An EconoTimes perspective

Martin Plaut

Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study

Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study Martin Plaut is the former Africa Editor of BBC World Service News. His research interests are: Civil Rights, Colonies & Colonization, emigration & immigration, International Relations, Modern History, Political Institutions, Socialism, Communism. He is the author of Understanding Eritrea: Inside Africa’s most repressive state, Hurst, October, 2016 and Promise and Despair: The first struggle for a non-racial South Africa, 1899 – 1914, Jacana Media, 2016. BSoc Sce, University of Cape Town BA (Hons), University of the Witwatersrand MA, University of Warwick