Courses Taught

My only claim to fame is that I taught Lieutenant General Kennedy Kamoli, who led the coup d’etat in Lesotho in 2014….

Institute for Peace and Security Studies, University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2016, 2017, 2018

PhD students:

  • ‘Peacebuilding, Democracy and Development in Africa’
  • ‘Global Security’

Tamar Golan Africa Centre, Ben-Gurion University, Israel, 2014

MA students:

  • ‘Conflict and Security in Africa’

Centre for African Studies, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2013

MA students:

  • ‘Africa in International Politics’

Institute of African Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, China, 2010

MA students:

  • ‘Africa’s International Relations’

School of International Studies, Renmin University of China, China, 2009, 2012

MA students:

  • ‘Theories of International Relations’
  • ‘The International Relations of the European Union’
  • ‘The Politics of Africa’

Faculty of Development, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda, 2005

MA students:

  • ‘Africa, Development and the Global Political Economy’

School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom, 2004- present:

PhD students:

  • ‘Research Methods’ (co-taught)
  • ‘Research in International Relations’ (co-taught)

MLitt students:

  • ‘African Political Thought’
  • ‘Conflict and Security in Africa’
  • ‘Civil War, Genocide and Transformation in Rwanda’
  • ‘International Security Studies’ (co-taught)
  • ‘Regional Security’ (co-taught)
  • ‘International Theory, Security and Conflict’ (co-taught)
  • ‘Issues in Peace and Conflict’ (co-taught)

Fourth year BA students:

  • ‘International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa’

Third year BA students:

  • ‘Politics in Africa’

Second year BA students:

  • ‘Power, Violence and IR’ (co-taught)
  • ‘Peace and Governance in World Politics’ (co-taught)
  • ‘Theories of International Relations’ (co-taught)
  • ‘Studying International Relations’ (co-taught)

First year BA students:

  • ‘Introduction to International Relations’ (co-taught)’
  • ‘Comparative Political Systems’ (co-taught)
  • ‘Foundations of International Relations’ (co-taught)
  • ‘Foreign Policy and Comparative Politics’ (co-taught)

Dept. of International Development Studies, Dalhousie University, Canada, 2003:

Fourth year BA students:

  • ‘Africa in the New Millennium’

Dept. of Political and Administrative Studies, University of Botswana, 2001-2004:

MA students:

  • ‘Qualitative Research Methods’

Fourth year BA students:

  • ‘Theories of International Relations’
  • ‘Religion and Politics’

Third year BA students:

  • ‘Comparative Politics’
  • ‘South African Politics’
  • ‘The Politics Southern Africa’
  • ‘The Politics of Regionalism’

Second year BA students:

  • ‘Africa’s International Relations’
  • ‘Contemporary African Politics’

First year BA students:

  • ‘The Modern State’
  • ‘Introduction to Political Science’

Dept. of Political Science, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1997-2000; 2006; 2009; 2012; 2013; 2016; 2019

MA students:

  • ‘Global Political Economy’
  • ‘Conflict and Security in Africa’
  • ‘Political Economy of Southern Africa’

Third year BA students:

  • ‘Africa in the International System’
  • ‘Chinese Foreign Policy’

Dept. of Education, University of Hong Kong, 1997:

PGCE trainee teachers:

  • ‘Civic Culture’