Paul Richards
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1945 –
Who is Paul Richards?
Paul Richards is an emeritus professor of technology and agrarian development at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He was formerly a professor in the Department of Anthropology, University College London for many years, and previously taught anthropology and geography, at the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London and the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. In 2014 Richards is teaching at Njala University in Sierra Leone.
Richards is an anthropological commentator and researcher on agricultural technology and African farming systems. He has worked in Sierra Leone for over thirty years, conducting ethnographic studies of Mende village rice farming systems and forest conservation on the Liberian border. After the region became affected by the Sierra Leonean civil war, he turned to analysis of that conflict and has written more widely on the anthropology of armed conflicts.
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