Rethinking U.S. Policy Towards Africa: Lessons from the Sudans and the Horn of Africa

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Description:

The International Leadership Center will host a panel discussion on U.S. policy towards Africa, featuring U.S. diplomat Molly Phee, Sudanese researcher Raga Makawi, and writer Joshua Craze. Jackson professor Alden Young will moderate.



Molly Phee is a senior U.S. diplomat known for her strategic leadership in navigating complex political and security challenges. She has led negotiations to end conflicts, build coalitions, and arrange humanitarian access across Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. She has operated effectively in insecure environments, collaborating with the U.S. military, USAID and other U.S. government agencies, the UN, international NGOs, foreign partners, and civilian stakeholders.



Raga Makawi is the Sudan research coordinator, with a focus on the political economy of Sudan and the wider region, with LSE IDEAS. A Sudanese activist, she is also the commissioning editor for the Africa Series at Zed Books and African Arguments, and a regional coordinator and researcher at the Horn Economic and Social Policy Institute. She is coming to Yale from Cairo, Egypt.



Joshua Craze is a writer who focuses on South Sudan, Sudan and East Africa. Craze was educated at the University of Oxford, l'EHESS-Paris, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of California, Berkeley. He has a Ph.D. in socio-cultural anthropology from the latter institution. Craze has lived in Britain, Cambodia, Egypt, France, the Netherlands, Kenya, America, Germany, and South Sudan. He has taught political philosophy at Sciences-Po Paris, and anthropology at Berkeley and in San Quentin State Prison, California. From 2014-18, he was an assistant professor and Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago. From 2021-22, he was a non-resident fellow at the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa, at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Sponsor:

International Leadership Center

Contact:

Jackson School of Global Affairs
Phone: 203-432-6253
Email: jackson.school@yale.edu
Link: http://jackson.yale.edu