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OSSREA Welcomes Dr. Owen Sichone
Dr. Owen
Sichone has joined OSSREA as the new Research and Publications Head. He comes to
us from the University of Cape Town in South Africa where he teaches Social
Anthropology. A Zambian national, Dr Sichone is a graduate of the University of
Zambia and did his MA at Sussex and PhD at Cambridge in England.
He will be overseeing OSSREAs research programmes and publishing the now quite massive research output from those programmes. He has a lot of experience in this field having previously been Director of Research and Publications at The Southern African Political Economy Series (Trust) in Zimbabwe, and having served or currently a member of several editorial boards for prominent university presses in South Africa and numerous academic publications such as the Journal of Southern African Studies, Social Dynamics and Anthropological Theory.
He will be approaching more social science researchers and scholars in Eastern and Southern Africa to become involved in OSSREA programmes so as to generate both quantitative and qualitative change in African social science. Readers are encouraged to respond to the various OSSREA competitions announced in this Bulletin.