Nic Cheeseman

Nic Cheeseman is Professor of Democracy at the International Development Department of the University of Birmingham. In addition to numerous journal articles, he is the author of “Democracy in Africa: Successes, failures and the struggle for political reform” (2015). Nic’s research focuses on comparative democratisation and the politics of Africa. He writes a fortnightly column for Kenya’s Daily Nation newspaper, regularly provides analysis to the UK and US governments on political developments in Africa, and tweets @fromagehomme.