Name	Title	Department	Institution	Disciplines	Fellowships	Fellowship Type (from Fellowship Cohort)	Program (from Fellowship)	Title (ToA)	Department (ToA)	Institution (ToA)	Country of Institution (ToA)	Year	Bio	Fellow ID	Fellowship Cohort	Name	Last Name	Nationality (from Contact)	First Name
Nathan, Laurie	Professor, Mediation Program Director	Mediation Program, Kroc Institute	University of Notre Dame	History,Mediation	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 Democratic Norms, Bias and Uncertainty in African Mediation University of Pretoria South Africa	APN IRG	APN	Director	Center for Mediation in Africa	University of Pretoria	South Africa	2013		2013 IRG-Nathan	2013 IRG	Laurie Nathan	Nathan	South Africa	Laurie
Matovu, Joseph	Associate Professor	Health Sciences	Busitema University	Public Health	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 Does Tenure Security Mitigate Conflicts and Save Forests? The Case of Collaborative Forest Management (CFM) Tenure in Uganda Makerere University Uganda	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer	Department of Policy and Development Economics, School of Economics, College of Business and Management Sciences	Makerere University	Uganda	2013		2013 IRG-Matovu	2013 IRG	Joseph Matovu	Matovu	Uganda	Joseph
Tsarwe, Stanley	Journalism and Communication Researcher		University of Zimbabwe	Communications,Journalism	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 Makers or Breakers of Peace? An Analysis of the Role of the Zimbabwean Press in the Coverage of Political Violence during the 2008 Harmonised Elections Rhodes University South Africa	APN IRG	APN	PhD Student	School of Journalism and Media Studies	Rhodes University	South Africa	2013		2013 IRG-Tsarwe	2013 IRG	Stanley Tsarwe	Tsarwe	Zimbabwe	Stanley
Omeje, Kenneth	Professor and Vice President for Academic Affairs	James Holmes School of Public Policy and Global Affairs	Management International University	International Relations	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 Peace-building and State-building in a Fragile Rentier State: The Case of South Sudan United States International University Africa Kenya	APN IRG	APN	Professor	School of Humanities & Social Sciences	United States International University Africa	Kenya	2013	Kenneth Omeje is the Vice President for Academic Affairs of Management International University (MIU), the educational arm of International Communities Organisation (ICO) in London and Extraordinary Professor in the School of Government Studies, North-West University (NWU) in South Africa. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies in Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He has previously held the positions of Professor of International Relations & Security Studies at the United States International University in Nairobi, Kenya, and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Peace Studies & International Development, University of Bradford, UK. Kenneth is an ex-member of the International Advisory Board of the African Peacebuilding Network (February 2017 – December 2020), and a Sara Miller McCune Honorary Fellow of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) of New York. He has over one hundred academic publications, including books, books chapters and articles in reputable journals.	2013 IRG-Omeje	2013 IRG	Kenneth Omeje	Omeje	Nigeria	Kenneth
Minde, Nicodemus M.	Researcher; Adjunct Lecturer	International Relations	Institute for Security Studies,United States International University Africa	International Relations	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 Peace-building and State-building in a Fragile Rentier State: The Case of South Sudan United States International University Africa Kenya 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2017 Political Parties, Democratization and Constitutional Developments in the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union United States International University Africa Kenya 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2018 Political Parties, Democratization and Constitutional Developments in the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union, 1992-2015 United States International University Africa Kenya 2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2019 One-Party Dominance and the Challenge of Democratizing the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union United States International University Africa Kenya	APN IRG; Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Research Assistant; Ph.D. Candidate; Ph.D. Student and Ph.D. Teaching Assistant; PhD Teaching Assistant	School of Humanity and Social Sciences; School of Humanities and Social Sciences	United States International University Africa	Kenya	2013; 2017; 2018; 2019	Dr. Nicodemus Minde is a researcher and academic specializing in peace, security, governance, and international relations in East Africa. He works with the East Africa Peace and Security and Governance Programme (EAPSG) at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Nairobi, Kenya. He is also an adjunct lecturer in International Relations at the United States International University-Africa (USIU-Africa) in Nairobi. Dr. Minde holds a PhD in International Relations. His research covers major powers in Africa, foreign policy, peace and conflict in the Great Lakes Region, political parties, democratization, and the political history of Tanzania and Zanzibar.	2013 IRG-Minde; 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Minde; 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Minde; 2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Minde	2013 IRG; 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Nicodemus M. Minde	Minde	Tanzania	Nicodemus M.
Mengistu, Bamlaku Tadesse	Lecturer and Lead Researcher	Department of Gender and Development and Institute of Pastoral and Agro-pastoral Studies	Haramaya University	Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 The Nature of Conflict and Tensions Among Farmers and Pastoralists of Eastern Ethiopia Haramaya University Ethiopia	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer	Department of Gender and Development/ Institute of Pastoral and Agropastoral Studies (IPAS)	Haramaya University	Ethiopia	2013	Bamlaku Tadesse Mengistu is a lead expert and lecturer in gender and pastoralism in Ethiopia, where he is currently serving in the Department of Gender and Development at Haramaya University in Dire Dawa, as well as a lead researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Pastoral and Agro-pastoral Studies (IPAS) at Haramaya University in Dire Dawa. Bamlaku has published extensively on the role of women in indigenous conflict resolution; the impact of climate change and variability on pastoralist women in the Somali Region and has furthermore developed a gender baseline survey as well as a conflict mapping system for the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Bamlaku has lectures on gender and social protection systems; gender and governance; gender and pastoralism amongst many. Unknown	2013 IRG-Mengistu	2013 IRG	Bamlaku Tadesse Mengistu	Mengistu	Ethiopia	Bamlaku Tadesse
Heinecken, Lindy	Professor, Department Chair	Sociology	Stellenbosch University	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 Enhancing the Capacity of Female Peacekeepers and Local Women in Building Peace in Africa Stellenbosch University South Africa 2016 BMCG 2016 South Africa's Post-Apartheid Military: Lost in Transition and Transformation Stellenbosch University South Africa	APN IRG; APN BMCG	APN	Associate Professor; Professor	Sociology and Social Anthropology Department; Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology	Stellenbosch University	South Africa	2013; 2016		2013 IRG-Heinecken; 2016 BMCG-Heinecken	2013 IRG; 2016 BMCG	Lindy Heinecken	Heinecken	South Africa	Lindy
Turyamureeba, Robert	Post-Doctoral Researcher		Mbarara University of Science and Technology	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 Land in DDR Programmes: An Analysis of the Role of Land in the Reintegration of Ex-combatants in Northern Uganda and South Sudan University of Juba Zimbabwe	APN IRG	APN	Research Fellow	Centre for Peace and Development Studies	University of Juba	Zimbabwe	2013		2013 IRG-Turyamureeba	2013 IRG	Robert Turyamureeba	Turyamureeba	Uganda	Robert
Mersha, Fekadu Gelaw	Assistant Professor	School of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness	Haramaya University	Economics	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 The Nature of Conflict and Tensions Among Farmers and Pastoralists of Eastern Ethiopia Haramaya University Ethiopia	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer	Department of Agricultural Economics	Haramaya University	Ethiopia	2013		2013 IRG-Mersha	2013 IRG	Fekadu Gelaw Mersha	Mersha	Ethiopia	Fekadu Gelaw
Hoomlong, Katherine N.	Lecturer	Centre for Conflict Management and Peace Studies	University of Jos	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 A Critical Investigation into the Roles of Key Actors in the Jos Conflict: Issues and Strategies for Institutional/Security Sector Reform University of Jos Nigeria	APN IRG	APN	Academic and Researcher	Centre for Conflict Management and Peace Studies	University of Jos	Nigeria	2013	Dr Katherine N Hoomlong is a sociologist and political scientist through qualifying degrees and scholarship. A peace advocate through civil society engagement and a lecturer with the Centre for Conflict Management and Peace Studies, University of Jos. Her engagement in civil society piqued her interest on issues of agency and it impacts on women in the global south. Leading to her research on Humanitarian Assistance and its implications for Women’s Agency: A Study of Northeast Nigeria, earning a PhD in Sociology, the University of Aberdeen in 2025, an MSc in Global Conflict and Peace Processes ,University of Aberdeen. She has a chapter titled Gender Issues in Terrorism and Insurgency in Nigeria to a compendium on Gender and development. She has co-researched, A critical Investigation into the Role of Security Agencies in the Jos Conflict: Issues and strategy for Security Sector Reform, sponsored through the APN with support from the Social Science Research Council with a grant 2012-2013.	2013 IRG-Hoomlong	2013 IRG	Katherine N. Hoomlong	Hoomlong	Nigeria	Katherine N.
Oluwaniyi, Oluwatoyin O.	Associate Professor	Political Science	Redeemer’s University	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and the Challenges of Reintegration in Nigeria’s Oil-rich Niger Delta Region Redeemer’s University Nigeria	APN IRG	APN	Senior Lecturer	History and International Studies	Redeemer’s University	Nigeria	2013		2013 IRG-Oluwaniyi	2013 IRG	Oluwatoyin O. Oluwaniyi	Oluwaniyi	Nigeria	Oluwatoyin O.
Niang, Amy	Associate Professor	Political Science	The Africa Institute	Political Science,International Relations	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 The Privatisation of Mediation and the Political Economy of Conflict Management in West Africa University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer	International Relations	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2013		2013 IRG-Niang	2013 IRG	Amy Niang	Niang	Senegal	Amy
Kehinde, Michael	Senior Manager of Program, Strategy and Policy		Ontario Digital Service	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 Post-Boundary Adjustment Resettlement: The Case of Bakassi “Nigerians” Tower Bridge Consult Canada	APN IRG	APN	Research Associate		Tower Bridge Consult	Canada	2013		2013 IRG-Kehinde	2013 IRG	Michael Kehinde	Kehinde	Nigeria	Michael
Wielenga, Cori	Associate Professor	Centre for Mediation in Africa	University of Pretoria	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 Developing a Framework of Best Practice for Reconciliation Processes After Violent Conflict in the African Context University of Pretoria South Africa	APN IRG	APN	Research Fellow	Department of Political Sciences	University of Pretoria	South Africa	2013	Cori Wielenga is an associate professor in the Department of Political Sciences and the Director of the Centre for Mediation in Africa at the University of Pretoria. She holds a PhD in Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies from the University of KwaZulu Natal. Her research interest is in non-state actors in mediation processes and the intersection of formal and informal governance and justice systems during transitions. This has led to in-depth research on Rwanda’s gacaca courts, South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and comparative projects on mediation processes, and informal justice and governance systems in South Africa, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Namibia. Findings from these projects are intended to inform emerging peacebuilding, mediation and transitional justice policies and guidelines in Africa and further abroad.	2013 IRG-Wielenga	2013 IRG	Cori Wielenga	Wielenga	South Africa	Cori
Morris, Nsamba Adam	Rule of Law and Human Rights Advisor		USAID	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 Enhancing the Capacity of Local Governance Institutions to Resolve Conflicts in Kenya: A Comparative Analysis of the Rift Valley and Coast Regions African Research and Resource Forum Kenya	APN IRG	APN	Research Fellow		African Research and Resource Forum	Kenya	2013		2013 IRG-Morris	2013 IRG	Nsamba Adam Morris	Morris	Uganda	Nsamba Adam
Odoemene, Akachi	Professor and Dean	Department of History and International Studies	Federal University Otuoke	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 ‘Land Grab’ Conflicts in Africa: Engaging Landscapes of Resistance and Alternatives Federal University Otuoke Nigeria 2018-20 CWG (Group A) 2018-2020 Herders-Farmers Conflicts in Africa: Historical Trajectories, “New” Issues, Responses and Lessons for Peacebuilding Federal University Otuoke Nigeria	APN IRG; APN CWG	APN	Senior Lecturer	Department of History and International Relations; Department of History	Federal University Otuoke	Nigeria	2013; 2018-2020		2013 IRG-Odoemene; 2018-20 CWG (Group A)-Odoemene	2013 IRG; 2018-20 CWG (Group A)	Akachi Odoemene	Odoemene	Nigeria	Akachi
Nyiayaana, Kialee	Professor	Department of Political Science	University of Port Harcourt	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 Community Arming and Sustainable Peace in the Niger Delta University of Port Harcourt Nigeria	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer II	Political Science	University of Port Harcourt	Nigeria	2013	Prof. Kialee Nyiayaana is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He was awarded the 2008/2009 Junior Fulbright Fellowship tenable at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, Florida. He was a research Fellow at the Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town, South Africa, January-March, 2015. He was also an African Leadership Centre’s Peace, Security and Development Fellow at King’s College, London from 2013-2014. He is also a grantee of the African Peacebuilding Network, belonging to the first cohort of 2012. Dr. Kialee has held several positions at the University of Port Harcourt including being the Deputy Director of the Centre for Conflict and Gender Studies and Centre for Peace and Security Studies from 2019-2022. He holds a Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria. He is a Professor of International Relations and Conflict Studies. His research and teaching interests are peace, conflict, identity politics, and international relations. He has several publications to his credit, some of which have appeared in reputable international journals such as African Security and Violence: International Journal.	2013 IRG-Nyiayaana	2013 IRG	Kialee Nyiayaana	Nyiayaana	Nigeria	Kialee
Awici, Churchill C.	Lecturer	Management	Uganda Management Institute	Peace Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 Land in DDR Programmes: An Analysis of the Role of Land in the Reintegration of Ex-combatants in Northern Uganda and South Sudan African Leadership Centre,Africa Community Development Network Kenya	APN IRG	APN	Fellow		African Leadership Centre,Africa Community Development Network	Kenya	2013	Dr. Charles Churchill Awici is a Lecturer of Project Planning and Management at Uganda Management Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in Management Sciences specializing in Public Administration from Durban University of Technology, South Africa. His doctoral dissertation focused on “Youth participation in peacebuilding in post-conflict Northern Uganda. He is a recipient of the 2012 Social Science Research Council’s African Peacebuilding Network Fellowship Award. He previously managed multiple, and multi-sectoral projects in the areas of protection and human rights, research and advocacy, youth development, and governance and peacebuilding in different countries, including Uganda, Myanmar, Iraq, Nigeria and Colombia. He has been a contributor to university guest lectures as a researcher and practitioner in humanitarian response and community development.	2013 IRG-Awici	2013 IRG	Churchill C. Awici	Awici	Uganda	Churchill C.
Wawire, Violet	Lecturer	School of Education, Department of Educational Foundations	Kenyatta University	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 Education Systems as Agents of Conflict Prevention in Africa: The Practice of the Culture of Peace in Secondary Schools in Kenya Kenyatta University Kenya	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer	School of Education, Department of Educational Foundations	Kenyatta University	Kenya	2013		2013 IRG-Wawire	2013 IRG	Violet Wawire	Wawire	Kenya	Violet
Ngalim, Aloysius	Associate Professor	Department of History	University of Buea	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 Post-Boundary Adjustment Resettlement: The Case of Bakassi “Nigerians” University of Buea Cameroon 2018-20 CWG (Group A) 2018-2020 Post-Boundary Adjustment Resettlement: The Case of Bakassi “Nigerians” University of Buea Cameroon	APN IRG; APN CWG	APN	Senior Lecturer	Department of History	University of Buea	Cameroon	2013; 2018-2020	Dr. Aloysius Nyuymengka Ngalim is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Buea, Cameroon. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and a SUSI Fellow at the University of South Carolina. He has also served as a visiting professor at the Pan African University Institute for Governance, Humanities, and Social Sciences of the African Union. Dr. Ngalim is a prolific scholar whose peer-reviewed publications span African history, indigenous knowledge, natural resources, and peacebuilding. He is an active member of CODESRIA and the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council. Beyond academia, he has undertaken research and advisory work with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) on transboundary natural resource disputes and contributes to the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (UN-OSAA) Knowledge Network, Cluster 2.	2013 IRG-Ngalim; 2018-20 CWG (Group A)-Ngalim	2013 IRG; 2018-20 CWG (Group A)	Aloysius Ngalim	Ngalim	Cameroon	Aloysius
Mare, Admire	Full Professor and Head of Department	Communication and Media Studies	University of Johannesburg	Communications,Journalism	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 Makers or Breakers of Peace? An Analysis of the Role of the Zimbabwean Press in the Coverage of Political Violence during the 2008 Harmonised Elections Rhodes University South Africa	APN IRG	APN	PhD Candidate	Journalism and Media Studies	Rhodes University	South Africa	2013	Professor Admire Mare is a Full Professor in Department: Communication and Media Studies at the University of Johannesburg who specializes in global digital journalism, global disinformation studies, global platform studies, global surveillance studies and more broadly on the complex relationship between [media] technology and society. He currently leads the “Mapping and Countering Gendered Disinformation Campaigns in East and Southern Africa” (GEDESA) project (2025-2028) funded by IDRC Canada. He has authored/edited 11 books, over 40 book chapters and over 40 journal articles. His most recent book “Digital Surveillance in Africa: Power, Agency and Rights” co-edited with Tony Roberts from the University of Sussex, UK.	2013 IRG-Mare	2013 IRG	Admire Mare	Mare	Zimbabwe	Admire
Para-Mallam, Oluwafunmilayo J.	Professor and Director of Studies	Directorate of Studies	National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies	Gender and Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 IRG 2013 A Critical Investigation into the Roles of Key Actors in the Jos Conflict: Issues and Strategies for Institutional/Security Sector Reform National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies Nigeria	APN IRG	APN	Senior Research Fellow	Cultural, Language and Media Studies Department	National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies	Nigeria	2013		2013 IRG-Para-Mallam	2013 IRG	Oluwafunmilayo J. Para-Mallam	Para-Mallam	Nigeria	Oluwafunmilayo J.
Omanga, Duncan		Africa Program	National Endowment for Democracy	Media Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 IRG 2014 Healing of Postconflict Zones and 'Chieftancy' in the Social Media Space: A Media Ecology of a Twitter-Convened Baraza Moi University Kenya	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer	School of Information Sciences, Department of Publishing and Media Studies	Moi University	Kenya	2014		2014 IRG-Omanga	2014 IRG	Duncan Omanga	Omanga	Kenya	Duncan
Ashagrie, Bizusew Mersha	Associate Researcher	School of Global Studies	University of Gothenburg	International Relations	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 IRG 2014 Influence of Environmental Pressure on Inter-Communal Relations: Environmental Scarcity and Conflict in Cross-Border Pastoral Areas of the Lower Omo Valley Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) South Sudan	APN IRG	APN	Country Coordinator/Analyst for Ethiopia	Conflict Early Warning and Early Response Mechanism (CEWARN)	Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)	South Sudan	2014		2014 IRG-Ashagrie	2014 IRG	Bizusew Mersha Ashagrie	Ashagrie	Ethiopia	Bizusew Mersha
Maringira, Godfrey	Associate Professor	Anthropology	Sol Plaatje University	Peace and Conflict Studies,Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 IRG 2014 Journeys of Peace in Violent Townships: New Pathways for Azania People’s Liberation Army Ex-combatants in South Africa University of the Western Cape South Africa 2016-18 CWG (Group A) 2016-2018 From Networks of Violence to Networks of Peace: Armed Youth Violence in Five African Countries University of the Western Cape South Africa 2018 BMCG 2018 Soldiers and the State in Zimbabwe University of the Western Cape South Africa 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2012 The Life of Exiled Zimbabwean Ex-Soldiers in South Africa: Coping with the Repressed Memories of War and Political Violence University of the Western Cape South Africa 2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2013 Soldiering in exile': The life of exiled Zimbabwean soldiers in South Africa University of the Western Cape South Africa	APN IRG; APN CWG; APN BMCG; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Lecturer; Postdoctoral Fellow/Researcher; Assistant Lecturer	Anthropology and Sociology; Department of Sociology	University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2014; 2016-2018; 2018; 2012; 2013	Godfrey Maringira is an associate professor of Anthropology at Sol Plaatje University, Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. He is a fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. He is a Volkswagen Stiftung Foundation grantee organising three years summer schools. Dr. Maringira is a two-time consecutive recipient of the SSRC’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: Fieldwork and Completion Grant – 2011 and 2012, respectively. He is also a three-time recipient of the African Peacebuilding Network grants: Individual Research Grant (2014), Working Group Grant (2016-2017), and Book Manuscript Grant (2018). Dr Maringira’s areas of research include armed violence in Africa with a specific focus on the military in post-colonial Africa. His 2017 African Affairs Journal article title “Politicisation and Resistance in the Zimbabwe National Army” was awarded the best author price in 2018. His book Soldiers and the State in Zimbabwe was published in 2019 by Routledge.	2014 IRG-Maringira; 2016-18 CWG (Group A)-Maringira; 2018 BMCG-Maringira; 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Maringira; 2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Maringira	2014 IRG; 2016-18 CWG (Group A); 2018 BMCG; 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Godfrey Maringira	Maringira	Zimbabwe	Godfrey
Nyanzi, Stella	Medical anthropologist, activist, poet		PEN Germany		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 IRG 2014 Queerying Peacebuilding After the Sexual Violence of War: Gendered Gaps in Implementing UNSCR 1325 and 1820 Makerere University Uganda	APN IRG	APN	Research Fellow	Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Uganda	2014		2014 IRG-Nyanzi	2014 IRG	Stella Nyanzi	Nyanzi	Uganda	Stella
Shemdoe, Riziki Silas	Permanent Secretary		President's Office - Regional Administration and Local Government		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 IRG 2014 Roles of Local Institutions in Reducing Pastoralist–Farmer Conflicts in Tanzania: The Case of Kilosa and Mvomero Districts Ardhi University Tanzania	APN IRG	APN	Senior Research Fellow	Institute of Human Settlement Studies	Ardhi University	Tanzania	2014		2014 IRG-Shemdoe	2014 IRG	Riziki Silas Shemdoe	Shemdoe	Tanzania	Riziki Silas
Okorie, Victor Ogbonnaya	Professor	Department of Rural Development	Obafemi Awolowo University	Economics	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 IRG 2014 From Oil to Water Wars? Unpacking the Brutal Violence of Living with Polluted and Commoditized Waterscapes in the Niger Delta of Nigeria Obafemi Awolowo University Nigeria	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer I	Rural Development	Obafemi Awolowo University	Nigeria	2014	Victor Ogbonnaya Okorie is Professor of Development. He teaches in the Department of Rural Development, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. He holds a joint PhD in Development of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Victor is a distinguished academic, researcher, and leader with a broad range of international and local experiences in leadership, teaching, mentoring, and academic administration. His research and administrative leadership traverse the continents of Africa, Europe and America. Victor is the Global Fellow of the Center for Human Right and Humanitarian Studies, Brown University, USA. He was the fellow of the World Academy of Sciences Italy, a postdoctoral fellow at institutions such as the University of the Free State and North West University in South Africa as well as a laureate of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Dakar, Senegal. Victor has been a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany; the International Social Science Council, France, the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes, Brown University, USA; and at the International Research Exchange Board, Washington DC, USA as well as an international visiting scholar at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA as well as at the University of Florida Gainesville, Florida USA. He was a and is an alumnus of the African Peacebuilding Network, a program of the Social Science Research Council, USA. He was a Carnegie fellow of the Carnegie Corporation of New York USA . He has research interests address issues in areas such as rural development, peacebuilding, violence, gender, agriculture, and the political economy of food and water security in developing countries, particularly in the context of sub-Saharan Africa. His research has been supported by many grant funding institutions and agencies such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; the United Nations African Institute of Economic Development and Planning, Dakar, Senegal, World Council of Social Sciences, France & Global Change System for Analysis, Research &Training, USA; Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC) New York, USA; Brown International Advance Research Institute Alumnus, Brown University, USA ; Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Dakar, Senegal; National Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences and the South African BRICS Think Tank, South Africa ;Tertiary Education Training Fund, Nigeria; Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Medical Research Council, the UK; Center for Advance Research Training in Africa(CARTA): and a partnership of the National Research Foundation South Africa, Sweden International Development Agency Sweden, SGCI, IDRC, DFID, UKRI, &FRQ. He also reviews grants for some funding agencies across the globe and has over one hundred publications.	2014 IRG-Okorie	2014 IRG	Victor Ogbonnaya Okorie	Okorie	Nigeria	Victor Ogbonnaya
Thondhlana, Gladman	Associate Professor, Deputy Dean of Science	Department of Environmental Science	Rhodes University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 IRG 2014 Co-Management and Conflicts in South African Protected Areas: What Can We Learn? Rhodes University South Africa	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer	Environmental Science	Rhodes University	South Africa	2014	Gladman (Glad) Thondhlana is an Associate Professor and Deputy Dean of Science (Teaching, Learning & Community Engagement), Environmental Science at Rhodes University, where he teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate students. His research work centres broadly on human dimensions of natural resources management, including the links between natural resource use and rural livelihoods, collaborative management of natural resources, conservation conflicts, and sustainable consumption. His work is guided by questions aimed at addressing inequality, marginalisation, and social injustice in resource management.	2014 IRG-Thondhlana	2014 IRG	Gladman Thondhlana	Thondhlana	Zimbabwe	Gladman
Ogenga, Fredrick	Professor	Media and Security Studies	Rongo University	Media Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 IRG 2014 The Media and Deconstruction of Violence in the Context of Terrorism for Long-lasting Peace and Security in Kenya Rongo University Kenya	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer	Media, Communication, and Journalism	Rongo University	Kenya	2014	Fredrick Ogenga is a professor of media and security studies and the founding director of the Center for Media, Democracy, Peace & Security (CMDPS) at Rongo University. He also serves as the CEO of the Peacemaker Corps Foundation Kenya (PCFK). Ogenga was a recipient of the 2016 Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding Scholarship at the Wilson Center in Washington DC, as well as a visiting research fellow at the Swiss National Science Fund at Swisspeace, University of Basel, in 2023. He was also a 2023 UNDP Fellow in Digital Peacebuilding, a beneficiary of the 2014 and 2016 Africa Diaspora Fellowship (ADF), and a 2014 SSRC’s Africa Peacebuilding Network Fellow. He has worked as a visiting scholar on media and peacebuilding at the Institute for the Advancement of Social Sciences (IASS) and the Africa Studies Center at Boston University, and at the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Berth. He is a senior research associate at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation at the University of Johannesburg, a senior non-resident research fellow at the Institute for Global African Affairs at the University of Johannesburg and West Indies, and a senior research associate at Swisspeace and the Africa Studies Center at the University of Basel. Ogenga is also a member of the scientific panel on information integrity about climate science (IPIE) and chairs the IPIE scientific panel on AI and peacebuilding. Ogenga is a Senior Fellow at the Kate Hamburger Kolleg Cultures of Research at RWTH Aachen University.	2014 IRG-Ogenga	2014 IRG	Fredrick Ogenga	Ogenga	Kenya	Fredrick
Gadzekpo, Audrey	Professor	Information and Communications Studies	University of Ghana	Communications	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 IRG 2014 A Critical Assessment of Media Relations, Functionality and Impact in Interventions by Civil Society Organisations Working in Peacebuilding: Case Studies from Ghana and Sierra Leone University of Ghana Ghana	APN IRG	APN	Associate Professor	School of Communication Studies	University of Ghana	Ghana	2014		2014 IRG-Gadzekpo	2014 IRG	Audrey Gadzekpo	Gadzekpo	Ghana	Audrey
Mashingaidze, Terence	Senior Lecturer ; Campus Director	Department of History, Heritage, and International Studies ; Harare Campus	Midlands State University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 IRG 2014 Unmasking Silences and Impunity: The Zimbabwe Peace Project’s Mediations in Entrenching Amity in a Polarized Political Dispensation, 2000-2013 Midlands State University Zimbabwe	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer	Department of History	Midlands State University	Zimbabwe	2014	Dr. Terence Mashingaidze is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Heritage, and International Studies at the Midlands State University in Zimbabwe. He is also presently serving as the Director of the same institution’s Harare Campus. Dr. Mashingaidze is a seasoned academic who has provided consultancies in the areas of governance, peacebuilding, gender, and development-induced displacements (DID). Dr. Mashingaidze has published in various fields, including African liberation movements and nationalism, conflict and reconciliation processes, dams and the environment, as well as development-induced spatial dislocations. He has obtained research grants from several organisations, including the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and the International Peace Research Association (IPRA). He once collaborated with Zimbabwe’s Organ on National Healing, Reconciliation, and Integration (ONHRI) to explore traditional methods of dispute resolution and the historical dimensions of conflicts in the country. known	2014 IRG-Mashingaidze	2014 IRG	Terence Mashingaidze	Mashingaidze	Zimbabwe	Terence
Okeke, Jide	Regional Program for Africa Coordinator		United States International University Africa		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014-16 CWG (Group A) 2014-2016 Issues and Challenges in the Domestication and Implementation of the Decisions of the AU Peace and Security Council by Member States and Regional Mechanisms African Union Commission Ethiopia	APN CWG	APN	Head of Policy Development Unit		African Union Commission	Ethiopia	2014-2016		2014-16 CWG (Group A)-Okeke	2014-16 CWG (Group A)	Jide Okeke	Okeke	Nigeria	Jide
Ukeje, Charles	Professor	International Relations	Obafemi Awolowo University	International Relations	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014-16 CWG (Group A) 2014-2016 Issues and Challenges in the Domestication and Implementation of the Decisions of the AU Peace and Security Council by Member States and Regional Mechanisms Obafemi Awolowo University Nigeria	APN CWG	APN	Associate Professor		Obafemi Awolowo University	Nigeria	2014-2016		2014-16 CWG (Group A)-Ukeje	2014-16 CWG (Group A)	Charles Ukeje	Ukeje	Nigeria	Charles
Ako, Rhuks	Independent Expert / Consultant		GPS-Africa		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014-16 CWG (Group A) 2014-2016 Issues and Challenges in the Domestication and Implementation of the Decisions of the AU Peace and Security Council by Member States and Regional Mechanisms University of Hull United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)	APN CWG	APN	Lecturer	University of Hull Law School	University of Hull	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)	2014-2016	Dr. Rhuks Ako is an independent consultant/expert with expertise and interests in Africa’s governance, peace and security landscape. He earned his PhD from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK with his doctoral thesis focusing on the intersections of natural resource governance, environmental justice and conflicts. He has held roles in the academia and policy institutions including, most recently, the African Union Commission where he served as a Senior Analyst with the Political Affairs, Peace and Security Department of the African Union Commission (AUC), establishing and coordinating the Youth for Peace (Africa) Program till 2023. In this role, he supervised the completion critical normative documents including the AU Continental Framework on Youth, Peace and Security as well as the AU-PSC-mandated study on “The roles and contributions of youth to peace and security in Africa”. He is a recipient of the 2014 APN Collaborative Working Group Research grant.	2014-16 CWG (Group A)-Ako	2014-16 CWG (Group A)	Rhuks Ako	Ako	Nigeria	Rhuks
Akpasom, Yvonne	Head, Peace and Security Unit		Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014-16 CWG (Group A) 2014-2016 Issues and Challenges in the Domestication and Implementation of the Decisions of the AU Peace and Security Council by Member States and Regional Mechanisms African Union Nigeria	APN CWG	APN	AU Civilian Advisor to ECOWAS	ECOWAS Commission	African Union	Nigeria	2014-2016		2014-16 CWG (Group A)-Akpasom	2014-16 CWG (Group A)	Yvonne Akpasom	Akpasom	Nigeria	Yvonne
Sabala, Kizito	Lecturer		University of Nairobi		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014-16 CWG (Group A) 2014-2016 Issues and Challenges in the Domestication and Implementation of the Decisions of the AU Peace and Security Council by Member States and Regional Mechanisms Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) South Sudan	APN CWG	APN	Head of the IGAD Liaison Office		Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)	South Sudan	2014-2016		2014-16 CWG (Group A)-Sabala	2014-16 CWG (Group A)	Kizito Sabala	Sabala	Kenya	Kizito
Engdaw, Tigist Yeshiwas	Senior Advisor, Consultant		United States International University Africa		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014-16 CWG (Group A) 2014-2016 Issues and Challenges in the Domestication and Implementation of the Decisions of the AU Peace and Security Council by Member States and Regional Mechanisms Addis Ababa University Ethiopia	APN CWG	APN	PhD Candidate/ Lecturer		Addis Ababa University	Ethiopia	2014-2016		2014-16 CWG (Group A)-Engdaw	2014-16 CWG (Group A)	Tigist Yeshiwas Engdaw	Engdaw	Ethiopia	Tigist Yeshiwas
Sekomo, Asha	Program Associate, Consulting		Community Resource Exchange		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014-16 CWG (Group B) 2014-2016 Peacekeeping and Intervention in Africa University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	APN CWG	APN	PhD Candidate		University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2014-2016		2014-16 CWG (Group B)-Sekomo	2014-16 CWG (Group B)	Asha Sekomo	Sekomo	South Africa	Asha
Kouakou, Koffi	Africa Analyst - Stratnum Futures		Stratnum Futures	Consultancy	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014-16 CWG (Group B) 2014-2016 Peacekeeping and Intervention in Africa University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	APN CWG	APN	Programme Director and Senior Lecturer	Public and Development Management	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2014-2016		2014-16 CWG (Group B)-Kouakou	2014-16 CWG (Group B)	Koffi Kouakou	Kouakou	Côte d'Ivoire	Koffi
Fall, Aissatou	Consultant				Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014-16 CWG (Group B) 2014-2016 Peacekeeping and Intervention in Africa Women Peace and Security Network Africa Ghana	APN CWG	APN	Director of Programmes		Women Peace and Security Network Africa	Ghana	2014-2016		2014-16 CWG (Group B)-Fall	2014-16 CWG (Group B)	Aissatou Fall	Fall	Senegal	Aissatou
Cawthra, Gavin	Chair in Defence and Security Management	Graduate School of Public & Development Management	University of the Witwatersrand		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014-16 CWG (Group B) 2014-2016 Peacekeeping and Intervention in Africa University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	APN CWG	APN	Chair in Defence and Security Management	Graduate School of Public & Development Management	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2014-2016		2014-16 CWG (Group B)-Cawthra	2014-16 CWG (Group B)	Gavin Cawthra	Cawthra	South Africa	Gavin
Mhango, George Abel	Lecturer	Governance, Peace and Security Studies	Mzuzu University	Peace and Conflict Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014-16 CWG (Group B) 2014-2016 Peacekeeping and Intervention in Africa Mzuzu University Malawi	APN CWG	APN	Lecturer		Mzuzu University	Malawi	2014-2016	"Mr George Abel Mhango, is a lecturer in the Department of Governance, Peace and Security Studies at Mzuzu University. He holds a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Malawi. He was among the recipients of the 2014-2016 APN Collaborative Working Group. Mr Mhango has participated and contributed to a number of policy and scholarly discourses on peace and conflict studies, regional security architectures, security sector governance, and national security policy analysis in southern Africa. He has also developed training modules in defence reform and intelligence reform for the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC). Mr Mhango is also part of a sub-regional network of academics that provide policy insights to the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation through the Southern Africa Defence and Security Management (SADSEM) network. Mr Mhango is a member of the following bodies: • International Political Science Association (IPSA) • Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) • Association of Political Theory (IPT) • Association of Security Sector Education and Training (ASSET) • African Association of Political Science (AAPS) • African Security Sector Network (ASSN) • Southern Africa Defence and Security Management (SADSEM) • Political Science Association (PSA) – Malawi. "	2014-16 CWG (Group B)-Mhango	2014-16 CWG (Group B)	George Abel Mhango	Mhango	Malawi	George Abel
van Nieuwkerk, Anthoni	Professor in International and Diplomacy Studies	Wits School of Governance	University of the Witwatersrand		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014-16 CWG (Group B) 2014-2016 Peacekeeping and Intervention in Africa University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	APN CWG	APN	Associate Professor and Director	Centre for Defence and Security Management, Graduate School of Public & Development Management	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2014-2016	Anthoni van Nieuwkerk holds a doctorate in International Relations from Wits University (Johannesburg). Having been research-active from the early 1990s, he has pursued an academic career in postgraduate teaching, supervision, and policy analysis from 2000. In 2015, the South African government appointed him to the South African Council on International Relations and, in 2018, to the Presidential High-level Review Panel into Intelligence. Anthoni is a skilled institutional architect and experienced academic manager, facilitator and programme evaluator. He publishes widely on African foreign and security policy, has participated in several scenario exercises, and has broad experience with advising policymakers and practitioners in the South African government, SADC and the African Peer Review Mechanism. He coordinates a network of Southern African academics and practitioners, is a senior research associate at Good Governance Africa, a Smuts Memorial Trust trustee, and serves as editorial board member of several accredited journals.	2014-16 CWG (Group B)-van Nieuwkerk	2014-16 CWG (Group B)	Anthoni van Nieuwkerk	van Nieuwkerk	South Africa	Anthoni
Tilaye, Mesfin	Program Management Specialist		USAID Ethiopia		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 IRG 2015 Mapping Water Conflicts and Best Management Practices in Pastoralist Areas in Ethiopia and Djibouti Ethiopian Civil Service University Ethiopia	APN IRG	APN		Department of Environment and Climate Change Management	Ethiopian Civil Service University	Ethiopia	2015		2015 IRG-Tilaye	2015 IRG	Mesfin Tilaye	Tilaye	Ethiopia	Mesfin
Simiyu, Robert Romborah					Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 IRG 2015 Cultural Geographies of Peacebuilding and the (Re)production of Power Asymmetries in Mount Elgon Region, Kenya Moi University Kenya	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer	Social Sciences	Moi University	Kenya	2015		2015 IRG-Simiyu	2015 IRG	Robert Romborah Simiyu	Simiyu	Kenya	Robert Romborah
Debelo, Asebe Regassa	Senior Research, Teaching Fellow	Department of Geography	University of Zurich		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 IRG 2015 Competing Forms of Legitimacy and Questions of Peacebuilding Along the Ethiopia-Kenya Border Dilla University Ethiopia	APN IRG	APN	Assistant Professor	Institute of Indigenous Studies	Dilla University	Ethiopia	2015	Dr. Regassa is a senior research and teaching fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich (Switzerland). His research areas include multinational federalism, peace and conflict, violence, resource frontiers, and pastoralism with a focus on East Africa. He is a recipient of the APN Individual Research Grant in 2015, with which he researched cross-border relations along the Ethiopia-Kenya borderlands. Regassa completed his Habilitation thesis in 2023 and is currently a Privatdozent teaching critical development studies, research methodologies, and policies and practices courses at graduate and undergraduate levels.	2015 IRG-Debelo	2015 IRG	Asebe Regassa Debelo	Debelo	Ethiopia	Asebe Regassa
Diallo, Boubacar Daouda	Coordinator		RIESCA (Réseau International d’Etudes Stratégiques sur les Conflits en Afrique)		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 IRG 2015 Fighting and Cooperating for Water in African Pastoralist Communities: A Study of Trans-border Conflict and Peacebuilding in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey Niger (the)	APN IRG	APN		Department of Literature	Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey	Niger (the)	2015		2015 IRG-Diallo	2015 IRG	Boubacar Daouda Diallo	Diallo	Niger (the)	Boubacar Daouda
Medie, Peace A.	Associate Professor		University of Bristol		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 IRG 2015 Security and Justice in Côte d’Ivoire: A Study of Women’s Responses to Gender-Based Violence University of Ghana Ghana 2016 BMCG 2016 Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns against Gender-Based Violence in Africa University of Ghana Ghana	APN IRG; APN BMCG	APN	Research Fellow	Legon Center for International Affairs and Diplomacy	University of Ghana	Ghana	2015; 2016		2015 IRG-Medie; 2016 BMCG-Medie	2015 IRG; 2016 BMCG	Peace A. Medie	Medie	Ghana	Peace A.
