Print Edition: Learning from Africa’s Success Stories
There had been rumours about diamonds in the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland for years. They were linked to stories of […]
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St Andrews Foreign Affairs Review
Welcome to the Official Publication of the St Andrews Foreign Affairs Society
Author: Michael Musgrave
Michael is a fourth year PhD student in the Department of Geography and Sustainable Development. Born in South Africa, he graduated from Rhodes University and the University of the Witwatersrand with degrees in Zoology and African Ecology. Michael works on issues surrounding forest management and common pool resource theory in Barotseland, western Zambia. He has spent most of his life in Southern Africa and has observed much of that regions recent history first hand. Much of Michael’s assessment of events in Africa is based on 20 years of experience in business, consulting and travel in the region, and few hard knocks on the head when he got too close to turbulent events.
Blue-Collar Conservatives: Cameron’s Bitter Pill
When a major bloc of voters is effectively ignored by the party they usually vote for, it’s likely that they […]
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Nelson Mandela: 1918-2013
In 1994, I had a relative who worked in the television industry and he offered me a free press pass […]
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Michael Musgrave Reviews the Carnegie Club Conference
The Carnegie Club of St Andrews put together an excellent IDEAS conference on the 4th October 2013. Organised around the […]
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The Most Dangerous Crocodile in Zimbabwe
“I smell a rifle!” the policeman shouted, as he swaggered over to my research vehicle. This was the fourteenth roadblock […]
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Why there Will Never Be a House Built by BRICS
At the end of March 2013, a strange gathering of world leaders met in Durban, South Africa. They included the […]
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The Great African Land Grab: Another Story from the Jungle
According to www.stopafricalandgrab.com, “the African people face an existential threat.” If there was ever a sentence dripping with hyperbole, in […]
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Forests, Carbon and REDD+: The Ultimate Equalizer in Global North-South Relations?
The deadlock between parties at international climate negotiations has ceased to be headline news; nevertheless, obstacles to any final, substantive […]
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Hiding Behind the Numbers: South Africa’s Challenges
South Africa has the best-regulated securities exchange in the world. Amidst a flood of bad news from the country over […]
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Morgan Tsvangarai: Zimbabwe’s Mandela or Just an Encumbrance?
When Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC joined Robert Mugabe and ZANU (PF) in a unity government, Tsvangirai said it was […]
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The Archbishop, the Imperialist and the … Murderer?
When police in South Africa shot 34 striking platinum miners, the response around the world was shocking. For all the […]
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