Lawrence Hamilton is the SA UK Bilateral Chair in Political Theory, based at the Universities of theWitwatersrand and Cambridge. He contributes to rethink political theory from and for the Global South. His works include Amartya Sen (2019), Freedom is Power (2014) and The Political Philosophy of Needs (2003).

In this month’s podcast I interview Dr Camilla Vergara, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Cambridge  on the ongoing quest for constitutional reform in the South American country.  She  breaks down the challenges with systemic corruption and  talks to us about the need for plebian democracy in the world. 

And in the political agenda segment  political studies scholar Moshibudi Motimele goes to Senegal where there has been an internet shut down  since June 1 due to widespread protests.