Forthcoming seminar

Twenty years of democratisation in East Africa, 1990-2010
The gradual upheavals of political institutions and political cultures

Although two decades is a relatively short period in political terms, it seems to be the right time to carry out an in-depth study on the dynamics that have changed - sometimes greatly - the political arena in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. This has happened while varying internal and external pressure led to the abandonment of the single party system. The end of 2005 saw the third multiparty elections in Tanzania; Kenya experienced a more than turbulent general election in 2007 (the fourth multiparty contest); as for Uganda, the ambiguous concept of "no-party democracy" did not prevent the so-called democratic elections in 2006.

An international research seminar will be held in Nairobi, organised by IFRA, from 2-3 October 2008. For more information, kindly follow the link.

New Project

Beginning March 2008, a new programme in collaboration with the European Union was launched. The project - CREATING - Cooperative Research on East African Territorial Integration within Globalisation, will be run by the following institutes and personnel:

Institut français de recherche en Afrique, IFRA - Bernard CALAS
British Institute in Eastern Africa, BIEA - Justin WILLIS
Musée Royal de l'Afrique Central - Danielle de LAME
Inter-University Council for East Africa, IUCEA - Benedict MTASIWA
Dynamique des Milieux et de Sociétés dans les Espaces Tropicaux, DyMset - François BART
Stockholm University - Mats WIDGREN
Zentrum Moderner Orient (Centre for Modern Oriental Studies) - Achim von OPPEN
Trinity College Dublin - David Taylor

For more information on this project, click here.

2008

Violette Dusabimana, Director's Assistant, Accounts

Ndanu Mung'ala, Director's Personal Assistant

September 2007

Current Director:
Professor Bernard Calas, Geographer
Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, UMR ADES-DyMset.

Deputy Director:
Dr. Jérôme Lafargue, Lecturer in Political Sciences
Centre of Research and Studies of Eastern and African Countries, Pau.