Raga Makawi is a British-Sudanese researcher and editor based in the UK. Her postgraduate research at Oxford investigates the political ideology driving the emergence of new civic formations after the 2018 Sudanese revolution. She is a researcher at the Conflict & Civicness Research Group (CCRG) at the London School of Economics and in-house editor at African Arguments book series, Small Arms Survey and the Africa Journal. She worked previously as the Sudan desk office for the Rift Institute and the United Nations. She has bylines in Africa is a Country, the Economist and Aljazeera and she is the co-author of Sudan’s Unfinished Democracy, the Promise and Betrayal of a People’s Revolution from Hurst books.