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Panel Discussion: 'Illicit financial flows and offshore finance: its impact on African development'
12 May 22 in Videos
Join us as our panel of three major African experts discuss the impact of illicit financial flows and offshore structures on the continent’s development prospects.
Panel:
Tutu Alicante, Founder and Executive Director, EG JusticeKhadija Sharife, Editor, Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)Professor Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Director, Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance (Chair)Professor Attiya Waris, UN Independent Expert on foreign...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/illicit-financial-flows
'The state of the African state: Where has it come from and where is it going?' with Dr Nick Westcott
22 Nov 22 in Videos
African states have been in flux since long before colonial powers carved up the continent into bite-sized chunks at the end of the 19th century.
In the 60 years since most became independent, new trends have emerged. Some have reflected history, both colonial and pre-colonial, from ethnic rivalries and migrating populations to authoritarian structures, extractive institutions and irrational borders.
Others reflect new...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/the-state-of-the-african-state
Dr Oliver Owen
Departmental Lecturer in African Anthropology
Olly's research interests centre on political anthropology and the relations between governments and publics in West Africa, the configurations of material interests and experiential meanings construed in these encounters; as part of an anthropology of the state which ‘de-naturalises’ governmental institutions to look at them as social formations.
His recent research has been an ethnographic examination of new transformations in...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/oliver-owen
"On hippos, tigers, pancakes and soufflés: trends and challenges for African governance" with Prof Stefan Dercon
30 Oct 17 in Videos
In this talk Professor Stefan Dercon, Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance, will discuss some of the recent and likely demographic, economics and political trends across Africa, as well as how across countries challenges are being handled. Is Africa rising to the challenges?
By no means conclusive, the talk aims to give a flavour of the risks and...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/on-hippos-tigers-pancakes-and-soufflés-trends-and-challenges-for-african-governance
Seminar: Oliver Bakewell, "Keeping them in their place-the ambivalent relationship between development and migration in Africa"
10 May 07 in Events
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/seminar-oliver-bakewell-keeping-them-in-their-place-the-ambivalent-relationship-between-development-and-migration-in-africa
Seminar: Professor Robert Cumming, "Ageing and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: reflections of an Australian epidemiologist in Uganda"
01 May 08 in Events
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/seminar-professor-robert-cumming-ageing-and-health-in-sub-saharan-africa-reflections-of-an-australian-epidemiologist-in-uganda
Workshop: "Managing Together Understanding and Supporting Children, Young People and their Families when a Grandparent is affected by Dementia"
24 Sept 09 in Events
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/workshop-managing-together-understanding-and-supporting-children-young-people-and-their-families-when-a-grandparent-is-affected-by-dementia