Justin Willis

Dec 9, 2024 | journalofdemocracy.org | John J. Chin |Nic Cheeseman |Gabrielle Lynch |Justin Willis

The West African democracy is one of the continent’s most enduring, but it shouldn’t be taken for granted. It’s a bulwark for democracy beyond its borders. By John J. ChinDecember 2024On 7 December 2024, Ghanaians went to the polls for the country’s ninth general election since the return of multiparty politics in 1992.

Nov 4, 2024 | theguardian.com | Justin Willis

My former doctoral supervisor Andrew Roberts, who has died aged 87, was one of a now almost-vanished cohort of scholars whose imagination was captured in the 1960s by the possibilities of studying African history. Andrew spent much of the 60s as a researcher in Africa, including time at the University of Dar es Salaam – a noted centre for new work on African history – and the University of Zambia in Lusaka.

May 14, 2024 | africanarguments.org | Vanessa Nakate |Justin Willis

Delegates from around the world are gathering in Paris today for the International Energy Agency (IEA) Summit on Clean Cooking in Africa. While the IEA is based in Paris, it was an unfortunate decision to host the event so far away from the continent on which its outcomes will have the furthest-reaching impacts. Despite being invited, I could not travel to France.

May 22, 2023 | europeanfinancialreview.com | Justin Willis

By Justin WillisSudan’s Central Reserve Police (CRP) recently announced it would be deploying officers to the streets of Khartoum to “secure public and private property”. That may sound puzzling in the context of the current violence: what are the police doing in the middle of this? The answer is simple. The CRP are not “police” in any civilian sense – they are one of several paramilitary groups in Sudan, and they are intervening on the side of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF).

May 3, 2023 | tolerance.ca | Justin Willis

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