Elsie Cloete - Foreign Policy In Focus

Articles by Elsie Cloete

Wambui Otieno’s Mau Mau

October 3, 2011 | 'With her death on 30 August 2011, Wambui Otieno-Mbugua joins the pantheon of African women activists who devoted their lives to struggles against colonial and post-independence political regimes and against systems that favoured and still do favour men over women,' writes Elsie Cloete.

If She is Still There

June 13, 2011 | At nearly 200 meters high and 2.3 kilometers wide, the hydroelectric dam in Hubei, China, is creating a reservoir that will eventually stretch 600km (370 miles) to the west.