Morten Jerven of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, introduces his book 'Poor numbers: how we are misled by African development statistics and what to do about it'. This event was held on Monday 20 May 2013 at 5pm, Room S2, Audrey Richards Building, West Road, Cambridge

Africa Research Forum Talk: Morten Jerven on African development statistics

An audio and video collection of seminars, talks and events held at the Centre of African Studies

CAS Seminar: Dr Sarah Longair: 'The "colonial moment" in the lives of Swahili objects'

A talk by Prof Carolyn Hamilton, University of Cape Town, given as part of the 'Object Lessons' seminar series in Michaelmas 2016.

'The Long Southern African Past: Enfolded Time and the Challenges of Archive'

A talk by Prof Bruce Berman, Professor Emeritus of Political Studies and History at Queen’s.  He was the director and principal investigator of the Ethnicity and Democratic Governance Program from 2006 to 2012 In 2012-13 he was the Smuts University Research Fellow at Cambridge and is a continuing Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College. He is the author of Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya (Gregory Prize, 1991 and, with John Lonsdale, Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa  (Reese Prize. 1995). His most recent books are Secular States and Religious Diversity, edited with Andre Laliberte and Rajeev Bhargava (UBC Press 2013), and Moral Economies and Ethnic and Nationalist Claims, edited with Andre Laliberte and Stephen Larin (UBC Press, forthcoming in 2016). He and John Lonsdale are completing The House of Custom: Louis Leakey, Jomo Kenyatta and the Modern Kikuyu.

'Mau Mau: The Face of International Terrorism in the 1950's in the Contemporary Perspective'

A book launch by Dr Alexander Beresford, University of Leeds

'South Africa's Political Crisis: Unfinished Liberation and Fractured Class Struggles'

A talk given by Dr Abdul Raufu Mustapha , part of the 'African Cities' seminar series.

CAS seminar: Limits of Ethnic Engineering: Rebuilding Nigerian Unity by Building Abuja - Dr Abdul Raufu Mustapha, Associate Professor of African Politics, University of Oxford

Africa Research Forum Talk: Morten Jerven on African development statistics

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