Guest Seminar Book talk

Good Governance in Nigeria: Rethinking Accountability and Transparency by Dr Portia Roelofs Kings College London

Dr Portia Roelofs is a Lecturer in Politics at King’s College London. She has a PhD in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and held post-doctoral fellowships at the LSE and St Anne’s College Oxford.

She is co-convenor of the Political Studies Association special group on Global Development Politics and sits on the editorial board of the African Arguments book series. Her work sits at the intersection of critical development studies, politics and political theory. She has published in Governance, Journal of Modern African Studies, African Affairs and Journal of African Cultural Studies. Her book Good Governance in Nigeria: Rethinking Accountability and Transparency in the 21^st century was published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press.   

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