Richard Cockett

Richard Cockett

Richard Cockett is the Africa editor at The Economist, and the author of Sudan: Darfur and the Failure of an African State. After lecturing in politics and history at University College London, he joined The Economist in 1999 as Britain correspondent and has since been variously education editor, bureau chief for Central America and the Caribbean, based in Mexico City, and Africa editor since 2005.

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