John-Langba, Johannes	Director, College of Humanities Doctoral Academy ; Professor, School of Social Sciences; Vice President for Program Development, World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH); WFMH Representative: United Nations Offices at Geneva (UNOG) and Vienna ( UNOV) WFMH Representative: World Health Organization (WHO) Offices at Geneva and Brazzaville; Co-Chair: Data Ethics Task Group, Committee on Data (CODATA) of the International Science Council (ISC); Vice President & Mental Health Ambassador: Cape Mental Health Society (South Africa); Member: National Committee on Data for Science and Technology, South Africa Member: KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Substance Abuse Forum, ( South Africa);	School of Social Science, College of Humanities	University of KwaZulu-Natal,World Federation of Mental Health		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 IRG 2015 Resiliency in the Context of Xenophobic Violence: The Case of Somali Migrants in South Africa University of Cape Town South Africa	APN IRG	APN	Senior Lecturer	Department of Social Development	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2015	Johannes John-Langba is a Full Professor and Director of the College of Humanities Doctoral Academy at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in South Africa. He holds PhD (Social Work) and Master of Public Health (MPH) from the University of Pittsburgh (United States). He also holds a Master of Social Work (MSW) degree from Howard University (United States). In addition to his professional work experience as an academic, Prof John-Langba also has extensive international development work experience, having worked for the United Nations and various other international non-governmental organisations including, mothers2mothers (m2m), Africa Health Placements (AHP), and Africa Population and Health Research Center (APHRC). A former APN Fellow, he is the recipient of various other fellowships and awards including recognition in the Global Top 100 Most Influential People of Africa Descent (MIPAD) in 2023 and the Dr Inabel Burns Lindsay Social Work Education Leadership Award from Howard University , for outstanding leadership in social work education and the promotion of social justice in Africa. Prof John-Langba is the current Vice President for Program Development at the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) as well as Vice President and Mental Health Ambassador of Cape Mental Health Society in South Africa. He was Senior PIFI Scholar in the Computer Information Network Centre at the Chinese Academy of Science(CAS) in Beijing (China) and currently serves as co-Chair of the Data Ethics Task Group (DETG) of the Committee on Data (CODATA ) of the International Science Council (ISC). His current research focuses on reclaiming and promoting 'public health sovereignty' in post-COVID Africa. Prof John-Langba was inducted into the United States Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health in 2024.	2015 IRG-John-Langba	2015 IRG	Johannes John-Langba	John-Langba	Sierra Leone	Johannes
Khanakwa, Pamela	Senior Lecturer; Dean of the School of Liberal and Performing Arts	History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies	Makerere University	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 IRG 2015 “We Never Sold Our Land”: Contested Ownership and Ensuing Conflicts Over Land in Bulambuli District Makerere University Uganda	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer	History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies	Makerere University	Uganda	2015	Pamela Khanakwa is a senior lecturer in History and Dean of the School of Liberal and Performing Arts in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Makerere University in Kampala. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University, USA. He research focuses on ritual male circumcision and constructions of ethnicity and masculinities, land disputes, intellectual history as well as landslides and disaster management in eastern Uganda. She is a recipient of different grants including the African Peacebuilding Network of the Social Science Research Council, African Humanities Program, University of Michigan Presidential Scholarship and the Mellon Foundation through the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Makerere. Her work has been published in the Journal of African History, African Studies Review, Kujenga Amani and she has contributed several book chapters. Pamela is also a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of African History, Journal of Eastern Africam Studies, Mawazo: Journal of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Makerere University Press. She has supervised several PhD and MA students. She has participated in different conference panels and workshops organized by the African Peacebuilding Network.	2015 IRG-Khanakwa	2015 IRG	Pamela Khanakwa	Khanakwa	Uganda	Pamela
Maweu, Jacinta Mwende	Senior Lecturer	Philosophy	University of Nairobi	Philosophy,Media Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 IRG 2015 Are Media Catalysts of Conflict or Messengers of Peace? Navigating Inter-Faith Dialogue between Christians and Muslims in Mombasa, Kenya University of Nairobi Kenya 2022-24 CWG 2022-2024 Let’s do it together: Rethinking Gender in the Mediation and Resolution of Natural Resources Conflicts in a Changing Climate in East Africa University of Nairobi Kenya	APN IRG; APN CWG	APN	Lecturer; Senior Lecturer	Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies	University of Nairobi	Kenya	2015; 2022-2024	Jacinta Mwende Maweu (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Media studies and an Associate faculty at the Institute of climate Change and Adaptation and Department of Journalism and Media studies at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Her background is in Philosophy and Media studies with M.A degrees in both disciplines from the University of Nairobi and a PhD in Media Ethics and the Political economy of the Media from Rhodes University in South Africa. She is a 2015 APN IRG and 2022-2024 APN Collaborative Working Group Fellow. Jacinta teaches, does research and consultancy in the areas of media, conflict and peacebuilding, media and democracy, media and human rights, media ethics, political economy of the media, climate change and communication and environmental ethics, Social and political philosophy.	2015 IRG-Maweu; 2022-24 CWG-Maweu	2015 IRG; 2022-24 CWG	Jacinta Mwende Maweu	Maweu	Kenya	Jacinta Mwende
Abdul-Jalil, Musa Adam	Professor		University of Khartoum		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 IRG 2015 Mapping Water Conflicts and Best Management Practices in Pastoralist Areas in the Sudan University of Khartoum Sudan (the)	APN IRG	APN	Associate Professor	Social Science	University of Khartoum	Sudan (the)	2015		2015 IRG-Abdul-Jalil	2015 IRG	Musa Adam Abdul-Jalil	Abdul-Jalil	Sudan (the)	Musa Adam
Garuba, Dauda	Nigeria Officer		Natural Resource Governance Institute		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 IRG 2015 The Resource Factor in Inter-Communal Conflicts in Nigeria: A Comparative Study of Warri and Wukari Natural Resource Governance Institute Nigeria	APN IRG	APN	Nigeria Officer	Programmes	Natural Resource Governance Institute	Nigeria	2015		2015 IRG-Garuba	2015 IRG	Dauda Garuba	Garuba	Nigeria	Dauda
Machakanja, Pamela	Professor, Executive Director of the Professor Rukudzo Joseph Murapa Institute Of Peace, Leadership and Governance College of Business and Management Sciences		Africa University	Peace and Conflict Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 IRG 2015 Women Negotiating Peace: A Comparative Study of the Implementation of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1325 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zimbabwe Africa University Zimbabwe 2016-18 CWG (Group B) 2016-2018 Women Negotiating Peace: A Comparative Study of the Implementation of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1325 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zimbabwe Africa University Zimbabwe	APN IRG; APN CWG	APN	Associate Professor; Director (IPLG)	Institute of Peace, Leadership and Governance	Africa University	Zimbabwe	2015; 2016-2018		2015 IRG-Machakanja; 2016-18 CWG (Group B)-Machakanja	2015 IRG; 2016-18 CWG (Group B)	Pamela Machakanja	Machakanja	Zimbabwe	Pamela
Washikala, Malango	Co-founder/CEO		Altech Group		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 IRG 2015 An Analysis of the Link Between Armed Groups and Unregulated Mineral Extraction in Eastern DRC: Case Studies of South and North Kivu Provinces International Peace Information Service Belgium	APN IRG	APN	Projects Coordinator		International Peace Information Service	Belgium	2015		2015 IRG-Washikala	2015 IRG	Malango Washikala	Washikala	Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)	Malango
Lar, Jimam	Assistant Lecturer	History and International Studies Department	University of Jos		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 IRG 2016 Plurality, Local Authority, and Conflict Resolution: Prospects and Challenges from Central Nigerian Conflict Theaters, 2000–2015 University of Jos Nigeria	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer	History and International Studies	University of Jos	Nigeria	2016	Jimam Lar studied History at the University of Jos, and holds an MA in Conflict, Security and Development from King’s College London. He completed his Doctorate in African History and Politics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany in November 2015. Jimam is a Lecturer in History at the University of Jos, Nigeria. He has done extensive research on the history of plural policing and inter-group relations in central Nigeria. As part of his APN-supported research, Jimam focused on the role of non-state actors in conflict management and peacebuilding in selected central Nigerian conflict theatres. He is a 2016 recipient of the Social Science Research Council’s African Peacebuilding Network’s Individual Research Grant.	2016 IRG-Lar	2016 IRG	Jimam Lar	Lar	Nigeria	Jimam
Dori, Dereje Feyissa	Associate Professor	College of Law and Governance Studies	Addis Ababa University	Social Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 IRG 2016 The Afar–Issa Conflict in Eastern Ethiopia: A Case Study of an Intractable Conflict and Conflict Resolution Practices Addis Ababa University Ethiopia	APN IRG	APN		College of Law and Governance Studies	Addis Ababa University	Ethiopia	2016		2016 IRG-Dori	2016 IRG	Dereje Feyissa Dori	Dori	Ethiopia	Dereje Feyissa
Alemdjrodo, Richard	Lecturer	Faculty of Law	University of Lomé	Law	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 IRG 2016 UN Security Council-Regional Organization Relations: Did ECOWAS Intervention in Liberia and Sierra Leone Introduce a New Paradigm in International Law? University of Lomé Togo 2018-20 CWG (Group A) 2018-2020 Herders-Farmers Conflicts in Africa: Historical Trajectories, “New” Issues, Responses and Lessons for Peacebuilding University of Lomé Togo	APN IRG; APN CWG	APN	Lecturer	Department of Law	University of Lomé	Togo	2016; 2018-2020	Dr. Richard Alemdjrodo is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Lomé. He earned his Ph.D. in Law from Saarland University in Germany. He is a graduate of University of Quebec’s School of Public Administration (ENAP), with both a certificate in program evaluation and a master’s in public administration. Expert in International Law, he has been Technical Adviser for international cooperation at the Togolese Ministry of Culture from 2021 to 2022. In 2022, he was awarded the Fulbright Award for Scholars and was a Visiting Scholar at the University at Buffalo, and in 2017 and 2018 was named Carnegie Corporation of New York Scholar. He is a recipient of the 2016 African Peacebuilding Network Individual Research Grant, and the 2018 APN Collaborative Working Group Research Grant. He has published a manual on Intellectual property law and new technology and written extensively on business law, international law and civil rights issues.	2016 IRG-Alemdjrodo; 2018-20 CWG (Group A)-Alemdjrodo	2016 IRG; 2018-20 CWG (Group A)	Richard Alemdjrodo	Alemdjrodo	Togo	Richard
Serwajja, Eria	Lecturer	School of Government	Busitema University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 IRG 2016 Fractured Intimacy: Exploring Gender-based Conflicts in the Emerging Oil and Gas Landscapes in the Albertine Region, Western Uganda Makerere University Uganda 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2012 Examining the Land Question in Resettlement: A Case of Post-Conflict Northern Uganda University of the Western Cape South Africa 2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2013 Examining the Land Question in Resettlement: A case Post-Conflict Northern Uganda University of the Western Cape South Africa	APN IRG; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Lecturer	Development Studies; Computer Engineering	Makerere University; University of the Western Cape	Uganda; South Africa	2016; 2012; 2013		2016 IRG-Serwajja; 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Serwajja; 2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Serwajja	2016 IRG; 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Eria Serwajja	Serwajja	Uganda	Eria
Bangura, Ibrahim	Senior Lecturer		University of Sierra Leone,Fourah Bay College		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 IRG 2016 What the Youth Say: Youth and the Democratization Process in Guinea University of Sierra Leone Sierra Leone	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer	Peace and Conflict Studies	University of Sierra Leone	Sierra Leone	2016		2016 IRG-Bangura	2016 IRG	Ibrahim Bangura	Bangura	Sierra Leone	Ibrahim
Nwaka, Jacinta Chiamaka	Professor	Department of History and International Studies	University of Benin	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 IRG 2016 The Ambivalence of the Sacred”: Religion, Peace, and Conflict in Northcentral Nigeria University of Benin Nigeria	APN IRG	APN	Assistant Professor, Lecturer I	History and International Studies	University of Benin	Nigeria	2016	Rev. Sr. Jacinta Chiamaka Nwaka is a Professor of Peace History in the Department of History and International Studies, University of Benin, Nigeria. Her interest in peace studies from historical perspectives stems from a strong conviction that sustainable peace is possible only when the root causes of conflicts are properly understood. Motivated by her commitment to building a peaceful world, she established the Action for Peace Through Poverty Alleviation (APPA) Foundation, an initiative that addresses poverty as a driver of conflict. Sr. Nwaka has received numerous prestigious awards, including the UPEACE/IDRC Doctoral Fellowship, ACLS (AHP) Postdoctoral Fellowship, SSRC (APN) Individual Research Grant, and the Nordic Africa Guest Researchers Award, among others. She has also undergone several advanced trainings in negotiation and mediation. Her rich academic and peacebuilding engagements are reflected in her impressive body of scholarship, with over 50 published articles in reputable journals and edited volumes.	2016 IRG-Nwaka	2016 IRG	Jacinta Chiamaka Nwaka	Nwaka	Nigeria	Jacinta Chiamaka
Babatunde, Abosede Omowumi	Professor	Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies	University of Ilorin		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 IRG 2016 The Curse of Oil: Unpacking the Challenges to Food Security in Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region University of Ilorin Nigeria 2018-20 CWG (Group A) 2018-2020 Herders-Farmers Conflicts in Africa: Historical Trajectories, “New” Issues, Responses and Lessons for Peacebuilding University of Ilorin Nigeria	APN IRG; APN CWG	APN	Lecturer I; Lecturer	Center for Peace and Strategic Studies; Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies	University of Ilorin	Nigeria	2016; 2018-2020	Abosede Omowumi Babatunde is a Professor at the Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. Abosede Babatunde has been awarded distinguished academic fellowships including the African Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies (2010), and the Research Fellowship in Peace Studies (2013) Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is a 2017/18 Fellow of the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximillian University, Munich, Germany. Abosede is a 2017 Fellow of the Brown International Advanced Research Institute (BIARI). Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. In 2019, she was a Guest Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. She is a 2023 Landhaus fellow of the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximillian University, Munich, Germany. She is a recipient of the 2024 Afox Visiting Research Fellowship (Africa-Oxford Initiative) in the Merton College and African Studies Centre, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Babatunde’s work has been supported by research grants from Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA); Social Science Research Council’s African Peacebuilding Network (SSRC/APN), American Political Science Association Centennial Foundation and the International Peace Research Association Foundation (IPRAF). Her research interests include Conflict Resolution; Resources Governance; Human rights; Security; Peacebuilding; and Gender studies. She recently co-authored the book; “Managing Violent Religious Extremism in Fragile States: Building Institutional Capacity in Nigeria and Kenya. Routledge.” Routledge African Governance Series” (recommended by CHOICE and selected for the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS), Ethiopia Tana High Level Forum Book Launch, 2023). https://www.routledge.com/Managing-Violent-Religious-Extremism-in-Fragile-States-Building-Institutional/Babatunde-Adedimeji-Raji-Maweu-Githigaro/p/book/9780367342395	2016 IRG-Babatunde; 2018-20 CWG (Group A)-Babatunde	2016 IRG; 2018-20 CWG (Group A)	Abosede Omowumi Babatunde	Babatunde	Nigeria	Abosede Omowumi
Coffie, Amanda	Senior Lecturer, Research Fellow		University of Ghana		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 IRG 2016 Engaging in Peacebuilding from the Outside: The Case of the Liberian Refugee Diaspora in Canada University of Ghana Ghana	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer/Research Fellow	Legon Center for International Affairs and Diplomacy	University of Ghana	Ghana	2016		2016 IRG-Coffie	2016 IRG	Amanda Coffie	Coffie	Ghana	Amanda
Eresso, Meron Zeleke	Associate Professor	College of Law and Governance	Addis Ababa University	Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 IRG 2016 Women as Agents of Peace in Africa: Women’s Role in Customary Institutions of Conflict Resolution in Ethiopia Addis Ababa University Ethiopia	APN IRG	APN	Adjunct Assistant Professor	College of Law and Governance, Center for Human Rights	Addis Ababa University	Ethiopia	2016		2016 IRG-Eresso	2016 IRG	Meron Zeleke Eresso	Eresso	Ethiopia	Meron Zeleke
Ibnouf, Fatma Osman	Assistant Professor	Development Studies and Research Institute (DSRI)	University of Khartoum		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 IRG 2016 The Forgotten One: Linkage between Care-work Arrangements during Wartime and Peacebuilding University of Khartoum Sudan (the) 2017 BMCG 2017 The Forgotten One: Linkage between Wartime Care-Work Arrangements and Peacebuilding University of Khartoum Sudan (the) 2018-20 CWG (Group A) 2018-2020 Herders-Farmers Conflicts in Africa: Historical Trajectories, “New” Issues, Responses and Lessons for Peacebuilding University of Khartoum Sudan (the)	APN IRG; APN BMCG; APN CWG	APN	Assistant Professor; PhD Candidate, assistant lecturer and researcher	Development Studies and Research Institute; Department of Political Science	University of Khartoum	Sudan (the)	2016; 2017; 2018-2020	Dr. Fatma Osman Ibnouf is an Assistant Professor, Researcher, and Trainer at the Development Studies and Research Institute (DSRI), University of Khartoum, Sudan. With extensive expertise in women’s and gender issues in Sudan, she combines academic rigor with grassroots engagement, ensuring that the voices of research subjects remain central to her work. Holding a B.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences and a PhD from the University of Wales Swansea (UK), Dr. Fatma brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective to her research, bridging humanistic and scientific approaches. Her work focuses on gender, food security, human rights, care-work, herders-farmers conflict, peacebuilding, and development, informed by years of sustained fieldwork in Darfur and other regions of Sudan. A prolific scholar, she has authored, co-authored, and contributed to numerous international publications, policy documents, and reports. Her research has been recognized with awards and grants from the United Kingdom, Finland, the USA, and Sudan. Committed to adaptability and professionalism, Dr. Ibnouf thrives in dynamic environments while maintaining a strong awareness of ethical and role-based boundaries in her work.	2016 IRG-Ibnouf; 2017 BMCG-Ibnouf; 2018-20 CWG (Group A)-Ibnouf	2016 IRG; 2017 BMCG; 2018-20 CWG (Group A)	Fatma Osman Ibnouf	Ibnouf	Sudan (the)	Fatma Osman
Makupa, Enock	Senior Lecturer	Department of Geography and Environmental Studies	University of Dodoma		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 IRG 2016 Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding: Assessing Community Participation in the Natural Gas Sector in Tanzania University of Dodoma Tanzania	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer	Department of Geography and Environmental Studies	University of Dodoma	Tanzania	2016	Dr. Enock Makupa is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Dodoma, Tanzania. He has a strong social science background and extensive interdisciplinary research experience at both local and international levels. He holds a Diploma in Education, a Bachelor's degree in Geography and Environmental Studies, and a Master’s degree in fields covering Geography, Social Sciences, and Environmental Management from Korogwe Teachers Training College and the University of Dar es Salaam, respectively. He earned a PhD from Victoria University in B.C., Canada, specializing in Geography, Natural Resource Management, and Rural Livelihoods. Makupa has successfully supervised more than 27 postgraduate students at the University of Dodoma. He has held various university positions, including Head of Department, Dean of the School, Deputy College Principal, and Deputy Director of Quality Assurance. He is an active member of the Tanzania Environmental Experts Association (TEEA), the African Peacebuilding Network (APN), and the Tanzania Institute of Monitoring and Evaluation (TIME). He has received numerous awards, both local and international, including the IDRC research award, the APN individual research award, and the American SSRC Conference Award. His experience in interdisciplinary projects has shaped his research interests, which include natural resource conservation, livelihoods, environmental assessment, conflicts and peacebuilding, and climate change.	2016 IRG-Makupa	2016 IRG	Enock Makupa	Makupa	Tanzania	Enock
Moyo, Philani	Professor, Director of the Fort Hare Institute for Social and Economic Research (FHISER)	Sociology	University of Fort Hare	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 IRG 2016 An Appraisal of Climate Change Security Risks and Local Conflicts in Limpopo Province, South Africa University of Fort Hare South Africa	APN IRG	APN	Associate Professor	Department of Sociology and Anthropology	University of Fort Hare	South Africa	2016		2016 IRG-Moyo	2016 IRG	Philani Moyo	Moyo	Zimbabwe	Philani
Orji, Nkwachukwu	Professor	Institute for Development Studies	University of Nigeria		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 IRG 2016 Peacebuilding and Separatism in Nigeria: Democracy, Peace Settlement, and Biafran Separatism University of Nigeria Nigeria	APN IRG	APN	Research Fellow	Institute for Development Studies	University of Nigeria	Nigeria	2016	Nkwachukwu Orji is a Professor at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nigeria. He received a PhD. in political science in 2008 from Central European University, Budapest. After completing his doctoral education, he earned further research and teaching experience at the Nordic African Institute (NAI), Uppsala; the Institute of Federalism, Fribourg; and the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg. Prof. Orji is a recipient of several honours, awards, and prizes for outstanding academic accomplishments. Between 2014 and 2016, he held the prestigious Post-doctoral Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. Similarly, he received fellowships and bursaries from the Refugee Study Centre, Oxford University; the Melbourne School of Government, University of Melbourne; and the African Peacebuilding Network, Social Science Research Council, New York. Prof. Orji has served in several institutions and organizations. In 2017, he was appointed by the Nigerian President as Resident Electoral Commissioner in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Prof. Orji has published several monographs, articles, and reports on elections, democratization, peacebuilding, and political development.	2016 IRG-Orji	2016 IRG	Nkwachukwu Orji	Orji	Nigeria	Nkwachukwu
Omwoha, Joyce	Lecturer	Journalism and Media Studies	The Technical University of Kenya	Media Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 IRG 2016 From Street Sentiments to Online Sentiments: Negotiating Peace through Social Media Activism in Kenya The Technical University of Kenya Kenya	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer	Journalism and Media Studies	The Technical University of Kenya	Kenya	2016	Dr. Joyce Omwoha is a lecturer, researcher, and communication specialist with a PhD in Media Studies whose work spans media, gender, peacebuilding, and social change. She examines how marginalized groups, particularly women and youth, use media and digital platforms to resist repression, build resilience, and shape inclusive peace and security agendas. Her current focus includes gendered narratives in youth protests, decolonial resistance, community agency, and the role of communication in advancing justice and equality. She has published widely on media, democratization, gender, health communication, and social movements in Kenya, with a particular interest in how storytelling, social media, and technology influence civic participation and conflict transformation. Her research has been supported by international grants and fellowships, extending to grassroots activism and gendered resistance in both digital and offline spaces. As Communications Strategist at the Africa Coordinating Centre for the Abandonment of FGM/C (ACCAF), she develops strategies for research translation, advocacy, and community-based interventions that promote women’s and girls’ rights in sustainable peacebuilding.	2016 IRG-Omwoha	2016 IRG	Joyce Omwoha	Omwoha	Kenya	Joyce
Tufa, Fekadu Adugna	Assistant Professor	Department of Social Anthropology	Addis Ababa University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 IRG 2016 Understanding Conflicts and Peacebuilding Practices in the Context of Multiple Actors: The Case of the Somali Region of Ethiopia Addis Ababa University Ethiopia	APN IRG	APN	Assistant Professor	Department of Social Anthropology	Addis Ababa University	Ethiopia	2016	Dr. Fekadu Adugna Tufa is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology and among the core founding members of the Research Chair on Forced Displacement and Migration Studies at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He got PhD from Martin Luther University in Germany in 2009. He has been conducting research on varieties of issues including conflict and peace building, forced displacement, migration, land governance and border studies in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. He has coordinated and served as principal investigator in several multi-country research projects on conflict and forced displacement, migration and borderland studies in the Horn of Africa. Besides African Peacebuilding Network Individual Grant (2016), Dr. Tufa has secured several fellowship including African-Oxford fellow (AfOx) 2025; School of Global Studies, University of Sussex (2018) Centre for African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany (2015). He has been publishing widely in the areas of displacement, migration and conflict and identity studies.	2016 IRG-Tufa	2016 IRG	Fekadu Adugna Tufa	Tufa	Ethiopia	Fekadu Adugna
Courson, Elias	Lecturer I	Philosophy	Niger Delta University	Geography,Peace and Conflict Studies,Philosophy	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016-18 CWG (Group A) 2016-2018 From Networks of Violence to Networks of Peace: Armed Youth Violence in Five African Countries Niger Delta University Nigeria 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2012 The Geography of Conflicts in Nigeria's Niger Delta "University of California, Berkeley" United States of America (the)	APN CWG; Next Gen Research Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Lecturer I	Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies	Niger Delta University; "University of California, Berkeley"	Nigeria; United States of America (the)	2016-2018; 2012	Dr. Elias Courson is a lecturer with the Department of Philosophy, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. He has carried out extensive research on the hydrocarbon-induced crisis in Nigeria’ Niger Delta. He has been trained in conflict mediation/mitigation by the United Nations University for Peace on “Non-Violent Transformation of Conflict” and also by the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) on conflict resolution skills. Dr. Courson’s book, Spaces of Insurgency: Petro-Violence and the Geography of Conflict in Nigeria (2025), argues for a necessary shift in focus towards a historical and spatial analysis of crisis. Such an approach, he contends, is crucial for understanding the deep-seated and unresolved animosities that underpin contemporary tensions in the Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. By critically interrogating resource curse narratives in the Niger Delta conflicts/insurgencies that have emerged since the 1990s, he demonstrates the layered and historically contingent nature of these conflicts. Employing an interdisciplinary and comparative methodology, he reflects on the specific ways in which political violence and the security-development nexus in Africa – a subject of considerable academic attention since the 1980s – are situated within broader global patterns of knowledge production. The central contribution of this book lies in its analysis of how spatial dynamics, particularly the interplay between west and east and inter- regional politics, are fundamental to a more nuanced understanding of crisis in the Niger Delta and beyond. Dr Courson was a (2021-2022) recipient of the African Humanities Programme (AHP) fellowship of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), USA. He was a postdoctoral fellow (2018-2019) at the Centre of African Studies (CAS), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He was a recipient of the Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC) Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa fellowship (2012) and African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Collaborative Working Group Research grant (2017). Dr. Courson is also a recipient of the Rotary World Peace Fellowship award (2008–2010) at the Rotary Center for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution, University of California, Berkeley, and the Luce Foundation on Green Governance/Peace (2006–2007) fellowship at the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Courson holds PhD Geography, University of California, Berkeley, and Masters’ degree in Peace and Conflict Resolution from the Rotary Centre for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution at the University of California, Berkeley. He also earned Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts degrees in Philosophy from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, respectively.	2016-18 CWG (Group A)-Courson; 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Courson	2016-18 CWG (Group A); 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Elias Courson	Courson	Nigeria	Elias
Vuninga, Rosette Sifa	Post-Doctoral Research Fellow	Historical Studies Department	University of Cape Town	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016-18 CWG (Group A) 2016-2018 From Networks of Violence to Networks of Peace: Armed Youth Violence in Five African Countries University of the Western Cape South Africa 2024 IRF 2024 From “Soutien total aux FARDC” to “Force aux Wazalendo!”: A path to radical shift in Congolese transnationalism and homeland activism University of Cape Town South Africa 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2020 Baswahili and Bato ya Mangala: Regionalism and Congolese diasporic identity in the post-Mobutu era (1997-2018) University of the Western Cape South Africa 2023 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2023 “Congolese Refugees in South Africa: Contests around Identity Politics and State Documentation” University of the Western Cape South Africa	APN CWG; APN IRF; Next Gen Completion Fellowship; Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	PhD Student; Post Doctoral Researcher; Assistant Lecturer; Post-Doctoral Research Fellow	Department of History; Historical Studies; History; National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences	University of the Western Cape; University of Cape Town	South Africa	2016-2018; 2024; 2020; 2023	Dr Rosette Sifa Vuninga is a University Research Committee (URC) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cape Town’s Historical Studies Department in Cape Town, South Africa. She is also a 2024 Social Sciences Research Council’s African Peacebuilding Network’ Individual Research Fellowship, 2020 Social Sciences Research Council’s African Peacebuilding Network doctoral fellow, 2016 African Peacebuilding Network’s Collaborative Research Group grantee, Salzburg Global Fellow, and Congo Research Network Fellow. Vuninga’s research is in the field of migration and explores issues related to transborder politics of identity and belonging, the migration of conflicts, as well as gender politics in migrant networks. Her research interests also include youth urban networks of violence and economies of insecurity.	2016-18 CWG (Group A)-Vuninga; 2024 IRF-Vuninga; 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Vuninga; 2023 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship-Vuninga	2016-18 CWG (Group A); 2024 IRF; 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship; 2023 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Rosette Sifa Vuninga	Vuninga	Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)	Rosette Sifa
Gibson, Diana	Professor	Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Medical Anthropology	University of the Western Cape	Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016-18 CWG (Group A) 2016-2018 From Networks of Violence to Networks of Peace: Armed Youth Violence in Five African Countries University of the Western Cape South Africa	APN CWG	APN	Professor	Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Medical Anthropology	University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2016-2018	Diana Gibson is a professor at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of the Western Cape. She is currently a Research Fellow of the International Phytomedicine Center at the University of Stellenbosch. Professor Gibson has published in national and international peer-reviewed journals on hospital ethnography, transformation of the South African healthcare system, ex-combatants and trauma, gender, sexuality and reproductive health, masculinity, gender-based violence, tuberculosis, and the use of plant medicines among the Ju/’hoansi San in Namibia, as well as on the literacy and numeracy practices of farm workers in the Western Cape. She is a 2016-2018 recipient and group leader of the Social Science Research Council’s African Peacebuilding Network’s Collaborative Working Group (CWG) Research Grant.	2016-18 CWG (Group A)-Gibson	2016-18 CWG (Group A)	Diana Gibson	Gibson	South Africa	Diana
Gnangadjomon, Koné	Postdoctoral Researcher		Swiss Center for Scientific Research	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016-18 CWG (Group A) 2016-2018 From Networks of Violence to Networks of Peace: Armed Youth Violence in Five African Countries Swiss Center for Scientific Research Côte d'Ivoire	APN CWG	APN	Postdoctoral Researcher		Swiss Center for Scientific Research	Côte d'Ivoire	2016-2018		2016-18 CWG (Group A)-Gnangadjomon	2016-18 CWG (Group A)	Koné Gnangadjomon	Gnangadjomon	Côte d'Ivoire	Koné
Bere, Eunice	Lecturer	Department of Management & Entrepreneurship	Africa University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016-18 CWG (Group B) 2016-2018 Women Negotiating Peace: A Comparative Study of the Implementation of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1325 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zimbabwe Africa University Zimbabwe	APN CWG	APN	Researcher and Lecturer	Institute of Peace, Leadership, and Governance	Africa University	Zimbabwe	2016-2018		2016-18 CWG (Group B)-Bere	2016-18 CWG (Group B)	Eunice Bere	Bere	Zimbabwe	Eunice
Bigirimana, Stanislas	Senior Lecturer	College of Business, Peace, Leadership and Governance	Africa University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016-18 CWG (Group B) 2016-2018 Women Negotiating Peace: A Comparative Study of the Implementation of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1325 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zimbabwe Africa University Zimbabwe	APN CWG	APN	Lecturer	College of Business, Peace, Leadership and Governance	Africa University	Zimbabwe	2016-2018		2016-18 CWG (Group B)-Bigirimana	2016-18 CWG (Group B)	Stanislas Bigirimana	Bigirimana	Burundi	Stanislas
Oyewunmi, Adejoke	Professor	Department of Commercial and Industrial Law, Faculty of Law	University of Lagos		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016-18 CWG (Group B) 2016-2018 Women Negotiating Peace: A Comparative Study of the Implementation of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1325 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zimbabwe University of Lagos Nigeria	APN CWG	APN	Professor	Faculty of Law	University of Lagos	Nigeria	2016-2018		2016-18 CWG (Group B)-Oyewunmi	2016-18 CWG (Group B)	Adejoke Oyewunmi	Oyewunmi	Nigeria	Adejoke
Mungure, Solomon	Research, Evidence and Knowledge Manager		Folkekirkens Nødhjælp (DanChurchAid)	Environmental Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016-18 CWG (Group B) 2016-2018 Women Negotiating Peace: A Comparative Study of the Implementation of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1325 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Open University Zimbabwe	APN CWG	APN		Environment	Zimbabwe Open University	Zimbabwe	2016-2018	Dr Solomon Mungure is a pioneer in the implementation of Urban Social Assistance and Urban Resilience Programmes in Zimbabwe. He initiated the Africa University Doctoral Programme in Peace, Leadership and Governance where he also served as the Director of the Institute of Peace Leadership and Governance. He also commands grounded and practical experience in academic, consultancy and development work with a profile spanning over 15 years. He has worked on regional transitional justice assignments, regional public policy training, Zimbabwe's National Vulnerability/Livelihoods Assessments, and the Provincial Civil Protection Committees to design disaster preparedness profiles of rural and urban local authorities. Solomon has worked in Zimbabwe’s urban and rural areas specifically in the humanitarian-peace-development nexus and fragile geographies with support from WFP, SIDA, ECHO, EU, SDC, DANIDA, GEF 6, FCDO and UNDP. Solomon possesses strategic capacities in integrating socio-ecological systems, in natural resource economics and development framing. He is technically familiar and conversant with the extractive sector, carbon trading, climate negotiations, climate financing models etc. Dr Mungure has also undertaken inclusive disaster preparedness and needs assessments for urban local authorities including the selection and design of disability friendly rescue centres.	2016-18 CWG (Group B)-Mungure	2016-18 CWG (Group B)	Solomon Mungure	Mungure	Zimbabwe	Solomon
Jernayama, Deliah	Project Manager	Institute of Peace, Leadership, and Governance	Africa University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016-18 CWG (Group B) 2016-2018 Women Negotiating Peace: A Comparative Study of the Implementation of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1325 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zimbabwe Africa University Zimbabwe	APN CWG	APN	Project/Research Assistant	Institute of Peace, Leadership, and Governance	Africa University	Zimbabwe	2016-2018		2016-18 CWG (Group B)-Jernayama	2016-18 CWG (Group B)	Deliah Jernayama	Jernayama	Zimbabwe	Deliah
Arowosegbe, Jeremiah O.	Intellectual History, Political Theory and African Studies	School of History and School of Politics and International Studies	University of Leeds	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 BMCG 2017 Ethnic Minorities and Land Conflicts in Nigeria University of Ibadan Nigeria 2015 Residential Postdoc 2015 Ethnic Minorities and the Land Conflicts in South-Western Nigeria University of Ibadan Nigeria	APN BMCG; Next Gen Residential Postdoc	APN; Next Gen		Department of Political Science	University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2017; 2015	Professor Dr. Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe is a historically-oriented and philosophically-stimulated political scientist. He teaches Intellectual History, Political Theory and Global African Studies at the University of Leeds. Between 2021 and 2023, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Professor of Political Science at the African Studies Programme in the Institute of Asian and African Studies of Humboldt University of Berlin. His life-time research and teaching are focused on Intellectual History, Political Theory and Global African Studies. His expanded research specializations cover African Development, African Political Thought, African Politics, Conflict Studies, Development Studies, Postcolonial Studies and the Epistemologies and Intellectual Histories of Contemporary Africa. These entail comparative historical research and teaching on Latin America, Middle East and South Asia as well as the African Diaspora and the Caribbean.	2017 BMCG-Arowosegbe; 2015 Residential Postdoc-Arowosegbe	2017 BMCG; 2015 Residential Postdoc	Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe	Arowosegbe	Nigeria	Jeremiah O.
