Henning Melber (PhD) Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria. He is also Senior Research Associate, The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala/Sweden; Senior Research Fellow, The Institute for Commonwealth Studies/School for Advanced Study, University of London; Professor Extraordinary, Centre for Gender and Africa Studies/University of the Free State, Bloemfontein; President of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI); and a Director emeritus/Senior Advisor of The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Uppsala/Sweden. He was the van Zyl Slabbert Visiting Professor for Sociology and Political Sciences at the University of Cape Town in October/November 2017.