Development Challenges and Opportunities in Africa: Lessons for a Post-COVID Recovery?

This seminar series is the initiative of our PhD alumna Dr Sarah Gammage (graduated 2003), Latin America Policy Director at The Nature Conservancy. This Brown Bag session brings together three papers that look at different aspects of development in Uganda, Mozambique and the African continent more broadly.

While these papers do not address the specifics of COVID-19, they suggest approaches to development and the strengthening of policy and institutions that may be particularly relevant for an inclusive recovery in the wake of the pandemic.  

Sarah Gammage will moderate this session and Dr Bridget O’Laughlin will be the discussant, providing comments and feedback on the articles.

Download the abstracts of the three papers

Dr Godfrey Asiimwe (graduated 2002), Associate Professor, Development Studies, Makerere University 'The Paradox of Unemployment amidst Growth: Tracking youth unemployment under neo-liberalism in Uganda, 1990 – 2015.'

Dr Adriano Nuvunga (graduated 2014), Director of the Center for Democracy and Development & Steering Committee of the Mozambique Human Rights Defenders Network 'Three decades of Multiparty Politics in Mozambique: Framing Party Dominance and Democracy Capture in Context'.

Dr Ben Radley (graduated 2019), Lecturer in International Development at University of Bath 'Off-Grid Solar Expansion in Africa: New Technologies, Old Dependencies?'