Tsafack, Delmas	Head of Mission Support	Opérations	Médecins Sans Frontières Suisse		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 IRG 2017 Violence and Crime in Equatorial Guinea Muntu Institute Cameroon	APN IRG	APN			Muntu Institute	Cameroon	2017	Dr. Delmas Tsafack is Head of Mission Support at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Cameroon. He is specialized in History and foreign policy of Equatorial Guinea in Central Africa. He earned his Ph.D. degree in History of International Relations from the University of Dschang, Cameroon with the doctoral dissertation focused on the relations between Equatorial Guinea and its neighbors, Cameroon and Gabon. He has published tens of peer-reviewed articles and participated in more than 30 national and international conferences. He published a peer-reviewed article on the migration of Equatoguinean refugees in Cameroon in Afrika Zamani, a CODESRIA journal. He is a recipient of the 2017 APN individual research fellowship award.	2017 IRG-Tsafack	2017 IRG	Delmas Tsafack	Tsafack	Cameroon	Delmas
Setrana, Mary Boatemaa	Senior Lecturer	Centre for Migration Studies (CMS)	University of Ghana		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 IRG 2017 Farmer-Herder Conflict and Implications for Conflict Prevention and Transformation: The Case of Second Generation Fulani Migrants in Ghana University of Ghana Ghana	APN IRG	APN			University of Ghana	Ghana	2017	Dr Mary Boatemaa Setrana is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Migration Studies (CMS), University of Ghana (UG), Legon. Mary’s PhD was a sandwich between Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands and the University of Ghana. She is a member of the Swiss Sub-Saharan Africa Migration (S-SAM) Network and the Young Policy Network on Migration (YPNM). Mary was a 2017 APN Individual Research Grant recipient and a post-doctoral fellow at University of South Florida (USF), USA, under the University of Ghana- Carnegie Corporation of New York sponsored project, Building a New Generation of Academics in Africa (BANGA). She won the US Department of State Award to represent Ghana on the “National Security and Policymaking” programme for 2019. She consults for various international organisations, such as IOM, Carnegie Corporation for New York (CCNY) among others on research projects, policy development and capacity building. She was also a 2019 fellow at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA). She participates as a migration expert trainer on the AU’s migration governance training modules for its member states from ten countries in Africa. Mary is an Advisory Board member of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Centre of Excellence on Migration & Mobility.	2017 IRG-Setrana	2017 IRG	Mary Boatemaa Setrana	Setrana	Ghana	Mary Boatemaa
Chepngetich, Pamela Mainye	Lecturer	Faculty of Information Science & Technology	Kisii University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 IRG 2017 Building Peace through Radio: Radio Fan Clubs, "Collective Responsibility," and Post-Conflict Healing in Eldoret, Kenya Kisii University Kenya	APN IRG	APN			Kisii University	Kenya	2017	Pamela Chepngetich is currently a lecturer at the faculty of Information Science & Technology at Kisii University, Kenya. Dr. Chepngetich holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, where she was a junior fellow at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS). Her doctoral thesis there focused on the representation and self-representation of refugees in Kenya’s Daadab Refugee Camp. Her research interests are in representation, photography, social media and online activism as well as radio ethnography. Presently, her APN research probes how radio fan clubs are convened, and how they (un)consciously play a role in peace building in Western Kenya.	2017 IRG-Chepngetich	2017 IRG	Pamela Mainye Chepngetich	Chepngetich	Kenya	Pamela Mainye
Attah, Noah Echa	Professor	Department of Historical Studies	National University of Lesotho	African Economic History and Development	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 IRG 2017 Large-Scale Land Acquisition in Nigeria: Interrogating the Conflict Trajectories and Critical Issues for Pro-Poor Peacebuilding Federal University Nigeria	APN IRG	APN			Federal University	Nigeria	2017	Noah Echa Attah is a professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the National University of Lesotho, Roma, Lesotho. He had previously taught at some Nigerian universities, including Osun State University and Federal University of Kashere, where he served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic). He was a recipient of the African Humanities Program (AHP) Fellowship of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the African Peacebuilding Program (APN) Fellowship of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). His research focus includes agrarian studies, environmental studies, natural resource conflicts, and peacebuilding.	2017 IRG-Attah	2017 IRG	Noah Echa Attah	Attah	Nigeria	Noah Echa
Ingabire, Chantal Marie	Senior Researcher		Community Based Sociotherapy (CBS) Rwanda		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 IRG 2017 Genocide Legacies among the Second Generation in Rwanda: Challenges and Opportunities in Facilitating Inter-Generational Reconciliation Processes Community Based Sociotherapy (CBS) Rwanda Rwanda	APN IRG	APN			Community Based Sociotherapy (CBS) Rwanda	Rwanda	2017	Chantal Ingabire holds a master’s degree in Medical Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD in Public Health from Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She has more than seventeen years of experience in research with main interest in health, gender, psychosocial support, intergenerational transmission of genocide legacies, reconciliation and peacebuilding. Chantal Ingabire works as a senior researcher and currently involved in a four-year project that aim at intergenerational healing and community reconciliation for sustainable peace through Community Based Sociotherapy.	2017 IRG-Ingabire	2017 IRG	Chantal Marie Ingabire	Ingabire	Rwanda	Chantal Marie
Chari, Tendai Joseph	Associate Professor	Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics	University of Venda	Media Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 IRG 2017 The Role of Diaspora Media in Homeland Conflicts: Mapping Discourses of Peace and Conflict during Negotiations for a Government of National Unity in Zimbabwe, 2008-2009 University of Venda South Africa 2018 BMCG 2018 Diaspora Media and their Entanglement in Homeland Conflicts: Mapping Discourses of Conflict and Peacebuilding University of Venda South Africa	APN IRG; APN BMCG	APN	Lecturer	Department of Media and Communication Studies	University of Venda	South Africa	2017; 2018	Tendai Chari is an Associate Professor of Media Studies and a National Research Foundation (NRF) C1 Rated Researcher at the University of Venda, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. Previously, he lectured at several universities in Africa, including the University of Zimbabwe, where he was Head of the Media Programme in the English Department. Chari is widely published in the field of media and communication studies and his research focuses on Political Communication with a broadened horizon on the interface between Digital Media and Politics, Media and Conflict, Media Ethics and Popular Culture. His other publications have appeared in the Journal of African Media Studies, African Identities, Communicatio: South African Journal on Media and Communications, African Journalism Studies, and Journal of African Elections. He is the Co-Editor of the book African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives: The Legacy of FIFA 2010 World Cup (2014 Palgrave McMillan) (co-edited with Professor Nhamo A. Mhiripiri) and Media Law, Ethics, and Policy in the Digital Age (2017 IGI Global Publishing) (also with Professor N.A Mhiripiri), Global Pandemics and Media Ethics: Issues and Perspectives (2023 co-edited with Professor Martin Ndlela) and Political Transition in Southern Africa: Democratic Consolidation or Change of Façade? (Springer Nature, 2023, co-edited with P. Dzimiri). Chari Chari serves as an Editorial Board Member of local and international refereed journals, including Communication and Sport Journal, Journal of African Media Studies, (Intellect) Commonwealth Development Journal, and Metal Music Journal. A recipient of the African Peace Building Network (APN) Fellowship (2017) Chari is working is finalizing his single-authored book titled, ‘Diaspora Media and Homeland Conflict: Coloniality of Conflict Journalism in Zimbabwe’ (Routledge 2024 Forthcoming).	2017 IRG-Chari; 2018 BMCG-Chari	2017 IRG; 2018 BMCG	Tendai Joseph Chari	Chari	Zimbabwe	Tendai Joseph
Bisoka, Aymar Nyenyezi	Assistant Professor		University of Mos		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 IRG 2017 Rural Development in the Great Lakes Region: Resistance to International Prescriptions Catholic University of Bukavu Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)	APN IRG	APN			Catholic University of Bukavu	Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)	2017	Aymar N. Bisoka is a lawyer and political scientist and assistant professor at the University of Mons. He works in the African Great Lakes Region on the access to natural resources, the peasantry and armed groups and the afro-critical perspective in social sciences. Bisoka has taught in recent years at the Rift Valley Institute (UK) and several other universities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, and Belgium. Before moving into research, he worked for ten years on development cooperation in Africa and Europe and continues to collaborate in this sector on issues of development, governance, and security. He has published numerous articles in English and French in several leading journals as well as in several books and journals readily available to his African students and colleagues. Bisoka has also won several international awards and grants—including from the African Studies Association (USA, 2019), the CODESRIA (Dakar, 2018) and the SSRC African Peacebuilding Network (USA, 2017). He has recently been elected into two visiting scholarships to Oxford University (2019) and Cambridge University (2020 & 2022).	2017 IRG-Bisoka	2017 IRG	Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka	Bisoka	Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)	Aymar Nyenyezi
Jaji, Rose	Senior Researcher	Transformation of Political (Dis-)order	German Institute of Development and Sustainability	Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 IRG 2017 Inter-Gender Cooperation and Proactive Peacebuilding in Zimbabwe University of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe	APN IRG	APN	Researcher	Sociology	University of Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	2017	Rose Jaji is a senior researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). She is an APN alumna (2017). Her research areas of interest are migration/refugees, gender, and conflict and peacebuilding. She has published peer-reviewed articles on migration and refugees focusing on various issues that include social technology and identity in the governance of transborder migration and displacement, gender, and research ethics. Her work addresses migration trajectories, return migration, and non-migration and is also published as blog posts, policy briefs, newsletter articles, and opinion pieces. She is the author of Deviant Destinations: Zimbabwe and North to South Migration (Lexington Books, 2020) and Non-migration amidst Zimbabwe’s Economic Meltdown (Lexington Books, 2023).	2017 IRG-Jaji	2017 IRG	Rose Jaji	Jaji	Zimbabwe	Rose
Adzande, Patience	Postdoctoral Researcher	African Cities Research Consortium	University of Manchester		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 IRG 2017 Putting New Wine into Old Wineskins? Peacebuilding Strategies and the Changing Dynamics of Conflicts in Nigeria Benue State University Nigeria 2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2013 Analysis of the Determinants of Crime Pattern in Makurdi Town Benue State University Nigeria 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2014 ANALYSIS OF THE DETERMINANTS OF CRIME PATTERN IN MAKURDI TOWN Benue State University Nigeria	APN IRG; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Department of Urban and Regional Planning	Benue State University	Nigeria	2017; 2013; 2014	My name is Patience Adzande and I was born and raised in Nigeria. I obtained a PhD in urban and regional planning from the Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria in 2017. During my PhD study, I received the Dissertation Research Fellowship (2013) and the Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award (2014) from the Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC) Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa programme. In 2017, I also received the SSRC’s African Peacebuilding Network grant to conduct research on farmer-herder conflicts in Central Nigeria. Before joining ACRC, I was a lecturer at the Benue State University. My research interest in crime and the built environment was motivated by the works of Jane Jacobs and Oscar Newman. However, my decision to focus on broader issues of human security became imperative with increasing conflict and violence in rural and urban areas of Nigeria. Currently, my research focuses on the influence of the built environment on crime patterns; residents’ experiences of safety and (in)security in cities; informal policing in cities; the role of conflict/violence in re-configuring urban spaces and shaping lived experiences in cities; the lived experiences of internally displaced people (IDPs) in non-camp situations; and farmer-herder conflicts in Nigeria.	2017 IRG-Adzande; 2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Adzande; 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Adzande	2017 IRG; 2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Patience Adzande	Adzande	Nigeria	Patience
Iweze, Daniel Olisa	Associate Professor	Department of History and International Studies	University of Benin	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 IRG 2017 Muslims-Christians Covenant in Kano, Nigeria: Lessons in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding University of Benin Nigeria	APN IRG	APN	Senior Lecturer	Department of History and International Studies	University of Benin	Nigeria	2017	Daniel Olisa Iweze is an Associate Professor at the University of Benin, Nigeria, specialising in Nigerian history. He earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in 2023 with his doctoral dissertation focusing on the post-civil war reconstruction of Western Igboland from 1970 to 1991. He has won several fellowships, research grants and awards, including a research fellow of the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA 2013), Individual Research Grant of the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) in 2017. He won the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY) Scholar Award in 2019, Tertiary Education Fund (Tetfund) 2024. He has participated in several workshops, such as the African Studies Association Pipeline for Emerging African Studies Scholar Workshop, Boston in 2019, and numerous others. He is currently the co-ordinator of Post-graduate studies, Department of History and International Studies, University of Benin, Nigeria.	2017 IRG-Iweze	2017 IRG	Daniel Olisa Iweze	Iweze	Nigeria	Daniel Olisa
Olaniyan, Azeez Olusola	Professor	Department of Political Science	Federal University Oye-Ekiti		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 IRG 2017 A Bad Child Has his Own Day: Ethnic Militia Build-Up, Fragile Peace, and Post-Conflict Dilemmas in Oil-Bearing Communities of Ondo State, Nigeria Ekiti State University Nigeria	APN IRG	APN			Ekiti State University	Nigeria	2017	Azeez Olaniyan is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Federal University in Nigeria, where he served as the Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences from 2023-2025. He was also the former Director of Advancement of the University. He was formerly the Deputy Director of Institute of Peace, Security, and Governance Ekiti State University. He completed his PhD in political science at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria in 2007. He obtained postdoctoral research fellowships from the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS) for the African Humanities Progamme (AHP) and the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. In addition to teaching and supervising students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, he has conducted significant research in areas related to conflict and security, ethnic politics, social movements, and environmental politics. Lately, he has concentrated his research efforts on conflicts associated with environmental issues. In particular, he has conducted extensive research in Nigeria and Ghana on the phenomenon of famer-herder violent conflicts.	2017 IRG-Olaniyan	2017 IRG	Azeez Olusola Olaniyan	Olaniyan	Nigeria	Azeez Olusola
Tawfik, Rawia M.	Associate Professor	Faculty of Economics and Political Science	Cairo University	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 IRG 2017 Reducing Conflicts over African Transboundary Water Resources: Towards Regional Cooperation in the Eastern Nile Cairo University Egypt	APN IRG	APN			Cairo University	Egypt	2017	Rawia Tawfik is an associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in politics from the University of Oxford. She was a visiting associate professor at the Council on African Studies at Yale University, a visiting research fellow at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) and the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA), and a researcher at the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn. Her research interests include, African development, regional integration, and resource-based conflicts, especially conflicts over transboundary rivers in Africa, and the Nile basin in particular. Her work on these issues have appeared in leading international peer-reviewed journals, including African Studies, African Studies Review, International Negotiation, Water Alternatives, Water International, and Water Policy. Rawia has also contributed chapters on regional security complexes, Nile hydropolitics, and foreign policy of African regional powers, to several edited books, including, Nile basin politics edited by Steven C. Roach, Derrick K. Hudson, and Kaleb Demerew (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2025), Transboundary Water Management Across Scales: Understanding the Domestic-International Interplay, edited by Shlomi Dinar and Jeroen Warner (New Jersey: World Scientific, 2025), the Routledge Handbook on Middle East Security, edited by Anders Jagerskog, Michael Schulz and Ashok Swain (London and New York: Routledge, 2019) and Foreign Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Security, Diplomacy and Trade, edited by Adekeye Adebajo and Kudrat Virk (London and New York: IB Tauris, 2017) . She was a recipient of the APN Individual Research Grant in 2017, and the African Studies Association (ASA) Presidential Fellowship in 2018. She is an editorial board member of the African Studies Review (ASR), the flagship journal of the ASA.	2017 IRG-Tawfik	2017 IRG	Rawia M. Tawfik	Tawfik	Egypt	Rawia M.
Elkreem, Tamer Mohammed Ahmed Abd	Lecturer	Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology	University of Khartoum	Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 IRG 2017 Understanding Society-Development Nexus in Sudan: The Case of Escalating Tensions over the Gezira Scheme University of Khartoum Sudan (the)	APN IRG	APN			University of Khartoum	Sudan (the)	2017	Tamer Mohammed Ahmed Abd Elkreem is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, an MPhil in Anthropology of Development from Bergen University, Norway, and a BSc in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the University of Khartoum, Sudan. His PhD dissertation focused on the “Power Relations of Development,” which is the topic of his forthcoming book manuscript. He has published articles on “Whose Dam? The Danger of Narrowly Defined Development: The Case of Kajbar Dam, Northern Sudan,” in Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society; and “Seeing Like a State vs. Seeing Like a Local Community: The Case of Dam Construction in the Nubian Homeland,” with LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing.	2017 IRG-Elkreem	2017 IRG	Tamer Mohammed Ahmed Abd Elkreem	Elkreem	Sudan (the)	Tamer Mohammed Ahmed Abd
Gebresenbet, Fana Erda	Interim Head	Center for Peace and Security Studies	Addis Ababa University	Peace and Security Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 IRG 2017 The Ethiopian Developmental State: Dam Project-Related Land Expropriation, Conflict, and Peacebuilding in South Omo Addis Ababa University Ethiopia 2019 BMCG 2019 The Youth on the Move: Views from below on Ethiopian International Migration Addis Ababa University Ethiopia	APN IRG; APN BMCG	APN	Associate Professor	Institute for Peace and Security at Addis Ababa University	Addis Ababa University	Ethiopia	2017; 2019	Fana Gebresenbet is an Ethiopian scholar with research interests in themes related to political economy, politics of development, security, pastoralism, and migration. He holds a joint PhD in Global and Area Studies (with emphasis on peace and security in Africa) from the University of Leipzig (Germany) and Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia). He was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Africa Program, Centre for Africa Studies of the University of the Free State (South Africa), and Africa Peacebuilding Network of the Social Sciences Research Council. Fana has extensive fieldwork experience in various parts of Ethiopia. He has researched issues related to land investments, political economy of trade of agricultural commodities, center-periphery relations, developmentalism and migration, among others. He authored several journal articles and book chapters, and co-edited one book on these topics. He also consulted government authorities and various international organizations on these themes.	2017 IRG-Gebresenbet; 2019 BMCG-Gebresenbet	2017 IRG; 2019 BMCG	Fana Erda Gebresenbet	Gebresenbet	Ethiopia	Fana Erda
Bahmad, Jamal	Head of the Department and Associate Professor	Department of English	Mohammed V University	Film Studies,Culture studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 IRG 2017 Screening Transitional Justice: Moroccan Cinema as a Platform for Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention Mohammed V University Morocco	APN IRG	APN			Mohammed V University	Morocco	2017	Jamal Bahmad is currently Chair and Associate Professor of English and Film/Cultural Studies in the Department of English at Mohamed V University. He earned his PhD degree from the University of Stirling (UK, 2014) with a dissertation on contemporary Moroccan urban cinema. He has held a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Leeds and, prior to that, was a research fellow at Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany). Bahmad was most recently a research fellow at the University of Exeter on the AHRC-funded project: “Transnational Moroccan Cinema.” He specialises and has published widely in the field of North African cultural studies with a focus on cinema, cities, literature, memory, and youth cultures. He recently co-edited a special issue of French Cultural Studies (SAGE, August 2017) on trash cultures in the Francophone world. Bahmad is also the co-editor of a special issue of The Moroccan Cultural Studies Journal on Moroccan cinema (November 2017). In addition to working on his first monograph on Moroccan cinema and globalization, Bahmad recently co-authored a book entitled Moroccan Cinema Uncut: Decentred Voices, Transnational Perspectives (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) with Will Higbee and Florence Martin.	2017 IRG-Bahmad	2017 IRG	Jamal Bahmad	Bahmad	Morocco	Jamal
Kenee, Fekadu Beyene	Professor	Institutional and Resource Economics	Haramaya University	Economics	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 IRG 2017 Pastoral Grievance and Resource-Based Violent Conflict in Ethiopia: Institutional Options towards Peacebuilding Haramaya University Ethiopia	APN IRG	APN			Haramaya University	Ethiopia	2017	Fekadu Beyene Kenee is a full professor of Institutional and Resource Economics and an employee of Haramaya University, Ethiopia. He received BSc. in Agricultural Economics from Haramaya University, MSc. degree from Wageningen University, the Netherlands in 1997 in Management of Agricultural Knowledge Systems and PhD from Humboldt University of Berlin in Resource Economics, Germany in 2008. He has been teaching different courses and conducted research on different issues including sustainable land management, customary pastoral land administration, food security and land use systems, climate change and pastoral adaptations, governance of river basins with a focus on institutional arrangements, and natural resource-based conflict.	2017 IRG-Kenee	2017 IRG	Fekadu Beyene Kenee	Kenee	Ethiopia	Fekadu Beyene
Chitukutuku, Edmore	Sessional Lecturer	Department of Anthropology	University of the Witwatersrand	Social Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 IRG 2018 Youth Peacebuilding: Community Engagement in Zimbabwe University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2013 Rebuilding and Reliving memories of Militia Bases of Political violence in Zimbabwe: The search for political legitimacy and the Making of history in post -2000 crisis. University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2015 Rebuilding liberation war militia bases: Reproducing memories of political violence in post-2000 crisis in Zimababwe University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	APN IRG; Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Sessional Lecturer; Part-time Session Lecturer; Teaching Assistant	Anthropology	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2018; 2013; 2015	Dr. Edmore Chitukutuku is currently a sessional lecturer in the Anthropology department at University of Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from University of Witwatersrand (2017), MA in Anthropology from University of Witwatersrand (2013), BA Honors from University of Witwatersrand (2011), and a BSc degree in Social Sciences from Great Zimbabwe University (2007), where he also taught Social Anthropology and Sociology as an Assistant Lecturer (2010). His PhD thesis was titled Rebuilding Liberation War Militia Bases: Reproducing memories of political violence in the post-2000 crisis in Zimbabwe. He also held teaching positions as a sessional lecturer and tutor in the Department of Anthropology at Wits where he taught a course on the Anthropology of Violence (2017), and the International Human Rights Exchange Programme (IHRE) at University of Witwatersrand (2012). His awards and honors include the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Proposal Development Fellowship (2013-2014) and Dissertation Fellowship (2015-16) from the Social Science Research Council; the Wadsworth International Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation (2013-17); the Wits Postgraduate Merit Award 2011 and 2012; the Justice Lucas Award for the best Honors research report in Anthropology at Wits (2011); and the Vice Chancellor’s Book Prizes for academic excellence at the Great Zimbabwe University (2008). He is a life member of the Golden Key International Honor Society. His research interests are on peace and conflict, focusing on military and state-sponsored violence, youth, and economic anthropology. Dr. Chitukutuku recently published “Rebuilding the Liberation War Base: Materiality and landscapes of violence in Northern Zimbabwe” in Journal of East African	2018 IRG-Chitukutuku; 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Chitukutuku; 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Chitukutuku	2018 IRG; 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Edmore Chitukutuku	Chitukutuku	Zimbabwe	Edmore
Suleiman, Samaila	Associate Professor	Department of History	Bayero University	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 IRG 2018 The Perils of Historiography: Another Culture of Violence in Northern Nigeria Bayero University Nigeria 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2012 The Middle Belt in Nigeria: An Alternative Historiography University of Cape Town South Africa 2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2013 The Nigerian History Machine: Institutional Practices and the production of Middle Belt Historical Discourse University of Cape Town South Africa	APN IRG; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Lecturer I; Full-time Lecturer	Department of History; History	Bayero University; University of Cape Town	Nigeria; South Africa	2018; 2012; 2013	Samaila Suleiman is an Associate Professor of Historiography at Bayero University, Kano. He was Deputy Director of Research and Documentation at Mambayya House, the Aminu Kano Center for Democratic Studies, and currently serves as the inaugural Head of Department of Philosophy, Bayero University, kano. He received his PhD in Historical Studies from the University of Cape Town in South Africa in 2015. Samaila is a recipient of several prestigious fellowships: Provostial Visiting Fellow in Black Life and History, McGill University in Canada; Research Fellow at the Yusufu Bala Usman Institute; African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Fellowship of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC); Presidential Fellow African Studies Association/American Council of Learned Societies; Fellow Summer Program in Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Princeton; Postdoctoral Fellow African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learened Socioeties (ACLS); Fellow Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) Brown University USA etc. His research interest lies at the intersection of historiography, conflict and identity. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Rhodes University, published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019 to date.	2018 IRG-Suleiman; 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Suleiman; 2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Suleiman	2018 IRG; 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Samaila Suleiman	Suleiman	Nigeria	Samaila
Mbayo, Alex Sivalie	Lecturer	Department of Peace & Conflict Studies	Fourah Bay College		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 IRG 2018 How Can We Not Matter? People with Disabilities and Political Processes in Sierra Leone Fourah Bay College Sierra Leone	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer	Department of Peace & Conflict Studies	Fourah Bay College	Sierra Leone	2018		2018 IRG-Mbayo	2018 IRG	Alex Sivalie Mbayo	Mbayo	Sierra Leone	Alex Sivalie
Masbah, Mohammed	President		Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 IRG 2018 Deradicalization of Moroccan Jihadis African Institute for Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation Morocco	APN IRG	APN	Fellow		African Institute for Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation	Morocco	2018		2018 IRG-Masbah	2018 IRG	Mohammed Masbah	Masbah	Morocco	Mohammed
Njiru, Roseanne	Lecturer	Sociology, Social Work and African Women Studies	University of Nairobi		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 IRG 2018 Peacebuilding through Health Initiatives: Assessing the Role of Health Workers in Kenya The Catholic University of Eastern Africa Kenya	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer		The Catholic University of Eastern Africa	Kenya	2018	Dr. Roseanne Njiru is a sociologist at the University of Nairobi whose work spans health, gender, human rights, human security, and peace in African contexts, with a particular focus on marginalized rural and urban communities. She is a member of the ARUA Centre of Excellence for Noncommunicable Diseases at the University of Nairobi. Her research examines the intersections of community health work, peacebuilding, and development; HIV; the social dimensions of NCDs and NCD carework, and gender-responsive strategies for preventing informal settlements. A 2018 African Peacebuilding Network (APN–SSRC) Individual Research Fellow, Dr. Njiru’s scholarship highlights how everyday practices of health care and social inclusion can foster peace, equity, and resilience. She draws on African feminism and decolonial approaches to advance health, gender justice, and sustainable peace and development.	2018 IRG-Njiru	2018 IRG	Roseanne Njiru	Njiru	Kenya	Roseanne
Bado, Arsène Brice	President, Director	Law and Political Science	Centre de Recherche et d’Action pour la Paix,Université Jésuite d'Abidjan	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 IRG 2018 Evaluating Practices of Civil Society Organizations in the Prevention of Electoral Violence in Cote d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso Centre de Recherche et d’Action pour la Paix Côte d'Ivoire 2019 BMCG 2019 Peacebuilding through Post-Conflict Elections: An Actor-Centered Approach Centre de Recherche et d’Action pour la Paix Côte d'Ivoire	APN IRG; APN BMCG	APN	Research Associate	Institut de la Dignity et des Droits Humains	Centre de Recherche et d’Action pour la Paix	Côte d'Ivoire	2018; 2019	Arsène Brice Bado is President of the Université Jésuite d'Abidjan (UJA) and Director of Centre de Recherche et d'Action pour la Paix (CERAP) in Côte d'Ivoire. He teaches political science and international relations. Prior to his time at CERAP, Bado was a Southern Voices Network (SVN) Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.. in 2015. He was also a visiting researcher at Yale University during the 2014-2015 academic year, and the 2017-2018 Anna and Donald Waite Endowed Chair at Creighton University in Omaha, USA. His research interests include democracy, ethnic pluralism, conflict analysis, forced migration, electoral processes in conflict-ridden societies, and foreign aid in Africa. His publications have appeared in the Journal of International Migration and Integration, the Journal of Modern African Studies, Mediterranean Politics, Revue Études, Revue Relations, Débats-Courrier d’Afrique de l’Ouest, and La Civiltà Cattolica. In addition, he has contributed chapters to several books; in 2015 he edited a book titled Dynamiques des guerres civiles en Afrique: Une approche holiste, Paris: L’Harmattan. He is the author of Dignity across Borders: Forced Migration and Christian Social Ethics, Denver (Colorado): Outskirts Press, 2010; La citoyenneté mondiale et l’écocitoyenneté dans le context de la crise sanitaire à COVID-19, Abidjan: Editions du CERAP, 2022. He obtained his Ph.D. in political science from Laval University in Canada in 2016.	2018 IRG-Bado; 2019 BMCG-Bado	2018 IRG; 2019 BMCG	Arsène Brice Bado	Bado	Burkina Faso	Arsène Brice
Magoti, Iddy Ramadhani	Senior Lecturer	Department of History	University of Dar es Salaam	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 IRG 2018 The Interface Between Traditional and State Designed Approaches of Conflict Management and Resolutions: An Exploration of the Kuria Community of Kenya and Tanzania, 1900 - 2010s University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania 2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2013 Ethnic Identity and the State: The Dynamics of Intra - and Inter- Ethnic Relations in Mara River Basin, 1900 - 2010 University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2014 Ethnic Identity and the State: Dynamics of Ethnic Relations in the Mara River Basin, 1900 - 2010 University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania	APN IRG; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Lecturer; Assistant Lecturer and PhD Student	Department of History	University of Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	2018; 2013; 2014	Researcher and Academician specializing on Ethnic Identity and Relations, Conflict and conflict resolutions, peace and security studies as well as social and economic history in general.	2018 IRG-Magoti; 2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Magoti; 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Magoti	2018 IRG; 2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Iddy Ramadhani Magoti	Magoti	Tanzania	Iddy Ramadhani
Mwondha, Priscilla	Senior Assistant Secretary		Ministry of Defense and Veteran Affairs		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 IRG 2018 Uganda’s "Niger Delta": The Wails of Women and Children in Oil-Rich Communities of the Albertine Grabben Makerere University Uganda	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer		Makerere University	Uganda	2018	Dr. Priscilla Mwondha holds a PhD in Development Studies from the Institute for Social Development, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. She also holds a Master’s Degree in International Development from the Josef Korbel School of International Affairs, University of Denver, Colorado, USA, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Education from the College of Education, Makerere University, Kampala. She currently serves in the public service of Uganda in the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs. Her research interests include gender studies, women’s empowerment, and development with an emphasis on natural resource exploitation and social construction of gender. Dr. Mwondha’s PhD dissertation was titled “Towards Bringing the “Gender Digital Divide” in Uganda: A Study of University to Work Transition Patterns among ICT Graduates” (2018).	2018 IRG-Mwondha	2018 IRG	Priscilla Mwondha	Mwondha	Uganda	Priscilla
Ajayi, Titilope Folarin	Independent Researcher and Practitioner		Independent	International Affairs	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 IRG 2018 (En)Countering Terror: Women’s Experiences, Activism and Responses to Nigeria’s Boko Haram Crisis University of Ghana Ghana 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2017 EMBEDDING CONFLAGRATION: LARGE-SCALE LAND ACQUISITION, WOMEN'S LAND RIGHTS AND FARMERS-HERDERS CONFLICT IN NORTH-CENTRAL NIGERIA University of Ghana Ghana 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2019 Through African Eyes: 'Bring Back Our Girls' and the Politics of New Transnational Activism in Violent Contexts University of Ghana Ghana	APN IRG; Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Research Associate; Ph.D. Candidate	Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD)	University of Ghana	Ghana	2018; 2017; 2019	Titilope F. Ajayi is a feminist with a deep passion for empowering women that drives her work as a pracademic and independent consultant. With specialisms in gender, conflict, peace and security, and social movements, her recent work covers women and violent extremism in Africa and new dimensions of transnational activism. Titilope has held research positions in several regional and international NGOs, including International Crisis Group (ICG) and consulted for UN Women, the Open Government Partnership, the African Security Sector Network, GIZ and other international organizations. She is a three-time SSRC fellow, having received the 2017 Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship, the 2019 Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, and a 2018 African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Individual Research Grant. She founded and co-runs with Dr. Zibah Nwako, Doing A PhD in Africa - a support network of early career scholars on the continent.	2018 IRG-Ajayi; 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ajayi; 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Ajayi	2018 IRG; 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Titilope Folarin Ajayi	Ajayi	Nigeria	Titilope Folarin
Kefale, Asnake	Associate Professor	Department of Political Science and International Relations	Addis Ababa University	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 IRG 2018 Ethno-Federalist State Building and Political Stability: Reexamining the Ethiopian Experiment after 25 years Addis Ababa University Ethiopia	APN IRG	APN	Assistant Professor	Department of Political Science and International Relations	Addis Ababa University	Ethiopia	2018	Dr. Asnake Kefale holds a PhD in Political Science from Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is Associate Professor of Political Science at Addis Ababa University. His research interests include federalism, migration, and political economy, focusing on Ethiopia’s complex governance structures. He is the author of Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Ethiopia (Routledge), a widely cited seminal work that examines the consequences of ethnic federalism through detailed regional case studies. He has also published numerous articles and book chapters on decentralization, conflict management, and urban governance. He is co-editor of Youth on the Move: Views from Below on Ethiopian International Migration (Hurst, 2021). In addition to teaching and research, Dr. Kefale consults for local and international organizations on policy issues and development. He was a recipient of a Social Science Research Council (SSRC)–African Peace Network (APN) Individual Research Grant (IRG) in 2018.	2018 IRG-Kefale	2018 IRG	Asnake Kefale	Kefale	Ethiopia	Asnake
Mphambukeli, Thulisile	Senior Lecturer	Department of Urban and Regional Planning	University of the Free State	Urban Planning,Regional Planning	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 IRG 2018 Mapping the Shifting (Human) Securityscape of Immigrant Informal Settlers’ in Mangaung in the Post-Apartheid South African Urbanscape University of the Free State South Africa	APN IRG	APN	Senior Lecturer	Department of Urban and Regional Planning	University of the Free State	South Africa	2018		2018 IRG-Mphambukeli	2018 IRG	Thulisile Mphambukeli	Mphambukeli	South Africa	Thulisile
Musundi, Sela Muyoka	Researcher and Consultant		Independent		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 IRG 2018 How Young Rwandans Born Out of Genocide Rape Construct Selfhood Centre for the Study of Adolescence Rwanda	APN IRG	APN		Department of Literature, Languages & Linguistics	Centre for the Study of Adolescence	Rwanda	2018		2018 IRG-Musundi	2018 IRG	Sela Muyoka Musundi	Musundi	Kenya	Sela Muyoka
Owoeye, Taiwo	Senior Lecturer and Acting Head of Department	Economics	Ekiti State University	Economics	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 IRG 2018 Confronting the Omo Onile Menace in Lagos Nigeria: The Conflicts and The Remedies Ekiti State University Nigeria	APN IRG	APN	Senior Lecturer and Acting Head of Department	Department of Economics	Ekiti State University	Nigeria	2018		2018 IRG-Owoeye	2018 IRG	Taiwo Owoeye	Owoeye	Nigeria	Taiwo
Christelle, Amina Djouldé	Senior Lecturer	Department of History	University of Ngaoundéré	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 IRG 2018 An African Tree of Peace: The "Soré tree," Politics, Women, and Peacebuilding among Gbaya Community in Cameroon and Central African Republic University of Ngaoundéré Cameroon	APN IRG	APN	Senior Lecturer	Department of History	University of Ngaoundéré	Cameroon	2018	Amina Djouldé Christelle, Ph.D, is a senior lecturer at the Department of History of the University of Ngaoundéré-Cameroon. Recently appointed Director of Innovation Promotion and Support Division at the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation of Cameroon, she was previously Director of Scientific and Technical Cooperation Division at the same ministry. Based on the findings of her research, she also led multi-country Women Peace and Security (WPS) consultations for NGOs, local associations, African governments, and Universities. Her professional experience in governance leads her to be actively engaged in science and innovation policy discussions. She provides her technical expertise on science and innovation governance across countries in Africa. Her research interests focus on political cartoons, African politics, visual studies, and African women’s endogenous knowledge, gender-related imageries, and women'srepresentation. At the department, she teaches: History and pictures, Oral History, Endogenous Peacebuilding and Science Diplomacy.	2018 IRG-Christelle	2018 IRG	Amina Djouldé Christelle	Christelle	Cameroon	Amina Djouldé
Chitando, Anna	Associate Professor	Department of Languages and Literature	Zimbabwe Open University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 IRG 2018 From Victims to the Vaunted: Young Women and Peace Building in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Open University Zimbabwe	APN IRG	APN	Associate Professor	Department of Languages and Literature	Zimbabwe Open University	Zimbabwe	2018	Anna Chitando (PhD) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Literature, Zimbabwe Open University. Anna holds a Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in English, University of South Africa (2011). Her research interests include women and peacebuilding, gender studies, African literature and children's literature. Anna received the Nordic Africa Institute research grant under its Research Programme on Post Conflict Transition, the State and Civil Society in Africa (2007). In 2008, she was awarded a research grant by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), under the Multinational Working Group on Youth and Identity in Africa. She is a grantee of the African Peacebuilding Network Individual Research Grant (2018). Anna is the editor of the book, Women and Peacebuilding in Africa, published by Routledge in 2021. Anna is the lead editor of the co-edited Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Women in Africa, published in 2025.	2018 IRG-Chitando	2018 IRG	Anna Chitando	Chitando	Zimbabwe	Anna
Omotola, Jeremiah Shola	Professor, former Deputy Vice-Chancellor		Federal University	Comparative African Governance,Politics	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018-20 CWG (Group A) 2018-2020 Herders-Farmers Conflicts in Africa: Historical Trajectories, “New” Issues, Responses and Lessons for Peacebuilding Federal University Nigeria	APN CWG	APN	Professor	Department of Political Science	Federal University	Nigeria	2018-2020		2018-20 CWG (Group A)-Omotola	2018-20 CWG (Group A)	Jeremiah Shola Omotola	Omotola	Nigeria	Jeremiah Shola
Bontogho, Patricia	Associate Professor in Hydrology/Hydrogeology	High Institute of Sustainable Development	University of Fada N'Gourma		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018-20 CWG (Group A) 2018-2020 Herders-Farmers Conflicts in Africa: Historical Trajectories, “New” Issues, Responses and Lessons for Peacebuilding University of Fada N'Gourma Burkina Faso	APN CWG	APN	Assistant Professor		University of Fada N'Gourma	Burkina Faso	2018-2020	I obtained my PhD in Climate change and Water resources from the University of Abomey Calavy Benin. I am currently an associate professor of Environment at the University of Fada N’ Gourma. I did my Master in Integrated Water Resource Management (2iE). My primary research interests are in Modelling water allocation under human pressure and climate change. My other research interests include climate smart agricultures practices and risks /opportunities of wetlands face to climate change, drought and flood. I had 15 publications in refereed journals.	2018-20 CWG (Group A)-Bontogho	2018-20 CWG (Group A)	Patricia Bontogho	Bontogho	Burkina Faso	Patricia
Camara, Nyimasata	Lecturer	Political Science	University of The Gambia		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018-20 CWG (Group B) 2018-2020 From "No War, No Peace" to Peacebuilding in Casamance University of The Gambia Gambia (the)	APN CWG	APN			University of The Gambia	Gambia (the)	2018-2020		2018-20 CWG (Group B)-Camara	2018-20 CWG (Group B)	Nyimasata Camara	Camara	Gambia (the)	Nyimasata
Yassine, Rachid Id	Senior Lecturer		Gaston Berger University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018-20 CWG (Group B) 2018-2020 From "No War, No Peace" to Peacebuilding in Casamance Gaston Berger University Senegal	APN CWG	APN	Senior Lecturer		Gaston Berger University	Senegal	2018-2020		2018-20 CWG (Group B)-Yassine	2018-20 CWG (Group B)	Rachid Id Yassine	Yassine	Morocco	Rachid Id
Jaw, Sait Matty	Executive Director, National Investigator; Lecturer	N/A; Political Science Department	"Center for Research and Policy Development, Afrobarometer, University of The Gambia",University of The Gambia		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018-20 CWG (Group B) 2018-2020 From "No War, No Peace" to Peacebuilding in Casamance University of The Gambia Gambia (the)	APN CWG	APN	Assistant Lecturer and Researcher	Department of Political Science	University of The Gambia	Gambia (the)	2018-2020	Sait Matty Jaw is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Research and Policy Development (CRPD) in The Gambia and a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of The Gambia. He is a social justice advocate and scholar with over fifteen years of experience in governance, peacebuilding, and human rights. He holds MAs in Public Administration from the University of Bergen and in African History from The University of The Gambia. Sait has led the Afrobarometer Survey in The Gambia since 2018 and has contributed to major reforms, including the drafting of the National Transitional Justice Strategy. He has consulted for UNDP, the World Bank, combining policy analysis with grassroots engagement. His research has appeared in International Peacekeeping, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, and the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. An Associate Fellow at PRIF, he is committed to advancing democratic governance and inclusive peacebuilding across Africa.	2018-20 CWG (Group B)-Jaw	2018-20 CWG (Group B)	Sait Matty Jaw	Jaw	Gambia (the)	Sait Matty
Bassene, Pape Cherif Bertrand	Associate Lecturer	Department of History	University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018-20 CWG (Group B) 2018-2020 From "No War, No Peace" to Peacebuilding in Casamance Universidade Lusófona da Guiné Guinea-Bissau	APN CWG	APN			Universidade Lusófona da Guiné	Guinea-Bissau	2018-2020		2018-20 CWG (Group B)-Bassene	2018-20 CWG (Group B)	Pape Cherif Bertrand Bassene	Bassene	Senegal	Pape Cherif Bertrand
Tavares, Eugene	Senior Lecturer and researcher		Assane Seck University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018-20 CWG (Group B) 2018-2020 From "No War, No Peace" to Peacebuilding in Casamance Assane Seck University Senegal	APN CWG	APN	Senior Lecturer and researcher		Assane Seck University	Senegal	2018-2020		2018-20 CWG (Group B)-Tavares	2018-20 CWG (Group B)	Eugene Tavares	Tavares	Guinea-Bissau	Eugene
Goudiaby, Jean Alain	Teacher-Researcher	Sociology	Assane Seck University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018-20 CWG (Group B) 2018-2020 From "No War, No Peace" to Peacebuilding in Casamance Assane Seck University Senegal	APN CWG	APN	Teacher-Researcher		Assane Seck University	Senegal	2018-2020	Jean Alain GOUDIABY est sociologue. Il est enseignant-chercheur à l’Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor (Sénégal) et travaille essentiellement sur les politiques éducatives, la gouvernance universitaire, les mobilités académiques, les dynamiques de production de la recherche. Ses activités s’inscrivent dans une réflexion globale sur la dynamique de construction des systèmes dans un contexte de fortes contraintes. Il est le responsable scientifique de l’Institut Éducation, Famille, Santé et Genre de l’Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor. A ce titre, il coordonne et participe à plusieurs recherches sur l’éducation.	2018-20 CWG (Group B)-Goudiaby	2018-20 CWG (Group B)	Jean Alain Goudiaby	Goudiaby	Guinea-Bissau	Jean Alain
Ba, Mame-Penda	deputy dean of the Faculty of Law and Political science and professor of political science		Gaston Berger University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018-20 CWG (Group B) 2018-2020 From "No War, No Peace" to Peacebuilding in Casamance Gaston Berger University Senegal	APN CWG	APN	Professor (Scientific Director of the PhD program on Political Science. She also heads the Research Laboratory on Societies and Powers Africa/Diaspora (LASPAD))	UFR de Sciences Agronomiques, d’Aquaculture et de Technologies Alimentaires (Training and Research Unit For Agronomy, Aquaculture and Food Technology)	Gaston Berger University	Senegal	2018-2020		2018-20 CWG (Group B)-Ba	2018-20 CWG (Group B)	Mame-Penda Ba	Ba	Senegal	Mame-Penda
Hmimnat, Salim	Professor	Political Science	Mohammed V University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 IRG 2019 “Religious-Based Cooperation as a Tool for Sustainable Peacebuilding in Africa: Insights from the Moroccan Experience” Mohammed V University Morocco	APN IRG	APN	Professor-Researcher	Institute of African Studies	Mohammed V University	Morocco	2019	Salim Hmimnat holds a Ph.D. in political science from Mohammed V University in Rabat. He has been working since 2012 as a research fellow and professor of political sciences at the same university. His research interests focus on understanding the complex intersections between the state religious policies, Islamist movements, and the modernization process in contemporary Morocco. His interests also include exploring Morocco’s spiritual influence across Africa. He is the author of “The Religious Policy in Morocco (1984-2002): State Fundamentalism and Challenges of Authoritarian Modernisation” [in Arabic] (Afrique Orient, 2018). He has also authored several scholarly articles, book chapters, and policy papers published in refereed academic journals and by think tanks.	2019 IRG-Hmimnat	2019 IRG	Salim Hmimnat	Hmimnat	Morocco	Salim
