Africa Experts
Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University
Kabamba received his M.A. in Anthropology at Columbia University, a Masters in Development Studies and in Philosophy at the University of Natal Durban, South Africa and his B.A. in Philosophy from Centre Sevres, Jesuit College of Philosophy, Paris. He has been an Instructor at Columbia University, an Assistant researcher for the Social Science Research Center (SSRC - Johannesburg, South Africa) mi...
Senior Lecturer, Department of Private Law, University of Nairobi
Patricia Kameri-Mbote is a law researcher and teacher based in Nairobi, an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and Chair of the Department of Private Law, University of Nairobi. She has served as Acting Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi and Director of Research, African Centre for Technology Studies, Nairobi. She studied law in Nairobi, Warwick, Zimbabwe and Stanford and currently teache...
Former Acting Executive Director, Nairobi Peace Initiative
John Katunga Murhula was the acting executive director of the Nairobi Peace Initiative-Africa, a pan-African peace resource organization with long experience in peace and reconciliation issues in Africa. John Katunga is currently a research scholar for the Africa Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC where he received the Distinguished African Scholar Aw...
Advocate of the High Court of Kenya; Former Chairman, Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR); Multimedia Correspondent with Radio Africa Group
SubjectsAfrica ExperienceHuman rights; political analysis; civil society; management and multimedia
Senior Fellow, Institute for Global Dialogue, Pretoria
Francis Kornegay is a South African permanent resident whose career spans African and international affairs engagements in both the US and South Africa. With a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, an M.A. in African Studies from Howard University, and a Masters in International Public Policy from the School of Advanced International Studies, Kornegay twice served as a profess...
Former Senior Vice President, American Electronics Association
William Krist is currently a Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center. For the past three years he has been working on a book on U.S. trade policy including its impact on economic development, the environment, U.S. foreign policy, and employment here in the United States. It is expected that a draft of the book will be completed in early 2012.In addition to his...
Professor, Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), University of Bonn, Germany
Former Foreign Service Officer and US Ambassador to Ivory Coast
Retired State Department South Asia Specialist and U.S. Ambassador to The Ivory Coast
International Consultant in Corporate Responsibility and Global Development
People often search for a common thread in the combined career of an academic, an international development planner, and a social investment manager in an oil company. Three themes unite them: "communities," "Nigeria," and "multi sectoral planning" for development. All converge in the paradox of the oil-rich Niger Delta, where widespread dis¬sent and violence surround the inequities of the oil...
Associate Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
My introduction to Chad was through the US Peace Corps. As a Peace Corps volunteer, I taught courses in English, English Literature, and American Civics at the University of N'Djamena and at the National Teacher's Training Institute in the late 1980s, during the post civil-war period of reconstruction. After leaving the Peace Corps, I stayed in Chad to work on a project to develop a national healt...