Claude Ake Memorial Paper Series

The holders of the Claude Ake Visiting Chair give, at the end of their stay in Uppsala, a public lecture called the ‘Claude Ake Memorial Lecture.’ The lecture papers are subsequently published jointly by the Department of Peace and Conflict Research and the Nordic Africa Institute. Full-text versions are avaiaible in the online catalogue DiVA, through the links below. 

• Heidi Hudson: A (Wo)man for all seasons: Amos Tutuola and the Gendering of Peace in Africa (2018)
• Tim Murithi: Regional Reconciliation in Africa: The Elusive Dimension of Peace and Security (2017)
• Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela: What Does It Mean to be Human in the Aftermath of Historical Trauma? Re-envisioning The Sunflower and Why Hannah Arendt was Wrong (2016)
• Victor A.O. Adetula: African Conflicts, Development and Regional Organisations in the Post-Cold War International System (2015)
• Mbabazi, Pamela K: The Oil Industry in Uganda; A Blessing in Disguise or an all Too Familiar Curse?: The 2012 Claude Ake Memorial Lecture (2013) 
• Mohamed, Adam Azzain: Evaluating the Darfur Peace Agreement: A Call for an Alternative Approach to Crisis Management (2009)
• Villa-Vicencio, Charles: Where the old meets the new: Transitional justice, peacebuilding and traditional reconciliation practices in Africa (2009)
• Boafo-Arthur, Kwame: Democracy and Stability in West Africa: The Ghanaian Experience (2008)
• Sesay, Amadu: The African Union: Forward March or About Face-Turn? (2008)
• Obi, Cyril I.: No Choice, But Democracy: Prising the People out of Politics in Africa? (2008)
• Jinadu, L. Adele: Explaining & Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Towards a Cultural Theory of Democracy (2007)