Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
Henning Melber (PhD) is also Senior Research Associate, The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala/Sweden; Senior Research Fellow, The Institute for Commonwealth Studies/School for Advanced Study, University of London; Professor Extraordinary, Centre for Gender and Africa Studies/University of the Free State, Bloemfontein; and a Director emeritus/Senior Advisor of The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Uppsala/Sweden. He was the van Zyl Slabbert Visiting Professor for Sociology and Political Sciences at the University of Cape Town in October/November 2017.
Co-editor: Africa Yearbook/Managing co-editor: Africa Spectrum/Editor-in-chief: Strategic Review for Southern Africa
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