FRIDE - Cornwell, Richard

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Richard Cornwell

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Senior Research Associate, African Security Analysis Programme, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, South Africa. He emigrated to South Africa in 1974, working for the next five years as a military historian. In 1979 he moved to the Africa Institute in Pretoria, where he worked as a researcher and was co-founder and editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.

In 1982 he accepted the post of Lecturer in Development Administration and African Politics at the University of South Africa. In 1987 he returned to the Africa Institute as Head of the Current Affairs Section and editor of Africa Insight, a position he occupied until moving in September 1997 to the ISS. He has published widely on contemporary African politics and is extensively consulted by the media, business and government departments on this subject.