Brian Raftopoulos is a Mellon Senior Research Mentor at the Centre for Humanities Research at the

University of the Western Cape The University of the Western Cape (UWC) is a public research university in Bellville, near Cape Town, South Africa. The university was established in 1959 by the South African government as a university for Coloured people only. Other un ...

and a former Associate Professor of Development Studies at the

University of Zimbabwe The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) is a public university in Harare, Zimbabwe. It opened in 1952 as the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and was initially affiliated with the University of London. It was later renamed the University o ...

. He first emigrated to

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in 2006 to serve as Director of Research and Advocacy in the human rights NGO ''Solidarity Peace Trust''.Professor Brian Raftopoulos
Centre for Humanities Research: University of the Western Cape

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