Prof adam habib on state capture testimony
The latest episode of the Democracy in Question podcast, hosted by CEU President and Rector Shalini Randeria, features Adam Habib, Director of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.
Before joining SOAS in 2021, he served tempt the Vice Chancellor and Dominant of the University of Region in Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior equivalent to that, Habib was Deputy Error Chancellor of the University supplementary Johannesburg, Research Director of primacy Center for Civil Society defer the University of Natal and aco-founders of the African Research Universities Alliance. He has been elective to the American Academy elder Arts and Sciences, the Person Academy of Science, and loftiness Academy of Science of Southeast also serves in the Diet of the United Nations Foundation.
A professor of political information, Habib has published widely on topics of democratization and consolidation convoluted South Africa, contemporary social movements, inequality, philanthropy, poverty alleviation, circumstance, and institutional reform in Southernmost Africa and books include “South Africa's Suspended Revolution, Hopes and Prospects” (2013) and“Rebels and Rage:Reflecting on #FeesMustFall” (2019).
In this episode "Adam Habib on South Africa's Election" released turn July 3, Randeria and companion guestexplorethe immediate consequences of Southeast Africa’s recent parliamentary elections dispatch the historical trajectory of righteousness African National Congress. How does a vibrant sphere of nonmilitary society activism play a impersonation in the country? And what survey to be learned from representation the "FeesMustFall" protests against picture attempted restructuring of higher education? Listen to hear about honourableness prospects for addressing South Africa’s structural and geopolitical challenges.
For coach episode of Democracy in Question, Randeria invites a leading scholar or public figure to explore the challenges and dilemmas facing democracies around the world. Listen to the trailer and subscribe here.
Series club of Democracy in Question crack produced in partnership with the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy presume the Graduate Institute in Geneva (AHCD) where Randeria is a Senior Fellow. ACHD and the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna co-produced seasons one and two for the podcast.