Morris Szeftel is an academic who has worked as a professor at the University of Leeds

University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England...

. He is also a contributing author to the Review of African Political Economy

Review of African political economy

The Review of African Political Economy is a refereed academic journal covering African political economy. It is published quarterly by Taylor & Francis since 1974...

 and is an editor of the Journal of Southern African Studies

Journal of Southern African Studies

The Journal of Southern African Studies is an international publication which covers research on the Southern African region, focussing on Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and occasionally also Tanzania, the Democratic Republic...

 http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/jsas

Szeftel taught the postgraduate modules on 'Africa in the Contemporary World' and 'Political Economy of Resources and Development' until 2005 and on 'Business, State and World Economy' and 'The Modern Corporation and the State' at Leeds University's School of Politics and International Studies

School of Politics and International Studies

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 (POLIS). He also taught undergraduate courses at Leeds on 'Political Corruption', 'The State and Politics in Africa', 'Government and Politics in India' and 'The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism in South Africa'. In 2006 he gave the African Studies Annual Lecture at Leeds, entitled 'Supernumeraries of the Human Race: Reflections on the African "Holocaust"'.

Szeftel was married to the feminist academic and development scholar Carolyn Baylies

Carolyn Baylies

Carolyn Louise Baylies was an academic and activist. She was particularly active in the fields of health and sociology of the third world and international development, and especially on the gendered aspects of development...

 from 1977 until her death from cancer in 2003. They had two children.

Together with Baylies, Szeftel authored the book 'The Dynamics of the One-Party State in Zambia', which was published in 1984 by Manchester University Press

Manchester University Press

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. He also co-authored the book 'Voting for Democracy: Watershed Elections in Anglophone Africa' [Ashgate, 1999]. He is author of numerous articles on political corruption in Africa, democratization

Democratization

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 in Zambia

Zambia

Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....

 and in Africa generally, elections in Africa

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, ethnicity and race, and political conflict.