Morris Szeftel is an academic who worked at the

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and supported the

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. He is also a contributing author to the ''

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'' and is an editor of the ''

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Early life and education

Szeftel was educated at the universities of University of Cape Town, Cape Town ( BA),

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( MA) and

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(

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Academic career

Szeftel was (as at 1983) a

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in the department of

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at the

. Szeftel taught the

postgraduate Postgraduate education, graduate education, or graduate school consists of academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications usually pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate (bachelor' ...

modules on 'Africa in the Contemporary World' and 'Political Economy of Resources and Development' until 2005 and on 'Business, State and World Economy' and 'The Modern Corporation and the State' at Leeds University's school of politics and international studies (POLIS). He also taught undergraduate courses at Leeds on 'Political Corruption', 'The State and Politics in Africa', 'Government and Politics in India' and 'The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism in South Africa'. In 2006 he gave the African Studies Annual Lecture at Leeds, entitled 'Supernumeraries of the Human Race: Reflections on the African "Holocaust"'.'Supernumeraries of the Human Race: Reflections on the African "Holocaust"'
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Marriage and children

Szeftel was married to the

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

academic and development scholar

Carolyn Baylies Carolyn Louise Baylies (2 June 1947 – 1 November 2003), was an American academic and activist. She was particularly active in the fields of health and sociology of the third world and international development, and especially on the gendered as ...

from 1977 until her death from cancer in 2003. They had two children.

Publications

Together with Baylies, Szeftel authored the book ''The Dynamics of the One-Party State in Zambia'', which was published in 1984 by

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. He also co-authored the book ''Voting for Democracy: Watershed Elections in Anglophone Africa'' shgate, 1999 He is author of numerous articles on political corruption in Africa,

democratization Democratization, or democratisation, is the structural government transition from an democratic transition, authoritarian government to a more democratic political regime, including substantive political changes moving in a democratic direction ...

and in Africa generally, elections in Africa, ethnicity and race, and political conflict.

References

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