Zeinab BadawiBorn in Sudan, Zeinab Badawi is President of the University of London's SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) and an award-winning broadcaster, journalist, and filmmaker. She was previously Chair of the Royal African Society.Badawi is a recipient of the President's Medal of the British Academy; an honorary fellow of her alma mater, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford; a Patron of the United Nations Association UK; and is on the boards of the Mandela Institute for Development Studies, the International Crisis Group, and Afrobarometer. An African History of Africa is her first book. Read More Read Less