Martin Plaut is currently Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London. In 1984 he joined the BBC, working primarily on Africa. He has reported from many parts of the continent but specialised in the Horn of Africa and Southern Africa.
He became Africa editor, BBC World Service News in 2003 and retired from the BBC in October 2013. He then joined the Institute of Commonwealth Studies as Senior Research Fellow. In April and May 2013 he was based at the University of Cape Town as Writer in Residence at the Centre for African Studies.
He is the co-athor of numerous books including:
- Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray war, Hurst, London 2022 (with Sarah Vaughan, forthcoming)
- Understanding Eritrea: Inside Africa’s most repressive state, Hurst, October, 2016
His website https://martinplaut.com/ features reports from the Horn of Africa and beyond. He is active on Twitter @martinplaut
