Stephen Ellis

Stephen Ellis Editor of Africa Confidential from 1986 to 1991 died on 29 July 2015...

Also read: In remembrance of Stephen Ellis by Gillian Lusk Associate Editor Africa Confidential Stephen Ellis 1953-2015 An obituary by Lansana Gberie ...

In trench-coat and trilby Stephen Ellis cut an imposing figure...

Also Read: Obituary: Stephen Ellis 1953-2015 Stephen Ellis 1953-2015 An obituary by Lansana Gberie ...

Stephen Ellis's love affair with Africa started early in his life...

Though the book continues to be widely praised as the standard text on the Liberian civil war critics at the time picked on this discussion of ritual cannibalism to charge the Stephen Ellis with having a malicious attitude towards Africa...

In 2004 Stephen Ellis had collaborated with his partner Gerrie ter Haar who is now an Emeritus Professor of Religion and Development to publish ‘Worlds of power: Religious thought and political practice in Africa' which expanded on his theory about the important role of spiritualism in African affairs...

' The suggestion outraged many African scholars and politicians some of whom described Stephen Ellis as a neo-colonial agent advocating the re-colonisation of Africa...

' The issue is by no means settled but the debate is now poorer after the loss of Professor Stephen Ellis's singular voice...

Lansana Gberie is the author of A Dirty War in West Africa: The RUF and the Destruction of Sierra Leone (Hurst London 2005) Also read: Obituary: Stephen Ellis 1953-2015 In remembrance of Stephen Ellis by Gillian Lusk Associate Editor Africa Confidential ...

Outside interference for example by giving police vehicles and weapons to combat the drugs trade can lead to conflict with the armed forces in places such as Guinea Bissau where the military has strong interests in the drugs trade warns Stephen Ellis of Leiden University and a former Editor of Africa Confidential...

The Criminalisation of the State in Africa by Jean-François Bayart Stephen Ellis and Béatrice Hibou; James Currey Oxford UK...