Sseremba, Yahya	Research Fellow	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 IRG 2019 The Making of "Ethnic Patriots" and Its Implication on Ethnic Violence in Western Uganda Makerere University Uganda 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2016 BEYOND CLASS AND ETHNICITY: A Genealogical study of the social violence in the Rwenzori Region of Uganda Makerere University Uganda 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2017 A historical and political inquiry into the political violence in the Rwenzori area of western Uganda Makerere University Uganda 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2018 A historical and political inquiry into the political violence in the Rwenzori area of Uganda Makerere University Uganda 2020 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2020 Ethnic emancipation and the escalation of ethnic conflicts in Uganda Makerere University Uganda	APN IRG; Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship; Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Posr-Doctoral Research Fellow; Tutor; Junior Research Fellow; Post-Doctoral Research Fellow	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Uganda	2019; 2016; 2017; 2018; 2020	Yahya Sseremba is research fellow at Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University. His research is interdisciplinary, with special interest in political thought (colonial, postcolonial and decolonial thoughts), political identity (racial, ethnic, religious and gendered political identities), and political violence. His latest book is America and the Production of Islamic Truth in Uganda.	2019 IRG-Sseremba; 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Sseremba; 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Sseremba; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Sseremba; 2020 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship-Sseremba	2019 IRG; 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship; 2020 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Yahya Sseremba	Sseremba	Uganda	Yahya
Van Riet, Gideon	Associate Professor	Political Studies and International Relations	North-West University	Political Science,International Relations	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 IRG 2019 Transitional injustice: The spatial politics of crime in contemporary South Africa North-West University South Africa	APN IRG	APN	Senior Lecturer	Political Studies and International Relations	North-West University	South Africa	2019		2019 IRG-Van Riet	2019 IRG	Gideon Van Riet	Van Riet	South Africa	Gideon
Ahmed, Abubakari	Senior Lecturer	Department of Planning	University for Development Studies	Development Studies,Sustainability Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 IRG 2019 The Political Ecology of Cattle Ranching for Farmer-Herder Water-Land Conflicts in the Semi-Arid Regions of Ghana University for Development Studies Ghana	APN IRG	APN	Postdoctoral Fellow	Department of Planning	University for Development Studies	Ghana	2019		2019 IRG-Ahmed	2019 IRG	Abubakari Ahmed	Ahmed	Ghana	Abubakari
Onyido, Onyinyechukwu	Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow; Co-Director	Department of International Politics; Centre for the International Politics of Knowledge	Aberystwyth University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 IRG 2019 Experiences and Coping Mechanisms of Women in Post-Conflict Niger Delta Communities: An Intersectional Approach University of Port Harcourt Nigeria	APN IRG	APN	Senior Lecturer	Centre for Conflict and Gender Studies	University of Port Harcourt	Nigeria	2019	Dr. Onyinyechukwu Durueke is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, where she also serves as Co-Director of the Centre for the International Politics of Knowledge. Her research sits at the intersection of Gender, Peace and Security, with her current project examining the gendered impact of the Boko Haram counterinsurgency in Nigeria. She earned her PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Ibadan in 2015. Dr. Durueke has previously held prestigious fellowships, including as a Norbert Elias Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Germany and as a Cadbury Fellow at the University of Birmingham’s Centre for West African Studies (now the School of History and Cultures). She has been awarded multiple international research grants, which have supported her extensive fieldwork and contributions to advancing scholarship on Gender, Peace and Security.	2019 IRG-Onyido	2019 IRG	Onyinyechukwu Onyido	Onyido	Nigeria	Onyinyechukwu
Mwatwara, Wesley	Assistant Professor	Department of Art & Culture, History, and Antiquity	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 IRG 2019 On border securities and insecurities: RENAMO violence and everyday life in Honde Valley, 1980s-2016 University of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe	APN IRG	APN	Senior Lecturer	Economic History	University of Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	2019	Dr Wesley Mwatwara is an Assistant Professor of Global History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with over 15 years qualitative research and university teaching experience. He holds a PhD (History) from Stellenbosch University in South Africa. His areas of research interest are socio-environmental history, governance, urban spatial struggles, politics, mobile telephony, and social movements. Some of his articles appear in reputable peer-reviewed journals such as the South African Historical Journal, Journal of Southern African Studies, Kronos, Global Environment, Historia, and Environment and History.	2019 IRG-Mwatwara	2019 IRG	Wesley Mwatwara	Mwatwara	Zimbabwe	Wesley
Kagoyire, Marie Grace Gasinzigwa	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of Psychology	Stellenbosch University	Psychology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 IRG 2019 Intergenerational transmission of trauma in Rwanda: The 1994 Genocide legacies and its impacts on reconciliation among the second generation DUMURIZANYE IWACU Rwanda Rwanda 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2021 Construction of Genocide memories: Narratives of Second generation Rwandans Stellenbosch University South Africa	APN IRG; Next Gen Research Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Participatory Action Researcher; Ph.D. Student		DUMURIZANYE IWACU Rwanda; Stellenbosch University	Rwanda; South Africa	2019; 2021	Marie Grace Kagoyire Gasinzigwa is a Ph.D. candidate in the faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Psychology at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Her work experiences centred on mental health and psychosocial support in post conflict society. Her research interest focuses on understanding how young Rwandans descending of genocide perpetrators and survivors make sense of the traumatic past and envision their future role in making the genocide never again a reality. The effects of genocide among women survivors of rape, intergenerational legacies of the genocide, and intersection between intergenerational trauma and reconciliation among second-generation in Rwanda are among some of her publications. She is a Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding Scholar for the Fall 2023 term in Washington, DC.	2019 IRG-Ehrhard; 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Kagoyire	2019 IRG; 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Marie Grace Gasinzigwa Kagoyire	Kagoyire	Rwanda	Marie Grace Gasinzigwa
Bakhit, Mohamed Abdelbagi Gismalla	Associate Professor	Sociology and Social Anthropology	University of Khartoum		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 IRG 2019 South Sudanese Refugees in Sudan Border: community citizenship and refugee systems University of Khartoum Sudan (the)	APN IRG	APN	Head of Department	Sociology and Social Anthropology	University of Khartoum	Sudan (the)	2019		2019 IRG-Bakhit	2019 IRG	Mohamed Abdelbagi Gismalla Bakhit	Bakhit	Sudan (the)	Mohamed Abdelbagi Gismalla
Ahmed, Umar				Critical Discourse Analysis	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 IRG 2019 Countering Islamic Fundamentalism in Northern Nigeria Through Regulating Language of Sermons: A Discourse Analytical Approach Usmanu Danfodiyo University Nigeria	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer		Usmanu Danfodiyo University	Nigeria	2019		2019 IRG-Ahmed	2019 IRG	Umar Ahmed	Ahmed	Nigeria	Umar
Bello, Baba Mai	Professor	Department of Languages and Linguistics	University of Maiduguri	Linguistics	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 IRG 2019 Language as a Tool for Countering Violent Extremism: Mobilisation Against the Boko Haram Insurgency University of Maiduguri Nigeria	APN IRG	APN	Reader	Department of Political Science	University of Maiduguri	Nigeria	2019		2019 IRG-Bello	2019 IRG	Baba Mai Bello	Bello	Nigeria	Baba Mai
Kyei, Justice Richard Kwabena Owusu	Lecturer	Department of Sociology	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 IRG 2019 Institutionalization of Political Vigilantism in Ghana’s Democratic Governance: Conflict, Violence and Peacebuilding Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology South Africa	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer	Department of Sociology	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology	South Africa	2019		2019 IRG-Kyei	2019 IRG	Justice Richard Kwabena Owusu Kyei	Kyei	Ghana	Justice Richard Kwabena Owusu
Naiga, Resty	Senior Lecturer	Department of Development Studies	Makerere University	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 IRG 2019 Exploring Conflicts and unity under Community-Based Water Management in Rural Uganda Makerere University Uganda	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer	Department of Development Studies	Makerere University	Uganda	2019	Resty Naiga is a Senior Lecturer and the current Chair and Head of the Department of Development Studies at Makerere University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences	2019 IRG-Naiga	2019 IRG	Resty Naiga	Naiga	Uganda	Resty
Hamasi, Linnet	Senior Lecturer	Liberal Development and International Studies	Technical University of Kenya		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 IRG 2019 Women, Peace and Security in Northern Kenya: Investigating the Implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and its Policy Implications Kenyatta University Kenya	APN IRG	APN	Lecturer	CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS	Kenyatta University	Kenya	2019	Dr. Linnet Hamasi is a Lecturer and Dean of Students at the Technical University of Kenya.	2019 IRG-Hamasi	2019 IRG	Linnet Hamasi	Hamasi	Kenya	Linnet
Dery, Isaac	Senior Lecturer	Institute for Gender and Development Studies	University of the West Indies	Gender Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 IRG 2019 Building Peaceful Masculinities: Challenges to Men’s Violence in Africa University of South Africa South Africa 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2016 Ghanaian men and the performance of masculinity: negotiating gender-based violence in postcolonial Ghana University of Cape Town South Africa	APN IRG; Next Gen Research Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Post Doctoral Fellow; Part-time Lecturer	Violence, Injuries and Peace Research Unit; Education	University of South Africa; University of Cape Town	South Africa	2019; 2016	Isaac Dery is a Senior Lecturer and gender consultant at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS), The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus Unit. Isaac’s research examines critical understanding of dominant notions and vocabularies of masculinities and femininities in Ghana as critical zones for complex negotiations, struggles, violence, control and resistance, and power politics from a postcolonial and feminist perspective. His research is deeply rooted in critical debates on negotiations of masculinities as acutely attuned to rapid changes in opportunities for women to access the labor market, and as simultaneously bound to homosocially critical measures of masculine status, intimate violence, and notions of social respectability.	2019 IRG-Dery; 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Dery	2019 IRG; 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Isaac Dery	Dery	Ghana	Isaac
Wamai, Njoki	Assistant Professor		United States International University Africa	Political Science,International Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 IRG 2019 Redefining Justice, Security and Citizenship after the International Criminal Court(ICC) Intervention in Kenya United States International University Africa Kenya	APN IRG	APN	Assistant Professor	International Relations Department	United States International University Africa	Kenya	2019		2019 IRG-Wamai	2019 IRG	Njoki Wamai	Wamai	Kenya	Njoki
Ogbonnaya, Ufiem Maurice	Senior Fellow I	Directorate of Research	National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 IRF 2020 Dominant and Emerging Narratives in the Farmers-Herders' Conflict in Nigeria's Middle Belt Region: Implications for Peacebuilding National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies Nigeria	APN IRF	APN	Senior Fellow (III)	Defense, Security and Strategic Studies, Directorate of Research	National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies	Nigeria	2020	Maurice Ogbonnaya is a Senior Fellow at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies in Kuru, Nigeria. He is the recipient of a 2020 African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Individual Research Fellowship award. He previously worked as a Security and Policy Analyst at the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), National Assembly, Abuja, Nigeria. He is a Laureate of VII South-South Institute co-organized in 2014 by the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs), Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), and the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) in Bangkok, Thailand. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Uyo, Nigeria. His extensive research outputs in security and strategic studies, conflict management, and legislative practice have appeared in reputable scholarly outlets. He has also served as a consultant to the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), South Africa; Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF); and Small Arms Survey (SAS), Geneva.	2020 IRF-Ogbonnaya	2020 IRF	Ufiem Maurice Ogbonnaya	Ogbonnaya	Nigeria	Ufiem Maurice
Assen, Mohammed	Assistant Professor	College of Law and Governance Studies	Addis Ababa University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 IRF 2020 Countering the Threat of Violence Extremism in Ethiopia: Lessons to be learnt Addis Ababa University Ethiopia	APN IRF	APN	Assistant Professor	College of Law and Governance Studies	Addis Ababa University	Ethiopia	2020		2020 IRF-Assen	2020 IRF	Mohammed Assen	Assen	Ethiopia	Mohammed
Niang, Ibrahima	Assistant Lecturer	Department of Sociology, International Relations, and Development	University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar	Sociology,Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 IRF 2020 Gender Approach to Conflict Resolution in Casamance: The Case of the Women's Platform for Peace in Casamance University of Cheikh Anta Diop Senegal	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer and Researcher	Department of Sociology, International Relations, and Development	University of Cheikh Anta Diop	Senegal	2020	Ibrahima Niang holds a PhD in Sociology from Cheikh Anta Diop University (Dakar, Senegal). He is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Sociology and his teaching focuses on economic sociology, African sociology and anthropology, social mutations and prospective, gender studies, and China geopolitics in Africa. In the fall of 2023, he was a visiting research fellow at Leibniz Moderner Zentrum- Humboldt University. He has extensively visited China and was engaged in the Africa-China program at CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa) and the School of Agriculture and Rural Development of the People’s University of China. He holds a Certificate in Economic Development from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Ibrahima Niang is the author/co-author of numerous scientific articles and reports on youth, development issues and migration, gender and conflicts,. He was a Fellow at the Edinburgh African Studies Center, UK, and holds an individual research fellowship from the Africa Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC). He was Post-Doctoral Research Fellow for HUMA/LASPAD OSF for the West, Central and Francophone African regional block at the University of Cape Town, Institute of Humanities (Knowledge activism – strengthening African publishing and dissemination – Open Society Foundations).	2020 IRF-Niang	2020 IRF	Ibrahima Niang	Niang	Senegal	Ibrahima
Loumtouang, Erick Sourna	Senior Research Officer		National Center of Education		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 IRF 2020 Governing bodies in the Lake Chad Basin: control, repression and restrictions on mobility in the era of the fight against terrorism Centre National d’Éducation Cameroon	APN IRF	APN	Senior Research Officer	Centre National d'Education / National Education Center	Centre National d’Éducation	Cameroon	2020	Erick Sourna Loumtouang is currently senior research officer at the National Center of Education, a research institution under the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation in Yaounde (Cameroon). He holds a PhD of The University of Ngaoundere in History of international relations. His research interests include the political history of Cameroon, borders and security issues, development of border regions in Africa.	2020 IRF-Loumtouang	2020 IRF	Erick Sourna Loumtouang	Loumtouang	Cameroon	Erick Sourna
Emeka-Nwobia, Ngozi Ugo	Professor	Department of Languages and Linguistics	Ebonyi State University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 IRF 2020 The Silent Voices of Peace: Unveiling the Role of Umuada in Conflict Management and Peacebuilding in Igboland, Nigeria Ebonyi State University Nigeria 2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2013 A Pragmatic Analysis of the Perlocutionary Force in Nigerian Former President Olusegun Obasanjo's Political Speeches Ebonyi State University Nigeria 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2014 A Pragmatic Analysis of Selected Political Speeches of Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo Ebonyi State University Nigeria	APN IRF; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Senior Lecturer; Faculty; Lecturer	Department of Languages and Linguistics	Ebonyi State University	Nigeria	2020; 2013; 2014	Ngozi Ugo Emeka-Nwobia is Professor of Sociolinguistics at Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria. She completed her tenure as the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ebonyi State University, in March, 2025. She is a recipient of the Social Science Research Council’s Next Generation Social Sciences Research in Africa 2013 Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship Award; 2014 Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award. In 2015, she received the Carnegie Corporation of New York Scholar (CCNY), Carnegie Scholar Award in San Diego, California, USA; 2016 recipient of the Postdoctoral Fellowship of the American Council of Learned Societies’ (ACLS’s) African Humanities Program and the 2020 African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Individual Research Fellowship Award. She has also received collaborative research grants from the Nagel Institute of Calvin College, Michigan, USA, for 2018-2020 and 2021-2024. She served as the Southeast regional consultant of the Nigerian Women Trust Fund in a project funded by the Ford Foundation in 2023-2024, and currently the Lead consultant on baseline survey of a radio drama funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office ( UK - FCDO). Her teaching, research, and consultancy activities focus on how language reflects and shapes social dynamics, particularly in women, peacebuilding, religious, political, ecological, and cultural preservation.	2020 IRF-Emeka-Nwobia; 2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Emeka-Nwobia; 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Emeka-Nwobia	2020 IRF; 2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Ngozi Ugo Emeka-Nwobia	Emeka-Nwobia	Nigeria	Ngozi Ugo
Manamere, Kundai	Postdoctoral Research Fellow		The University of the Free State		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 IRF 2020 A Deadly Tripartite - Civil War, Drought and Diseases: Narratives of Mozambican Refugees and Host Communities Experiences at Chambuta Camp, Southeastern Zimbabwe, 1988 to 1992 University of the Free State South Africa	APN IRF	APN	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	International Studies Group	University of the Free State	South Africa	2020		2020 IRF-Manamere	2020 IRF	Kundai Manamere	Manamere	South Africa	Kundai
Temesgen, Beyan Tesfamariam	Assistant Professor		Adi-keih College of Business and Social Sciences		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 IRF 2020 UN Sanction, Statehood and Peacebuilding in the Horn of Africa: The case of Eritrea 2009-2018 Adi-keih College of Business and Social Sciences Eritrea	APN IRF	APN	Assistant Professor	School of Social Sciences	Adi-keih College of Business and Social Sciences	Eritrea	2020		2020 IRF-Temesgen	2020 IRF	Beyan Tesfamariam Temesgen	Temesgen	Eritrea	Beyan Tesfamariam
Issaka-Toure, Fulera	Senior Lecturer	Department for the Study of Religions	University of Ghana		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 IRF 2020 A Path to Justice? Islamic Family Law and Gender in Secular Courts in Accra, Ghana University of Ghana Ghana	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	Department for the Study of Religions	University of Ghana	Ghana	2020	Fulera Issaka-Toure has PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Bayreuth, Germany. She is currently holding a Senior Lecturer position in the Department for the Study of Religions, University of Ghana, Legon. She has also held a one-year Lecturer position in the Department of Islamic Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany, a visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno, and an Erasmus+ visiting scholar at the University of Ankara, Turkey. Apart from the APN fellowship, she has held other prestigious research fellowships.	2020 IRF-Issaka-Toure	2020 IRF	Fulera Issaka-Toure	Issaka-Toure	Ghana	Fulera
Komujuni, Sophie	Senior Lecturer	Social Sciences	Mountains of the Moon University	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 IRF 2020 Strategies for Peace-building: Navigating the 'post conflict-post donor' political arena Uganda Martyrs University Uganda	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	School of Arts and Social Sciences	Uganda Martyrs University	Uganda	2020	Dr. Sophie Komujuni is a senior lecturer, in the department social sciences at Mountains of the Moon University, Uganda. Her research focuses on post conflict societies and production of authority with particular interest in, humanitarianism, violent extremism and refugees and migration. She earned her PhD in political Science from Ghent University in 2019 and hold a Masters in International Law and Human Rights from The University for Peace, Costa Rica. Sophie has published her work in peer reviewed journals and has presented her works at several international conferences. Sophie has been involved in consultancy work with a couple of organisations and has thus produced reports and policy briefs. She teaches several courses including International Humanitarian Law, Human rights, political science etc. Dr. Sophie headed the department of Humanities 2022-2023 and the department of social Sciences, 2023-2024.	2020 IRF-Komujuni	2020 IRF	Sophie Komujuni	Komujuni	Uganda	Sophie
Onwukwe, Chimaobi	Associate Professor, Visiting Assistant Professor ; Affiliate Researcher	Department of Linguistics and Communication Studies/Igbo	Abia State University,University of Oulu	Linguistics	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 IRF 2020 Responding to Xenophobic violence in South Africa: Identity negotiations and language practices of Nigerian Immigrants Abia State University Nigeria	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	Department of Linguistics and Communication Studies	Abia State University	Nigeria	2020	Dr. Chimaobi Onwukwe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Communication Studies/Igbo of the Abia State University, Uturu, Abia State, Nigeria. He obtained a PhD in Linguistics in 2015 at the Abia State University, Nigeria, and the thesis was on the interface of Morphology and Phonology in Ibeme-Igbo. He was a research fellow, at the Institute for French Research in Africa (IFRA) 2020, and a Postdoctoral fellow at, the South African Research Chair Initiative (SARCHi) on migration, language, and social change, Linguistics section, University of Cape Town, South Africa (2019-2021), as well as a research fellow at the Leeds Center for African studies, University of Leeds, 2022. Dr Onwukwe was a Carnegie Corporation of New York fellow in 2021 and a 2020 recipient of the research grant of the African Peacebuilding Network of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York, USA. He was a visiting researcher at the Migration Institute of Finland (May-April 2023) and a visiting scholar at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland (May-June 2022). He taught “Colonialism, Migration and Decolonization: Perspectives on African Languages and Cultures” as part of the University of Oulu’s HS-DP doctoral courses 2025 and doubled as a Visiting researcher at the Biodiverse Anthropocene Research program of the University of Oulu, Finland. His research interests are structural linguistics, sociolinguistics of migration, media, and critical cultural studies.	2020 IRF-Onwukwe	2020 IRF	Chimaobi Onwukwe	Onwukwe	Nigeria	Chimaobi
Kabyemela, Julieth Timoth	Lecturer	Department of Arts and Media Studies	University of Dodoma	Media Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 IRF 2020 Peace Building Between Farmers and Pastoralists in Kilosa, Tanzania: Theatre for Development as an Alternative Tool University of Dodoma Tanzania	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	Department of Arts and Media Studies	University of Dodoma	Tanzania	2020		2020 IRF-Kabyemela	2020 IRF	Julieth Timoth Kabyemela	Kabyemela	Tanzania	Julieth Timoth
Mengstie, Missaye Mulatie	Director	Research Affairs Directorate	University of Gondar	Social Psychology,Psychology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 IRF 2020 Promoting Tolerance and Peace through Indigenous Conflict Resolution Mechanism in Benshangul-Gumuz Regional State, Ethiopia University of Gondar Ethiopia	APN IRF	APN	Assistant Professor	Psychology	University of Gondar	Ethiopia	2020	Dr. Missaye Mulatie Mengstie is an associate professor of social psychology at the Department of Psychology in the University of Gondar. Dr. Mengistie engages in teaching, research and community service in the University. Besides, he is the Research and Publication Director of University of Gondar. He published more than 15 articles.	2020 IRF-Mengstie	2020 IRF	Missaye Mulatie Mengstie	Mengstie	Ethiopia	Missaye Mulatie
Ani, Ndubuisi Christian	Senior Researcher and Project Cordinator		Institute for Security Studies		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 IRF 2020 Reforming the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA): Towards a Division of Labor between the African Union and Sub-regional arrangements Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre Ghana 2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2014 The African Union’s Role in providing African Solution to African Conflicts University of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa	APN IRF; Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Senior Regional Advisor; Tutor	School of Social Sciences	Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre; University of KwaZulu-Natal	Ghana; South Africa	2020; 2014		2020 IRF-Ani; 2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ani	2020 IRF; 2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Ndubuisi Christian Ani	Ani	Nigeria	Ndubuisi Christian
Kanazayire, Clementine	Full Professor and Head of Research	Department of Mental Health	University of Rwanda	Social Psychology,Psychology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 IRF 2020 Validating a tool for assessing the risk of Intimate Partner Homicide (IPH) among couples in abusive relations University of Rwanda Rwanda	APN IRF	APN	Senior Lecturer	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	University of Rwanda	Rwanda	2020	Kanazayire Clémentine is a Full Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Rwanda, specializing peacebuilding, reconciliation in the aftermath of genocide and mass violence, collective memory, intergroup relations, social identity, Gender Based Violence and Mental Health. She earned her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from University Libre de Bruxelles in 2016 with her doctoral dissertation focusing on ‘’Commemoration of the genocide against the Tutsi, identity, and reconciliation: How does identification with the Rwandan nation improve intergroup attitudes?). This thesis confirmed that the ""I am Rwanda"" program was effective for reconciliation and could be considered for replication in other post-conflict African countries. Her first book chapiter on ‘’les commémorations du génocide au Rwanda: un espace transitionnel pour métaboliser le passé qui ne passe pas? in Brackelaire, J.-L., Cornejo, M., &Kinable, J. (Eds), Violence politique et traumatisme. Processus d’élaboration et de création (pp. 317-338). (LouvainlaNeuve: Academia – L’Harmattan), offered new insights into urgent discussions on the role of literature in developing a Decentralized Integrated Care Model for addressing emotional crises during commemoration ceremonies of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. She is currently a reviewer for the Rwanda Journal Medicine and Health Sciences and PLOS and serves as a secretary of the board of the Centre for Community Based Sociotherapy.	2020 IRF-Kanazayire	2020 IRF	Clementine Kanazayire	Kanazayire	Rwanda	Clementine
Mvungi, Theresia Philemon	Lecturer	Department of Geography & Environmental Studies	University of Dodoma	Geography	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 IRF 2020 Community-based payment for ecosystem services (CB-PES) as a tool for conflict resolution and peace-building in Tanzania: The Case of Mkungunero Game Reserve University of Dodoma Tanzania	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	Department of Geography & Environmental Studies	University of Dodoma	Tanzania	2020		2020 IRF-Mvungi	2020 IRF	Theresia Philemon Mvungi	Mvungi	Tanzania	Theresia Philemon
Namwase, Sylvie	Lecturer	School of Law	Makerere University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 IRF 2020 National dialogues as state-led and state-backed initiatives of nation building in Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya Makerere University Uganda	APN IRF	APN	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Human Rights and Peace Centre	Makerere University	Uganda	2020	Dr. Sylvie Namwase is a Lecturer of Law at Makerere University in Uganda, specializing in international regional and national human rights law. She earned her Ph.D. in Law from the University of East London in 2017 with her doctoral dissertation focusing on the use of excessive force in riot control and crimes against humanity under the Rome Statute. She is a recipient of a 2020 African Peacebuilding Network (APN) individual research fellowship where under she examined national dialogues as state led and state backed initiatives of nation building in Uganda and Rwanda. She is co-editor of an edited book volume titled: Militarizing more to develop faster? Uganda’s difficult questions on human rights, governance and the economy, 2023. She is currently a Principal Investigator under a DANIDA funded research titled: Charcoal conflict in climate change’s decarbonisation dilemmas: Knots of Livelihood, Nutrition, Communities, Gender, Migration and Energy in East Africa.	2020 IRF-Namwase	2020 IRF	Sylvie Namwase	Namwase	Uganda	Sylvie
Sarabwe, Emmanuel	Head of Programs		Community Based Sociotherapy (CBS) Rwanda		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 IRF 2020 Learning from the past to build a culture of peace: Experiences of forgiveness within families of survivors and perpetrators Community Based Sociotherapy (CBS) Rwanda Rwanda	APN IRF	APN	Quality Assurance Manager		Community Based Sociotherapy (CBS) Rwanda	Rwanda	2020		2020 IRF-Sarabwe	2020 IRF	Emmanuel Sarabwe	Sarabwe	Rwanda	Emmanuel
Madimu, Tapiwa	Senior Lecturer	History	Rhodes University	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 IRF 2020 Historiography, Agency and Violence: "Illegal" Gold Mining and the Everyday in Post-Apartheid South Africa University of the Free State South Africa	APN IRF	APN	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Centre for Gender and Africa Studies	University of the Free State	South Africa	2020		2020 IRF-Madimu	2020 IRF	Tapiwa Madimu	Madimu	Zimbabwe	Tapiwa
Kahombo, Balingene	Full Professor	Faculty of Legal Sciences	University of Goma	Law,International Relations	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020-22 CWG 2020-2022 The African Union and the Resolution of Constitutional Crises in Africa University of Goma Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)	APN CWG	APN	Associate Professor	Legal Sciences	University of Goma	Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)	2020-2022	Balingene Kahombo, Dr. iur. (Free University of Berlin), is a professor of public law and African international relations at the Faculty of Legal Sciences of the University of Goma (Democratic Republic of the Congo—DRC) and a Guest Researcher at the Institute for International Law, European Law, and Comparative Public Law of the Free University of Berlin/Germany. He gained his doctorate in 2018 with the support of a scholarship awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and a grant from the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). After working as a research fellow (2017-2020) at the Berlin Potsdam Research Group—KFG—International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline?—Humboldt University, Free University of Berlin, Potsdam University (Germany), he received the APN 2020-2022 Collaborative Working Group Fellowship (Social Science Research Council, New York, USA), and as the lead investigator, he coordinated a team of six international researchers on the subject “The African Union and the Resolution of Constitutional Crises in Africa.” He has founded the REPERD Project (Partnership Network for Education, Research, and Development/DR Congo) and is a member of the Center for Research and Studies on the Rule of Law in Africa (CREEDA). He is a career judge of the high court in Kinshasa (DRC) and has acted as legal advisor to the DRC Constitutional Court (2022-2024). He has been a research or training consultant for several local, African, and international organizations, such as the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, DC, USA), the African Legal Think Tank on Women's Rights (Nairobi, Kenya), Democracy Works Foundation (Johannesburg, South Africa), African Security Sector Network (Accra, Ghana), the Network for Security and Justice Sector Reform (Kinshasa, DRC), and Amnesty International (Amsterdam, Netherlands). He is an expert member of the Task Force Justice Internationale (TFJI) with the DRC Government and one of the latter’s councils before the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights in the case Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Republic of Rwanda, Application no. 007/2023. He acted in 2023 as an expert coordinator of the technical team that assisted the Director-General in operationalizing the DRC National Fund for the Reparations of Victims of Sexual Violence Related to Conflicts and Victims of Crimes Against the Peace and Security of Humanity (FONAREV). He had also been a Senior Expert and Coordinator of the Technical Secretariat of the Panel, which supported the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as Chairperson of the African Union between 2021 and 2022. And in this capacity, he assisted Congolese diplomats in preparing the African Union-led negotiations between Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan on the dispute over the Ethiopian Rebirth Dam (GERD) between February and April 2021. He has taught at several Congolese universities and institutions of higher education, including the University of Kinshasa, the War School of Kinshasa (for the training of senior officers of the Congolese army), the New Horizons University of Lubumbashi, the Catholic University of Bukavu, and the Free University of the Great Lakes Countries. He has authored many publications. Email: balingene82@gmail.com; balingenekahombo@unigom.ac.cd	2020-22 CWG-Kahombo	2020-22 CWG	Balingene Kahombo	Kahombo	Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)	Balingene
Serugo, Jean-Baptiste	Senior Advocate	School of Law	Probity Partners East Africa	Law	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020-22 CWG 2020-2022 The African Union and the Resolution of Constitutional Crises in Africa University of Rwanda Rwanda	APN CWG	APN	Lecturer		University of Rwanda	Rwanda	2020-2022		2020-22 CWG-Serugo	2020-22 CWG	Jean-Baptiste Serugo	Serugo	Rwanda	Jean-Baptiste
Sylister, Magdalena	Assistant Lecturer		Saint Augustine University of Tanzania (Arusha Campus)		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020-22 CWG 2020-2022 The African Union and the Resolution of Constitutional Crises in Africa Saint Augustine University of Tanzania (Arusha Campus) Tanzania	APN CWG	APN	Assistant Lecturer		Saint Augustine University of Tanzania (Arusha Campus)	Tanzania	2020-2022		2020-22 CWG-Sylister	2020-22 CWG	Magdalena Sylister	Sylister	Tanzania	Magdalena
Muhindo, Trésor Makunya	Publication Coordinator	Centre for Human Rights	University of Pretoria		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020-22 CWG 2020-2022 The African Union and the Resolution of Constitutional Crises in Africa University of Pretoria South Africa	APN CWG	APN	Doctoral Student		University of Pretoria	South Africa	2020-2022		2020-22 CWG-Muhindo	2020-22 CWG	Trésor Makunya Muhindo	Muhindo	Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)	Trésor Makunya
Agyeman-Budu, Kwaku	Senior Lecturer	Faculty of Law	Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration	Law	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020-22 CWG 2020-2022 The African Union and the Resolution of Constitutional Crises in Africa Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration Ghana	APN CWG	APN	Lecturer		Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration	Ghana	2020-2022		2020-22 CWG-Agyeman-Budu	2020-22 CWG	Kwaku Agyeman-Budu	Agyeman-Budu	Ghana	Kwaku
Simiyu, Marystella Auma	Africa Senior Legal Advocacy Officer	Centre for Human Rights	International Press Institute		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020-22 CWG 2020-2022 The African Union and the Resolution of Constitutional Crises in Africa University of Pretoria South Africa	APN CWG	APN	PhD Student		University of Pretoria	South Africa	2020-2022	Dr Marystella Simiyu is the Africa Senior Legal Advocacy Officer at the International Press Institute, working to strengthen press freedom in Africa. She holds an LLD from the University of Pretoria. Her doctoral thesis explores a human rights-based approach to media protection in the digital age for meaningful political participation in Kenya. Marystella’s research interests include international regional human rights law, the African human rights system, constitutional law, privacy and data protection, elections, disinformation, tech policy, and digital rights. In 2018, Marystella was the recipient of the Victor Dankwa Award for her academic work on human rights in Africa during her LLM. She has previously worked at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, and the International Centre for Transitional Justice (Kenya), and consulted for the American Bar Association, Network of African National Human Rights Institutions, and Amnesty International.	2020-22 CWG-Simiyu	2020-22 CWG	Marystella Auma Simiyu	Simiyu	Kenya	Marystella Auma
Nchang, Doreen	SEND specialist			Linguistics	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 IRF 2021 In Search of Peace: Emerging Narratives and Linguistic Options for Managing Anglophone-Francophone Crises in Cameroon University of Cape Town South Africa	APN IRF	APN	Postdoctoral Fellow	Linguistics	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2021	Doreen Nchang received her Masters and PhD from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa in Linguistics. She is an alumnus of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) and the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARCHI). She is also a recipient of the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Fellowship with the Social Science Research Council and the ‘Decolonising Digital’ fellowship with the Institute for Advanced study in the Humanities, university of Edinburgh supported by the British Council, (the first of its kind to have been awarded to an early career researcher from Africa). Dr Nchang recently got an endorsement from the British academy as a global talent academic and is now a SEND specialist and Freelance researcher in Scotland, UK.	2021 IRF-Nchang	2021 IRF	Doreen Nchang	Nchang	Cameroon	Doreen
Tangara, Mahamadou Bassirou	Assistant Professor		Université des Sciences Sociales et de Gestion de Bamako	Economics	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 IRF 2021 Bringing Back the Community’s Informal Economy into Peace and Conflict Studies Université des Sciences Sociales et de Gestion de Bamako Mali	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	Sciences Economiques	Université des Sciences Sociales et de Gestion de Bamako	Mali	2021		2021 IRF-Tangara	2021 IRF	Mahamadou Bassirou Tangara	Tangara	Mali	Mahamadou Bassirou
Okubagherghis, Biyan Ghebreyesus	Lecturer	History	College of Business and Social Sciences	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 IRF 2021 Informal Cross-Border Trade: Rebuilding Relationships College of Business and Social Sciences Eritrea	APN IRF	APN	Assistant Professor	History	College of Business and Social Sciences	Eritrea	2021	Biyan Ghebreyesus Okubagherghis received his doctorate in History from University of Cagliari in 2020. Currently, he is a Lecturer and Researcher in the Horn of African History at the College of Business and Social Sciences, Eritrea. His research interests include the Horn of African Politics, Borders and Borderlands, and International Relations.	2021 IRF-Okubagherghis	2021 IRF	Biyan Ghebreyesus Okubagherghis	Okubagherghis	Eritrea	Biyan Ghebreyesus
Bagson, Ernest	Associate Professor of Urban Governance	Department of Local Governance and City Management	SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies	Governance,Public Policy,Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 IRF 2021 Exploring Motivations for Youth Group Membership and the Rebounding Effects on Violence and Peacebuilding in Urban Ghana SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies Ghana 2024 RPF 2024 Exploring youth understandings, perceptions, motivations, and vulnerabilities to Violent Extremism and Terrorism in Ghana SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies Ghana 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2017 The place and space of informal crime prevention strategies in urban Ghana University of Ghana Ghana	APN IRF; APN RPF; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Lecturer; Ghana	Department of Governance and Development Management; Governance and Development Management	SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies; University of Ghana	Ghana	2021; 2024; 2017	Ernest Bagson is an Associate Professor of Urban Governance and Head of the Department of Local Governance and City Management, at the Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (UBIDS), Ghana. He holds a Bachelor of Education (Science) and a Master of Philosophy in Development Studies from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He earned a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Ghana in 2017. Cognisance of his multi-disciplinary background, his research area of interest includes Urban Governance in the realm of Peacebuilding and Conflict Analysis. He has published in peer-reviewed journals and presented academic papers at both local and international conferences. Bagson has received several prestigious academic awards, including the 2024 Policy Research Fellowship from the African Peacebuilding Network (APN), the 2021 APN Individual Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, the 2021 MIASA Writing School Fellowship, as well as the 2017/2018 PhD Completion Fellowship from the Next Generation of Social Sciences in Africa and 2016 Provost Publication Award Winner (Doctoral Division); College of Humanities; University of Ghana. His multidisciplinary approach enables effective collaboration with partners from diverse backgrounds and contexts while upholding high standards of quality and trustworthiness.	2021 IRF-Bagson; 2024 RPF-Bagson; 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Bagson	2021 IRF; 2024 RPF; 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Ernest Bagson	Bagson	Ghana	Ernest
Peter, Kalista Higini	Senior Lecturer	Department of Geography and Environmental Studies	University of Dodoma	Geography	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 IRF 2021 The Role of Non-State Actors in Addressing Witchcraft-Related Conflict and Violence: A Case of Kwimba District, Mwanza, Tanzania University of Dodoma Tanzania	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	Department of Geography and Environmental Studies	University of Dodoma	Tanzania	2021	Dr. Kalista Higini is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Dodoma (UDOM) and has also served as the Head of the Department of Geography for seven years. She has extensive experience of more than 15 years on social sciences research in interact with a wide range of local communities, official from government ministries and departments in Tanzania. She has served as chairperson, coordinating the preparation of various government policies, including the development of the Environmental Policy for the University of Dodoma. She is a prominent researcher and academic known for his significant contributions to environmental science and sustainable development in Tanzania. His work primarily focuses on the interactions between local communities and natural resources, with a special emphasis on social livelihood, fisheries, agriculture, and mangrove conservation. She has published several scientific papers in high-impact journals and conversant with several qualitative and quantitative data analysis software.	2021 IRF-Peter	2021 IRF	Kalista Higini Peter	Peter	Tanzania	Kalista Higini
Daimon, Anusa	Senior Lecturer	Deaprtment of History	University of Malawi	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 IRF 2021 The African Union/World Bank’s Malawi-Mozambique’s Boundary Retracing Exercise and the Resultant Borderland Conflict in Makanjila District: 2008 to the present The University of the Free State South Africa	APN IRF	APN	Postdoctoral Fellow	International Studies Group (ISG)	The University of the Free State	South Africa	2021		2021 IRF-Daimon	2021 IRF	Anusa Daimon	Daimon	Zimbabwe	Anusa
Machanguana, Constâncio Augusto	Senior Researcher	Sociology	Eduardo Mondlane University	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 IRF 2021 Innovative Approaches to Community Involvement in Resettlement Schemes to Prevent Potential Conflicts: Case Study in Chibuto District, Mozambique Eduardo Mondlane University Mozambique	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer and Researcher	Sociology	Eduardo Mondlane University	Mozambique	2021	Dr. Constâncio Augusto Machanguana is a Sociologist, researcher and senior consultant specialized in participatory processes, social mediation and citizen appropriation. He holds a Ph.D. in Economic and Organizational Sociology from the University of Lisbon. He is a member and co-founder of the Mobility and Transport Observatory of Mozambique, a member of the Scientific Committee. Currently, he is a consultant in the T-Sum Project (Transitions for a Sustainable Urban Mobility) and Local Project Coordinator for the elaboration of the SUMP – Sustainable Urban Mobility for the Maputo Metropolitan area. Now he is a senior researcher at Eduardo Mondlane University. In his professional career, he has made several contributions to consultancy and institutional development work. His areas of activity include Governance of mobility and transport; Training and Development. Recently, he has been leading research on Community Involvement in Resettlement due to mining exploitation in Gaza Province. His academic experience with community resettlement issues as a result of development projects helps him to know the legal and institutional framework of the sector, especially in the sociology of transport and corporate social responsibility, where he has been dedicating most of his time.	2021 IRF-Machanguana	2021 IRF	Constâncio Augusto Machanguana	Machanguana	Mozambique	Constâncio Augusto
Ononye, Chuka	Professor	Department of English & Literary Studies	University of Nigeria	Linguistics	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 IRF 2021 Stance Acts as Pull Strategies for Radicalization: A Corpus-based Study of the Propaganda Used by the Islamic Movement of Nigeria and Indigenous People of Biafra University of Nigeria Nigeria	APN IRF	APN	Senior Lecturer	Department of English & Literary Studies	University of Nigeria	Nigeria	2021	Chuka Ononye is a professor at the University of Nigeria, where he teaches discourse analysis, semantics/pragmatics, and stylistics. His research interests are rooted in the application of discourse analytical and pragmatic frameworks to understand how communicative texts induce conflict and violence, construct identity and resistance, contest insecurity and power relations, and mediate peace, especially within African socio-political contexts. A fellow of the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin, and the African Peacebuilding Network (APN), he has also been involved two long-term collaborative TETFund research contracts. His research findings have appeared in Discourse Studies; Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies; Research in Pragmatics; Language and Literature; International Journal of Literary Linguistics, among others. Prof. Ononye is an active member of several professional associations, including the Pragmatics Association of Nigeria (PrAN), International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), English Scholars Association of Nigeria (ESAN), etc.	2021 IRF-Ononye	2021 IRF	Chuka Ononye	Ononye	Nigeria	Chuka
Mwithia, Jesica Kinya	Senior Lecturer	Strategic and Organizational Communication	Daystar University	Communications	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 IRF 2021 The Discourse of Othering: An Analysis of Politics of Inclusivity and Exclusivity in Kenya Daystar University Kenya	APN IRF	APN	Senior Lecturer	Strategic and Organizational Communication Department	Daystar University	Kenya	2021		2021 IRF-Mwithia	2021 IRF	Jesica Kinya Mwithia	Mwithia	Kenya	Jesica Kinya
Demisse, Yonas Ashine	Assistant Professor	Department of Political Science and International Relations	Addis Ababa University	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 IRF 2021 Players, Playing Field, and the Game in a Transition Moment: Electoral and Party Politics as Critical Sites of Transition in Ethiopia Addis Ababa University Ethiopia 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2016 Developmetalism in Africa: a geneology of Ethiopian developmetal state Makerere University Uganda 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2017 Developmetalism in Africa: a geneology of Ethiopian developmetal state Makerere University Uganda	APN IRF; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Assistant Professor; Lecturer	Department of Political Science and International Relations; Political Science and International Relations; Political Science	Addis Ababa University; Makerere University	Ethiopia; Uganda	2021; 2016; 2017		2021 IRF-Demisse; 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Demisse; 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Demisse	2021 IRF; 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Yonas Ashine Demisse	Demisse	Ethiopia	Yonas Ashine
