Nicole Stremlau This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  is Director of Stanhope's Africa Media Programme. Nicole recently returned from 15 months of field research in East Africa for her PhD dissertation at the London School of Economics on The Press and the Consolidation of Power in Ethiopia and Uganda.

She is also co-authoring a book of Oral Histories of Eastern African editors - extensive research was conducted in Ethiopia, Somaliland, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda. The project is part of the Stanhope East African Fellowship Programme. Nicole is also initiating a project for the Stanhope Centre in response to a request by the government of Somaliland to assist with capacity building and transforming the Ministry of Information.