Richard Dowden is Executive Director of the Royal African Society in London (www.royalafricansociety.org).

Richard worked for the Times until 1986 when he became Africa Editor of the Independent and in 1995 took the post of Africa Editor at The Economist. He also made three television documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 on Africa.

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