African Studies Association of the United Kingdom

1986 ◽  
Vol 85 (339) ◽  
pp. 300-300
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
African Studies ◽  
The United Kingdom

More about Diamonds

2019 ◽  
pp. 115-119
Author(s):  
Vladimir Shubin
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
South African ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
De Beers

The article is a rejoinder to the work of Yury S. Skubko, previously published in the Journal of the Institute for African Studies, on Moscow’s relations with De Beers. It is based not only on the available literature but also on the author’s personal experience. The author shows that under the monopoly of this South African company in the field of diamond sales, Soviet organizations, even in the conditions of a South African boycott, were forced to deal with its subordinate structures and the attempts to sideline them were in vain. In particular the article analyses the attitude to a controversial agreement signed by the Soviet state-owned “Glavalmalmazzoloto” and De Beers Centenary in 1990, when, like in many other cases in the “Gorbachev’s era” Moscow’s principle stand was eroded for short-term results even personal gains. The author comes to the conclusion that the responsibility for Moscow’s dealings with De Beers must be borne not by our country, but above all by the United Kingdom, which allowed De Beers have the headquarters of its Central Selling Organisation (CСO) in London.

Modern Asian Studies in the Universities of the United Kingdom

1967 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. H. Philips
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Committee Report ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Future ◽  
Made In

The launching of this journal of Modern Asian Studies, on the initiative of the Hayter Asian Centres in co-operation with the School of Oriental and African Studies, provides a good opportunity to review the progress being made in these studies in the universities of the United Kingdom. We have nearly reached the half-way stage of a ten-year programme of development which was put forward in the Hayter Committee Report of 1961, and are approaching the new quinquennium in which what has already been started should be consolidated and the new pattern for the future established.

African Studies Association of the United Kingdom: The 1964 Conference

1964 ◽  
Vol 7 (03) ◽  
pp. 13-14
Author(s):  
J. D. Fage
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
The United States ◽  
African Studies ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The University

The African Studies Association of the United Kingdom held its first Conference at the University of Birmingham from 14 to 17 September, 1964, when about a hundred members came together with a number of guests and observers, including representatives of the African Studies Association of the United States, the Africa-Studiecentrum of the Netherlands, the Scandinavian African Institute, and the German Afrika Gesellschaft. Most of those attending the Conference were accommodated at University House. The Conference opened on the evening of 14 September with a speech of welcome by the Vice-Chancellor of Birmingham University, Sir Robert Aitken, and a Presidential Address by Dr. Margery Perham, C.B.E., President of the Association.

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