Obi-Ani, Ngozika Anthonia	Senior Lecturer	Department of History and International Studies	University of Nigeria	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 IRF 2021 Uneasy Peace Since the Civil War in Igboland: A Bottom-Up Approach Perspective University of Nigeria Nigeria	APN IRF	APN	Senior Lecturer	Department of History and International Studies	University of Nigeria	Nigeria	2021	Dr. Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and International Studies at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. As an interdisciplinary historian, her research focuses on the intersections of women, gender, memory, and conflict, offering valuable insights into the complexities of African history. She earned her PhD in 2017 from Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria, with a dissertation that examined the experiences of victims of the Nigeria-Biafra war, the impact of army occupation, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma. Her articles have been published in reputable journals such as Africa, African Identities, and Cities, among others. Dr. Obi-Ani was a 2021 APN-IRF fellow and is currently working on her book titled "A Forest of Memories: Biafran Identity in Postcolonial Nigeria."	2021 IRF-Obi-Ani	2021 IRF	Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani	Obi-Ani	Nigeria	Ngozika Anthonia
Nabulya, Eve	Lecturer	Department of Literature	Makerere University	Literature	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 IRF 2021 Storytelling as a Tool for Rebuilding Communities Torn by the 2021 Election-Related Clashes in Central Uganda Makerere University Uganda	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	Department of Literature	Makerere University	Uganda	2021		2021 IRF-Nabulya	2021 IRF	Eve Nabulya	Nabulya	Uganda	Eve
Nabutanyi, Edgar Fred	Associate Professor ; Senior Research Associate	Department of Literature ; Department of Literary Studies in English	Makerere University,Rhodes University	Literature	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 IRF 2021 Ugandan Gay Fiction and Peacebuilding: Fictional Depictions as Antidote to Homophobia Makerere University Uganda	APN IRF	APN	Senior Lecturer	Literature	Makerere University	Uganda	2021	Edgar Fred Nabutanyi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature, Makerere University and a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Literary Studies in English at Rhodes University, South Africa. While his teaching interests are in Children’s Literature, Critical Theory, Practical Criticism, Cultural Studies, Popular Literature and Media Studies, the central thesis of his research is that vulnerable minorities stealthy reconfigure the public sphere with such illocutionary force to make their issues matter and transform their lives from mere statistical footnotes to critical societal issues. He is also interested in how new media and non-orthodox publication outlets are disrupting literature by providing new avenues of consuming literature in ways that subvert the canon. His recent publications are on representations of queer sexuality, trauma and ecocide in African fiction. He is also an editor of African Articulations and imprint of Boydell and Brewer.	2021 IRF-Nabutanyi	2021 IRF	Edgar Fred Nabutanyi	Nabutanyi	Uganda	Edgar Fred
Sani, Hauwa Mohammed	Senior Lecturer	Department of English and Literary Studies	Ahmadu Bello University	English	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 IRF 2021 Ethnographic Study of Language as a Tool of Conflict Mediation in Kaduna State, Nigeria Ahmadu Bello University Nigeria	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer I	Department of English and Literary Studies	Ahmadu Bello University	Nigeria	2021		2021 IRF-Sani	2021 IRF	Hauwa Mohammed Sani	Sani	Nigeria	Hauwa Mohammed
Kazembe, Pauline Mateveke	Senior Lecturer	Department of Languages, Literature & Culture	University of Zimbabwe	Literature	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 IRF 2021 Women Singing, Acting and Writing Peace: (En)gendering Creative Arts of Peacebuilding and Integration in Contemporary Zimbabwe University of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe	APN IRF	APN	Senior Lecturer	Department of Languages, Literature & Culture	University of Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	2021	Dr. Pauline Mateveke Kazembe is an African literary and cultural studies scholar whose research and teaching occur at the intersections of African literature, gender and cultural studies. Pauline has over 15 years’ experience in teaching, writing and research, working on both independent and collaborative projects on African literary, gender and cultural studies. She is equipped with excellent verbal and written communication skills expressed in diverse situations and styles.	2021 IRF-Kazembe	2021 IRF	Pauline Mateveke Kazembe	Kazembe	Zimbabwe	Pauline Mateveke
Gukurume, Simbarashe	Senior Lecturer	Department of Social Sciences	Sol Plaatje University	Sociology,Social Anthropology,Anthropology; Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 IRF 2021 When the Youth Become Peacebuilders in Zimbabwe Sol Plaatje University South Africa 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2015 Pentecostal Charismatic Churches, Prosperity Gospel and upwardly mobile University students in Zimbabwe: Two case studies of PCCs at the University of Zimbabwe University of Cape Town South Africa	APN IRF; Next Gen Research Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Senior Lecturer; Research Assistant	Social Sciences; Institute for Humanities in Africa	Sol Plaatje University; University of Cape Town	South Africa	2021; 2015	Simbarashe Gukurume is a senior lecturer at Sol Plaatje University, South Africa. His research focuses on the intersections of sociology and social anthropology, particularly in the forms of agency, socialities, and convivialities that are forged in times of protracted crisis and uncertainty. His research interests collectively contribute to an overarching theme of youth subjectivities and how these intersect in complex ways with various aspects of everyday life such as politics, livelihoods, and transitions. He is also interested in questions around informality, religiosity, displacement, youth political expressions in spaces of protracted economic and political crisis. He has received research grants and fellowship awards from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Social Science Research Council’s African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation Social Science in Africa, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. His work has been published in African Affairs, International Journal of Transitional Justice, African Security Review, and African Identities. Simbarashe is on the editorial boards of Anthropology Southern Africa and the Journal of Religion and Development.	2021 IRF-Gukurume; 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Gukurume	2021 IRF; 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Simbarashe Gukurume	Gukurume	Zimbabwe	Simbarashe
Githigaro, John Mwangi	Head	Research and Innovation	National Intelligence and Research University College	International Relations	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 IRF 2021 Reintegrating Returning Foreign Fighters: Assessment of Peacebuilding/Rehabilitation Interventions in Kenya’s Mombasa County St. Paul’s University Kenya 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2016 The Insecurity Within? Pathways to Youth Radicalization in Kenya's Nairobi and Mombasa County United States International University Africa Kenya 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2017 Community Based Approaches to Countering Youth Radicalization in Kenya’s Nairobi and Mombasa Counties United States International University Africa Kenya 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2018 Community Based Approaches to Countering Youth Radicalization in Kenya’s Nairobi and Mombasa Counties United States International University Africa Kenya	APN IRF; Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Lecturer; Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies	Social Sciences; Development Studies	St. Paul’s University; United States International University Africa	Kenya	2021; 2016; 2017; 2018	John Mwangi Githigaro holds a PhD in International Relations (Peace and Security Studies Track) from the United States International University (USIU-A), Nairobi, Kenya. He has been a recipient of multiple funded research fellowships. He was a Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellow (2016-2019), a program of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York, and also a recipient of the 2021 African Peacebuilding Network Fellowship. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of peace, security, and development in the Horn of Africa. He has published on policing, refugeeism, counter-terrorism, and identity politics in the Horn of Africa. He is passionate about finding synergies and connections between academia, policy and the practical world of work. He was previously a Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at St. Paul’s University Kenya. Some of his outputs have been published in the Critical Studies on Terrorism, the Journal of Third World Studies, African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review, Africa Insight, African Peace and Conflict Journal, and the Journal for Deradicalization. Among his recent publications is a 2021 co-authored book with Babatunde, A., Adedimeji, M., Raji, S., Maweu, titled: Managing Violent Religious Extremism in Fragile States Building Institutional Capacity in Nigeria and Kenya. London: Routledge. His most recent book was published in 2023, titled Countering Violent Extremism in Kenya: Community, State and Security Perspectives. London: Lexington Books. In Autumn 2023, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIM0), Russia.	2021 IRF-Githigaro; 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Githigaro; 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Githigaro; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Githigaro	2021 IRF; 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	John Mwangi Githigaro	Githigaro	Kenya	John Mwangi
Matusse, Anselmo	Researcher		Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE)	Anthropology,Social Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 IRF 2022 Malangatana’s Public Art and Peacebuilding in Mozambique Bloco 4 Foundation Mozambique 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2020 Living with Mount Mabo: povoados and nature conservation in threatened worlds University of Cape Town South Africa	APN IRF; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Researcher; Associate Researcher	Social Anthropology	Bloco 4 Foundation; University of Cape Town	Mozambique; South Africa	2022; 2020		2022 IRF-Matusse; 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Matusse	2022 IRF; 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Anselmo Matusse	Matusse	Mozambique	Anselmo
Ndayikengurutse, Guillaume	Lecturer	Political Science and International Relations	University of Burundi	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 IRF 2022 The Contribution of Civil Society Organizations in Peacebuilding in Post-2015 Burundi University of Burundi Burundi	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	Political Science and International Relations	University of Burundi	Burundi	2022		2022 IRF-Ndayikengurutse	2022 IRF	Guillaume Ndayikengurutse	Ndayikengurutse	Burundi	Guillaume
Agofure, Joyce Onoromhenre	Senior Lecturer	Department of English and Literary Studies	Ahmadu Bello University	Literature	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 IRF 2022 The Peacebuilding Role of Films, Fictional Works and Social Media in the Resolutions of Natural Resource Conflicts in the North West and Niger Delta Regions of Nigeria Ahmadu Bello University Nigeria	APN IRF	APN	Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer	Department of English and Literary Studies	Ahmadu Bello University	Nigeria	2022	Dr. Joyce Onoromhenre Agofure is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Literary Studies, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Fulbright Foreign Student Researcher Fellowship, University of Idaho, USA, and the American Council of Learned Societies African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowship (ACLS/AHP) with a residency at Rhodes University, South Africa. She has been awarded the African Humanities Program Mentoring and Application-Preparation Workshop Grant, the Social Science Research Council/African Peacebuilding Network Fellowship, and the International Peace Research Association Foundation Fellowship, among others. Dr. Agofure serves as the Managing Editor of the Journal of Literary Scholars’ Association (JOLSA) and is an Editorial Board Member of Zamani: A Journal of African Historical Studies, published by the Department of History at the University of Dar es Salaam. She is also the Co-Chair of the African Peacebuilding Network/Next Gen University Seminar Series Nigeria (AUSS-N). Her research interests encompass Environmental Humanities, Gender Discourse, and African peacebuilding.	2022 IRF-Agofure	2022 IRF	Joyce Agofure	Agofure	Nigeria	Joyce
Agheyisi, Justin	Professor	Geography and Regional Planning	University of Benin	Geography	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 IRF 2022 Artisanal Refineries and Resource Conflict in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria University of Benin Nigeria	APN IRF	APN	Associate Professor	Geography and Regional Planning	University of Benin	Nigeria	2022	Justin Eduviere Agheyisi is Professor in the Department of Geography and Regional Planning, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria. He specializes in Urban Geography with research interest in Urban Land Use, Informal Built Environment, and Housing. Professor Agheyisi is a recipient of Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Fellowship award and the 2022 African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Collaborative Working Group Research grant. He is a member of the Association of Nigerian Geographers (ANG), American Association of Geographers (AAG) and Regional Studies Association (RSA). He has researched extensively on a wide range of subjects and published in reputable national journals and in Land Use Policy, Urban Forum, Geoforum, African Geographical Review, African Studies Quarterly, Journal of Urban Affairs, Nextier SPD Policy Brief and Kujenga Amani.	2022 IRF-Agheyisi	2022 IRF	Justin Agheyisi	Agheyisi	Nigeria	Justin
Bangerezako, Haydée	Assistant Professor	Department of History	University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 IRF 2022 From resistance to peace building: Prophetesses in colonial and postcolonial Senegal University of Cheikh Anta Diop Senegal 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2016 Lake communities and hinterland relations: Formation of a political community on lake Tanganyika in the 19th century Burundi Makerere University Uganda 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2017 Lake communities and hinterland relations: Histories of Politics of the Imbo region on Lake Tanganyika in the 19th and 20th Century Makerere University Uganda	APN IRF; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Senior Lecturer; Tutor; Ph.D. Candidate	History; Development Studies	University of Cheikh Anta Diop; Makerere University	Senegal; Uganda	2022; 2016; 2017		2022 IRF-Bangerezako; 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Bangerezako; 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Bangerezako	2022 IRF; 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Haydée Bangerezako	Bangerezako	Burundi	Haydée
Gwatiwa, Tshepo	Lecturer	Department of International Relations	University of the Witwatersrand	International Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 IRF 2022 Violent Extremist Organizations’ Use of the Open and Dark Web: Case Study of Mozambique University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	Department of International Relations	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2022		2022 IRF-Gwatiwa	2022 IRF	Tshepo Gwatiwa	Gwatiwa	Botswana	Tshepo
Nnamocha, Obiageli	Associate Professor	Department of Marketing	Imo State University	Economics	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 IRF 2022 The Church and Peacebuilding in Nigeria: A Study of the Justice, Development and Peace Commission of the Owerri and Ahiara Dioceses Imo State University Nigeria	APN IRF	APN	Associate Professor	Department of Marketing	Imo State University	Nigeria	2022		2022 IRF-Nnamocha	2022 IRF	Obiageli Nnamocha	Nnamocha	Nigeria	Obiageli
Kamwaria, Alex	Senior Lecturer	Social Sciences	Machakos University	Peace and Security Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 IRF 2022 Maritime Border Disputes and the Rise of Joint Development Agreement Model in Africa: Lessons and Implications for the Kenya and Somalia Dispute Machakos University Kenya	APN IRF	APN	Dean of Students and Senior Lecturer	Social Sciences	Machakos University	Kenya	2022	Dr. Alex Kamwaria is a Senior Lecturer at Machakos University, Kenya, specializing in religion and peacebuilding. He earned a Ph.D. in Peacebuilding from Kenyatta University in 2014, with a doctoral dissertation that focused on integrating indigenous healing methodologies into a psychosocial framework for trauma healing among Dinka victims of armed conflict in South Sudan. He has been awarded numerous research grants, including those from the OSSREA in 2000, CODESRIA (2001), and Machakos University’s Internal Research Fund (2021). He also participated in the UPEACE-IDRC Africa Programme, receiving funding for both his Doctoral (2014) and Post-Doctoral (2016) research. In 2022, he was awarded the APN Individual Fellowship. His academic publications are extensive in his field. He has successfully supervised over 14 postgraduate students in completing their theses and projects at both Master’s and PhD levels. Furthermore, he has held various management positions and contributed to numerous academic committees at the university.	2022 IRF-Kamwaria	2022 IRF	Alex Kamwaria	Kamwaria	Kenya	Alex
Debela, Ketema	Assistant Professor and Head	Center for Federalism and Governance	Addis Ababa University	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 IRF 2022 Intergovernmental Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in the Federal System of Ethiopia: The Case of Oromia and Somali Regional States Addis Ababa University Ethiopia	APN IRF	APN	Assistant Professor	Center for Federalism and Governance	Addis Ababa University	Ethiopia	2022	Ketema Wakjira Debela (PhD) is the Head of and an Assistant Professor at the Center for Federalism and Governance Studies of Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He has been teaching and conducting research in higher education institutions since 2010. Ketema obtained PhD in Federalism and Governance from Addis Ababa University and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Federalism, Decentralization, and Conflict Resolution from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (2014. He was a 2022 African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Individual Research Fellow. He was also awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship in the ‘Local Government and the Changing Urban-Rural Interplay (LoGov) project in 2019 (Bern, Switzerland) and 2024 (Madrid, Spain). He has published journal articles and book chapters in areas of federalism, intergovernmental relations, institutional federal design, democratization, conflict resolution, internal displacement, urban local governance, urbanization, and interdisciplinary learning methodologies. From 2019 to 2022, he served as managing editor of Ethiopian Journal of Federal Studies, and is currently acting as Editor in Chief of the same journal, academic research journal publishing annually since 2013. Additionally, he reviews research manuscripts for reputable national and international journals.	2022 IRF-Debela	2022 IRF	Ketema Debela	Debela	Ethiopia	Ketema
Bigabo, Felix	Head	Programs and Research	Prison Fellowship Rwanda	Psychology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 IRF 2022 The acceptance in post-genocide Rwanda: Understanding the action-based reconciliation model between the former genocide prisoners and genocide survivors in post -genocide Rwanda Prison Fellowship Rwanda Rwanda	APN IRF	APN	Head of Partnership, Capacity Building and Reach	Project Management and Research	Prison Fellowship Rwanda	Rwanda	2022	Mr. Felix Bigabo is a psychologist with a major in Counseling and a PhD candidate in Peace and Conflict Studies at Kampala University. He has significant experience in restorative justice, reconciliation, community healing, and social cohesion in the peacebuilding process. He currently serves as Head of Programs and Research at Prison Fellowship Rwanda. Mr. Bigabo has authored and published several impactful studies in the areas of peacebuilding and mental health including From Child to Genocide Perpetrator: Narrative Identity Analysis Among Genocide Prisoners (2020), conducted with Aegis Trust Rwanda; Acceptance in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Understanding the Action-Based Reconciliation Model Between the Former Genocide Prisoners and Genocide Survivors, Living in Reconciliation Villages”(2025), supported by the African Peacebuilding Network of the SSRC, and Reconciliation Villages in Post-Geocide Rwanda: Beyond Rhetoric to Practical Reconciliation and Psychosocial Reintegration(May 2025), a collaborative effort by Rwandan researchers. His work contributes significantly to the understanding and implementation of post-conflict healing processes in Rwanda and beyond.	2022 IRF-Bigabo	2022 IRF	Felix Bigabo	Bigabo	Rwanda	Felix
Karooma, Cleophas	Deputy Dean	Planning and Governance	Mbarara University of Science and Technology	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 IRF 2022 Reluctant to Return: An analysis of ‘Go and See’, ‘Come and Tell’ Visits in the Repatriation Decision-making Process of the Rwandan Refugees in Nakivale refugee settlement Mbarara University of Science and Technology Uganda 2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2012 Rwandan Refugees in Southwestern Uganda: Their Attitudes and Responses to Repatriation 1994-2011 Mbarara University of Science and Technology Uganda	APN IRF; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Senior Lecturer and Deputy Dean	Planning and Governance	Mbarara University of Science and Technology	Uganda	2022; 2012		2022 IRF-Karooma; 2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Karooma	2022 IRF; 2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Cleophas Karooma	Karooma	Uganda	Cleophas
Pul, Hippolyt Akow	President and Executive Lead		Institute for Peace and Development	Peace and Security Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 IRF 2022 Community Response Against Violent Extremism and for Peace (CRAVE4Peace) Research Institute for Peace and Development Ghana	APN IRF	APN	President and Executive Lead		Institute for Peace and Development	Ghana	2022	Dr. Hippolyt A. S. Pul, PhD is the founder and Executive Leader of the Institute for Peace and Development (IPD). He holds a PhD in International Conflict Analysis & Resolution from Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, USA and a master’s degree in public and social policy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA. His PhD dissertation was on Threads and Stitches of Peace: Understanding What Makes Ghana An Oasis of Peace, 2015 - https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/23/), while his master’s thesis (Exclusion, Association, and Violence: Trends and Triggers of Ethnic Conflicts in Northern Ghana 2003 - DOI:10.4314/aa.v10i1.46099) explored factors that create and sustain violent interethnic conflicts in northern Ghana. The two works continue to attract global readership and citations. He is a recipient of APN’s Independent Research Fellowship Award 2022. He continues to work on the intersection between governance, peace, and development, and has several publications to his name.	2022 IRF-Pul	2022 IRF	Hippolyt Akow Pul	Pul	Ghana	Hippolyt Akow
Ncube, Florence	Postdoctoral Researcher	Unit of Social and Cultural Anthropology	University of Helsinki	Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 IRF 2022 In exile but not at peace: Rwandan army deserters in South Africa University of the Western Cape South Africa 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2018 Migrants and political violence in South Africa: the case of Rwandan former soldiers living as refugees in Cape Town University of the Western Cape South Africa 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2020 Navigating Exile: Rwandan army deserters in South Africa University of the Western Cape South Africa	APN IRF; Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Associate Lecturer/ Tutorial Coordinator; Ph.D. Student; Tutor	Department of Anthropology and Development Studies; Anthropology and Sociology	University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2022; 2018; 2020	Florence Ncube is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Unit of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research interests include Military and Security Studies in Africa, Migration, Anthropology of Narcotics, Violence and lives lived on the Urban Margins. Florence is a recipient of the 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship, 2020 Next Gen Dissertation Completion Fellowship and 2022 APN-IRF.	2022 IRF-Ncube; 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ncube; 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ncube	2022 IRF; 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Florence Ncube	Ncube	Zimbabwe	Florence
Kong’ani, Lilian N.S.	Post-Doctoral Fellow		University of Cape Town	Environmental Governance and Management	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 IRF 2022 Assessing the strides made in inclusion of women in peacebuilding Initiatives: Evidences from the Pastoral Communities in West Pokot County, Kenya University of Nairobi Kenya	APN IRF	APN	Tutorial Fellow	Earth and Climate Sciences	University of Nairobi	Kenya	2022	Lilian Namuma S. Kong'ani is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Cape Town, currently co-leading governance research and stakeholder engagement on a project, “Cascading Climate and Health Risks in African Cities.” She holds a Ph.D in Environmental Governance and Management, and an MSc. in Environmental Governance both from the University of Nairobi, and a Bachelor of Environmental Studies (Community Development) from Kenyatta University. She is a fellow, Innovative Facilitation Programme (CLARE programme), and an Associate Fellow, Mashariki Policy and Research Centre and currently serving as a Member, Board of Advisors, Global Youth Forum. Kong'ani is a mediator, an Alumna Fellow, at Mawazo Learning Exchange Programme, Mawazo Institute, Kenya, and Laureate of the 2022 African Peacebuilding Network of Social Science Research Council Individual Research Fellowship grant. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and participated in several local and international conferences. Lilian is interested and passionate about natural resources governance and management, climate change, community development, conflict resolution, peacebuilding, gender mainstreaming, environmental impact assessment, sustainable development, and humanitarian work, among others. She has been awarded inter alia, the German Academic Service Postdoctoral Researcher’s Climate Change Networking Tour 2022, a special recognition for her exceptional service for co-organizing the XIX International Association Study for the Commons Biennial Conference 2023, the UoN@50 Achievers’ award for her contribution towards the establishment of the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies (WMI), and exemplary service to the college. Previously, Dr. Kong’ani worked as an Administrative Assistant at the WMI where she participated in the planning, coordination and implementation of the Stabilizing Kenya through resolving forest related conflicts (STAKE project) and Promoting the critical role of women in climate change mitigation (wPOWER) project. She also worked as an Intern at the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Community Services Unit. She is currently, a member of Global Youth Forum’s Advisory Board and a registered lead expert with the National Environmental Management Authority. She believes in taking up new challenges and contributing tos solutions to local and global development and environmental issues for inter and intra-generational equity.	2022 IRF-Kong’ani	2022 IRF	Lilian N.S. Kong’ani	Kong’ani	Kenya	Lilian N.S.
Gebrezgabher, Solomon	Assistant Professor	Political Science and International Relations	National Police and Security Forces Training Center	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 IRF 2022 Conflict within Conflicts: A Case Study of Farmers – Pastoralists Conflict in Eritrea College of Business and Social Sciences Eritrea	APN IRF	APN	Assistant Professor	Political Science and International Relations	College of Business and Social Sciences	Eritrea	2022	Dr. Solomon Haile Gebrezgabher is an assistant professor at the National Police and Security Forces Training Center, Dekemhare, Eritrea. He earned his Ph.D. in Advanced Policy Studies from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS Global Governance, G-cube program), Japan, in 2021, with his doctoral dissertation focusing on communal land conflicts in conflict-affected setting in Eritrea. He is a recipient of the 2022 African Peacebuilding Network, and the GRIPS Global Governance (G-cube) fellowship and GRIPS fellowship (Oct. 2016-Sept. 2021). He has published on Property Right Conflict and Contestation in Global South: A Case from Eritrea (Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 2024). His other publications will soon appear in the upcoming publications with Journal of Contemporary Africa and Journal of East African Studies. His current areas of interest for research focuses on Political Economy (dynamics of land, labour, capital, and market in agrarian societies); climate change and livelihood; statebuilding and economic development, peacebuilding and state capacity. He is member of the organizing committee for the International Conference on Eritrean Studies, ICES 2025. Unknown	2022 IRF-Gebrezgabher	2022 IRF	Solomon Gebrezgabher	Gebrezgabher	Eritrea	Solomon
Kahyana, Danson	Associate Professor	Literature	Makerere University	Literature	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 IRF 2022 Peacebuilding through Constructive Storytelling among Students in Selected Secondary Schools in Bibibidi Refugee Settlement, Yumbe District, Uganda Makerere University Uganda	APN IRF	APN	Senior Lecturer	Literature	Makerere University	Uganda	2022	Danson Sylvester Kahyana holds a PhD in English Studies from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at Makerere University, Uganda. He is a Research Scholar at the Carr Center of Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School (2023-2024). His other Fellowships include the African Peacebuilding Network Individual Award (2022), Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2021), the Andrew W. Mellon Early Career Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018), and the African Humanities Programme (AHP) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015), among others. He is President Emeritus, Ugandan PEN.	2022 IRF-Kahyana	2022 IRF	Danson Kahyana	Kahyana	Uganda	Danson
Soliku, Ophelia	Senior Lecturer	Department of Community Development	SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 IRF 2022 Gender dimensions of protected area conflicts and peacebuilding strategies: pathways to improve park-people relations and sustainable peaceful coexistence in northern Ghana SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies Ghana	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	Community Development	SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies	Ghana	2022	Dr. Ophelia Soliku is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Social Science at the Department of Community Development, SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Wa, Ghana. She earned her PhD in Environmental Policy and Governance from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2018. Her doctoral research explored park-people conflicts and co-management strategies in Ghana and Germany, revealing how protected area conflicts vary across the Global South and North depending on geographical, socio-economic, and cultural contexts. Dr. Soliku’s research focuses on nature conservation, conservation conflicts, and natural resource governance. She has received prestigious awards, including the Social Science Research Council’s African Peacebuilding Network Individual Research Grant (2022), an International Foundation for Science grant, and a Queen Elizabeth Scholars fellowship. A former faculty graduate coordinator at SDD-UBIDS, she has published in leading journals including, Biodiversity Conservation, Forest Policy and Economics, Oryx, and Society & Natural Resources.	2022 IRF-Soliku	2022 IRF	Ophelia Soliku	Soliku	Ghana	Ophelia
Murambadoro, Ruth	Postdoctoral Fellow	School of Governance ; Centre for Feminist Research	University of the Witwatersrand,York University	Public Policy,Women and Gender Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 IRF 2022 Women’s Politics in Zimbabwe: Aftermath of the 2013 Constitution University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	APN IRF	APN	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	School of Governance	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2022		2022 IRF-Murambadoro	2022 IRF	Ruth Murambadoro	Murambadoro	Zimbabwe	Ruth
Nakijoba, Rosemary	Associate Professor	Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities	Mateesa | Royal University	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022-24 CWG 2022-2024 Let’s do it together: Rethinking Gender in the Mediation and Resolution of Natural Resources Conflicts in a Changing Climate in East Africa Ndejje University Uganda 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2017 Gender, Child Labour and Disability Among War Affected Communities in Northern Uganda University of the Western Cape South Africa	APN CWG; Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Senior Lecturer; Lecturer	Department of Social Development, Faculty of Social Sciences	Ndejje University; University of the Western Cape	Uganda; South Africa	2022-2024; 2017	Dr. Rosemary Nakijoba is an Associate Professor of Development Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities at Muteesa I Royal University, Uganda, where she also coordinates research and graduate studies. She holds a PhD from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, a Master’s from Uganda Martyrs University—supported by the Embassy of Ireland/ICOS—and a Bachelor’s from Ndejje University. She previously served as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Victoria University and has extensive experience in the NGO sector and international community consulting. Since 2014, she has supervised and mentored postgraduate and undergraduate students. Her research focuses on disability rights, gender justice, and climate justice in post-conflict and rural communities, supported by the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) through cross-national projects. She has held fellowships from NIHSS, SSRC, LUCAS–LAHRI (2024–2025), and as a 2025 Guest Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden. She has presented widely and will speak at the Nordev25 Conference in Norway on “Solidarity, Social Justice and Sustainability.” ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6300-6659	2022-24 CWG-Nakijoba; 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Nakijoba	2022-24 CWG; 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Rosemary Nakijoba	Nakijoba	Uganda	Rosemary
Odongo, Silas	Associate Professor	Department of Journalism and Mass Communication & Department of Earth and Climate Sciences	University of Nairobi		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022-24 CWG 2022-2024 Let’s do it together: Rethinking Gender in the Mediation and Resolution of Natural Resources Conflicts in a Changing Climate in East Africa University of Nairobi Kenya	APN CWG	APN	Senior Lecturer		University of Nairobi	Kenya	2022-2024	Prof. Silas Odongo Oriaso (PhD) is Associate Professor of science and development communication, University of Nairobi. He is Chairman of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is a Co-founder of the ARUA Centre of Excellence in Climate and Development. He holds PhD and MA in Communication and Information studies, Master of Science (Msc.) and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Climate and Development. He is a CIRCLE, AAS, ACU and APN Fellow. His main areas of concentration are communication for health, environment, development, climate and science. He has been PI and CO-PI in several global level research grants such as QR-CRF’s Climate information in rural Kenya and Gendered information ecosystems in rural Kenya and Ghana and APN’s Gender, climate and natural resources conflict in Eastern Africa’. He is a member of ICCA, ICA, IAMCR, MCM, EACA and SSSEA. He currently consolidates all his global, regional and local appearances in his YouTube Channel - Prof. Oriaso Odongo’s Knowledge Hub.	2022-24 CWG-Odongo	2022-24 CWG	Silas Odongo	Odongo	Kenya	Silas
Legesse, Abiyot	Associate Professor	Department of Geography and Environmental Studies	Dilla University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022-24 CWG 2022-2024 Let’s do it together: Rethinking Gender in the Mediation and Resolution of Natural Resources Conflicts in a Changing Climate in East Africa Dilla University Ethiopia	APN CWG	APN	Associate Professor		Dilla University	Ethiopia	2022-2024	Dr Abiyot Legesse is an experienced senior lecturer and researcher at Dilla University, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, with more than 20 years of teaching experience in higher education. He is a well-respected expert in geospatial technologies and has a proven track record of leading large-scale research projects and initiatives. Legesse has successfully led large-scale research projects on geospatial mapping of pasture and water availability in the Borana zone (Ethiopia) and an indigenous early warning practice study among pastoralists in Southern Ethiopia. He participated in a project titled ‘Rethinking Gender Roles in Mediation and Resolution of Natural Resource Conflicts Among Pastoral Communities in East Africa,’ funded by APN. He leads a Volkswagen Foundation project on local dynamics of cultural landscapes in Ethiopia and Kenya. Legesse holds a Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Studies. Employing his interdisciplinary research methodologies, he has extensively published on spatio-temporal analysis of drought in pastoral areas, climate variability and change, land degradation, ecosystem services analysis, indigenous agroforestry practices, and land use/cover changes in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He has demonstrated strong project management and leadership abilities, as well as excellent communication and collaboration skills. In particular, he played a crucial role in the registration of the Gedeo Cultural Landscape as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. His research interests include land use/cover change analysis, disaster risk management, climate change, cultural landscape, application of geospatial technologies in environmental resource analysis, and sustainable natural resource management.	2022-24 CWG-Legesse	2022-24 CWG	Abiyot Legesse	Legesse	Ethiopia	Abiyot
Biryaho, Francis	Lecturer and Deputy Director		"Catholic University of South Sudan, Yambio Campus"		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022-24 CWG 2022-2024 Let’s do it together: Rethinking Gender in the Mediation and Resolution of Natural Resources Conflicts in a Changing Climate in East Africa "Catholic University of South Sudan, Yambio Campus" South Sudan	APN CWG	APN	Lecturer and Deputy Director		"Catholic University of South Sudan, Yambio Campus"	South Sudan	2022-2024		2022-24 CWG-Biryaho	2022-24 CWG	Francis Biryaho	Biryaho	South Sudan	Francis
Ouma, Gilbert	Associate Professor		University of Nairobi		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022-24 CWG 2022-2024 Let’s do it together: Rethinking Gender in the Mediation and Resolution of Natural Resources Conflicts in a Changing Climate in East Africa University of Nairobi Kenya	APN CWG	APN	Associate Professor		University of Nairobi	Kenya	2022-2024		2022-24 CWG-Ouma	2022-24 CWG	Gilbert Ouma	Ouma	Kenya	Gilbert
Wabule, Alice	Senior Lecturer	Socio-Economic Sciences	Cavendish University Uganda	Philosophy	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 IRF 2023 Indigenous gendered beliefs and practices for Alternative Strategies Against Climate Conflicts Cavendish University Uganda Uganda	APN IRF	APN	Senior Lecturer	Faculty of Socio-Economic Sciences	Cavendish University Uganda	Uganda	2023	Dr. Alice Wabule is a multidisciplinary scholar working as a Senior Lecturer at Cavendish University, Uganda. She obtained her PhD in Applied Professional Ethics from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and holds a master's in Ethics and Public Management. She has over 15 years of teaching experience and has served in university leadership for more than a decade. Alice is a recipient of the 2023 APN Individual Research Fellowship, the South Africa (SARChi) postdoctoral fellowship in Diversity Studies [2018-2020], the University of the Witwatersrand, and the Sub-Saharan Africa travel grant 2025, the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Alice is interested to research indigenous practices and knowledge systems, professional ethics, community empowerment, social justice, diversity and inclusion. Passionate about Participatory Action Research, Alice is devoted to bridging research and practice through joint discourses and interventions that create change and improvements in the lives of the researched. Her doctoral research focused on practical strategies for improving teaching practices.	2023 IRF-Wabule	2023 IRF	Alice Wabule	Wabule	Uganda	Alice
Kaman, Nadège Ludvine Tedongmo Epse	Lecturer	History and Archeology	University of Dschang	History,International Relations	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 IRF 2023 Institutional imbroglios in the Gulf of Guinea. When the fight against maritime crime leads to competitive logics University of Dschang Cameroon	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	History and Archeology	University of Dschang	Cameroon	2023	Nadège Ludvine Tedongmo is a history lecturer at the University of Dschang (Cameroon). Her research focuses on maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea, with a particular attention to governance challenges, social identities, and regional security dynamics. She also explores the intersections of gender, conflict, and peace in Africa, contributing to debates on inclusive peacebuilding and security governance. she has published extensively on these themes in academic journals and collective volumes. She is a recipient of the 2023 African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Fellowship, and the 2024-2025 Meaning-making Research Inititiatives (MRI) of CODESRIA.	2023 IRF-Kaman	2023 IRF	Nadège Ludvine Tedongmo Epse Kaman	Kaman	Cameroon	Nadège Ludvine Tedongmo Epse
Gwatirisa, Yemurai	Lecturer (2023)	Education and Language Skills	Botho University Botswana	Education	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 IRF 2023 The role played by the arts in fostering peace and reconciliation in the aftermath of the Gukurahundi genocide in Zimbabwe Botho University Botswana Botswana	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	Department Education and Language Skills	Botho University Botswana	Botswana	2023	Dr. Yemurai Gwatirisa is an adjunct lecturer of German in the Department of Education and Language Skills at Botho University in Gaborone, Botswana. She holds a Ph.D. in German Studies from the University of Nairobi (Kenya), and a Double-Master Degree in German-Mediavistics from the Universities of Bremen (Germany) and Porto (Portugal). She also holds a BA Special Honours Degree in English (UZ) as well as a BA Degree in English, German and Religious Studies (University of Zimbabwe, UZ). She completed a post-doctoral fellowship on the Zimbabwean memory culture with Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen (RWTH) in Aachen, Germany. Her research interests are in memory culture, cross- and intercultural studies, the teaching of German as a foreign language, gender and literary studies. She is a co-author of a textbook for German language learners in Africa called Und jetzt WIR. Her work has been published in journals such as iudicium Verlag GmbH, eDUSA Deutschunterricht im Südlichen Afrika, Weidler Buchverlag Berlin, Peter Lang Verlag, Springer Nature and Journal of African Indigenous Languages and Literature, Weaver Press among others.	2023 IRF-Gwatirisa	2023 IRF	Yemurai Gwatirisa	Gwatirisa	Zimbabwe	Yemurai
Mwaura, Job Muiruri	Research Associate	Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology	Ludwig Maxmillian University of Munich	Media Studies,Communications	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 IRF 2023 Ethical Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence in Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution in Kenya University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2016 THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN PROTEST BEHAVIOUR AND ACTIVISM: A STUDY OF BLOGGERS IN KENYA University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	APN IRF; Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Research Associate; Part-time Lecturer	Centre for Journalism; SHRD, Department of Communication Studies	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2023; 2016	Dr. Job Mwaura is a Research Associate at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ludwig Maxmillian University of Munich, and a past fellow of the prestigious Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Next Generation of Social Sciences in Africa program. Earning his PhD in Media Studies from the same university, his illustrious academic career includes affiliations with George Mason University (VA, USA), Strathmore University (Nairobi, Kenya), and past fellowships at Wits Centre for Journalism, Stellenbosch University (South Africa) and the University of Cape Town (South Africa). He is an integral part of the Association of Internet Researchers' Executive Committee. Dr. Mwaura's research spans across digital media in Africa, emerging technologies like AI and immersive technologies and their intersection with society in Africa - areas he also publishes in. His scholarship has earned him numerous awards and research grants, strengthening his reputation as a leading voice in his field.	2023 IRF-Mwaura; 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Mwaura	2023 IRF; 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Job Muiruri Mwaura	Mwaura	Kenya	Job Muiruri
Oshodi, Abdul-Gafar Oluwatobiloba	Senior Lecturer	Department of Political Science	Lagos State University	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 IRF 2023 News media and Nigerians in Ghana: Exploring the Prospects and Challenges of Peace Journalism Lagos State University Nigeria 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2013 Political Economy of Sino-Africa Infrastructural Development Partnership: A Study of Nigeria University of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa	APN IRF; Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Lecturer; Assistant Lecturer	Department of Political Science	Lagos State University; University of KwaZulu-Natal	Nigeria; South Africa	2023; 2013	Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi lectures in the Department of Political Science, Lagos State University and holds a PhD in Social Sciences from KU Leuven. His research straddles international relations, comparative politics and development studies with strong bias for Africa-China relations, research ethics, intra-Africa migration, environmental politics, nation-building and the ‘youth question’ in Africa. A former journalist, he was a recipient of the SSRC’s Next Generation of Social Science in Africa fellowship (2013-2014), University of Edinburgh's Centre for African Studies catalyst fellowship (2019 and 2020), American Council of Learned Societies’ African Humanities Program fellowship (2020-2021), Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa fellowship (2022-2023), the African Peacebuilding Network postdoctoral fellowship (2023-2024), and University of Turku’s MEGA fellowship in 2024. He is a co-founder of the Conflict Research Network West Africa (CORN-West Africa) and the Nigeria Africa-China Research Group (NiACReG), a local chapter of the Chinese in Africa/Africans in China (CA/AC) Research Network.	2023 IRF-Oshodi; 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Oshodi	2023 IRF; 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Abdul-Gafar Oluwatobiloba Oshodi	Oshodi	Nigeria	Abdul-Gafar Oluwatobiloba
Marowa, Ivan	Senior Lecturer	History, Heritage and Knowledge Systems	University of Zimbabwe	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 IRF 2023 Memories and the Dynamics of Social Conflict in Dandawa Chiefdom, North-Western Zimbabwe: A Socio-historical Analysis, c1976-2018 University of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe	APN IRF	APN	Senior Lecturer	History, Heritage and Knowledge Systems	University of Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	2023	Ivan Marowa is a social historian whose research interests include social conflict, social memories, forced movements, human-environmental relations, and human-wildlife conflict. Currently, he is researching the water crisis and water-based conflicts in Hurungwe District. He is developing a research proposal on Footpaths, Forest Livelihoods, and Climate Change in North Western Zimbabwe.	2023 IRF-Marowa	2023 IRF	Ivan Marowa	Marowa	Zimbabwe	Ivan
John, Sokfa Francis	Mediation and Peacebuilding Adviser & Researcher	Department of Political Sciences; Centre for Mediation in Africa	University of Pretoria	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 IRF 2023 The ‘Local’-Digital Nexus in peacebuilding in Africa: A Transformative and Decolonial Investigation University of Pretoria South Africa 2025 RPF 2025 The ‘Local’-Digital Nexus in peacebuilding in Africa: A Transformative and Decolonial Investigation University of Pretoria South Africa	APN IRF; APN RPF	APN	Research Fellow & Deputy Director	Department of Political Sciences; Centre for Mediation in Africa	University of Pretoria	South Africa	2023; 2025	Sokfa John is a scholar-practitioner in mediation, conflict transformation and peacebuilding. He is currently an SSRC-APN Research Policy Fellow, hosted at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Addis Ababa. He is a Mediation and Peacebuilding Adviser at the Centre for Mediation in Africa (CMA), University of Pretoria. Sokfa is also a National Geographic Explorer. His current research focuses on Digital Peacebuilding in Africa and cultural technologies of peacemaking. His practice covers a broad range of conflicts. Sokfa co-leads the African Community Mediation initiatives of the Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBBI).	2023 IRF-John; 2025 RPF-John	2023 IRF; 2025 RPF	Sokfa Francis John	John	Nigeria	Sokfa Francis
Alhaj Mustafa Mohamed, Abdaljbar	Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer	Institut des mondes africains - IMAF and Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology	Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne,University of Khartoum	Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 IRF 2023 Custom and Power at time of Revolution: The galad institution and peacebuilding in “Post-Inghaz” Eastern Sudan University of Khartoum Sudan (the)	APN IRF	APN		Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology	University of Khartoum	Sudan (the)	2023	Abdaljbar A. M. M. EJAMI was granted the PhD in Anthropology from the University of Paris 8, France, in 2022. The thesis title is “Colonial and Postcolonial Politics of Religion and Ethnicity: Historical Anthropology of Eastern Sudan’s Marginalization”. I have been a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Faculty of Economic and Social Studies at the University of Khartoum. Since 2021, I have been taking part in the THAWRA-SuR project, funded by the French ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche), on the Sudanese Revolution. My main research areas of interests are Religion, Ethnicity, Identity, Marginalization, Colonial Intellectual & Institutional legacies, geopolitics in the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa. Recently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne	2023 IRF-Mohamed	2023 IRF	Abdaljbar Alhaj Mustafa Mohamed	Mohamed	Sudan (the)	Abdaljbar Alhaj Mustafa
