- Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Martin Plaut is the former Africa Editor of BBC World Service News. His research interests are: African politics and economics, colonies & colonization, emigration & immigration. He is the author of "Understanding Eritrea: Inside Africa’s most repressive state", Hurst, October, 2016."Promise and Despair: The first struggle for a non-racial South Africa, 1899 – 1914", Jacana Media, 2016, "Robert Mugabe" Ohio University Press, 2018, with Sue Onslow and "Unbroken Chains: A 5,000 Year History of African Enslavement", Hurst, August 2025.
BSoc Sce, University of Cape Town
BA (Hons), University of the Witwatersrand
MA, University of Warwick
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–presentSenior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Instititue of Commonwealth Studies
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1978University of Warwick, MA
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