After years of armed struggle to compete for power, Africa has ended up with a post-liberation legacy…
Nick Branson
Nick Branson is an Associate Director in the Intelligence and Analysis team at Africa Practice, where he leads engagements on the energy transition. Nick has helped international investors in energy, mining and infrastructure projects navigate complex political, regulatory, and macroeconomic risks across the continent. He holds a MA in International Studies and Diplomacy and an MPhil in African Politics from SOAS, University of London. Nick speaks French, Spanish and Portuguese.
The struggle to keep pace
Africa’s collective electricity supply is bedevilled by weak legal frameworks and regional rivalry
Democratic Republic of Congo: mobile courts
Over the past two decades, a series of interconnected conflicts has blighted the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with a disproportionate impact on women and girls. Combatants from myriad rebel groups and the Congolese armed forces have used rape as a weapon of...
Closing ranks under pressure
Liberation movements: after the war More than any other continent, Africa boasts an abundance of former national liberation movements serving in government. Understanding the history of these organisations, particularly the manner in which they attained power,...
Local Content in the Oil and Gas Sector: Will Tanzania follow Nigeria’s lead?
As in Nigeria, there are concerns in Tanzania that elite accumulation strategies are determining the shape of local-content policies.
From compromise candidate to ‘petty dictator’?
Tanzanian president John Magufuli quickly became power struck once in office Tanzanian president Dr John Pombe Magufuli has an uncanny ability to undermine his own anticorruption crusade through his intolerance of criticism, particularly on social media. Few observers...
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Nick Branson
Nick Branson is an Associate Director in the Intelligence and Analysis team at Africa Practice, where he leads engagements on the energy transition. Nick has helped international investors in energy, mining and infrastructure projects navigate complex political, regulatory, and macroeconomic risks across the continent. He holds a MA in International Studies and Diplomacy and an MPhil in African Politics from SOAS, University of London. Nick speaks French, Spanish and Portuguese.
Civil-military relations: An uneasy alliance
After years of armed struggle to compete for power, Africa has ended up with a post-liberation legacy…
The struggle to keep pace
Africa’s collective electricity supply is bedevilled by weak legal frameworks and regional rivalry
Democratic Republic of Congo: mobile courts
Over the past two decades, a series of interconnected conflicts has blighted the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with a disproportionate impact on women and girls. Combatants from myriad rebel groups and the Congolese armed forces have used rape as a weapon of...
Closing ranks under pressure
Liberation movements: after the war More than any other continent, Africa boasts an abundance of former national liberation movements serving in government. Understanding the history of these organisations, particularly the manner in which they attained power,...
Local Content in the Oil and Gas Sector: Will Tanzania follow Nigeria’s lead?
As in Nigeria, there are concerns in Tanzania that elite accumulation strategies are determining the shape of local-content policies.
From compromise candidate to ‘petty dictator’?
Tanzanian president John Magufuli quickly became power struck once in office Tanzanian president Dr John Pombe Magufuli has an uncanny ability to undermine his own anticorruption crusade through his intolerance of criticism, particularly on social media. Few observers...