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Dr Elvis Avenyo – Africa and the Global Economy: Value Chains, Regional Collaboration and Development Pathways
By Deiniol Brown Dr Elvis Avenyo is an Associate Professor of Development Economics at the DSI/NRF South African Research Chair in Industrial Development at the University of Johannesburg. Dr Avenyo’s research focuses on the topics of innovation, technologies, industrial development, value chains and green industrialisation in developing countries. He has previously held posts as a…
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Dr Michael Nwankpa – Africa in a Multipolar World: Insurgencies, contested development and international competition
By Deiniol Brown Do you think the global and local nature of the Boko Haram insurgency is comparable to other insurgencies globally, or is it unique? In the last 30 years, we’ve seen a lot of integration of how the world relates, and that includes conflict. however small or isolated a conflict is, it will…
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Dr Pádraig Carmody – Africa in Geopolitical Perspective: Dependency amidst Global Economic Competition
By Deiniol Brown Dr Pádraig Carmody is a professor in Geography at Trinity College Dublin, specialising in research on the political economy of globalisation in Africa, in particular on competition between China, the US and other powers on the continent, and the structural economic implications of these dynamics. He is also a Senior Research Associate…