RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Obituary: Professor Margaret Vogt

A great scholar and institution builder, with a complete grasp of conceptual and empirical
issues related to International Relations.There have not been many intellectuals in the world
with the intellectual and organizational prowess, skills and expertise of Professor Margaret Vogt,
and it will be difficult to fill the gap left by her
passing. May she meet the ancestors in glory, and with peace.


Professor Gloria Emeagwali
africahistory.net
vimeo.com/user5946750/videos
Documentaries on Africa and the African Diaspora
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From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of alao@dircon.co.uk [alao@dircon.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 1:52 PM
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Obituary: Professor Margaret Vogt

Dear All

It is with deep sadness that I inform you about the death of Professor
Margaret Aderinsola Vogt. She passed on in the late yesterday (23rd
September). Professor Vogt was a leading African scholar in the area of
International Peace and security. Indeed, her books on the Liberian Civil
War served as the Roseta Stone for many of us who later worked on the
subject.

She was an Associate Professor at the Nigerian Institute of International
Affairs, establishing the Institute's Strategic Studies Unit and later
worked as the Director of Studies at the Command and Staff College, Jaji,
Nigeria, and as a lecturer at the Nigerian War College and the Institute
for Strategic Studies, Kuru, also in Nigeria.

Margaret also worked as Chief of Staff of the African Union Commission
Chairperson in the African Union. She was also one of the key scholars in
the conceptualization and facilitation of the adoption of the Economic
Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Organisation of African
Unity (OAU) mechanisms for peace and conflict management. With the United
Nations, she worked as Deputy Director of the Africa I Division in the
Department of Political Affairs at the United Nations Secretariat and
later as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General at the United
Nations Political Office for Somalia.

With her death, Africa has lost an electrifying intellectual and many of
us have lost a genial host and a wonderful sister

May she rest well.

Abiodun Alao


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