New publications

A new paper by Tycho van der Hoog explores the largely unknown history of North Korean development aid in Africa. In the twentieth century, Pyongyang was an important partner for recently liberated African countries and actively used development aid as a tool for its foreign policy, aiming to gain international recognition.

When ASCL researcher Stephen Ellis died in July 2015, African Studies lost one of its most prolific, provocative and celebrated scholars. This collection, edited by Tim Kelsall, aims to provide scholars and students with an introduction to the main themes in Ellis’ work.

An account of D. Elwood Dunn's triple careers in academia, and services to two distinct governments of Liberia: William R. Tolbert’s and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s (consultant). Situated between the crisis years of the True Whig Party (TWP) regime and the hopeful years of the first post-civil war government stand more than three decades of teaching, research and public intellectual engagement. The author employs a rich repertoire of unpublished documents that include his personal cabinet notes and a wide range of government papers.