Eminent lawyer Sir Stephen Sedley will discuss the findings of the international inquiry he chaired into the death of UN Secrerary General Dag Hammarskjold in a plane crash in central Africa in 1961. In the afternoon three historians will give new insights into the post-independence Congo crisis, which Hammarsjkold was seeking to resolve at the moment of his death. Their research sheds new light on the complex interactions between contested visions of post-independence nation-states, cross-border dynamics involving mining capital, European settlers and African politicians, and the geo-political interactions of the United Nations, the superpowers, decolonising European states and post-colonial nations from Ireland to Ghana.

Event organised by the African Studies Centre, the Oxford Central African Forum (OCAF)
and the Zambia Discussion Group (ZDG)

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