas Westcott, who is also currently a Visiting Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, has just published an ECFR policy note on Shared Fortunes: Why Britain, the EU, and Africa need each other. It highlights the importance of the diaspora, and why Britain should give more political attention to its relations with Africa but this will only be possible if the British government …
A report was released on March 22nd, 2022 from the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Africa, supported by the Royal African Society and the educational consultancy, Justice 2 History. The report highlights the urgent need to overhaul how Africa is studied in...
19/4/2022
We are seeking to recruit a talented, energetic and efficient Events Manager with a creative and innovative approach to promoting contemporary Africa. They will be responsible for designing, managing and implementing the Royal African Society’s programme o...
11/4/2022
Photo credit: A wheat field in Russia. Credit: Ekaterina Sotova. Not one country has been spared the latest hike in food and fuel costs driven by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February. It is normal practice to cite the IMF’s quarterly World Econ...
03/4/2022
The Republic of Congo (also known as Congo-Brazzaville to avoid confusion with the Democratic Republic of Congo whose capital Kinshasa lies just across the river) came to town in London last week. The investment promotion road show was a very pro...
14/3/2022
African leaders, forty of them at Head of State or Government level, returned from the EU-AU Summit in Brussels on 17-18 February. Big issues were discussed – and I will return to them below – but scarcely had they landed back home when the world was turne...
28/2/2022
Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo, Emerita Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence, Department of African Studies, Syracuse University (retired since 2015), has published seven books, eight co-edited supplementary school-readers and five monographs. Born in Bari...
23/2/2022
Another day, another coup in the Sahel. Within 12 months, Chad, Mali and Burkina Faso have all fallen under the de facto control of the military, as has Guinea on the coast. Democracy seems in retreat. Jihadists appear to be advancing. And destabilised states ...
31/1/2022
We are seeking to recruit a brilliant Digital Communications Manager with a creative, collaborative and innovative approach and a proven track record of devising and delivering successful story-telling and social media campaigns. The Digital Communicati...
21/1/2022