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Stephen W. Smith on “Young Africa’s Scramble For Old Europe.” Stephen W. Smith is a Professor of the Practice of African and African American Studies at Duke University. He holds a PhD in semiotics from Berlin’s Free University. The deputy editor of the foreign desk at Le Monde for five years and, previously, the Africa editor at Libération for twelve years, he had worked as a roving correspondent in West and Central Africa for Reuters news agency and Radio France International (RFI). He is the (co-)author of sixteen books, of country reports (Nigeria, Central African Republic) for the International Crisis Group, and a consultant for the UN and other international bodies. He has widely contributed to many publications and writes regularly for The London Review of Books. He is the author The Scramble for Europe: Young Africa On Its Way to the Old Continent (2019).
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on November 8, 2019.
Stephen W. Smith on “Young Africa’s Scramble For Old Europe.” Stephen W. Smith is a Professor of the Practice of African and African American Studies at Duke University. He holds a PhD in semiotics from Berlin’s Free University. The deputy editor of the foreign desk at Le Monde for five years and, previously, the Africa editor at Libération for twelve years, he had worked as a roving correspondent in West and Central Africa for Reuters news agency and Radio France International (RFI). He is the (co-)author of sixteen books, of country reports (Nigeria, Central African Republic) for the International Crisis Group, and a consultant for the UN and other international bodies. He has widely contributed to many publications and writes regularly for The London Review of Books. He is the author The Scramble for Europe: Young Africa On Its Way to the Old Continent (2019).
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on November 8, 2019.
