Stephen Ellis is Desmond Tutu professor in the social sciences at the Free University Amsterdam, and a senior researcher at the African Studies Centre, University of Leiden. He is the author of Season of Rains: Africa in the World (C Hurst, 2011)
His previous books include [with Solofo Randrianja] Madagascar: A Short History (C Hurst, 2009) and [with Gerrie ter Haar] Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa (C Hurst, 2004). His articles include "West Africa's International Drug Trade" (African Affairs, 108/431, 2009)
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Published in: HomeThe Mali effectMany evolving disputes in north Africa and the Sahara fuse religious language and political impulse to powerful...
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Published in: HomeSouth Africa’s future: the Malema factor
The rise of the controversial populist Julius Malema is shaking the ruling African National Congress, says Stephen Ellis.
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Published in: HomeMandela, communism, and South Africa
The documentary evidence of Nelson Mandela’s membership of the South African Communist Party can contribute to a...
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Published in: HomeAfrica: progress and risk
Africa’s economic dynamism is echoed in a radical shift of perception about the continent’s prospects. But these...
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Published in: HomeThe Sahara's new cargo: drugs and radicalism
A fusion of illicit money-making and radical politics is turning the big empty spaces of the western half of the...
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