The Great African War : A lecture by Prof. Filip Reyntjens

Filip Reyntjens is Professor of African Law and Politics at the Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp. He is a full member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences and a board member of several scientific organizations, including the Institute of Tropical Medecine (Antwerp), the International Third World Legal Studies Association (New York) and the Development Research Institute IVO (Tilburg). Among other assignments, he has been a visiting professor in Paris, Pretoria, Butare (Rwanda), Kinshasa and Mbarara (Uganda) and the vice-rector of the University of Mbuji-Mayi (DRC). For over thirty years, he has specialised in the law and politics of Sub-Sahara Africa, and the Great Lakes Region in particular, on which he has published a dozen books and hundreds of scholarly articles.

Ce discours sera en anglais, mais le Professeur Reyntjens est bilingue et répondra aux questions dans les deux langues.