Acknowledgments
This paper would have not been possible without the support of the Africa Programme and the Queen Elizabeth II Academy for Leadership in International Affairs at Chatham House. I would especially like to thank Ben Shepherd for his comments and help with restructuring the paper, and Richard Whitman for providing insightful feedback. I would like to acknowledge with gratitude the continuous support of Eugénie McLachlan and Rebekka Rumpel. I would also like to thank previous Academy fellows Stefan Cibian and Cristina Gherasimov for their support and assistance.
Chatham House would like to thank the Mo Ibrahim Foundation for its generous support of the fellowship and the publication of this research paper.