Christopher Clapham (Africanist)

Christopher S. Clapham OBE (born 1941) is a British Africanist and political scientist. He read PPE at Keble College, Oxford, graduating in 1963. In 1971 he joined Lancaster University and served there as senior lecturer in politics (1974–89) and then professor of politics and international relations (1989-2002). Since 2002 Clapham is a professor, now emeritus, based at the Centre of African Studies of Cambridge University. He served as the editor of Journal of Modern African Studies from 1997 up to 2012. He was a president to the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom from 1992 to 1994.

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