Join us in conversation with Professor Christopher Clapham – author of The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay – to discuss the meaning of decolonising African studies. Although decolonisation refers to the attempt to understand the continent’s diverse and complex societies that builds on their indigenous structures and values, of late the phrase has come to refer to developments notably in North America and Europe, which in subordinating the study of Africa to agendas in the global north may appropriately be described not as decolonisation but as recolonisation.