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Name |
David Sebudubudu |
| Highest qualification |
PhD in Politics (The University of Leeds, England)
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| Position |
Professor Extraordinarius |
| Contact details |
Sebudubudu@ub.ac.bw |
| Research interests/expertise |
Governance, the state and democracy, civil society, political corruption, ethics and accountability, African politics, debates about development and the wider political economy. |
| Current projects |
Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara, Volume 21
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Short biography
Prof. David Sebudubudu is Professor Extraordinarius at the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public & International Affairs (TM School), University of South Africa (UNISA), and Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies (PAS), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Botswana. Prof. Sebudubudu has a notable academic background, and extensive experience as a lecturer, researcher and administrator. He holds a BA in Public Administration and Political Science (1994) from the University of Botswana, and an MA (1997) and a Ph.D. in Politics (2002), from the University of Leeds, England.
He served as Head of the Department of Political and Administrative Studies for six years, from 19 May, 2009 through 30 June, 2015, and as Coordinator of the Democracy Research Project (DRP), from 2007 to 2012. He also served as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences for six years, from 9th November 2015 to 8th November 2021, and acted as Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs, from May 2017 to September 2018, University of Botswana. His research interests include Governance, the state and democracy, civil society, political corruption, ethics and accountability, African politics, debates about development and the wider political economy, and published widely in these areas.
Prof Sebudubudu teaches at both undergraduate and graduate levels and has widely published. He has attended several international conferences where he presented papers and has been involved in several collaborative research projects. He has also served as an external examiner and guest lecturer in several universities and sat in several boards, nationally and internationally. He is an editor of the Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara, published by Brill (Leiden & Boston), from January 2020. He is a Book Reviews Editor of The African Review: A Journal of African Politics, Development and International Affairs published by Brill, and an Editorial Board member of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics by Taylor & Francis.
Selected publications
- Sebudubudu, D (2025) 'Revisiting Botswana’s endogenous system of governance: is it a source of political stability?', in Ali Moussa Iye and Augustin F. C. Holl (eds.) Beyond Mimicry: The Potential of African Endogenous Governance Systems, Volume 2 in the series Re-Imagining Public Governance; Published by De Gruyter, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111425160.
- Ziaja, S., Geray, M., Sebudubudu, D., & von Schiller, A (2024) 'E-government and citizen-state relations: Evidence from a randomized information campaign with the Botswana Unified Revenue Service', Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12893., Impact Factor 2.6.
- Seidu, M. Alidu., Kamski, B., Mehler, A and Sebudubudu, D (eds.) (2024) Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2023, Volume 20, Leiden. Boston: BRILL.
- Sebudubudu. D (2024) ‘Southern Africa’, Seidu, M. A., Kamski, B., Mehler, A and Sebudubudu, D (eds.) Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2023, Volume 20, Leiden. Boston: BRILL.
- Seidu, M. Alidu., Kamski, B., Mehler, A and Sebudubudu, D (eds.) (2023) Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2022, Volume 19, Leiden. Boston: BRILL.
- Sebudubudu. D and Molutsi, P (2023) ‘The Dilemmas of Civil Society and Social Movements in a Rapidly Growing Economy – Botswana’, Briguglio, L., Briguglio, M., Bunwaree, S and Slatter, C (eds) Handbook of Civil Society and Social Movements in Small States, Routledge.
- Sebudubudu D. (2021) ‘Botswana’s Natural Resource Fund (The Pula Fund)’. In: Okpanachi E., Chowdhari Tremblay R. (eds) The Political Economy of Natural Resource Funds. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78251-1_4
- Sebudubudu, D., Osei-Hwedie, B.Z and Tsie, B (eds.) (2017) Botswana’s Parliamentary Democracy Revisited, Pretoria: University of South Africa (UNISA) Press.
- De Jager, N and Sebudubudu, D (2017) ‘Towards understanding Botswana and South Africa’s Ambivalence to Liberal Democracy’, Journal of Contemporary African Studies (JCAS), Vol. 35, No.1, pp.15-33.
- Sebudubudu. D., Khatib. L and Alessandro Bozzini, A (2017) ‘The atypical achievers: Botswana, Qatar and Rwanda’, in Mungiu-Pippidi, A and Johnston, M (eds) Transitions to Good Governance: Creating Virtuous Circles of Anti-corruption, Cheltenham, UK; Northhampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Sebudubudu, D (2017) ‘Factors That Impede Democratic Consolidation in Botswana’, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, Vol. 13, No.1, pp. 137-153.
