Adam Branch is Professor in International Politics at the University of Cambridge. He is also the Director of the Philomathia Africa Programme as well as a Fellow of Trinity Hall. He received his PhD in political science from Columbia University and his BA from Harvard University. Prior to joining Cambridge, he was senior research fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research in Kampala. He is a member of the Vice Chancellor’s Advisory Group on the Legacies of Enslavement at Cambridge and is a series editor for African Arguments (Zed Books).