John, Ruth Wairimu	Lecturer	Geography, Tourism and Hospitality Studies	The Open University of Tanzania	Geography	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 IRF 2023 Community-Based Wildlife Management Area as a tool for conflict resolution between Conservation Practices and Livelihood needs in Loliondo Game Reserve, Tanzania The Open University of Tanzania Tanzania	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	Geography, Tourism and Hospitality Studies	The Open University of Tanzania	Tanzania	2023	Dr. Ruth John is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Tourism, and Hospitality Services at the Open University of Tanzania. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Dar es Salaam. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on Conservation Partnerships in Tanzania’s Wildlife Management Areas: Implications for Wildlife Utilization and Livelihood Sustainability in Rufiji District. She has taken part in New Partnership for Sustainability (NEPSUS) research projects and participated in researching wildlife utilisation and livelihood sustainability and challenges of living near protected areas in Ngarambe -Tapika and JUHIWANGUMWA Wildlife Management Areas. Ruth and her colleagues have published working papers and blogs on conservation partnerships in Wildlife Management Areas near Selous Game Reserve. She holds a master's degree in geography and environmental management, where she did her research in the IKONA Wildlife Management Area near Serengeti National Park. She also did a Bachelor of Arts with Education in Geography and Linguistics from the University of Dar es Salaam. As a human geographer, her research interests are in human-environmental relationships, human-wildlife co-existence, sustainability of natural resource management, politics related to natural resources management, rural communities’ development, livelihood change, and social impact of protected areas.	2023 IRF-John	2023 IRF	Ruth Wairimu John	John	Tanzania	Ruth Wairimu
Kifle, Alagaw Ababu	Research Fellow and Head of Fellowships		African Leadership Centre	Peace and Security Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 IRF 2023 (How) can the Ethiopian Peace Process be Grounded in Local Peace and Reconciliation? A View from Below African Leadership Centre Kenya	APN IRF	APN	Research Fellow		African Leadership Centre	Kenya	2023	Alagaw Ababu Kifle is a Research Fellow and Head of Fellowship at the African Leadership Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. He holds a BA in Political Science and International Relations from Addis Ababa University, an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies from the joint programme between Addis Ababa University and the University for Peace, and an MA in Conflict, Security, and Development (with distinction) from King’s College London. In 2023, Alagaw became the first graduate of the Joint PhD programme in Leadership and Security Studies between the University of Pretoria and King’s College London. With over a decade of experience in teaching and research, Alagaw has published extensively in academic and policy-oriented platforms. His work explores leadership and developmental coalitions, political settlements and peacebuilding in Africa, the role of international financial institutions in fragile and conflict-affected states, ad hoc security arrangements and peacebuilding in Africa, and localized conflicts and their resolution in Africa, and the political economy of (in)security in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa.	2023 IRF-Kifle	2023 IRF	Alagaw Ababu Kifle	Kifle	Ethiopia	Alagaw Ababu
Ibrahim, Ahmed Sharif	Research Associate	Sociology	St. Augustine University of Tanzania	Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 IRF 2023 Roots of Islamist politics: land and real estate conflicts in Somalia St. Augustine University of Tanzania Tanzania	APN IRF	APN	Research Fellow	Sociology	St. Augustine University of Tanzania	Tanzania	2023	Dr. Ahmed Sh. Ibrahim is a socio-cultural anthropologist with a PhD from the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). He has held teaching positions at several institutions including Carleton College and Hunter College (CUNY). He is currently a research fellow at St. Augustine University of Tanzania. Dr. Ibrahim has done research in East Africa and among the African diaspora in the U.S. with a focus on the anthropology of religion and politics. His research has appeared in academic journals, edited volumes, and popular websites such as Africa is a Country and Responsible Statecraft.	2023 IRF-Ibrahim	2023 IRF	Ahmed Sharif Ibrahim	Ibrahim	Somalia,United States of America (the)	Ahmed Sharif
Mngutyo, Irene Doosuur	Professor and Head of Department	Urban and Regional Planning	Benue State University	Urban Planning	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 IRF 2023 Public Realms, Urban Protest and Peace Building: The ENDSARS Protests in Nigeria Benue State University Nigeria 2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2015 Street utilization patterns and sustainable urbanization in Makurdi,Benue State Nigeria Benue State University Nigeria 2020 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2020 Interrogating access to public space for peace, security and development of African cities. Benue State University Nigeria	APN IRF; Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Associate Professor; Teaching Staff/Lecturer 1; Senior Lecturer	Department of Urban and Regional Planning	Benue State University	Nigeria	2023; 2015; 2020	Irene Doosuur Mngutyo is a professor on the faculty of the Urban and Regional planning department of Benue State University. She holds a master's in architecture as well as master’s degree and Ph.D. in Urban and Regional planning and is a prolific scholar with over forty (40) publications. She is a proposal development fellow of the prestigious Next Generation Social Science in Africa Fellowship Programme in 2015-16 cohort, a fellow of the Social Science Research Council Dissertation based Writing Fellowship for 2020-21, a recipient of the TEFUND NRF 2022 and APN IRF for 2023.She is a registered town planner and a fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Architects. Currently, she is the Head of the Urban and Regional Planning Department as well as the Deputy Director of the Center for Research Management at the Benue state University in Makurdi, Benue State Nigeria. Besides all these responsibilities Irene is actively pursuing research interests in urban design, migration studies, architectural history, gender and environmental studies.	2023 IRF-Mngutyo; 2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Mngutyo; 2020 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship-Mngutyo	2023 IRF; 2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2020 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Irene Doosuur Mngutyo	Mngutyo	Nigeria	Irene Doosuur
Ngowi, Edwin Estomii	Senior Lecturer	Department of Development and Strategic Studies (DDSS)	University of Dodoma	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 IRF 2023 Space-Time Analysis to Uncover the Nature and Complexities of Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Kilosa and Mvomero Districts, Tanzania: A Geodatabase Development Sokoine University of Agriculture Tanzania 2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2012 The Interface between Information and Communication Technologies and Sustainable Agro-Livestock Livelihoods: A Study of Selected Rural Areas of Tanzania University of Dodoma Tanzania	APN IRF; Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Lecturer	Department of Development and Strategic Studies	Sokoine University of Agriculture; University of Dodoma	Tanzania	2023; 2012	Dr. Edwin E. Ngowi is a distinguished scholar and educator who has dedicated his career to advancing knowledge in the fields of rural development, climate change, energy transitions, natural resources conflict, and peace. His commitment to sustainable development and his outstanding contributions have earned him recognition and a nomination for the prestigious APN 2023 Individual Research Fellowship (IRF) Award. Dr. Ngowi’s academic journey began with a Bachelor’s degree in Veterinary Medicine (BVM), a testament to his early fascination with the intricate connections between the environment, animal health, and human well-being. He continued his academic pursuits at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), where he earned a Master’s degree in Rural Development (MARD). This period marked the beginning of his deep exploration into the multifaceted challenges faced by rural communities in Tanzania and beyond. Driven by a relentless pursuit of knowledge and a passion for improving the lives of marginalized populations, Dr. Ngowi embarked on a remarkable journey that culminated in a Ph.D. in Rural Development from the University of Dodoma (UDOM), Tanzania. His doctoral research delved into complex issues surrounding natural resources conflict and strategies for sustainable peacebuilding in rural settings. Today, as a Senior Lecturer at Sokoine University of Agriculture within the Department of Development and Strategic Studies (DDSS), Dr. Ngowi plays a pivotal role in shaping the next generation of development professionals. His dynamic teaching style, combined with his extensive research experience, empowers students to tackle real-world challenges with innovative solutions. Dr. Ngowi’s research endeavours have left an indelible mark on the fields of climate change, energy transitions, and sustainable development. His work not only contributes to the global conversation on these critical issues but also addresses the unique challenges faced by East African communities. His commitment to community engagement ensures that his research is not confined to academic circles but directly benefits those who need it most. As a nominee for the APN 2023 Individual Research Fellowship (IRF) Award, Dr. Ngowi’s vision for the future is clear. He aims to continue pushing the boundaries of knowledge in his areas of expertise, striving for actionable research that can bring about positive change. With a deep understanding of the interconnectedness of climate change, energy transitions, natural resources conflict, and peace, he is poised to make a lasting impact on the world stage. Dr. Edwin E. Ngowi's journey from a veterinary medicine graduate to a leading scholar in rural development is a testament to his unwavering dedication to improving the lives of communities in Tanzania and beyond. His research, teaching, and advocacy are driving forces in the pursuit of a more sustainable, equitable, and peaceful world. The APN 2023 Individual Research Fellowship (IRF) nomination is a recognition of his exceptional contributions, and we eagerly anticipate the transformative impact he will continue to make in the years to come.	2023 IRF-Ngowi; 2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ngowi	2023 IRF; 2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Edwin Estomii Ngowi	Ngowi	Tanzania	Edwin Estomii
Hove, Godfrey	Senior Lecturer	Historical Studies	National University of Lesotho	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 IRF 2023 The Land question and Conflict in Mafeteng District of Lesotho: the imperatives of land management and peacebuilding National University of Lesotho Lesotho	APN IRF	APN	Senior Lecturer	History	National University of Lesotho	Lesotho	2023	Godfrey Hove is a socio-environmental historian whose research interests lie in the environmental and agrarian histories of Southern Africa and the political economy of development in a historical perspective. His work on how humans have interacted with the land, flora, and fauna as they negotiate survival in ever-changing socio-environmental circumstances. More specifically, his works emphasize on the nexus between environmental change, land and agrarian regimes, state policy, local initiatives, and rural livelihoods. He holds a doctoral degree in History from Stellenbosch University, an MA in African Economic History, and an Honours degree in Economic History from the University of Zimbabwe. He has been a recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies African Humanities Program post-doctoral fellowship and the German Academic Exchange Services ClimapAfrica Fellowship. This latest research experience has inspired him to explore the nexus between land, agriculture, conflict, and peacebuilding in Lesotho. He is also a Research Associate with Stellenbosch University and is currently engaged as a senior lecturer and Head of the Department of Historical Studies, National University of Lesotho.	2023 IRF-Hove	2023 IRF	Godfrey Hove	Hove	Zimbabwe	Godfrey
Frimpong, Louis Kusi	Lecturer	Geography and Earth Science	University of Environment and Sustainable Development	Geography	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 IRF 2023 The urban wetland-conflict nexus in Ghana’s urbanisation: A commons approach to managing ecologically sensitive resources in Accra University of Environment and Sustainable Development Ghana	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	Geography and Earth Science	University of Environment and Sustainable Development	Ghana	2023	Dr. Louis Kusi Frimpong is a lecturer in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of Environment and Sustainable Development in Somanya. He holds a PhD in Geography and Resource Development from the University of Ghana. He has researched and published in fields such as urban livelihoods, urban environmental problems, community-based development, environmental risk and management, and walkable cities. He is a co-editor of two books on environmental risk management in small towns in a global context and also in Ghana. He was the principal investigator for the project titled “After the War and Ebola: Community-Based Revitalization of Urban Neighborhoods in Freetown,” funded by the Konosuke Matsushita Foundation Research Grant Award in 2020. He is currently a co-investigator for the project titled “Walking the Talk: Envisioning Walkable, Climate-Resilient Infrastructures in Accra, Ghana,” funded by the UCL Research Progression Award – Supporting ODA Initiatives grant. He was also an African Peacebuilding Network (APN) individual research fellow (IRF) in 2023.	2023 IRF-Frimpong	2023 IRF	Louis Kusi Frimpong	Frimpong	Ghana	Louis Kusi
Onapajo, Hakeem Olakunle	Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Director	Legislative Center for Security Analysis	"National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, Abuja"	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 IRF 2023 Child Soldiers and Armed Conflict in Northeastern Nigeria: Understanding an Unpacked Dimension of Insurgency in Nigeria Nile University of Nigeria Nigeria	APN IRF	APN	Senior Lecturer	Department of Political Science & International Relations	Nile University of Nigeria	Nigeria	2023	Hakeem Onapajo is an Associate Professor of Political Science and holds the position of Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Director at the Legislative Center for Security Analysis, National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) in Abuja, Nigeria. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He has research and teaching experiences in universities in Nigeria and South Africa. Prof. Onapajo researches in the areas of conflict and terrorism and elections and democratization in Africa. He was a Fellow of the African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (2021/22) and the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) fellowship (2023/24). Prof. Onapajo has published extensively on elections, conflict and development in West Africa, and his publications have appeared in major outlets.	2023 IRF-Onapajo	2023 IRF	Hakeem Olakunle Onapajo	Onapajo	Nigeria	Hakeem Olakunle
Hadji, Mustapha	Associate Fellow		Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis	Peace and Security Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 IRF 2023 The Silenced Memories of the Years of Lead: Perspectives From the Margins Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis Morocco	APN IRF	APN	Associate Fellow		Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis	Morocco	2023	Mustapha Hadji is a researcher on transitional justice, memory, and migration. His experience includes, among other things, working as a program manager with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Morocco and with the International Committee of the Red Cross, where he was a field protection delegate in charge of the protection of the civilian populations affected by conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a protection delegate in charge of conducting visits to high-security detention centers in Chad. Mr. Hadji holds a master’s degree in Global Affairs from George Mason University in the United States, a master’s degree in Human Rights and Democratization from the Global Campus of Human Rights in Italy, and a bachelor’s degree in public law and international Affairs from Moulay Ismail University in Morocco. Mr. Hadji is a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Law and Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany, and a research fellow at the Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis (MIPA). Mr. Hadji has recently published a study commissioned by the New York City-based International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) on Morocco’s transitional justice experience and prevention. The study explores the nexus between transitional justice mechanisms and the prevention of gross human rights violations.	2023 IRF-Hadji	2023 IRF	Mustapha Hadji	Hadji	Morocco,United States of America (the)	Mustapha
Adam, Sani Yakubu	Senior Lecturer	History	Bayero University	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 IRF 2024 Islamism and Power Dynamics: Contestations over Authority and Religious Conflicts in Northern Nigeria 1980 – 2015 Bayero University Nigeria 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2018 A History of the Islamic Book Market in Kano Metropolis 1903-2015 University of Cape Town South Africa 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2019 A History of the Islamic Book Market in Kano, Northern Nigeria 1903-2015 University of Cape Town South Africa 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2020 Urban History of the Islamic Book Market in Kano, Northern Nigeria University of Cape Town South Africa	APN IRF; Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Lecturer I; Assistant Lecturer; Lecturer II	History; Department of History	Bayero University; University of Cape Town	Nigeria; South Africa	2024; 2018; 2019; 2020	Sani Yakubu Adam is a lecturer in History at Bayero University Kano, Nigeria. His areas of interests include religious conflict the history of Islam in northern Nigeria and the book history of the region. He was a fellow of the All-Africa House Fellowship of the University of Cape Town in 2015 and recipient of Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Proposal, Doctoral Research and Completion Fellowships. He completed a PhD from the University of Cape Town. His dissertation focused on the formation and expansion of the book market of Kano, the major entrepot of northern Nigeria. Its central thesis revolves around the intersection between the book distribution process and the religious unrest in northern Nigeria.	2024 IRF-Adam; 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Adam; 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Adam; 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Adam	2024 IRF; 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Sani Yakubu Adam	Adam	Nigeria	Sani Yakubu
Workneh, Yilkal Ayalew	Assistant Professor	Department of Civics and Ethical Studies	Debre Tabor University	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 IRF 2024 Amhara Nationalism and Its Repercussions in Ethiopia: Designing an Inclusive Peace Settlement and Political System Debre Tabor University Ethiopia	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies	Debre Tabor University	Ethiopia	2024	Yilkal Ayalew Workneh earned his Ph.D. in Federalism and Governance from Addis Ababa University's Center for Federalism and Governance Studies. He has been working as an assistant professor in the department of Civics and Ethical Studies and research and community service coordinator at the College of Social Science and Humanities at Debre Tabor University. His research interests are identity politics, state-nation building, federalism, and local governance. Yilkal has worked on several independent and collaborative academic and policy-related projects across the interdisciplinary fields of governance, federalism, and peacebuilding. He has been researching in the above areas and has published research papers and reports in reputable journals and repositories. He was also an APN IRF 2024 and a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Research (2019) Fellow.	2024 IRF-Workneh	2024 IRF	Yilkal Ayalew Workneh	Workneh	Ethiopia	Yilkal Ayalew
Paalo, Sebastian Angzoorokuu	Lecturer	Department of History and Political Studies	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology	Peace and Security Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 IRF 2024 Ambiguous Empowerment? A Feminist Critical Peace Reading of Women’s Empowerment in Peacebuilding, Ghana and Sierra Leone. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology South Africa	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	History and Political Studies	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology	South Africa	2024	Sebastian Paalo is a lecturer in the Department of History and Political Studies at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science and International Studies from The University of Queensland in Australia. Sebastian serves on the Board of Directors for the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) Foundation, is the Assistant Director for Research at the Institute for Research and Policy Integration in Africa (IRPIA), and is a Fellow in energy policy research at the Brew-Hammond Energy Centre at KNUST. His publications and policy work focus on Governance, International Peace and Security, and International Relations. He has contributed to several projects, including his collaborative policy research with Chatham House on Forest Governance in Africa, an APN Individual Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY), and a lithium mining project in Ghana funded by the University of Florida.	2024 IRF-Paalo	2024 IRF	Sebastian Angzoorokuu Paalo	Paalo	Ghana	Sebastian Angzoorokuu
Kavishe, Angela Mathias	Lecturer	Department of Social Studies	The Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy	Women and Gender Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 IRF 2024 The Intersection between Technology, Gender and Security: A Study of Perception and Responsiveness to Cyberstalking among Female Students in selected Tanzanian Higher Learning Institutions The Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy Tanzania	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer and Head of Academic Department	Leadership, Ethics and Governance	The Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy	Tanzania	2024	Dr. Angela Mathias Kavishe (PhD) is a 46-year-old Tanzanian woman working as a Lecturer in the Department of Social Studies at the Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy (MNMA), a higher learning institution in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She specializes in Gender Studies, Sociology and Leadership. Dr. Kavishe is a graduate of B.A and M.A. in Sociology in 2004 and 2008, respectively, from the University of Dar es Salaam; MPhil in Gender and Development at Bergen University–Norway (2009-2012). It was from the research topic for her MPhil on human trafficking in Tanzania that she developed interesting gender and human security. Her PhD (in Sociology) undertaken at the KwaZulu Natal University in South Africa (2019-2021) plunged her deeper into female university students’ online security, an area of study which is less explored and which she continues to delve further. Dr. Angela’s interests in teaching, researching, and consulting revolve around women’s economic empowerment, human security, child rights and protection, gender studies, gender-based violence, human trafficking, and women's and children’s health. Dr. Angela Kavishe speaks fluent Kiswahili and English. Supported by an APN Next Generation grant, her recent project critically investigated how cyber violence systematically blur female university students dreams and possibly and detrimentally affecting women’s academic pursuits and digital participation.	2024 IRF-Kavishe	2024 IRF	Angela Mathias Kavishe	Kavishe	Tanzania	Angela Mathias
Sekito, Zaid	Lecturer	Department of History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies	Makerere University	Law and Society,Interdisciplinary; History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 IRF 2024 YOUTH AS PEACEBUILDERS: A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF UGANDA’S RESPONSE TO UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 2250 (UNSCR 2250) Makerere University Uganda 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2020 A Historical Perspective of the Dynamics of Terrorism in Uganda, 1976 - 2015 Makerere University Uganda	APN IRF; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Assistant Professor; Assistant Lecturer	Civic and Ethical Studies; History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies	Makerere University	Uganda	2024; 2020	Dr. Zaid Sekito is a Lecturer of History in the Department of History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies, School of Liberal and Performing Arts (SLPA), College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS), Makerere University. He holds a PhD in History (Terrorism Studies) from Makerere University. His PhD thesis examined how contests over the definition, conceptualisation and deployment of ‘terrorism’ in global geopolitics are integrated within the Ugandan state’s strategic security position and Uganda’s experiences of terrorist violence from the late 1970s until 2015. Zaid is a recepient of The Gerda Henkel Foundation Doctoral Fellowship (2017), Next-Gen Dissertation Completion (2020), African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Early Career Researcher (2022), Archiving Memory and Method (AMM) from the Global South Fellow (2022) British Academy Writing Fellowship (2023), APN Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2024) and Carnegie II Post-Doctoral Fellow under the Consolidating Early Career Academic Programme at Makerere University and Partner Universities (2025). His research interests are in Terrorism studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, and Youth Agency. He is also currently the Coordinator, Graduate Studies at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Makerere University.	2024 IRF-Sekito; 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Sekito	2024 IRF; 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Zaid Sekito	Sekito	Uganda	Zaid
Ndlovu, Thatshisiwe T.	Post Doctoral Researcher	Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST)	University of the Witwatersrand	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 IRF 2024 Generational talk: The role of storytelling in confronting apartheid trauma, healing, and peacebuilding in South Africa University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2017 Ukuthwala in rural South Africa: Abduction marriage as a site of contention between state policies, human rights and customary law in rural Kwazulu Natal and Eastern Cape. University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2021 A Punctuated Life: An Ethnographic Study of the Practice of Ukuthwalwa in South Africa University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2023 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2023 “Standing their Ground while seated: The Birth of Widowhood Activism” University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	APN IRF; Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship; Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Post Doctoral Researcher; Ph.D. Candidate; Ph.D. Researcher; Senior Researcher	Psychology; Public Affairs Research Institute	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2024; 2017; 2021; 2023	Thatshisiwe Ndlovu is a postdoctoral fellow at the Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST) at the University of Witwatersrand. She is a 2024 African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Fellow and holds a PhD in Development Studies from university of Witwatersrand (2022). Her research broadly examines the lived realities of trauma, revealing how individuals navigate its enduring emotional, social, and political effects. Working at the intersections of violence, subjectivity, gender, and indigenous cultures, she explores trauma, memory, and resistance, using storytelling and narrative enquiry to illuminate complex realities and amplify marginalized voices. Her doctoral work investigated how culture, tradition, and custom intersect with violence, shaping the subjectivities of trauma, forms of political agency, resistance, and patriarchal power. Ndlovu has previously served as a Researcher at Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) as well as a Research Fellow at Society, Work and Politics Institute (SWOP) at the University of Witwatersrand.	2024 IRF-Ndlovu; 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ndlovu; 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ndlovu; 2023 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship-Ndlovu	2024 IRF; 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship; 2023 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Thatshisiwe T. Ndlovu	Ndlovu	Zimbabwe	Thatshisiwe T.
Maliehe, Sean Morenakemang	Senior Lecturer	Department of Historical Studies	National University of Lesotho	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 IRF 2024 Commissioning Peace in Lesotho: The Rise and Fall of the National Reforms Authority National University of Lesotho Lesotho	APN IRF	APN	Senior Lecturer	Historical Studies	National University of Lesotho	Lesotho	2024	Sean Maliehe holds a PhD in History from the University of Pretoria, MA in History, and BA in Development Studies & Environmental History from the National University of Lesotho. He is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies, National University of Lesotho. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein. Sean's work focuses on the economic history of Lesotho and the development of Mobile Money in South Africa, Diepsloot. He has held two post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Pretoria’s Human Economy Programme, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, and in the Department of Historical & Heritage Studies.	2024 IRF-Maliehe	2024 IRF	Sean Morenakemang Maliehe	Maliehe	Lesotho	Sean Morenakemang
Kuek, Aleu Garang Aleu	Assistant Professor and Dean	School of Community Studies and Rural Development	University of Juba	Peace and Security Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 IRF 2024 Role of Borders as a Source of Conflicts in the Borderland Communities in Nimule Border, South Sudan University of Juba Zimbabwe	APN IRF	APN	Assistant Professor	Community Studies	University of Juba	Zimbabwe	2024	I was born in 1984 in Bor, Southern Sudan. I stayed in Uganda for over twenty years as a refugee because of the civil war that broke out in 1983. Despite all these circumstances, I was lucky to go to school and complete my studies. I am already engaged in the field of academia, and I hope to remain in it for life. I have so far taught for at least ten years at the University of Juba. I am a researcher in the field of peacebuilding and borderland dynamics. I have conducted a number of consultancies with various NGOs in South Sudan. I hold an MA and a PhD obtained from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. I am an Assistant Professor of Social Work at the School of Community Studies and Rural Development, University of Juba. In recent years, I have taken up an administrative role as Head of the Department of Library and Information Science in the same school.	2024 IRF-Kuek	2024 IRF	Aleu Garang Aleu Kuek	Kuek	South Sudan	Aleu Garang Aleu
Dube, Thembani	Senior Lecturer	History	Stellenbosch University	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 IRF 2024 “Gukurahundi” genocide, Kalanga communities along the Zimbabwe-Botswana border and the attempt at peace building and healing in Zimbabwe, 1983-2022 Stellenbosch University South Africa	APN IRF	APN	Senior Lecturer	History	Stellenbosch University	South Africa	2024	Dr. Thembani Dube is a Senior lecturer in the Department of History, Stellenbosch University. She holds a PhD in History from the University of the Witwatersrand, a Master's in African History, a Bachelor of Arts (Special Honors) in History, and a Bachelor of Arts (General) degree from the University of Zimbabwe. She works on pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial Southern African History (Zimbabwe in particular) with special interest in social history, identity and belonging She is currently working on, Kalanga: Identity, language and change in Zimbabwe, 1800-2022, a monograph that explores the (un)making of the Kalanga and how this identity evolved over time, mediated by different institutions such as chieftainship, religion and language in colonial and post-colonial states. Thembani was a recipient of the 2024 African Peacebuilding Network Individual Research Fellowship Award.	2024 IRF-Dube	2024 IRF	Thembani Dube	Dube	Zimbabwe	Thembani
Akande, Benyin Adah	Lecturer	Political Science	University of Calabar	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 IRF 2024 SEPARATISM AND GENDER ROLES: EXPLORING WOMEN’S INVOLVEMENT IN THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA (IPOB) MOVEMENT IN SOUTH-EAST NIGERIA. University of Calabar Nigeria 2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2019 The Impacts of Environmental Hazards on Sustainable Food Security in Nigeria's Niger Delta Region : Towards a Policy Framework University of Uyo Nigeria	APN IRF; Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Lecturer; Assistant Lecturer	Political Science	University of Calabar; University of Uyo	Nigeria	2024; 2019	Benyin Akande is a lecturer at the Department of Political Science University of Calabar Nigeria. She holds a PhD in Public Administration from the University of Uyo, Nigeria. Her research interests are in public policy, gender, conflict studies, and decolonization. Benyin Akande is a 2019 Next Gen Fellow of the Social Science Research Council, a 2023/2024 African Fellow of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and a 2024 winter fellow of the University of Michigan’s African Presidential Scholars Program. Her current research examines women's involvement in secessionist movements in contemporary Africa through the lens of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in South East Nigeria.	2024 IRF-Akande; 2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Akande	2024 IRF; 2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Benyin Adah Akande	Akande	Nigeria	Benyin Adah
Adam, Issahaku	Professor	Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management	University of Cape Coast	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 IRF 2024 TOWARDS DURABLE PEACE: TOURISM INDUCED NATURAL RESOURCE CONFLICT IN THE KAKUM NATIONAL PARK AREA OF GHANA University of Cape Coast Ghana	APN IRF	APN	Professor	History	University of Cape Coast	Ghana	2024	Dr. Issahaku Adam is a Professor Of Tourism Management, The Department of Hospitality And Tourism Management at The University of Cape Coast in Ghana. He has over 15 years’ experience in teaching, research, consultancy, and community engagement in tourism management. Dr. Adam's research spans different areas in tourism management including community development issues in tourism, sustainable tourism, climate change adaptation in tourism, tourist behaviour and experience, accessible tourism, inclusive leisure, behaviour change communication, and gendered dimensions of tourism development. He has also worked on valorisation of cultural heritage assets. He has undertaken projects for the World Bank in The Gambia, United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) in Ghana and Nigeria, the National Geographic Society, Global Affairs Canada, USAID, Ghana Heritage Conservation Trust (GHCT), Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), UK and GIZ among others on varied issues in tourism and related areas. He is a National Geographic Explorer, and a fellow of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU). His current research work funded by the Social Science Research Council Through the African Peacebuilding Network explores natural resource conflict between park managers, wildlife, and residents of communities surrounding the Kakum National Park.	2024 IRF-Adam	2024 IRF	Issahaku Adam	Adam	Ghana	Issahaku
Bello, Madinatu	Lecturer	Theatre and Film Studies	University of Cape Coast	Drama,Theatre,Interdisciplinary Arts	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 IRF 2024 Cultures, media and arts of peace: Ghanaian female traditional master drummers in the performance of peace, inclusivity, and strong institutions University of Cape Coast Ghana	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	Theatre and Film Studies	University of Cape Coast	Ghana	2024	Dr. Madinatu Bello is a Lecturer of performing arts at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. She researches in arts management and marketing, gender studies, cultural sustainability and cultural practices in peacebuilding. She read Music Education for her doctoral studies where she explored collaborative strategies for building and sustaining the arts market in the Cape Coast metropolis of Ghana in 2020. She is a DAAD alumna, a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for the African Humanities Program (AHP) in 2022 and a 2024 African Peacebuilding Network -Individual Research Fellowship Award of the SSRC. Her current published manuscript “Gender and cultural regeneration in indigenous drumming in Ghana: towards a gender-inclusive, regenerative cultural policy rethinking” (2025) argues for a rethinking of Ghana’s cultural policy to dismantle patriarchal barriers and promote gender inclusivity for sustainable cultural regeneration. She reviews for Journal of Cultural Trends.	2024 IRF-Bello	2024 IRF	Madinatu Bello	Bello	Ghana	Madinatu
Chipato, Fadzai	Lecturer	Sociology and Social Anthropology	Great Zimbabwe University	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 IRF 2024 Resource Grabbing in the Name of Climate Change? The Political Economy of Carbon Credits in Rural Zimbabwe Great Zimbabwe University Ethiopia	APN IRF	APN	Zimbabwe	Lecturer	Great Zimbabwe University	Ethiopia	2024	Fadzai Chipato is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Great Zimbabwe University. She holds a PhD in International Development Studies from China Agricultural University in Beijing, China. Her research focuses on the intersections of climate change, energy, land governance, livelihoods, and displacement, and how these dynamics reinforce inequality and marginalisation of Indigenous communities. Her academic work draws from intersectionality and political economy frameworks. Fadzai is an early-career researcher with substantial experience in conducting participatory research, in-depth interviews, workshops, and reporting for NGOs and research institutions in Southern Africa and Southeast Asia. She is also a recipient of the Social Science Research Council’s 2024 Africa Peacebuilding Network (APN) Individual Research Fellowship (IRF Award, the International Poverty Reduction Centre in China (IPRCC), and the Sam Moyo African Institute of Agrarian Studies (SMAIAS) in Harare.	2024 IRF-Chipato	2024 IRF	Fadzai Chipato	Chipato	Zimbabwe	Fadzai
Lephoto, Malephoto Ruth	Senior Lecturer	Educational Foundations Department	National University of Lesotho	Education	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 IRF 2024 INVESTIGATING THE PRACTICE OF PEACE EDUCATION IN LESOTHO SCHOOLS: TOWARDS CREATION OF PEACEFUL AND NON-VIOLENT LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS National University of Lesotho Lesotho	APN IRF	APN	Faculty	Educational Foundations Department	National University of Lesotho	Lesotho	2024	Malephoto Niko Ruth Lephoto is senior lecturer, teacher educator and a researcher in the Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, National University of Lesotho. She holds a PhD in Psychology of Education from the University of the Free State, South Africa. Her Doctoral thesis, underpinned by Ubuntu/Botho philosophy and Relational Leadership theory as frameworks, focused on the enhancement of Guidance and Counseling as a critical educational component for creating sustainable learning ecologies. Her research interests and publications focus on issues of counseling practice in schools, psychosocial support provision and the creation of psychosocial learning environments, the promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence through education, the building of resilience, school wellness, inclusion in education and social and emotional learning. Malephoto teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate, supervising students at Masters and PhD level on research. Following her training on Peace Education and Education for Peacebuilding in 2021 by UNESCO IICBA “Transformative Pedagogy for Peace, Resilience Building and Prevention of Violent Extremism”, Malephoto became the promoter and coordinator of Education for Peacebuilding Initiatives and Activities. In 2023, she founded a peace and nonviolence youth-led organization “Young Educators for Peacebuilding and Empowerment Organisation'' (YEPEO) based in the Faculty of Education, National University of Lesotho. In April 2024, following her completion of the International Programme on Non-violence and Peace she was declared Non-violence and Peace Fellow by the Sevagram Ashram Pratishthan, India.	2024 IRF-Lephoto	2024 IRF	Malephoto Ruth Lephoto	Lephoto	Lesotho	Malephoto Ruth
Longba'am-Alli, Gloria	Academic	History & International Studies	University of Jos	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 IRF 2024 Unravelling Historical Threads: Memory, Grievances, and Conflict Resolution in Central Nigeria University of Jos Nigeria 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2021 Historicising Hybrid Conflict Management: State and non- State Dynamics in Nigeria's Middle Belt 1957- 2018 Makerere University Uganda 2023 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2023 "Beyond hybrid conflict management: Impact of landgrabs on conflict resolution in Central-Nigeria" University of Jos Nigeria	APN IRF; Next Gen Completion Fellowship; Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Academic; Lecturer II	History & International Studies	University of Jos; Makerere University	Nigeria; Uganda	2024; 2021; 2023	Gloria Longbaam-Alli obtained a Doctorate in History from Makerere University, where she was a recipient of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung Fellowship. She received support from the 2022 Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her PhD research. Her research on hybrid strategies for conflict management in Central Nigeria emphasized engaging local communities in peacebuilding and conflict resolution. The objective is to develop sustainable peace processes that effectively address unique conflict situations. Dr. Alli is presently a faculty member at the University of Jos, where she teaches courses on revolutions, gender studies, peacekeeping operations, and African security dynamics. She incorporates her extensive fieldwork experience and commitment to fostering peace and stability throughout Africa into her teaching. Her scholarly contributions, including numerous articles and book chapters, have significantly advanced knowledge in her field. Recently, Dr. Alli was awarded the 2023 SSRC Next Gen Postdoctoral Writing Fellowship and the 2024 APN IRF, allowing her to expand her research focus and disseminate her scholarly work to a global audience. She believes that her interdisciplinary approach and dedication to promoting peaceful coexistence make her well-suited to contribute significantly to conflict management and peacebuilding.	2024 IRF-Longba'am-Alli; 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Longba'am-Alli; 2023 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship-Longba'am-Alli	2024 IRF; 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship; 2023 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Gloria Longba'am-Alli	Longba'am-Alli	Nigeria	Gloria
Ayuk, Justine Etah	Associate Professor	Women and Gender Studies	University of Buea	Women and Gender Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 IRF 2024 Inclusion or Transformation? An African Feminist Approach to the Study of Women-led Peace Movements in Cameroon University of Buea Cameroon	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	Women and Gender Studies	University of Buea	Cameroon	2024	Justine Etah Ayuk is an associate professor of gender studies and a gender and development consultant. She serves as a higher education academic staff at the Department of Women and Gender Studies in the Faculty of Social and Management Sciences of the University of Buea, Cameroon. She holds a PhD in gender and development, a Master of Science in Women and Gender Studies and a Bachelor’s Degree in Women Studies from the University of Buea. She has over fifteen years of teaching and research experience in feminist thoughts and criticism, gender peacebuilding and human security, feminist research, feminist frameworks and gender analysis of development planning (policy, programme, and project planning). She is also a visiting consultant on gender issues at the United Nations Institute for Economic Development Planning (IDEP, Dakar Senegal), the Africa Program of the United Nations University for Peace (Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia), and the Pan African University of the African Union. She has a good track record of active involvement in gender capacity-building initiatives for local women political leaders and entrepreneurs and advocacy programs on eradicating sexual and gender-based violence in Cameroon.	2024 IRF-Ayuk	2024 IRF	Justine Etah Ayuk	Ayuk	Cameroon	Justine Etah
Roman, Nicolette Vanessa	South African Research Chair; Senior Professor; Director and Founder of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Children, Families and Society	The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Children, Families and Society	University of the Western Cape		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024-2026 CWG 2024-2026 Co-Creating Peace: Trust Building Mechanisms and Strategies for Social Harmony in South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda University of the Western Cape South Africa	APN CWG	APN	South Africa	The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Children, Families and Society	University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2024-2026	Family studies are the specialist focus of the South African Research Chair and Senior Professor Nicolette Roman, an esteemed academic who holds a PhD in Psychology. She is the visionary Founder and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Children, Families and Society (CISCFS) at the University of the Western Cape, and serves as a Visiting Professor at the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom. Among her many accolades are the inaugural HERS-SA Award for Women in Humanities and Social Science (2023) and several prestigious research excellence awards from UWC. Professor Roman's scholarship focuses on the family as a dynamic conduit for nurturing human capabilities and advancing social cohesion. She plays a pivotal role in multiple global research collaborations, addressing social inequalities (SDG10) and reimagining family structures across continents. With over 200 scholarly outputs and an international reputation, she is deeply committed to mentoring and capacity-building among early-career researchers in both the Global South and beyond.	2024-2026 CWG-Roman	2024-2026 CWG	Nicolette Vanessa Roman	Roman	South Africa	Nicolette Vanessa
Masita, Ednah Nyanduko	Lecturer	Department of Sociology, Psychology & Anthropology	Moi University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024-2026 CWG 2024-2026 Co-Creating Peace: Trust Building Mechanisms and Strategies for Social Harmony in South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda Moi University Kenya	APN CWG	APN	Kenya	Department of Sociology, Psychology & Anthropology	Moi University	Kenya	2024-2026	Dr. Ednah Masita is a Lecturer of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Anthropology in Moi University, Kenya. She has a Doctorate in Anthropology (2018) from Université de Pau et Des Pays de L'Adour (France). Her research interests are in the areas of family studies, health issues and gender studies. She has interest in policy uptake in order to transform society through current research. She is a recipient of African Peacebuilding Network (APN) 2024 Collaborative Working Group Fellowship Award by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).	2024-2026 CWG-Masita	2024-2026 CWG	Ednah Nyanduko Masita	Masita	Kenya	Ednah Nyanduko
Human-Hendricks, Anja Ruth		Department of Social Work	University of the Western Cape		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024-2026 CWG 2024-2026 Co-Creating Peace: Trust Building Mechanisms and Strategies for Social Harmony in South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda University of the Western Cape South Africa	APN CWG	APN	South Africa	Department of Social Work	University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2024-2026		2024-2026 CWG-Human-Hendricks	2024-2026 CWG	Anja Ruth Human-Hendricks	Human-Hendricks	South Africa	Anja Ruth
Nalwadda, Proscovia	PhD Candidate		Child Care And Youth Empowerment Foundation (CCAYEF)		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024-2026 CWG 2024-2026 Co-Creating Peace: Trust Building Mechanisms and Strategies for Social Harmony in South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda Makerere University Uganda	APN CWG	APN	Uganda		Makerere University	Uganda	2024-2026	Dr. Proscovia Nalwadda is the Executive Director of the Child Care and Youth Empowerment Foundation (CCAYEF), a dedicated child and youth advocate in Uganda. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Management from Makerere University (2024), where her dissertation examined how Academic Deans harness psychological capital to manage conflict. In 2025, she was awarded a prestigious Post-Doctoral Fellowship by the SARChI Chair at UWC. Dr. Nalwadda has published multiple peer-reviewed articles on family and education and serves as an editor for the International Journal of Higher Education. She brings a deep commitment to advancing family and adolescent research through both scholarly and practical community-focused initiatives.	2024-2026 CWG-Nalwadda	2024-2026 CWG	Proscovia Nalwadda	Nalwadda	Uganda	Proscovia
Mutiso, Moses Mutua	Lecturer & Researcher ; Post Doctoral Fellow	Department of Sociology, Psychology & Anthropology ; Centre of Interdisciplinary Studies of Children, Family and Society	Moi University,University of the Western Cape		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024-2026 CWG 2024-2026 Co-Creating Peace: Trust Building Mechanisms and Strategies for Social Harmony in South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda Moi University Kenya	APN CWG	APN	Kenya	Department of Sociology, Psychology & Anthropology	Moi University	Kenya	2024-2026	Dr. Moses Mutua Mutiso is a distinguished sociologist with over 17 years in higher education, renowned for his expertise in family science, human capabilities, and gender dynamics. At Moi University, he has led transformative curriculum development and mentored numerous students, shaping future leaders in sociology. His pioneering research on family cohesion, social justice, and gender equality includes high-impact publications on single motherhood and climate change. Dr. Mutiso secured an ARUA Postdoctoral Fellowship to study single motherhood in Nairobi’s Kamukunji Sub-County and recently won a prestigious Education Sub-Saharan Africa (ESSA) grant for his innovative project, Harnessing Play for Planetary Well-Being in Early Childhood Development: A Comparative Study of Urban and Rural Strategies in Kenya. As a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Western Cape, he focuses on grant writing and designing multi-modal research approaches to advance family capabilities. Dr. Mutiso’s visionary leadership and collaborative spirit make him an ideal partner for driving global social equity and human potential.	2024-2026 CWG-Mutiso	2024-2026 CWG	Moses Mutua Mutiso	Mutiso	Kenya	Moses Mutua
Mugambwa, Joshua	Professor	Business School	Makerere University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024-2026 CWG 2024-2026 Co-Creating Peace: Trust Building Mechanisms and Strategies for Social Harmony in South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda Makerere University Uganda	APN CWG	APN	Uganda	Business School	Makerere University	Uganda	2024-2026		2024-2026 CWG-Mugambwa	2024-2026 CWG	Joshua Mugambwa	Mugambwa	Uganda	Joshua
Anderson, Eugenia	Lecturer	Department of History and Political Studies	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 IRF 2025 “I bought a canoe and employed the men to fish for me, yet they still cheat me”: Conflicts in the Negotiated gender performances of Fish Mammies Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology South Africa	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	Department of History and Political Studies	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology	South Africa	2025	2025 IRF	2025 IRF-Anderson	2025 IRF	Eugenia Anderson	Anderson	Ghana	Eugenia
Okello, Dickson	Lecturer	Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Management	Egerton University	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 IRF 2025 Impact of Climate-Smart Agribusiness Interventions (CSAIs) on Socio-Economic Empowerment and Peacebuilding Among Pastoral Communities in North Rift Kenya Egerton University Kenya	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Management	Egerton University	Kenya	2025	2025 IRF	2025 IRF-Okello	2025 IRF	Dickson Okello	Okello	Kenya	Dickson
