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How Ideas and Ideologies Shape African Politics

September 13, 2022 Presented by CIPS In this talk, Professor Nic Cheeseman will draw on his new research project on this history of African political thought to reflect on how ideas and ideologies have shaped political beliefs, actions and outcomes in post-colonial Africa. Engaging with key movements such as Pan Africanism, African socialism and negritude, along with core societal assumptions, governance practices, and “moral ethnicity”, he will argue that the neglect of ideas and ideologies within the political science literature has impoverished our understanding of elections and policy processes. The talk will highlight variations in intellectual traditions and in the salience of certain ideas across the continent, suggesting that these variations have profound political consequences, the impact of which is still felt today. Speaker: Nic Cheeseman (@fromagehomme) is Professor of Democracy at the University of Birmingham, and was formerly the Director of the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. He mainly works on democracy, elections and development, including a range of topics such as election rigging, political campaigning, corruption, “fake news” and presidential rule. The articles that he has published based on this research have won a number of prizes including the GIGA award for the best article in Comparative Area Studies (2013) and the Frank Cass Award for the best article in Democratization (2015). Professor Cheeseman is also the author or editor of ten books, including Democracy in Africa (2015), Institutions and Democracy in Africa (2017), How to Rig an Election (2018) – selected as one of the books of the year by the Spectator magazine – Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective (2018), and The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa (2021). In addition, he is the founding editor of the Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Politics, a former editor of the journal African Affairs, and an advisor to, and writer for, the late Kofi Annan’s African Progress Panel. In recognition of this academic and public contribution, the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom awarded him the prestigious Joni Lovenduski Prize for outstanding professional achievement by a midcareer scholar in 2019. In recent years he has also won the Celebrating Impact prize of the Economic and Social Research Council for “outstanding international impact” and the Josiah Mason Award for Academic Advancement. A frequent commentator of African and global events, Professor Cheeseman’s analysis has appeared in the Economist, Le Monde, Financial Times, Newsweek, the Washington Post, New York Times, BBC, Daily Nation and he writes a regular column for the Africa Report and the Mail&Guardian. Many of his interviews and insights can be found on the website that he founded and co-edits, www.democracyinafrica.org. Chair: Dr. Rita Abrahamsen, Director of CIPS and Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa. Her research interests are in African politics and security, Africa and International Relations, postcolonial theory, as well as the Global Right. https://www.cips-cepi.ca/event/how-id...