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Africanist Theses recently accepted at UK Universities

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2007

Matthew James Wilfred Barac (2007) ‘From Township to Town: Urban Change in Victoria Mxenge TT Informal Settlement, Cape Town, South Africa’, Ph.D thesis, University of Cambridge. Supervisor: Mr P. Carl.

Ronen Bergman (2007) ‘Israel and Africa: Military and Intelligence Liaisons’, Ph.D thesis, University of Cambridge. 

Nicholas Cheeseman (2007) ‘The Rise and Fall of Civil-Authoritarianism in Africa: Patronage, Participation and Political Parties in Kenya and Zambia’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Professor David Anderson.

Francis Chigunta (2007) ‘An Investigation into Youth Livelihoods and Entrepreneurship in the Urban Informal Sector in Zambia’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisors: Professor Frances Stewart and Dr Abdul Raufu Mustapha.

Anne-Marie Deisser (2007) ‘Investigating Partnership between Local and Institutional Communities for the Preventive Conservation of Cultural Heritage in East Africa’, Ph.D thesis, University of Southampton.

Oluseto Fasan (2007) ‘Compliance with WTO Law in Developing Countries: A Study of South Africa and Nigeria’, Ph.D thesis, University of London.

Daniel Patrick Hammett (2007) ‘Constructing Ambiguous Identities: Negotiating Race, Respect, and Social Change in ‘Coloured’ Schools in Cape Town, South Africa’, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Edinburgh. Supervisors: Professor Alan Barnard and Professor Kenneth King.

Frances Hunt (2007) ‘Schooling Citizens: A Study of Policy in Practice in South Africa’, D.Phil thesis, University of Sussex. Supervisor: Dr Mairead Dunne.

Elin G. Jensen (2007) ‘Organisational Learning in UN Peacebuilding Operations: Efforts at Demilitarisation in Angola during the 1990s’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Professor Neil MacFarlane.

Genevieve Lynette Klein (2007) ‘The Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) in Britain and Support for the African National Congress (ANC), 1976-1990’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Professor William Beinart.

Anna Lindley (2007) ‘The Dynamics and Effects of Remittances in Insecure Settings: A Somali Case Study’, D.Phil thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisors: Professor David Anderson and Dr Nicholas Van Hear.

David Mandiyanike (2007) ‘In Search of Capacity: The Case of Zimbabwean Rural Local Authorities’, Ph.D thesis, University of London. Supervisor: Professor David Simon.

Isabelle Parsons (2007) ‘Later Stone Age Socio-economic Variability during the Last 2,000 years in the Northern Cape, South Africa’, Ph.D thesis, University of Cambridge. Supervisor: Professor David Phillipson.

Sasha Polakow-Suransky (2007) ‘The Unspoken Alliance: Israel and Apartheid South Africa, 1960-1994’, D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Professor William Beinart.

Kifle Wansamo (2007) ‘Towards Building Stability in a Multinational Society: Conflicts in Sidaamaland in Ethiopia’, Ph.D thesis, Lancaster University. Supervisor: Professor Christopher Clapham.

A significant number of the above thesis titles came from the Theses Register of Research in Commonwealth Studies at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Students, supervisors and administrators are encouraged to submit information to the editor of the Register, Patricia Larby: commonwealth.register@sas.ac.uk