Tseer, Tobias	Lecturer	Department of Organisational Studies and Development	Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 IRF 2025 Farmer-herder conflicts in Nigeria: Identity politics, women’s agency and pathways towards peaceful coexistence Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	Department of Organisational Studies and Development	Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies		2025	2025 IRF	2025 IRF-Tseer	2025 IRF	Tobias Tseer	Tseer	Ghana	Tobias
Ahmed, Yunana	Senior Lecturer	English	Gombe State University	Linguistics	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 IRF 2025 Rethinking Deradicalization and Peacebuilding: Analyzing IDPs’ Discursive Stance and Appraisal in Northeast Nigeria Gombe State University Nigeria	APN IRF	APN	Senior Lecturer	English	Gombe State University	Nigeria	2025	2025 IRF	2025 IRF-Ahmed	2025 IRF	Yunana Ahmed	Ahmed	Nigeria	Yunana
Armstrong, Imomotimi	Lecturer	English and Literary Studies	Niger Delta University	Literature	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 IRF 2025 Singing Violence and Peace: Owigiri Music and Oil Conflicts in Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region Niger Delta University Nigeria	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	English and Literary Studies	Niger Delta University	Nigeria	2025	2025 IRF	2025 IRF-Armstrong	2025 IRF	Imomotimi Armstrong	Armstrong	Nigeria	Imomotimi
Kebede, Getahun	Assistant Professor	Center for African and Asian Studies	Addis Ababa University	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 IRF 2025 Ethnic-Based Displacements and the Quest for Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons in Ethiopia: A Political Economy Analysis Addis Ababa University Ethiopia	APN IRF	APN	Assistant Professor	Center for African and Asian Studies	Addis Ababa University	Ethiopia	2025	2025 IRF	2025 IRF-Kebede	2025 IRF	Getahun Kebede	Kebede	Ethiopia	Getahun
Demsie, Getnet	Assistant Professor	Psychology	Wollo University	Psychology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 IRF 2025 Peacebuilding Dynamics in Ethiopia: A comprehensive Exploration of the Impacts on Children and Youth Wollo University	APN IRF	APN	Assistant Professor	Psychology	Wollo University		2025	2025 IRF	2025 IRF-Demsie	2025 IRF	Getnet Demsie	Demsie	Ethiopia	Getnet
Interayamahang, Reverien	Senior Researcher	Research	Community Based Sociotherapy (CBS) Rwanda	Peace and Security Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 IRF 2025 Restoring Bonds: Family and Community Reintegration of Female Genocide Convicts in Rwanda Community Based Sociotherapy (CBS) Rwanda Rwanda	APN IRF	APN	Senior Researcher	Research	Community Based Sociotherapy (CBS) Rwanda	Rwanda	2025	2025 IRF	2025 IRF-Interayamahang	2025 IRF	Reverien Interayamahang	Interayamahang	Rwanda	Reverien
Said, Mohamed	Lecturer	Geography and Environmental Studies	The University of Dodoma	Geography	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 IRF 2025 Exploring Unintended Conflicts over Coastal Spaces: Socio-Economic Impacts and Resolution Framework in Zanzibar's Blue Economy The University of Dodoma	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	Geography and Environmental Studies	The University of Dodoma		2025	2025 IRF	2025 IRF-Said	2025 IRF	Mohamed Said	Said	United Republic of Tanzania (the)	Mohamed
Sayi, Sanelisiwe	Lecturer	Languages, Literature and Culture	University of Zimbabwe	Literature	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 IRF 2025 Addressing Adolescent Pregnancy as a Pathway to Sustainable Peacebuilding: A case of Communities in Silobela, Zimbabwe University of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	Languages, Literature and Culture	University of Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	2025	2025 IRF	2025 IRF-Sayi	2025 IRF	Sanelisiwe Sayi	Sayi	Zimbabwe	Sanelisiwe
Njoku, Chukwudi	Peacebuilding Capacity Building Coordinator	Peacebuilding Capacity Building Coordinator	Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND)	Peace and Security Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 IRF 2025 From Warning to Action: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Conflict Early Warning and Early Response Systems in Nigeria Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) Nigeria	APN IRF	APN	Peacebuilding Capacity Building Coordinator	Peacebuilding	Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND)	Nigeria	2025	2025 IRF	2025 IRF-Njoku	2025 IRF	Chukwudi Njoku	Njoku	Nigeria	Chukwudi
Chukwuokoro, Ifeyinwa	Lecturer	English and Literary Studies	Ebonyi State University	Linguistics	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 IRF 2025 Politics of Silence in Governance and Security in Southeast Nigeria: Discursive and Survey-Based Insights on Government Responses to Insecurity in the Region Ebonyi State University Nigeria	APN IRF	APN	Lecturer	English and Literary Studies	Ebonyi State University	Nigeria	2025	2025 IRF	2025 IRF-Chukwuokoro	2025 IRF	Ifeyinwa Chukwuokoro	Chukwuokoro	Nigeria	Ifeyinwa
Chikafa-Chipiro, Rosemary	Senior Lecturer	Creative Media and Communication	University of Zimbabwe	Communications	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 IRF 2025 Screening women in African cinemas of conflict: Towards gendered peacebuilding public spheres in Zimbabwean Communities University of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe	APN IRF	APN	Senior Lecturer	Creative Media and Communication	University of Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	2025	2025 IRF	2025 IRF-Chikafa-Chipiro	2025 IRF	Rosemary Chikafa-Chipiro	Chikafa-Chipiro	Zimbabwe	Rosemary
Kabiito, Bendicto	Senior Lecturer	Department of Governance, Peace and International Studies	Uganda Martyrs University	Peace and Security Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 IRF 2025 Peace by Peaceful Means': Repurposing ‘Akiriket’ for Peacebuilding in Pastoral Karamoja of Uganda Uganda Martyrs University Uganda	APN IRF	APN	Senior Lecturer	Department of Governance, Peace and International Studies	Uganda Martyrs University	Uganda	2025	2025 IRF	2025 IRF-Kabiito	2025 IRF	Bendicto Kabiito	Kabiito	Uganda	Bendicto
Ali, Mohammed	Professor	Political Science and International Studies	Bahir Dar University	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 IRF 2025 Indigenous Worldviews of the Ethiopian Tewahido Orthodox Church as an Alternative Ethos of African Ecology for Environmental Sustainability Bahir Dar University Ethiopia	APN IRF	APN	Professor	Political Science and International Studies	Bahir Dar University	Ethiopia	2025	2025 IRF	2025 IRF-Ali	2025 IRF	Mohammed Ali	Ali	Ethiopia	Mohammed
Beza, Beza Dessalegn	Assistant Professor	Institute for peace and security studies	Addis Ababa University	Peace and Security Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 IRF 2025 Building Peace Through Transitional Justice: Opportunities and Challenges for Ethiopia Addis Ababa University Ethiopia	APN IRF	APN	Assistant Professor	Institute for peace and security studies	Addis Ababa University	Ethiopia	2025	2025 IRF	2025 IRF-Beza	2025 IRF	Beza Dessalegn Beza	Beza	Ethiopia	Beza Dessalegn
Ouma, Marion Atieno	Research Associate	South Africa Research Chair Initiative (SARChl) on Social Policy	University of South Africa		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 IRF 2025 What’s policy interference got to do with it? Examining violence, conflict and the Gen Z protests in Kenya through a transformative social policy lens University of South Africa South Africa 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2016 Social Protection Policy Making in Kenya: A Study of The Dynamics of Policy Transfer University of South Africa South Africa 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2017 Social Protection Policy Making in Kenya: A Study of the Dynamics of Policy Transfer University of South Africa South Africa	APN IRF; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	PhD Candidate; Ph.D. Candidate	Sociology	University of South Africa	South Africa	2025; 2016; 2017	Marion Ouma is a research associate with the South Africa Research Chair Initiative (SARChl) on Social Policy at the University of South Africa, where she also completed her PhD. Both her Bachelors and Masters Degree are from the University of Nairobi. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Nordic Africa institute, Uppsala, Sweden and has been a Visiting Fellow at University of Bayreuth, Germany. Her research interests include, social policy, social protection, policymaking and the political economy of Africa’s development. She has published in Critical Social Policy and Africa Development, with book chapters in Can Africans do Economics?, The Handbook of African Political Economy, and Social Policy In an African Context. She has written several op-eds including in Africa Is a Country and Tricontinental.	2025 IRF-Ouma; 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Ouma; 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ouma	2025 IRF; 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Marion Atieno Ouma	Ouma	Kenya	Marion Atieno
Monyani, Margaret	Senior Migration Researcher	Special Projects	Institute for Security Studies	International Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 IRF 2025 Exploring the Role of Digital Humanitarian Platforms in Peacebuilding: A Case Study of ICRC-RedSafe in Southern Africa University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2017 Implications of Securitisation on the Human Security of Somali women refugees in Nairobi, Kenya University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2018 IMPLICATIONS OF SECURITISATION ON THE HUMAN SECURITY OF SOMALI WOMEN REFUGEES IN NAIROBI KENYA University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2019 Implications of securitisation on the Human Security of Urban Somali Refugee Women in Nairobi, Kenya University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	APN IRF; Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Tutorial Fellow; Part-time Lecturer	Political Science and Public Administration	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2025; 2017; 2018; 2019	Dr Margaret Monyani is a Senior Migration Researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) based in Pretoria, South Africa. She holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of the Witwatersrand and brings over a decade of experience in migration governance, peacebuilding, and human security across Africa. Her work focuses on the intersection of migration, displacement, and regional policy development, with a particular emphasis on the protection of mobile populations and the role of state and non-state actors in humanitarian governance. She has led multi-country research projects on migration, gender and security contributing to both academic research and high-level policy discussions. Dr Monyani’s APN research explores the role of the ICRC’s RedSafe platform in supporting peacebuilding through digital humanitarianism in Southern Africa. She has provided technical input to migration policy processes at the African Union and has engaged with stakeholders across East, West, and Southern Africa. She has also taught migration and international relations at the University of the Witwatersrand and regularly contributes to expert forums on human mobility and governance.	2025 IRF-Monyani; 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Monyani; 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Monyani; 2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Monyani	2025 IRF; 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Margaret Monyani	Monyani	Kenya	Margaret
Muguti, Teverayi	Postdoctoral Researcher	History Department	Stellenbosch University	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 IRF 2025 Exploring Human (in) Security and Uncertainty in ‘Ungoverned Spaces’: A Historical Analysis of Sengwa Island Livelihoods in Lake Kariba, c. 1950s to present Stellenbosch University South Africa 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2022 A History of Border Security Policy in Zimbabwe: The Case of the Zimbabwe - Zambia Border, c. 1963 to 2017 Stellenbosch University South Africa	APN IRF; Next Gen Research Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		Stellenbosch University	South Africa	2025; 2022	Teverayi Muguti is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the History Department at the University of the Free State (UFS), South Africa. His research interests include African border studies, borderland community livelihoods as well as human-animal interactions in southern Africa. He also has growing interests in African sports history. He has published book chapters and journal articles broadly engaging these research interests. He is also a South African Historical Journal (SAHJ) Editorial Assistant.	2025 IRF-Muguti; 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Muguti	2025 IRF; 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Teverayi Muguti	Muguti	South Africa	Teverayi
Ndhlovu, Hlengiwe Patricia	Senior Lecturer	Wits School of Governance	University of the Witwatersrand	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 IRF 2025 Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to address gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa. University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2016 Understanding the shifting dynamics of resistance and claim-making in South Africa: A case study of Duncan Village 1980- 2015 University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2019 The shifting dynamics of state-society relations in South Africa: A case study of Duncan Village, East London: 1980 – present University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	APN IRF; Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	APN; Next Gen	Student and Department Teaching Assistant/Tutor; Lecturer	Sociology	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2025; 2016; 2019	Dr. Hlengiwe Ndlovu is a Senior Lecturer at the Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of the Witwatersrand, where her doctoral research examined state-society relations in post-apartheid South Africa. She also holds a Master’s and Honours in Industrial Sociology and a BA in Sociology and International Relations. Dr. Ndlovu’s research navigates the intersections of gender, governance, protest politics, violence, and decolonial feminist thought. She has held academic positions at the University of the Western Cape, University of the Free State, and Nelson Mandela University, and has been a visiting fellow at institutions such as the University of Cambridge and Eberhard Karl’s University of Tübingen. She currently serves as the Wits School of Governance’s representative on the Faculty Staffing and Promotions Committee, sits on the Transformation Committee, and convenes the Security Studies teaching stream. Beyond academia, Dr. Ndlovu is a prominent public intellectual. A sought-after media analyst and speaker, her work regularly engages public audiences, with commentary featured on platforms such as eNCA, SABC, Sunday World, and The New York Times. She also appears as a political analyst on radio and television, speaking on gender justice, elections, and policy reform. Dr. Ndlovu is committed to bridging scholarship, public discourse, and social justice.	2025 IRF-Ndhlovu; 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ndhlovu; 2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ndhlovu	2025 IRF; 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Hlengiwe Patricia Ndhlovu	Ndhlovu	South Africa	Hlengiwe Patricia
Olema, David Kani	Dean of Faculty of Science and Education and Associate Professor of Psychology	Department of Education	Busitema University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2012 Organised Violence and Mental Health of Families Living in Internally Displaced Persons Camps in Northern Uganda Mbarara University of Science and Technology Uganda	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen			Mbarara University of Science and Technology	Uganda	2012		2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Olema	2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	David Kani Olema	Olema	Uganda	David Kani
Akoth, Stephen	Faculty	Department of Applied Economics	Kenyatta University	Political Science,Culture studies,Urban Planning,Development Studies,Interdisciplinary	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2012 Human Rights Modernities: Practices of the Luo Council of Elders in Contemporary Western Kenya University of the Western Cape South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen			University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2012	Dr. Steve Ouma Akoth is a Kenyan scholar, advisor and activist in the field of human rights and social anthropology with over 15 years’ experience working in diverse national, regional and international fora. He is a former ACLS scholar. He grew up in Korogocho slums of Eastern Nairobi and was educated at Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya and The University of the Western Cape South Africa where he obtained his Ph.D. He is currently the Executive Director of Pamoja Trust (www.pamojatrust.org) and faculty members at the Department of Applied economics at the Kenyatta University. His areas of ongoing research touch on culture and the constitution, Multiple Justice Systems, and minoritarian urban modernity. His current research project is in collaboration with Thomas Asher, a Colombia University based Scholar. The project focuses on Mobility in Southern Urbanism. In this work they explore how our cities and neighborhoods are fashioned in ways that do not readily accommodate this constant movement, not least because we do not know adequately how to read this churn of people and goods. To understand this, they pose the following questions: Why is our sociological imagination so impoverished? What might we gain if we were to become fluent in reading mobility and how might this reshape both our understanding of urban life and how we design for those informal spaces that increasingly make up our cities?	2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Akoth	2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Stephen Akoth	Akoth	Kenya	Stephen
Ochen, Eric Awich	Lecturer	Department of Social Work and Social Administration	Makerere University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2012 Life Beyond the Bush: Examining the Challenges and Opportunities for Reintegration of Formerly Abducted Child Mothers in Northern Uganda Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen			Makerere University	Uganda	2012	Dr. Eric Awich Ochen is currently a Senior lecturer at Makerere University’s Department of Social Work and Social Administration, School of Social Sciences, in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kampala Uganda. His main interests revolve around issues of rights-based approaches to development, Social impacts and risks considerations as a result of development interventions (especially on children and young people), and integration of social (including gender issues) in development processes. With trainings in gender analysis, projects appraisals, project management and evaluations, Dr Ochen is well conversant with a repertoire of tools which facilitate the considerations of social impacts of development interventions including analysis of the social costs of projects investments from a societal point of view and gender analysis tools. Dr Ochen completed his doctoral studies at the Centre for Applied Childhood Studies in the School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, UK in November, 2011. His PhD explores the narratives of young women’s experiences of the conflict and reintegration process in Northern Uganda, as well as an assessment of development interventions to address the emergent socio-economic crisis in the region. He also graduated with an M.Sc. in Development and Project Planning (with Distinction) from the University of Bradford in 2002 and also hold a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work and Social Administration, from Makerere University in Uganda (1999). Dr Ochen has completed Post-doctoral training at the University of Cambridge (2016 and 2017-2018) and Bradford between 2016 and 2017. Dr Eric Awich Ochen has been Honorary Visiting Senior Lecturer and Commonwealth Academic fellow at the University of Bradford’s John and Elnora Ferguson Centre for African Studies, 2016-2017, and a Carnegie Corporation CAPREX fellow at the Center of African Studies, University of Cambridge. Dr Ochen was PI and Country Director for the project Co-investigator and Country Director, Uganda, None in three Project for the elimination of Gender Based Violence (Uganda, United Kingdom, Jamaica, China and India), funded by Research and Innovation funds UK, £5,000,000, October 2017- December 2021, with approximately £380,000 being expended at Makerere University. Principal Investigator and Southern Partner Regional Coordinator, Building resilient communities in Eastern Africa, NORHED II Norwegian capacity in higher education funded project, US$ 1,950,000. He is also Principal Investigator, for the study “a Randomized Control Trial (RCT) Approach to Enhancing the Learning Experience for Pupils and Students in Schools in Central Uganda”, September 2020- June 2022, funded at USD 44,000. Eric was also Co-investigator, Knowledge, adherence and the lived experiences of refugees in COVID-19: A comparative assessment of urban and rural refugee settings in Uganda, funded to the tune of £158,000 by UKAid and Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises. Dr Ochen, is the Associate Editor for the Children and Youth Services Review, an Elsevier Journal. He is also a reviewer for the Journal of Modern African Studies (Cambridge University Press), Journal of Child Abuse and Neglect (Elsevier); the British Journal of Social Work (Oxford University Press); and Journal of Refugee Studies (Oxford University Press). Dr Ochen is the author of several articles on children and young people in conflict situations, spanning publications in journals such as Child Abuse and Neglect, British Journal of Social Work, Journal of Community Practice, Anthropology Southern Africa, Infant Mental Health journal, Social Sciences, Vienna Journal of African Studies; Journal of Affective Disorders; International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health, and Childhood in Africa: An Inter Disciplinary Journal. several high quality book chapter contributions. Dr. Ochen is currently working on a post-doctoral project on how Young people participate in post conflict peace building in northern Uganda, and an assessment of how youth subcultures influences young people behavior in a formerly conflict affected areas.	2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ochen	2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Eric Awich Ochen	Ochen	Uganda	Eric Awich
Tilumanywa, Verdiana	Senior Lecturer		University of Dar es Salaam		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2012 Land Use and Livelihood Changes in the Mount Rungwe Ecosystem, Tanzania Stellenbosch University South Africa 2020 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2020 Implications of land use change on communities livelihoods in the mount Rungwe Ecosystem, Tanzania University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania	Next Gen Completion Fellowship; Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Next Gen	Post-Doctoral Research Fellow	Geography	Stellenbosch University; University of Dar es Salaam	South Africa; Tanzania	2012; 2020	Verdiana Tilumanywa is a human geographer and a dedicated scholar on issues related to environmental management, rural livelihoods, agricultural development and dynamics, climate change and variability, gender and policy analysis. She holds a Master’s degree in Geography and Environmental Management from the University of Dar es Salaam and a Doctor of Philosophy in Geography and Environmental Studies from Stellenbosch University. In her academic endeavors, she has received a number of scholarships, including the SIDA full funded scholarship for her Master’s degree (2005 -2007) at the University of Dar es salaam; the Partnership for Africa’s Next Generation of Academics (PANGeA) for her PhD studies at Stellenbosch University (2010-2012); SSRC under the Next Generation Social Science dissertation completion (2012) and a dissertation-based writing (2020-2021), Climate Impact Research Capacity and Leadership Enhancement in Sub-Saharan African (CIRCLE) fellowship in 2017. Verdiana has worked as a Deputy Principal of the College of Social Sciences at the University of Dar es Salaam (October 2016- Dec 2021). Verdiana has undertaken a number of national consultancies including the current one on Policy and Institutional review under the National BIOFIN (Biodiversity Financing Initiative) project awarded by UNDP-Tanzania in 2024.	2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Tilumanywa; 2020 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship-Tilumanywa	2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship; 2020 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Verdiana Tilumanywa	Tilumanywa	Tanzania	Verdiana
Igeme, Igeme	Lecturer	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Makerere University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2012 From the Bush to Community: Framework for the Reintegration of Former Child Rebel Combatants (FCRCs) in Northern Uganda Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen			Makerere University	Uganda	2012		2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Igeme	2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Igeme Igeme	Igeme	Uganda	Igeme
Ajal, Benjamin	Assistant Lecturer ; PhD Student		Radbound University,Islamic University in Uganda		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2012 Local Community Participation in Forest Conservation in the Mount Elgon National Park Islamic University in Uganda Uganda	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen			Islamic University in Uganda	Uganda	2012		2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ajal	2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Benjamin Ajal	Ajal	Uganda	Benjamin
Ayamga, Michael	Lecturer	Department of Applied Economics	University for Development Studies		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2012 Land Tenure, Farm Investment and Technical Efficiency in Ghana University of Ghana Ghana	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen			University of Ghana	Ghana	2012	Dr. Michael Ayamga is an agricultural economist with extensive research experience and over a decade of engagement with Civil Society in Ghana. Dr. Ayamga has multi-country research experience with expertise in Sustainable Livelihood and Human Rights Based Approaches. He has research interests in food security, climate change adaptation and natural Resource management.	2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ayamga	2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Michael Ayamga	Ayamga	Ghana	Michael
McDougall, Kathleen Lorne	Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology	Department of Anthropology	University of Cape Town	Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2012 Familiar Present, Familial History: Change, Afrikaner Culture Politics and the Threat of History Repeating Stellenbosch University South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology	Stellenbosch University	South Africa	2012		2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-McDougall	2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Kathleen Lorne McDougall	McDougall	South Africa	Kathleen Lorne
Senga, Mathew Agripinus	Lecturer ; Grant Coordinator	Department of Sociology and Anthropology ; Master of Public Health (MPH) Programme	University of Dar es Salaam	Interdisciplinary,Social Change,Religion,Environmental Studies,Political Science,Public Health	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2012 Social Networks and Collaboration in Management of Natural Resource and Protection of Livelihoods: Reflections from Rural Communities in East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen			University of Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	2012		2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Senga	2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Mathew Agripinus Senga	Senga	Tanzania	Mathew Agripinus
Dubbeld, Bernard	Associate Professor and Chair	Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology	Stellenbosch University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2012 Becoming Homeless: Superfluity, Governance, and the Experience of Insecurity in Glendale, South Africa Stellenbosch University South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen			Stellenbosch University	South Africa	2012		2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Dubbeld	2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Bernard Dubbeld	Dubbeld	South Africa	Bernard
Okumu, Fabius Alya					Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2012 Access to Justice in Northern Uganda: Restorative and Retributive Justice Discourse in International Law Gulu University Uganda	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen			Gulu University	Uganda	2012		2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Okumu	2012 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Fabius Alya Okumu	Okumu	Uganda	Fabius Alya
Oladele, Oderinde Lukmon	Lecturer	Department of Economics	Anchor University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2012 Taxation and the Economics of Oil Investment Projects in Nigeria University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen			University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2012		2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Oladele	2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Oderinde Lukmon Oladele	Oladele	Nigeria	Oderinde Lukmon
Addo, Isaac	Research Fellow and Tutor		University of New South Wales,The University of Sydney	Migration Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2012 Finding Durable Solutions to Refugee Problems in Buduburam Camp of Ghana: Refugees, Ghana Refugee Board, and UNHCR's Perspectives University of Cape Coast Ghana	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen			University of Cape Coast	Ghana	2012	Isaac Yeboah Addo has over ten years research experience in the Population Health discipline and holds a Ph.D. in Social Research in Health conferred by UNSW Sydney. Isaac has published several papers and currently works as a Researcher in both academic and government institutions in Australia. He has received numerous competitive awards including the prestigious Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa fellowship granted by the Social Science Research Council in the United States. His research interests comprise social justice, migration and health, dietary and physical activity behaviour, obesity, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), infectious diseases, drug and alcohol research, and sexual health. He is available to connect with institutions and scholars with similar interests.	2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Addo	2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Isaac Addo	Addo	Ghana	Isaac
Kimani, Rosemary Wamuchii	Lecturer		Central University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2012 Communicating for Sustainable Behaviour Change: A Process Evaluation of the Anti-FGM Interventions in Tharaka District of Eastern Kenya Central University South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen			Central University	South Africa	2012	Dr. Rosemary Kimani has expertise in the teaching of the dynamics of communication and culture, media and gender, and ethics in the use of media spanning over 15 years in both Ghana and Kenya. She is a 2012 Social Science Research Council (SSRC) dissertation proposal development fellow. Her PhD in African Studies from the University of Ghana focused on the intersections of culture, gender, and knowledge production, interrogating the nexus between intervention and local discourses in the attempts to implement development programs in an African context.	2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Kimani	2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Rosemary Wamuchii Kimani	Kimani	Kenya	Rosemary Wamuchii
Ojambo, Robert	Senior Lecturer	Department of History and Political Science	Kyambogo University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2012 The Land Question in the Socio-Political Conflicts In Bugisu and Bukedi in Eastern Uganda: 1900-1998 University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2014 The Land Question in the Socio-Political Conflicts in the Former Districts of Bukedi and Bugisu in Eastern Uganda: 1900-2007 University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE	University of Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	2012; 2014		2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ojambo; 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ojambo	2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Robert Ojambo	Ojambo	Uganda	Robert
Shivji, Natasha Issa	Lecturer	Department of Historical Studies	University of Cape Town		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2012 From Merchant Capital to Finance Capital: The Hawala system in Somalia from 1991-2001 from a Historical and Comparative Perspective University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen			University of Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	2012	Dr. Natasha Issa Shivji is the Director of the Institute for Research in Intellectual Histories of Africa in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge. She completed her PhD in History at New York University, New York on secessionist movements and land alienation in Mombasa and the Northern Eastern Frontier in Kenya titled, “Secessionism on the Nation’s Frontier: The predicament of land, labour and dependency in Mombasa and the Northern Frontier District of Kenya (1850-1963)”. She is currently working on a co-authored book manuscript on the Intellectual histories of Eastern Africa supported by the Rosa Luxemburg foundation, East Africa. Her previous publications include a chapter titled “Circuits of Production and Channels of State: Pastoralists and the state in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya (1910-1958)”.	2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Shivji	2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Natasha Issa Shivji	Shivji	Tanzania	Natasha Issa
Zahringer, Natalie	Lecturer		University of New South Wales,The University of Sydney		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2012 An Investigation into the Institutionalization of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Norm University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen			University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2012		2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Zahringer	2012 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Natalie Zahringer	Zahringer	South Africa	Natalie
Popoola, Ebunoluwa Odunayo	Senior Lecturer	Public and Private Law	Bingham University	Law	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2012 The Protection of Environmental Rights under International Law: A Comparative Study of Industrial Pollution Control in Nigeria and South Africa Ahmadu Bello University Nigeria	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen			Ahmadu Bello University	Nigeria	2012	"Ebunoluwa Popoola is the holder of a PhD in Public Law, with specialization in Environmental Law, which she obtained from the Ahmadu Bello University. She is a recipient of the SSRC/Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Dissertation Research Fellowship. She graduated at the top of her undergraduate class with a CGPA of 4.33 and was awarded the Dean’s Prize (Best Graduating Student in Faculty of Law, Ahmadu Bello University) 2000/2001 session. Ebunoluwa obtained the Qualifying Certificate in Second Class Upper Division from the Nigerian Law School and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2003. She obtained her LLM in 2008. She worked as a Counsel in the law offices of Tubosoye Brown & Co., Yemi Adekunle & Co. and S.K. Musa & Co. where she garnered extensive professional experience. From 2009 to date Ebunoluwa has taught law courses at the University level, including at Ahmadu Bello University (2009 - 2012) and Bingham University (2018 to date). Ebunoluwa has a passion for teaching, research and mentoring future leaders. She is married with children."	2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Popoola	2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Ebunoluwa Odunayo Popoola	Popoola	Nigeria	Ebunoluwa Odunayo
Ogunsola, Kemi	Associate Professor	Data and Information Science ; Centre for Strategic Research and Studies	University of Ibadan, National Defence College	Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Development	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2012 ICT Deployment: Readiness, and Quality of Service as Predictors of Use of E-Government Services Provided by Selected Government Agencies in Nigeria University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen			University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2012	Kemi Ogunsola (PhD) obtained Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Information Science from the Department of Data & Information Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is an Associate Professor whose research focuses on how information and communication technologies (ICTs) impact development. She became a Next Generation Social Science Research in Africa Fellow in 2011, an award by the Social Science Research Council, New York, USA. She is a fellow of the Carnegie Corporation of the U.S.A. She is also a member of various organisations such as: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Senegal; the International Society for Development and Sustainability, Japan; the Development Studies Association, Scotland; and the Nigerian Institute of Management. She has also received grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the Canadian Bureau for International Education, and others. She has made presentations at international conferences, as well as published articles in local and international journals.	2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Ogunsola	2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Kemi Ogunsola	Ogunsola	Nigeria	Kemi
Letete, Maluke Emmanuel	Governor		Central Bank of Lesotho		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2012 Essays on Political and Economic Institutions, Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Development in Kenya University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen			University of Cape Town	South Africa	2012		2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Letete	2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Maluke Emmanuel Letete	Letete	Lesotho	Maluke Emmanuel
Iornumbe, Usar Joseph	Senior Lecturer	Health Economics and Health Policy	University of Jos		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2012 An Economic Analysis of Retail Pharmaceutical Market in Nigeria: Towards Access Expansion and Policy University of Jos Nigeria	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen			University of Jos	Nigeria	2012		2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Iornumbe	2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Usar Joseph Iornumbe	Iornumbe	Nigeria	Usar Joseph
Jimoh, Jide	Professor and Dean	Faculty of Communication and Media Studies	Lagos State University	Conflict-sensitive Journalism	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2012 An Interrogation of Commitment to Conflict-Sensitive Journalism in the Nigerian Print Media Coverage of the Jos Violent Crisis University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen			University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2012	Jide Peter Jimoh is a Professor of journalism and media studies with a bias for communication and development (Conflict-sensitive Journalism). He became an academic after more than a decade of journalism practice in various media Houses in Nigeria. Even then, he remains active through OP-ED interventions. He was a Visiting Member of the Editorial Board of the prestigious Guardian Newspapers in Lagos (2020-2023) and has been appointed, Dean, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies of the Lagos State University.	2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Jimoh	2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Jide Jimoh	Jimoh	Nigeria	Jide
Monama, Fankie Lucas	Vice-Dean: Teaching and Learning	Faculty of Military Science	Stellenbosch University	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2012 Wartime Propaganda in the Union of South Africa, 1939-45 Stellenbosch University South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen		History	Stellenbosch University	South Africa	2012		2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Monama	2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Fankie Lucas Monama	Monama	South Africa	Fankie Lucas
Siziba, Gugulethu G.					Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2012 Language and the Politics of Identity in South Africa: The Case of Shona and Ndebele Migrants in Johannesburg Stellenbosch University South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen			Stellenbosch University	South Africa	2012		2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Siziba	2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Gugulethu G. Siziba	Siziba	Zimbabwe	Gugulethu G.
Ugbem, Erima Comfort	Professor		Rev. Fr. Moses Orshio Adasu University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2012 Dynamics of Identity Construction Among Ethnic Groups in Benue State Benue State University Nigeria 2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2013 The Dynamics of Identity Construction Among Ethnic Groups in Benue State University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Full-time Lecturer	Sociology	Benue State University; University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2012; 2013	Prof. Comfort Erima Ugbem-Onah is a Professor of Sociology at Rev. Fr. Moses Orshio Adasu University, Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria. She earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Ibadan in 2015, following her MSc (2005) and BSc (2000) in Sociology from Benue State University. Her doctoral thesis, The Dynamics of Identity Construction among Ethnic Groups in Benue State, Nigeria, advanced scholarship on identity, conflict, and development. She is a Fellow of the Brown International Advanced Research Institute (2012) and a recipient of the Social Science Research Council’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Research and Completion Doctoral Fellowship (2012–2014). Prof. Ugbem-Onah has published extensively on gender, identity, rural development, and inter-group relations, with recent work addressing substance abuse, agricultural sustainability, and farmer–herder conflict. Her research interests include development sociology, gender studies, and social theory. She has held several academic leadership roles, including Head of Department and editor of the Benue Journal of Sociology.	2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Ugbem; 2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ugbem	2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Erima Comfort Ugbem	Ugbem	Nigeria	Erima Comfort
Fayomi, Oluyemi Oyenike	Professor	International Relations	Nigerian Army University Biu		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2012 The Diaspora and Nigeria-Ghana Relations (1979-2009) Covenant University Nigeria	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen			Covenant University	Nigeria	2012	Prof. Oluyemi Fayomi is an astute multidisciplinary scholar and Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the Nigerian Army University, Biu (NAUB), specializing in International Relations. She earned her Ph.D in International Relations from Covenant University in 2013, with her doctoral thesis focusing on the African Diasporas and Nigeria-Ghana Relations between 1979 and 2010. She is a recipient of several academic and leadership awards, grants, and fellowships, including the 2011 Next Gen Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship Award, Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Grant for Thesis Writing (2010), and Lifetime Achievement Award in Scholarship, 2024. et cetera. She is the pioneer Director of Research, Development and Innovation (RDI), Nigerian Army University Biu(NAUB). She is a Resource Person for the African Union on Remittances in Africa and a former Executive Editor of the African Journal of International Affairs and Development (AJIAD, LCU). She is a Visiting Professor at the Pan African Institute for Governance, Humanities, and Social Sciences (PAUGHSS) in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and the Pan African University- Institute for Water and Energy Sciences (PAUWES), Tlemcen, Algeria.	2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Fayomi	2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Oluyemi Oyenike Fayomi	Fayomi	Nigeria	Oluyemi Oyenike
Besharati, Neissan	Adjunct Professor	GIBS Business School	Gordon Institute of Business Science	Sustainability Science,"Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)"	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2012 Evaluating Effectiveness of Development Institutions in South Africa University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen			University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2012	Prof. Neissan Besharati is the co-founder of the socio-ecological cooperative Sustainable Organic Urban Lifestyle (SOUL) and the Executive Director of Pan-African Financing for Development Institute (PAFDI). He also serves as GIZ Senior Technical Advisor to the African Union Policy Bridge Tank and Adjunct Professor (Sustainability, ESG, Impact) at the Gordon Institute of Business Sciences of the University of Pretoria. He holds a PhD (Public Policy & Development Management) from University of Witwatersrand (South Africa) and a Masters (International Social Development) from the University of New South Wales (Australia). He is as a senior research associate at several prominent development think-tanks and visiting professor at a number of international universities. Neissan has extensive experience as a international consultant working with multinational corporations (Deloitte, Anglo American, EY, PWC) and serving as a senior technical advisor to governments, philanthropies, bi-lateral and multi-lateral donors and regional organisations. He currently sits on various United Nations, World Bank, African Union and OECD expert groups and committees. He is a globally respected thought leader in the areas of international development cooperation, monitoring and evaluation, impact measures, development finance, sustainability and ESG, illicit financial flows, public-private partnerships, social and education policy, emerging economies and South-South cooperation.	2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Besharati	2012 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Neissan Besharati	Besharati	South Africa	Neissan
Aderemi, Adewale Michael	Senior Lecturer	Political Science	Lagos State University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2013 Oil and the Politics of Economic Develoment Rentier States: Nigeria and Indonesia in Comparative Perspective 1966-1998 Obafemi Awolowo University Nigeria	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer II	Political Science	Obafemi Awolowo University	Nigeria	2013		2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Aderemi	2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Adewale Michael Aderemi	Aderemi	Nigeria	Adewale Michael
Wasike, Mangeni James Byansaye		Sociology and Anthropology	Makerere University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2013 Cultural understandings of mental illness in a fragile context: a critical ethnography of Karamoja, Uganda Stellenbosch University South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	PhD Student	Sociology and Anthropology	Stellenbosch University	South Africa	2013		2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Wasike	2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Mangeni James Byansaye Wasike	Wasike	Uganda	Mangeni James Byansaye
Longi, Felix Yakubu Tonsuglo	Asssociate Professor	Department of History	University for Development Studies	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2013 Mamprusi-Kuasi Relations, 1902-2000: A Study in Inter-ethnic Conflicts in Northern Ghana University of Ghana Ghana	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	PhD Candidate	CCEIR	University of Ghana	Ghana	2013	Felix Tonsuglo Yakubu Longi is a social historian whose research focuses on chieftaincy and ethnic conflicts in Ghana and Slavery and Slave Trade in Northern Ghana. He holds a PhD in African History from the University of Ghana. His PhD research, which interrogated inter-ethnic conflicts between the Mamprusi and Kusasi people in Northern Ghana (between 1902 and 2000), was partly sponsored by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) under the prestigious ‘Next Generation of Social Sciences in Africa’ Fellowship program with funds provided by the Carnegie Foundation of New York. Longi is based at the University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale, Ghana. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (IIR). He is currently an Associate Professor of Social History and teaches history and ethnic conflicts at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Africa and General Studies at Faculty of Communication and Cultural Studies, Nyankpala. He is also a recipient of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFUND) for graduate research funding (2010-2012). He was the UDS coordinator of the Dagomba-Gonja History Research Project (from August 2015 to December 2020) sponsored by Africa Tiger Holdings. He is an active member and the immediate past president of UTAG (UDS chapter), Director Institute for Distance and Continuing Education (IDCL), UDS, member of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA), member of the Ghana Studies Association(GSA), and Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Research and Policy Integration in Africa (IRPIA).	2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Longi	2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Felix Yakubu Tonsuglo Longi	Longi	Ghana	Felix Yakubu Tonsuglo
Sebba, Kalyango Ronald	Lecturer	School of Women and Gender Studies	Makerere University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2013 Returning Home: Gender and Choice Among IDPS in Northern Uganda Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	SCHOOL OF WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES	Makerere University	Uganda	2013	Kalyango Ronald Sebba is a lecturer in the School of Women and Gender Studies Makerere University, Kampala Uganda. His PhD topic is ‘Returning home: Gender and Choice among Internally Displaced Persons in Gulu district, Northern Uganda. He teaches courses on women in Conflict and post conflict situations; forced migration; refugee livelihoods and household economy; Gender Based Violence and Children in conflict; and co teaches Refugee Law. Currently he is a co-coordinator on a Certificate course- Migration Health run by the School of Social Sciences Makerere University and supported by the IOM. He has coordinated two collaborative programs between Makerere University and the University of Oldenburg, Germany that is Implementing Migration Studies (IMMIS) and European Masters in Migration and Inter Cultural Relations (EMMIR). He also served as Senior Education and Training Officer for the Refugee Law Project in Kampala between 2000-2002 where he established a training program on Human Rights and Refugee Law. He has worked as a national consultant for several organisation such as Uganda Bureau of Statistics, FAO, UNFPA, WHO, American Refugee Committee, Regional Centre for Quality of Health Care and Fredrich Ebert Foundation among others. Ronald is a member of several academic associations such as the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) and Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA).	2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Sebba	2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Kalyango Ronald Sebba	Sebba	Uganda	Kalyango Ronald
Stoffberg, Madelein M.	Junior Lecturer Part-time	Department of Architecture	University of the Free State		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2013 The transformation of public space in South Africa The University of the Free State South Africa 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2014 Spatial transformation and political change. Production of space in selected community centres built after democracy in South Africa The University of the Free State South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Part-time Junior Lecturer	Architecture	The University of the Free State	South Africa	2013; 2014		2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Stoffberg; 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Stoffberg	2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship; 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Madelein M. Stoffberg	Stoffberg	South Africa	Madelein M.
