Kenyan whistleblower John Githongo lectures at NAI
John Githongo, picture from IDRC (The International Development Research Center). photo: N. Robitaille
The internationally renowned Kenyan whistleblower and corruption fighter John Githongo visits Sweden as a guest of the Nordic Africa Institute. John Githongo will lecture at NAI in Uppsala on 24 November, from 16.00-17.30.
John Githongo is best known for his role in investigating and exposing a high-level corruption scandal in Kenya in 2005, when he was Permanent Secretary for Governance and Ethics in the government. He resigned in 2005 and the following year he publicly named several top politicians, including the vice-president and the finance minister, as responsible for the scandal. As a result of Gitongho’s resignation and the naming of those responsible for the scandal international aid to Kenya was cut. Fearing for his life, Githongo was for some years forced to live in exile in the UK and only returned to Kenya in 2008.
John Githongo holds an honorary doctorate from the Open University, UK and a Bachelors of Science in Economics from the University of Wales. He is the founding Trustee of Zinduka Trust, an organization that focuses on governance reforms from below.
Read more about the lecture (pdf).
Sustainable ethanol – for whom?
NAI Senior Researcher Kjell Havnevik is one of the lecturers at a seminar on biofuel issues at Universeum in Gothenburg on 2 December at 10-16. The seminar is organized by the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (Naturskyddsföreningen) and Human Ecology at the department of Global Studies at Gothenburg University. The seminar is aimed at persons working with ethanol and biofuel issues through development issues, environmental rights, tenders, environment policy work and research. Kjell Havnevik will speak in the morning on the theme External influence over African land for energy and food – consequences for smallholder farms.
Read more about the seminar here (in Swedish only).
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Publications from the Nordic Africa Institute are now available for free download from the Swedish Academic Archive On-line, or “DiVA”. Almost 400 titles have been transferred to the DiVA archive during the autumn of 2009. DiVA is a publishing system for research publications and student theses and a digital archive for long-term safe preservation of publications. Go directly to the Nordic Africa Institute start page on DiVA.
