Stephen Ellis

The late Stephen Ellis was the Desmond Tutu professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and a senior researcher at the Afrika Studiecentrum in Leiden.

In the late 1990s he worked as a researcher for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. He was a past editor of African Affairs, the journal of Britain’s Royal African Society and also worked as the editor of the newsletter Africa Confidential.

In 2003-2004 he was director of the Africa programme at the International Crisis Group.

Author's books

EXTERNAL MISSION HR

External Mission

This book aims to provide a full account of the ANC’s years in exile, penetrating the secrecy that the organisation erected around itself and testing the myths that emerged from that period.

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