William Mervin GumedeWilliam M Gumede is Senior Associate and Oppenheimer Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford. He is on the faculty of the Graduate School of Public & Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He writes a blog on global politcs for the Washington Post. He was Deputy Editor of The Sowetan newspaper in Johannesburg. He is a contributing author to the New History of South Africa, Tafelberg Publishers, 2007. His forthcoming book, The Democracy Gap Africa's Wasted Years, Zed books, is released in 2008. Read More Read Less