On 9—11 July 2018, JIAS and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg hosted a conference on ‘After the Prelude: Decolonisation, Evolution and Revolution’. This was the second in a series of three conferences on colonialism and its implications.

The convenors were Professor David Boucher of the Department of Politics and International Relations at UJ and Cardiff University (Boucherde@cardiff.ac.uk), and Dr Ayesha Omar of the Department of Politics at the University of the Witwatersrand (Ayesha.Omar@wits.ac.za).