Sharath Srinivasan is David and Elaine Potter Professor of International Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies and Co-Director of the Centre of Governance and Human Rights at Cambridge University. He is also a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge and Vice-President for Research and Trustee of the British Institute in Eastern Africa. Sharath has researched the domestic and international politics of Sudan and South Sudan for two decades, and his publications include When Peace Kills Politics: International Intervention and Unending Wars in the Sudans (Hurst/OUP, 2021). He also researches the politics of digital technology in Africa and co-founded the digital social research charity, Africa’s Voices Foundation (www.africasvoices.org).