Former representative of the UN Secretary General on internally displaced persons and and former co-director of the Brookings-SAIS Project on...

Founding leader of the Angolan insurgent group UNITA, Angolan presidential candidate in 1994.

Renowned expert on leadership and the state in Somalia and an advocate for greater international awareness in undergraduate education.

A renowned expert on West African literature and literature of the African Diaspora.

A socio-cultural anthropologist with interests primarily in social migration in conflict settings, especially in Cote D'Ivoire and Sudan.

A video producer who has produced music videos for Congolese rumba bands visiting South Africa, and records funerals, speeches, weddings,...

A painter who uses traditional and contemporary methods, working out of South Africa but selling mostly to American and European...

Widely considered one of the best political scientists focussing on Africa today, he has written extentsively on political identity formations...

An ethnomusicologist, composer and master drummer, also working as a professor of music at both Macalester College and The Unviersity...