Governance in Africa

Bringing together some of the most important and inspired thinkers, policy makers and experts focused on issues affecting governance in Africa.

School of Oriental and African Studies Mo Ibrahim Foundation
  • Home
  • About
  • Conversations
    • Youth Engagement
  • Residential Schools
    • London
      • All Content
      • School Details
      • Participants
      • Resources
    • Mauritius
      • All Content
      • School Details
      • Participants
      • Resources
    • Ghana
      • All Content
      • School Details
      • Participants
      • Resources
    • Ethiopia
      • All Content
      • School Details
      • Participants
      • Resources
    • Tanzania
      • All Content
      • School Details
      • Participants
      • Resources
    • Mozambique
      • All Content
      • School Details
      • Participants
      • Resources
    • Morocco
      • Morocco Profiles
      • Morocco Presentations
    • South Africa
      • South Africa Profiles
      • South Africa Presentations
    • Rwanda
      • Rwanda Lectures
      • Rwanda Resources
      • Rwanda Participant Profiles
    • Côte d’Ivoire
      • Côte d’Ivoire lectures
      • Côte d’Ivoire participants
      • Côte d’Ivoire Resources
  • Lectures
  • Webinar Series
    • About
    • Upcoming Webinars
    • Past Webinars
    • Webinar collection

Governance in Africa: Simon Kolawale

February 12, 2013 by CAS Leave a Comment

Armando Conte interviews Simon Kolawole, a Mo Ibrahim Leadership Development Fellow at the Centre of African Studies, SOAS. Mr Kolawole is also the editor of one of Nigeria’s leading newspapers, This Day. In 2008 the Financial Times nominated him as one of African’ s leaders of the future.

Mr Kolawole research focuses on the concept of New Media and Participatory Governance in Africa. Conte asks him about the major challenges within the democratisation process as well as the New Media in the Africa continent.
Kolawole is a firm believer that the New Media such as mobile phones, the Internet (including social online networks such Facebook and Youtube) and blogs have had an enormous impact in empowering citizens of all backgrounds and in mobilizing civil society in Africa. Although access to the internet and mobile phones can still be limited, the number of users in the last five years has increased at very rapid rate.

Conte enquires on how quality control might be an issue in the field of new media, nevertheless, Kolawole sustains that actually the new media increases citizens’ responsibility and stimulates people to contribute constructively.
Moreover, as the political elite in Africa usually own most of the means of communication, people feel that the new media represents an authentic and democratic tool that enables civil society to mobilise, share information and control
the traditional media.

For more information on Mo Ibrahim Leadership Development Programme see http://www.soas.ac.uk/cas/gdai/

Governance In Africa Conversation with Simon Kolawale Podcast

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/154207916″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]

Filed Under: Conversations

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Can We Help You Find Something?

Featured Content

GDAI Webinar #9 – Engajamento político da juventude na África Lusófona (Youth Political Engagement in Lusophone Africa)

Thursday 27th May 2021 – 5pm BST (UK time) Please note this webinar will be delivered in Portuguese. Moçambique e Cabo Verde são dois países unidos pela mesma língua, mas com trajectórias políticas diferentes. Enquanto o primeiro é visto como o espelho de uma democracia deficitária, Cabo Verde é por sua vez tido como um […]

GDAI Webinar #8 – The challenge of state-making in South Sudan: the shifting everyday realities and experience of violence and conflict

Wed 25 March 2021, 5-6pm (UK Time – GMT+0) Conventional interpretations of Civil Society often overlook the myriad ways in which civic actors constitute authority and negotiate for change in fragile states. This omission has significant implications on how civil society sectors evolve and receive external support. Drawing on South Sudan as a case study, […]

GDAI Webinar #7 – Sudan at the crossroads: hopes and fears for the future

Following the popular revolution and the end of military rule in Sudan in 2019, there were great hopes for change in the future, both within the country and across the Sudanese diaspora. Since then, in 2020 Sudan has been buffeted first by the COVID-19 pandemic and then by severe flooding in August 2020, and the […]

Latest Tweets

  • 'The war in #Ukraine: #Africa risks paying a heavy price for neutrality' By @NickWestcottRAS (@royafrisoc) writing… https://t.co/gROh0V07bA May 24, 2022 2:28 pm
  • Celebrating 50 years of #Gaypride in Britain / A special @SOAS event celebrating African, Asian and Middle Eastern… https://t.co/dVVsu7x57h May 24, 2022 12:56 pm
  • The Ibrahim Governance Forum is happening on 25-27 May! Join the @Mo_IbrahimFdn and leading voices, including… https://t.co/tjcUySQCGk May 24, 2022 12:17 pm

Follow Us Online

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
Centre of African Studies - SOAS
Tel: (+44) (0)20 7898 4370
E-mail: cas@soas.ac.uk
Web: www.soas.ac.uk/cas
Mo Ibrahim Foundation
E-mail: info@moibrahimfoundation.org
Web: www.moibrahimfoundation.org
SOAS Radio
E-mail: studio@soasradio.org
Web: www.soasradio.org
Twitter: @SOASRadio

Copyright © 2022 · Built by An Occasion on the Genesis Framework · Log In

Copyright © 2022 · Beautiful Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in