Misago, Jean Pierre	Senior Researcher	African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS)	University of the Witwatersrand		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2013 Migration, Governance and Violent Exclusion: Exploring the Politics of Xenophobic Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Researcher	African Centre for Migration &Society	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2013	Jean Pierre Misago is a Senior Researcher with the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) at the University of the Witwatersrand. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Psychology (University of Zimbabwe, 2001); an MA in Forced Migration Studies (Wits University, 2005); an MA in Humanitarian Assistance (Tufts University, 2008) and a PhD in Migration and Displacement (Wits University, 2016). His research focuses on the effects of migration and displacement on identity and belonging; xenophobia and violent outsider exclusion; and management of migration and human mobility at local authority level. He has published an increasing number of articles in local and international peer-reviewed journals and as well as book chapters for edited book collections. He jointly teaches an MA course (Introduction to Migration and Displacement) at ACMS.	2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Misago	2013 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Jean Pierre Misago	Misago	South Africa	Jean Pierre
Mushinga, Mildred	International Development Consultant		Twentyfifty	Other; Women and Gender Studies,Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2013 Dissident women's sexualities? The (un) making of a new local sexual marketplace. Situating the "small house" in Zimbabwe University of Pretoria South Africa 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2014 The 'small house." An ethnographic investigation into economically independent women and sexual networks in Zimbabwe University of Pretoria South Africa 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2015 “The small house”: An ethnographic investigation into economically independent women and sexual networks in Zimbabwe University of Pretoria South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Junior Researcher	Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division	University of Pretoria	South Africa	2013; 2014; 2015	I am an international development consultant with more than 12 years’ experience in the fields of women’s economic empowerment, livelihoods strengthening and resilience building, child protection and community development. Prior to joining twentyfifty, I worked for various UN agencies and the USAID on development assignments in South Africa, Malawi, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe. My inspiration and expertise is informed by lived experiences and solid understanding of the political, economic and socio-cultural context of Southern Africa and desire to see meaningful development in the region. I hold a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Pretoria (South Africa); an MA in Development Studies and Gender from the University of Leeds (UK) and BSc and MSc in Sociology from the University of Zimbabwe.	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Mushinga; 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Mushinga; 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Mushinga	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Mildred Mushinga	Mushinga	Zimbabwe	Mildred
Kemigisha, Prudence Byambwenu	Lecturer	Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies	Mbarara University of Science and Technology		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2013 Land Rights and Food Security in Uganda: Assessing the influence of women’s land rights on food security in Bushenyi district Mbarara University of Science and Technology Uganda 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2014 Woman Land Rights and Household food Security in Uganda. A Case of Bushenyi District Mbarara University of Science and Technology Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Part-time lecturer	Institute of Interdisciplinary Training and Research	Mbarara University of Science and Technology	Uganda	2013; 2014	Dr. Prudence Kemigisha is a lecturer at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) in Uganda, specializing in development studies. She is an alumna of the Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC) African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa programs. Through SSRC's proposal development and fieldwork research grants, she successfully completed her PhD in Development Studies, with a research focus on women’s land rights and household food security in Uganda. Her academic work intersects gender, land governance, and rural livelihoods, contributing to policy and scholarly conversations on equitable land access and sustainable development. Dr. Kemigisha continues to mentor emerging scholars and engage in collaborative research that advances social justice and inclusive development in Uganda and beyond.	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Kemigisha; 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Kemigisha	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Prudence Byambwenu Kemigisha	Kemigisha	Uganda	Prudence Byambwenu
Mayisela, Simangele Gladys	Senior Lecturer; Educational Psychologist	Psychology	University of the Witwatersrand		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2013 Corporal punishment: Socio-cultural practices and perspectives of South African primary school teachers. University of Cape Town South Africa 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2014 Corporal punishment: Socio-cultural practices of teachers in a South African primary school University of Cape Town South Africa 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2015 Corporal punishment: cultural-historical practices of a South African primary school teachers University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Part-time Position; Tutor; Visiting Lecturer	Department of Education; School of Education	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2013; 2014; 2015	Dr Simangele Mayisela, is a Senior Lecturer and the Educational Psychologist in the Department of Psychology, at the University of the Witwatersrand. She was a three consecutive years Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa fellowship holder for her Doctoral degree, which she obtained from the University of Cape Town. She is currently lecturing Psychoanalytic psychotherapy and Play Therapy at Masters level and Cognitive Psychology at undergraduate level. Her research interests are embedded in the appropriation of the Psychoanalytic and the Cultural Historical Activity Theory as epistemological lenses to understand nuances of parent-child, teacher-child relations, and intergenerational violence and trauma, with specific reference to corporal punishment.	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Mayisela; 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Mayisela; 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Mayisela	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Simangele Gladys Mayisela	Mayisela	South Africa	Simangele Gladys
Mabumbo, Decide	PhD Fellow	Human Economy Programme	University of Pretoria		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2013 Understanding the Dynamics of Large Scale Investments of Bio fuels in Zimbabwe and South Africa. University of Pretoria South Africa 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2014 Understanding the dynamics of large scale investments in biofuels in Zimbabwe and South Africa University of Pretoria South Africa 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2018 Understanding the dynamics of large scale biofuel developments in Zimbabwe University of Pretoria South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Human Economy Doctoral Lecturer; Researcher	Anthropolgy; Anthropology	University of Pretoria	South Africa	2013; 2014; 2018	Decide is currently a PhD fellow in the Human Economy Programme at the University of Pretoria. He can be contacted on Decide.Mabumbo@up.ac.za. Decide’s research focuses on land issues, natural resource management and rural livelihoods in Southern Africa. He is interested in the consequences of large scale land acquisitions, responses from local peasants to these acquisitions and their implications for public policy. Prior to joining UP, he worked as a researcher on humanitarian and development aspects of Community Health, Land and Livelihoods and Disaster Risk Reduction in Zimbabwe. Decide’s MSc research was on the uncertainties that resettled farmers face in redistributive land reforms, situated within the global land rush phenomenon (http://www.rp-pcp.org/training/msc/completed/decide-mabumbo). Based on field work carried out in South-East Zimbabwe, the case study documented experiences of rural families in the face of an imminent land grab. He is currently working on a research paper from his MSc research on multi layered interests surrounding land within the land reform-land grabbing discourse in South-East Zimbabwe. Decide’s PhD research will focus on the dynamics of large scale land acquisitions in Zimbabwe and South Africa. His research will make a comparative study of the economical, political, financial, and social consequences of large scale investments of bio fuels between the two countries.	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Mabumbo; 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Mabumbo; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Mabumbo	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Decide Mabumbo	Mabumbo	Zimbabwe	Decide
Clarke, Yaliwe	Interim Director and Lecturer	African Gender Institute, School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics	University of Tromsø	Anthropology,Linguistics	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2013 Feminist notions of peace and security: Experiences of women's rights activists in Uganda University of Cape Town South Africa 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2014 Exploring Feminist Notions of Peacebuilding in Africa: Experiences of Women Activists in Northern Uganda University of Cape Town South Africa 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2016 Exploring Feminist Notions of Peacebuilding in Africa: Experiences of women Activits in Northern Uganda University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	African Gender Institute; School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguisti	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2013; 2014; 2016		2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Clarke; 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Clarke; 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Clarke	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Yaliwe Clarke	Clarke	Zambia	Yaliwe
Kitigwa, Miraji Masudi	Head of Department ; Assistant Lecturer	Political Science ; Public Administration	The Open University of Tanzania	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2013 Different 'Terrorisms', Different 'Wars' on Terror: Why Tanzania Does Not Take Part in a War against Somalia's Al-Shabab University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Political Science and Public Administration	University of Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	2013		2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Kitigwa	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Miraji Masudi Kitigwa	Kitigwa	Tanzania	Miraji Masudi
Atata, Scholastica Ngozi	Lecturer	Institute of Communication and General Studies (Peace and Development Studies unit)	University of Ibadan		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2013 Biafra Renaissance and development in democratizing south eastern Nigeria University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Faculty	Sociology	University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2013		2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Atata	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Scholastica Ngozi Atata	Atata	Nigeria	Scholastica Ngozi
Umukoro, Nathaniel	Professor	Professor of International Affairs, Migration and Security Studies and Dean of the College of Postgraduate Studies	Western Delta University	International Relations,Peace and Conflict Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2013 Regime Types' Human Rights Violation and Conflict Escalation in the Niger Delta, 1993-2007 University of Ibadan Nigeria 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2014 REGIME TYPES, HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION AND CONFLICT ESCALATION IN THE NIGER DELTA University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	Political Science	University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2013; 2014	Nathaniel Umukoro is a Professor of International Affairs, Migration and Security Studies in the Department of Political Science, Western Delta University, Nigeria and Dean, College of Postgraduate Studies of the same institution. He had his undergraduate education at the University of Benin and Postgraduate Studies at the University of Ibadan, both in Nigeria. During his postgraduate research, he was a fellow of the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Unit of the Social Science Research Council, New York. In addition to his postgraduate studies, he received additional training in Education in Emergencies (2017), Peace Education and Transitional Justice (2015) from the Georg Eckert Institute, Germany; Development and Inequality in the Global South from Brown University, USA (2010) and Mixed-method Research Course from the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research, Nairobi, Kenya, in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK (2011-2012). Nathaniel Umukoro served as fellow of the Social Science Research Council, New York from 2013-2015, Humboldt fellow at the University of Bayreuth, Germany in 2022, Senior Research Fellow at Point Alpha Research Institute, Germany in 2023, Senior Fellow at the University of Bonn, Germany in 2024 and Senior Fellow at the Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde (IfL), Leipzig, Germany in 2025.	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Umukoro; 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Umukoro	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Nathaniel Umukoro	Umukoro	Nigeria	Nathaniel
Ejang, Mary	Lecturer		Gulu University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2013 Social Networks and Rural Livelihood Patterns in the Post-conflict Northern Uganda Makerere University Uganda 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2014 Social Networks and Rural Livelihood Patterns in the Post-conflict Northern Uganda Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Full-time Lecturer	Development Studies	Makerere University	Uganda	2013; 2014		2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ejang; 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ejang	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Mary Ejang	Ejang	Uganda	Mary
Ahmed Jamo, Idris	Professor	Faculty of Administration	Ahmadu Bello University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2013 Local Governance and Service Delivery: A study of some selected Local Governments in the Nort Western Nigeria Ahmadu Bello University Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Faculty of Administration	Department of Public Administration	Ahmadu Bello University	Nigeria	2013	Idris is a lecturer in the Department of Public Administration, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria.	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ahmed Jamo	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Idris Ahmed Jamo	Ahmed Jamo	Nigeria	Idris
Alhassan, Issah Suhiyini	Adjunct Lecturer and Assistant Registrar		Madina Institute of Science & Technology,Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology	Peace and Security Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2013 Particpatory Local Development Planning in Ghana, 1996-2010 University of Ghana Ghana 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2023 “Farmer-Herder Conflict and Livelihood Nexus in Ashanti Region of Ghana” Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Teaching Assistant; Ph.D. Fellow	Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources	University of Ghana; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology	Ghana; South Africa	2013; 2023	Suhiyini Issah Alhassan is a Ghanaian by birth and resides in Ghana. He is currently a PhD Fellow at the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. He is an Educationist and a researcher. He holds Master of Philosophy Degree in Agribusiness from the University of Ghana (Ghana), Bachelor of Arts Degree in Development Studies from the University for Development Studies (Ghana) and a Diploma in Education from the University of Education, Winneba (Ghana). Suhiyini is a trained agricultural and resource economist and his research interest include but not limited to land grabbing, food security, climate change adaptation, natural resource conflicts and governance, vulnerability analysis, poverty and rural livelihoods. His current PhD project seeks to investigate farmer-herder conflict and livelihood nexus among households in Ghana. Suhiyini has co-authored seven peer review journal publications, four book chapters, and eight conference paper publications. Issah engages in consultancy services for individuals, private enterprises and non-governmental organisations.	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Alhassan; 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Alhassan	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Issah Suhiyini Alhassan	Alhassan	Ghana	Issah Suhiyini
Iwilade, Samuel Akinwumi	Senior Lecturer	Center of African Studies	The University of Edinburgh		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2013 Civil Society and the Democratisation of Regional Security Governance in West Africa Obafemi Awolowo University Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Department of International Relations	Obafemi Awolowo University	Nigeria	2013	Akin Iwilade is currently Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in African Studies at The University of Edinburgh. His research focusses on the anthropology of youth and draws on an interdisciplinary theoretical toolbox to ask how this category maps itself onto material and social realities; how they construct and evade discipline, and how they imagine their place in life, death and in the in-betweens. He received the SSRC Next Generation Award in 2012.	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Iwilade	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Samuel Akinwumi Iwilade	Iwilade	Nigeria	Samuel Akinwumi
Bawa, Umesh L.	Senior Lecturer	Psychology	University of the Western Cape		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2013 Using Photovoice to Elicit Young People’s Representations of Peace and Security in their Communities University of the Western Cape South Africa 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2014 African youth constructions of safety: A multi-country Photovoice study University of the Western Cape South Africa 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2016 African youth constructions of safety: a multi-country Photovoice study University of the Western Cape South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Full time Lecturer; Senior Lecturer	Department of Psychology	University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2013; 2014; 2016	Mr Bawa is a registered clinical psychologist and senior lecturer in the Department of Psychology at UWC. He is the former co-ordinator of the Masters in Psychology training programme for students in professional psychology at the University. He has served as a senior team member on key community engagement research projects led by the University of South Africa’s Institute for Social and Health Sciences. Mr Bawa has worked in the fields of violence rehabilitation, trauma and human rights in South Africa, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Rwanda and Chile. He has also served on the Council for the International Society for Health and Human Rights, and was until recently, the Director of the Children for Tomorrow – South Africa- a free psychological service for traumatised young people and their families, funded by the Steffi Graf Children for Tomorrow Foundation in Germany. His research interests include the psychological effects of violence on children, trauma counselling, the reintegration of ex-combatants and child soldiers in post-conflict countries, Photovoice and peace promotion.	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Bawa; 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Bawa; 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Bawa	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Umesh L. Bawa	Bawa	South Africa	Umesh L.
Amakye-Boateng, Kwasi	Lecturer	History and Political Studies	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2013 State Legitimacy, Political Conflict and Democratization University of Ghana Ghana	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	History and Political Studies	University of Ghana	Ghana	2013	I am a holder of a doctoral degree in African Studies from the University of Ghana, Legon. I also have a bachelor and master’s degrees in Political Science from the University of Tromso - Norway. I also have a second bachelor’s degree in Linguistics and Russian Language awarded by the University of Ghana, Legon. I have been working as a lecturer for over ten years. I have thus acquired knowledge in Political Theory, Public Policy and Comparative Politics and Development. I am therefore equipped with relevant skills of political analysis relevant for public decision making. I can thus work effectively and efficiently either in a team or on my own. I am much focused, organized and a confident person coupled with excellent verbal and written skills (in English language, having had all my education in it) and an excellent interpersonal relationship. I relish challenges and count on a strong ability to learn quickly.	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Amakye-Boateng	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Kwasi Amakye-Boateng	Amakye-Boateng	Ghana	Kwasi
Bwinabona, Elgidius Ichumbaki	Faculty	Department of Archaeology and Heritage studies	University of Dar es Salaam	Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2013 Build Heritage Assets as Part of Current Environmental Landscape: The Case of Central Coastal of Tanzania University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	History and Archaeology	University of Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	2013	Elgidius Ichumbaki is a heritage studies scholar based in the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He holds bachelor's and master’s degrees from the University of Dar es Salaam, and pursued his His Ph.D. in a program between the University of Dar es Salaam and Roskilde University in Denmark. Since he completed Ph.D. in 2015, Ichumbaki has continued to explore theories, methods and practices that aim to decolonize research, interpretation of research data and the writing of African pasts. For the past 10 years, he has devoted his efforts to conducting research, and training students, especially in heritage studies. Ichumbaki has established community groups at various sites in Tanzania aimed at protecting heritage sites and values in the surroundings. Ichumbaki has authored over 50 publications including peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, museum exhibitions, research and consultancy reports, radio/television programs, documentaries and music videos. His recent publications include new thoughts on Swahili civilization in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology and the valorization of this unique coastal culture for community livelihoods.	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Bwinabona	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Elgidius Ichumbaki Bwinabona	Bwinabona	Tanzania	Elgidius Ichumbaki
Mlahagwa, Wendo Olema	Senior Lecturer	Gender and Women Studies and Coordinator of Devt Studies Unit	Mbarara University of Science and Technology		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2013 Re-examining Social Reintegration dynamics of formerly abducted Young Mothers in Post Conflict Northern Uganda Mbarara University of Science and Technology Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Full-time Lecturer	Development Studies	Mbarara University of Science and Technology	Uganda	2013		2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Mlahagwa	2013 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Wendo Olema Mlahagwa	Mlahagwa	Tanzania	Wendo Olema
Makhunga, Lindiwe D.	Researcher		Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre to end Violence against women		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2013 EXAMINING THE PARLIAMENTARY POLITICS OF WOMEN'S PRESENCE IN POST-GENOCIDE RWANDA AND POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2014 EXAMINING THE PARLIAMENTARY POLITICS OF WOMEN'S PRESENCE IN POST-GENOCIDE RWANDA AND POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Full-time Lecturer; Associate Lecturer	Department of Sociology	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2013; 2014		2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Makhunga; 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Makhunga	2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Lindiwe D. Makhunga	Makhunga	South Africa	Lindiwe D.
Magadla, Siphokazi	Lecturer	Political Science and International Studies	Rhodes University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2013 The 'combative mother' and the aftermath of liberation: narrow and broader implications of the integration of female ex-combatants for the process of demobilisation in post-apartheid South Africa Rhodes University South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Part-time Lecturer	Political and International Studies	Rhodes University	South Africa	2013		2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Magadla	2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Siphokazi Magadla	Magadla	South Africa	Siphokazi
Mbunda, Richard Bruno	Lecturer	Political Science and Public Administration	University of Dar es Salaam		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2013 Peasant Agriculture and the Quest for Food Sovereignty in Tanzania University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2014 PEASANT AGRICULTURE AND THE QUEST FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN TANZANIA University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Political Science and Public Administration	University of Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	2013; 2014		2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Mbunda; 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Mbunda	2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Richard Bruno Mbunda	Mbunda	Tanzania	Richard Bruno
Okpara, Uche Thaddeus	Senior Lecturer ; and Fellow	Livelihoods and Institutions Dept ; Natural Resource Institute	University of Greenwich		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2013 Climate Change, Water Resources and Conflict: Evidence and Proposed Policy Responses University of Leeds United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Full-time Lecturer	Agricultural Economics	University of Leeds	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)	2013	Dr Uche Okpara is a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow at the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich. Before joining NRI, he taught and conducted research at both the University of Leeds and the University of Nigeria. Dr Uche has a diverse research interest around a central theme of climate security and its link with sustainable peace and inclusive development. His work uses theories and methods from both the natural and social sciences. Several philosophical paradigms (such as post-positivism, social constructivism, pragmatism and critical realism) offer Dr Uche’s research a firm footing. He is well-versed in using mixed methods approaches and forward-thinking transdisciplinary research techniques (such as solutions-orientated, systems-based tools) that recognise the complexity of the world's climate, conflict and peace challenges, and the synergies, trade-offs and opportunities created by change. Dr Uche recently completed a GCERF (Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund) funded research project which provides an authoritative analysis of past, ongoing and required responses to prevent and counter violent extremism (P/CVE) in Northwest Nigeria, identifying areas and activities with greatest potential for impact in long term P/CVE programming. He has also examined how the COVID-19 pandemic hinders efforts to address shocks from climate change and violent extremism in fragile regions. Currently, he is working to advance transformative pathways towards sustainable peace and equitable prosperity in transnational territories of the watershed of the Lake Chad basin – areas that crosscut communities facing interrelated risks of violent conflict and climate change. He does this by using innovative tools that are inclusive, participatory and deliberative, such as Young Citizens Panels, Consensus Conferences, Local Citizens Labs and a Conflict and Environment Observatory. Local Citizens Labs in Chad, Niger and Nigeria, for example, serve both as a hub for experiential and experimental learning and knowledge innovation, and a one-stop-shop for operationalising the Sustainable Development Goals related to peace and prosperity at a local scale. Dr Uche has been a module/course leader for various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, teaching diverse groups of students in developed and developing countries. He has presented his work and travelled in Africa, Europe and the Americas. His recognition as a researcher is evidenced by a range of scholarly awards (such as the Next Generation Africa Scholar Award and the Elsevier outstanding reviewer award), and interviews granted to journalists working with different media (the BBC World Services and UK Sunday Times) on climate, conflict and fragility themes. In 2013, he won a Doctoral Research Fellowship Award from the US Social Science Research Council which enabled him to complete his PhD research on the nexus of climate shocks, water scarcity and violent conflict in the Boko Haram-affected Lake Chad riparian zones in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger Republic. One of the published articles from his PhD research won a Postgraduate Research Commendation Prize from the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds. In 2018, he was invited by the Government of Nigeria and UNESCO to help advance debates on new strategies for climate conflict mitigation, peacebuilding and sustainable development in the African Lake Chad region during the International Conference on Lake Chad. Dr Uche regularly reviews research grant proposals for a couple of funding organisations, including the UKRI and the Partnerships for Innovative Research in Africa Grant Programme Scheme. He also reviews articles for several international journals advancing environment, security and global development subjects. He speaks regularly at international conferences around the world. Dr Uche holds a PhD degree in Environmental Sustainability (University of Leeds) and an MSc in Natural Resources and Sustainable Environmental Management (University of Greenwich). His first degree is in Agricultural Economics (First Class Honours, University of Nigeria).	2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Okpara	2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Uche Thaddeus Okpara	Okpara	Nigeria	Uche Thaddeus
Shehu, Muazu Usman	Professor ; Principal Private Secretary to the Governor of Gombe State.	Department of Sociology	Gombe State University,Gombe State Government House		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2013 Religion and Land Degradation in Northeast Nigeria University of Sheffield United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Department of Sociology	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)	2013	Professor Muazu Usman Shehu is a Professor of Environmental Sociology at Gombe State University, Nigeria. He is currently on secondment to the Governor’s Office, where he serves as the Principal Private Secretary to the Governor of Gombe State. Prior to this role, Muazu held the position of Director-General for Research and Documentation in the Governor's Office, where he led ambitious and innovative reforms in data-driven public policy, open government initiatives, and development planning. His tenure also emphasised the facilitation of access to research insights for policymakers, bridging the gap between academic knowledge and governance. Although trained in sociology, Muazu’s research interests are multidisciplinary. His work spans society–environment interactions, evidence-based public policy, religion and ecology, forced migration and science and technology in society.	2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Shehu	2013 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Muazu Usman Shehu	Shehu	Nigeria	Muazu Usman
Ainamani, Herbert Elvis	Senior Lecturer	Mental Health	Kabale University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2014 Traumatic experiences, Working memory functions, and aggressive behaviour among the Congolese Refugees in Uganda Mbarara University of Science and Technology Uganda	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION AND PSYCHOLOGY	Mbarara University of Science and Technology	Uganda	2014	Dr Herbert Elvis Ainamani (PhD) is a senior lecturer in the department of Mental Health-School of Medicine- Kabale University- Uganda. Prior to joining Kabale University, Herbert was a senior lecturer at Bishop Stuart University-Mbarara Uganda and the Head of department of Psychology. While at Bishop Stuart University, He was also a research fellow (MADRI) in the department of Psychiatry at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST)-Uganda. Herbert earned his PhD from MUST under the mentorship of Prof Dr Thomas Elbert of the University of Konstanz-Germany. He also holds MA in Counselling Psychology and a BA from Uganda Christian University. Herbert also obtained an Advanced Diploma in Child and Adolescent Mental Health from MUST. Herbert’s doctoral research project focused on trauma- related mental health disorders with a special focus on Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), cognitive domains of (working memory and executive functions) and appetitive aggression among the refugees living in Uganda. During his doctoral studies, Herbert gained extensive experience in the area of Psycho-traumatology as he worked closely with Prof Dr Thomas Elbert and his team at the University of Konstanz including participating in research and training in psychological treatment within conflict and post conflict communities such as those in Burundi, Northern Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). During this time, Herbert also trained in Narrative- Exposure Therapy (NET-KIDNET)- a Psychological treatment intervention for traumatised children and adults. Herbert has practical experiences on the provision of psychological treatment and clinical research among the refugees/general community and children/adolescents using various psychological interventions and standardised clinical assessment tools. Herbert is a post-doctoral IMMANA Fellow (Tufts University, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) where He closely examined the intersection between agriculture(gardening), nutrition and mental health problems among people/ family caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementia (ADRD). Herbert is also a Social Science Research Council Fellow (PhD completion) and a winner of African –German young researchers award of African Mental Health Foundation. Herbert has vast international travel experiences and speaking to international audiences in Uganda, Burundi, DRC, Kenya, Ghana, USA and Germany. Herbert has recently been awarded a 2023 International Presidential Visiting fellowship at the University of Regensburg in Germany.	2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ainamani	2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Herbert Elvis Ainamani	Ainamani	Uganda	Herbert Elvis
Mavura, Mike Tigere	Change Agent and Lecturer	Visual Studies Department	Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2014 Transnationalism and Re-thinking international Relations in Southern Africa: The Case of Short-term Cross-Border Migration from Zimbabwe to South Africa Rhodes University South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	Political and International Studies	Rhodes University	South Africa	2014	Mike Tigere Mavura is a Trustee of the Stellenbosch Triennale. He holds a PhD in International Relations from Rhodes University and currently works as a Change Agent and Lecturer in the Visual Studies Department at the Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography. He is a Trustee of the Stellenbosch Outdoor Sculpture Trust as well as an independent curator. In 2019 Mike initiated the Creative Dialogues Forum at the Stellenbosch Academy which brought together creatives, artists, advertisers, designers, curators and academics from primarily South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe to share perspectives and expertise in three key areas: technology and the creative Industries; trends and issues in visual communication in Africa; and the role of creativity in defining African futures. Mike participated in the British Council and National Gallery of Zimbabwe’s Emerging Curators’ workshop ‘New Ideas, New Possibilities’ in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 2011. He has also worked as a researcher for the Puncture Points Project and the Africa Centre’s Infecting the City –‘What Will We Tell Freedom’ festival. In 2018, Mike curated the exhibition Vedanā: Experiences in Tonality at the Norval Foundation, and in 2016 he was the recipient of a Pro-Helvetia Research Grant for his ‘Mapping Southern Africa Project’ enabling him to research art and cultural centres’ organisational practices in Southern Africa.	2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Mavura	2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Mike Tigere Mavura	Mavura	Zimbabwe	Mike Tigere
Odame, Felicia Safoa	Senior Lecturer and President of the Board		University for Development Studies,Alliance for African Women Initiative		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2014 Non-Formal Education and Social Change in the Nadowli District of Ghana: Reality or Mirage? University for Development Studies Ghana	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	Social political and Historical Studies	University for Development Studies	Ghana	2014	A professionally qualified Sociologist/Social Worker, Rural Developer,Teacher and Senior Lecturer at the University of Development Studies with extensive knowledge and skills in gender studies, community development, research work and expertise in workshop training programmes. She also has many publications in Peer Review Journals. This qualification has been gained through academic training and a wide range of positions with both government and non- governmental organizations. She holds a PhD in Endogenous development, her doctoral studies was on Non-Formal Education and Social Change in Northern Ghana. Her motivation for this research is based on her exposure in community work in rural areas in Ghana. She has witnessed the extent of poverty in the rural areas due to high illiteracy rate. With her knowledge in Endogenous Development Studies, she is motivated to review concepts and policy frameworks designed to deliver a variety of NFE Programmes aimed at transforming the lives of people.	2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Odame	2014 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Felicia Safoa Odame	Odame	Ghana	Felicia Safoa
Oni, Ebenezer Oluwole	Assistant Professor	Department of Political Science and Diplomatic Studies	Bowen University	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2014 THE POLITICS OF ELECTION PETITIONS IN NIGERIA'S FOURTH REPUBLIC University of Ibadan Nigeria 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2015 The Politics of Election Petitions in Nigeria's Fourth Republic University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer II	DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS	University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2014; 2015	Dr Ebenezer Oluwole Oni obtained a Doctorate degree in Political Science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He also holds an M.Sc. in Political Science from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and a B.Sc. in Public Administration from the Department of Political Science, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria. He is a 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 recipient of the prestigious Social Science Research Council’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Doctoral Proposal and Dissertation Fellowships in Peace, Security and Development funded by the Carnegie Foundation. Dr Oni is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Diplomatic Studies, Bowen University, Iwo, Nigeria. Dr Oni has published extensively in reputable journals across the world and has also contributed chapters in edited books. His areas of research interest include Democratization and Electoral Studies, Governance, Ethnic Studies, Public Policy/Administration and Development Studies.	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Oni; 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Oni	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Ebenezer Oluwole Oni	Oni	Nigeria	Ebenezer Oluwole
Dube, Nkosiyazi N.	Lecturer, Head of Department	Social Work	University of the Witwatersrand	Social Development	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2014 Informal social security systems as a viable alternative to formal social security systems. A study of selected stokvels in South Africa’s Gauteng province University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Tutor/Junior Lecturer	Social Work and Social Development	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2014	I am currently the Head of Department (HoD) and Lecturer in the School of Human and Community Development, Department of Social Work, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. I hold a Bachelor of Social Work degree, a Master’s, and a Doctoral degree in the broad area of Health and Social Development, all awarded by the University of the Witwatersrand. I have over 12 years of work experience in the higher education sector, supervising and conducting qualitative social research involving a variety of public and population health issues affecting vulnerable groups such as women and children. I have expertise in advanced qualitative methods for social research, knowledge, and experience in working with vulnerable populations or those who operate within the periphery of the economy. I teach and supervise research students at the Honours, Master’s, and Doctoral levels. My research interests are in Health and Social Development, with a specific focus on Social Protection and Social Security (Formal and Informal), and Children and HIV and AIDS. Currently, I am concluding a research project that was investigating the feasibility of using informal social security networks, known as stokvels in South Africa, as platforms for hypertension screening for their women members in Soweto, South Africa. I have published articles and book chapters in peer-reviewed journals within South Africa and abroad. I work with colleagues on different projects from different disciplines within my university, in Africa, and abroad. I am an Academic Editor for PLOS ONE and a reviewer for the Journal of Social Development in Africa and the Journal of Human Behaviour in a Social Environment. I externally examine coursework and research projects for five universities in South Africa. In terms of institutional affiliations, I was a Doctoral fellow in the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) and a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow (MMUF) for Wits University. I worked in the private and NGO sector together within the Higher Education sector in South Africa. I am an Alumnus at Bowdoin College, in the United States of America through the Bowdoin Office of Special Academic Programs. I am affiliated with the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), through the Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program. I am a proposal reviewer for NextGen and a 2014 Proposal Development Fellow for NextGen. I have participated and presented in both local, regional, and international conferences. I am a member of the South African Council for Social Service Professions (SACSSP).	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Dube	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Nkosiyazi N. Dube	Dube	Zimbabwe	Nkosiyazi N.
Falase, Olugbenga Samuel	Lecturer		Lead City University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2014 The Politics of Forest Governance in South-western Nigeria University of Ibadan Nigeria 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2016 The Politics of Forest Governance in South-Western Nigeria University of Ibadan Nigeria 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2017 The Politics of Forest Governance in South-Western Nigeria University of Ibadan Nigeria 2020 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2020 Post-Colonial Politics of Forest Governance in South-Western Nigeria Lead City University Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship; Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Next Gen	Faculty; PhD Candidate; Assistant Lecturer; Lecturer II	Sociology; Sociology and Psychology; Department of Sociology	University of Ibadan; Lead City University	Nigeria	2014; 2016; 2017; 2020		2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Falase; 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Falase; 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Falase; 2020 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship-Falase	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship; 2020 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Olugbenga Samuel Falase	Falase	Nigeria	Olugbenga Samuel
Nabukenya, Sauda	PhD Candidate	History	University of Michigan	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2014 UGANDA'S 1995 CONSTITUTION AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT:CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF DEMOCRATISATION AND PEACE BUILDING Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Full-time Lecturer	Department of History and Political Science	Makerere University	Uganda	2014	Sauda Nabukenya is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Michigan, where she is completing her dissertation as a Mellon/ACLS Fellow. She is trained as a historian of Modern Africa, with a research focus on the histories of law, property, gender, and class in colonial Africa and the broader British Empire. Her phd dissertation, titled "In Pursuit of Justice, Right, and Peace: Ordinary Litigants and the Making of Uganda’s Legal Culture, ca. 1900-1970,"explorers the role played by ordinary individuals in shaping Ugandan law and its application. Her research draws extensively from legal archives she discovered in Uganda. She also holds a master’s in history from Makerere University in Uganda, where she wrote a thesis on the politics of the Constitution-making process in Uganda from 1959-1995. Throughout her journey, Sauda has immersed herself in archives, conducting extensive research that has unearthed invaluable insights into the evolution of law and legal systems in Uganda. Sauda Nabukenya is renowned for her pioneering work in uncovering the hidden stories and historical significance embedded within legal records officially deemed not important and worthy for preservation. She is the driving force behind the discovery and reservation of two remarkable archives: the High Court of Uganda and Mango Archives. These judicial archives, which have survived thanks to bureaucratic neglect, contain an unparalleled collection of court records, totaling over 150,000 court cases. Remarkably, there is no other archive of this scale or magnitude available for research anywhere in Africa. Nabukenya played a pivotal role in overseeing archival projects that meticulously preserved, organized, cataloged and transferred these endangered archives to the national archive of Uganda. Driven by her profound passion for history and preservation of historical records, her tireless efforts have not only made these archives accessible for research, education, and historical preservation but have also contributed significantly to the broader endeavor of preserving endangered records across Uganda. Sauda's mission is to preserve the rich tapestry of legal history and make it accessible to all. She firmly believes that legal archives and legal history are indispensable for preserving legal heritage, evolution of laws, the practice of justice, and the understanding of how law intersects with society and culture. The legal archive serve as a vital resources for legal professionals, researchers, educators, policy makers and the broader society.	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Nabukenya	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Sauda Nabukenya	Nabukenya	Uganda	Sauda
Ayansola, Margaret Damola	Lecturer		Adeleke University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2014 CONFLICT REPORTING OR CONFLICT ESCALATION? AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE OF THE NIGERIAN PRESS IN THE COVERAGE OF RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS IN NIGERIA (1999-2013). Covenant University Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Department of Mass Communication	Covenant University	Nigeria	2014		2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ayansola	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Margaret Damola Ayansola	Ayansola	Nigeria	Margaret Damola
Brobbey, Maame Kyerewaa	Teaching Assistant	Institute of African Studies	University of Ghana		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2014 Ghana's Security Burden: Youth Unemployment and Illegal Gold Mining University of Ghana Ghana	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Teaching Assistant	Institute of African Studies	University of Ghana	Ghana	2014		2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Brobbey	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Maame Kyerewaa Brobbey	Brobbey	Ghana	Maame Kyerewaa
Ajayi, Oluwagbemiga Oluwaseun					Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2014 STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE IN NIGERIA : HOW RELIGION DEPOLITICIZES YOUNG PEOPLE AND SILENCES THEIR VOICE. Obafemi Awolowo University Nigeria 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2015 Religiosity as Depoliticization: Pentecostalism, Youth, and Structural Violence in Nigeria Obafemi Awolowo University Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Sociology and Criminology	Obafemi Awolowo University	Nigeria	2014; 2015		2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ajayi; 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Ajayi	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Oluwagbemiga Oluwaseun Ajayi	Ajayi	Nigeria	Oluwagbemiga Oluwaseun
Audu, Adole Raphael	Program Coordinator Gender, Health and Environment	Centre for Peace, Diplomatic and Development Studies (CPDDS)	University of Maiduguri	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2014 Political Violence and the Development of Nigeria:a study of Yobe State Benue State University Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Public Administration	Benue State University	Nigeria	2014	Adole Raphael Audu is the Programme Coordinator of Gender, Health and Environment at the Centre for Peace, Diplomatic and Development Studies (CPDDS), University of Maiduguri, Nigeria. He lectures in the Department of Public Administration and graduated with a Ph.D. in Political Science at the Benue State University in 2016. He also obtained Master's of Science (MSc) in Public Administration from the Benue State University as well as a Bachelor of Science Degree (B.Sc) in Public Administration from the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria. Dr. Adole is a Fellow of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) under the auspices of the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa, a member of the National Political Science Association (NPSA), Member of International Political Science Association (IPSA) and a member of the European Centre for Research Training and Development United Kingdom. He has published in many referred journals nationally and internationally. He has authored books on gender, empowerment and Comparative Public Administration. He has also contributed chapters in so many edited books. His research interest revolves around peace and conflict, gender studies, comparative and development administration. Dr. Adole has worked and served as a Consultant with many International and National Non-Government Organizations operating in North East Nigeria on peacebuilding. Notably: The British Council, CLEEN Foundation, Chatham House International, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), International Rescues Committee (IRC), Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) and the likes. He has worked on several peacebuilding projects in Northeast Nigeria. His involvement with both international and local NGOs in North East Nigeria has provided him with huge knowledge in peacebuilding, conflict management and transitional justice in Northeast Nigeria and beyond.	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Audu	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Adole Raphael Audu	Audu	Nigeria	Adole Raphael
Njoku, Emeka Thaddues	Assistant Professor	International Development	University of Birmingham		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2014 Counter Terrorism and Civil society in Nigeria University of Ibadan Nigeria 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2015 Counter-Terrorism and Civil Society in Nigeria University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Academic Advisor	Political Science	University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2014; 2015	Emeka Thaddues Njoku is an Assistant Professor whose research explores the global diffusion of counter-terrorism norms and their far-reaching implications for civil society organisations — from the shrinking of civic space to the reconfiguration of their agency. His work also interrogates the often-overlooked gendered and sexual consequences of counter-terrorism laws, policies, and practices. His research has attracted competitive funding from leading institutions worldwide, including the Leverhulme Trust, British Academy, American Council of Learned Societies, Social Science Research Council, Brown International Advanced Research Institute Fellowship, Brown University, Carnegie's Institute of International Education, American Political Science Association and its Centennial Centre for Political Science and Public Affairs. Njoku’s scholarship appears in top-tier journals such as International Affairs, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organisations, Journal of Civil Society, and Development Policy Review, among others. He is also co-author (with Scott N. Romaniuk) of the book Counter-terrorism and Civil Society: Post-9/11 Progress and Challenges, published by Manchester University Press.	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Njoku; 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Njoku	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Emeka Thaddues Njoku	Njoku	Nigeria	Emeka Thaddues
Diala, Anthony Chima	Professor	Private Law, Faculty of Law and Centre for Legal Integration in Africa	University of the Western Cape	Law,Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2014 Recognition of living customary law in Nigeria: women’s access to land under customary law of succession in South-east Nigeria University of Cape Town South Africa 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2015 Recognition of living customary law in Nigerian legal system: women’s matrimonial property rights in south-east Nigeria University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	Department of Jurisprudence and International Law	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2014; 2015	Diala is a professor of legal pluralism and foundation director of the Centre for Legal Integration in Africa at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Between 2004 and 2009, he worked in the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and the Justice and Peace Commission, Nigeria. He specialises in the interaction of normative orders, human rights and good governance. He has taught in Germany, Italy and Nigeria. Among others, he belongs to the International Academy of Comparative Law and the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, Germany. He has advised Canada’s International Development Research Centre, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, and South Africa’s Law Reform Commission. Diala is editor of the African Journal of Legal Studies. He has received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council of New York, the Nordic Africa Institute, and the South African National Research Foundation. He obtained a PhD in indigenous laws from the University of Cape Town and a Master of Laws in Human Rights and Democratisation from the University of Pretoria.	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Diala; 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Diala	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Anthony Chima Diala	Diala	Nigeria	Anthony Chima
Iddrisu, Azindow Yakubu					Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2014 The Impact of Land use Change on Food Security in Northern Region Ghana University of Ghana Ghana	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Teaching Assistant	Institute of African Studies	University of Ghana	Ghana	2014		2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Iddrisu	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Azindow Yakubu Iddrisu	Iddrisu	Ghana	Azindow Yakubu
Naidoo, Leigh-Ann	Senior Lecturer	School of Education	University of the Witwatersrand		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2014 From intellectuals to functionaries? : A brief history of black teacher consciousness in South Africa 1970 - 2013 University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2016 Black Student Intellectuals and the New Student Movement in South Africa: The Case of the Rhodes Must Fall Movement University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2017 Black Student Intellectuals and the New Student Movement in South Africa: The Case of the Rhodes Must Fall Movement 2015-2016 University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Manager and Coconvenor Johannesburg Workshop in Theory&Criticism; Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC) Convenor; Ph.D. Candidate	Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2014; 2016; 2017		2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Naidoo; 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Naidoo; 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Naidoo	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Leigh-Ann Naidoo	Naidoo	South Africa	Leigh-Ann
Serunkuma, Yusuf Kajura	PhD Fellow	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Culture studies,Political Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2014 MAKING BIOGRAPHIES IN SOMALI POETRY: SCULTPING A SOMALILAND IDENTITY OUTSIDE OF SOMALIA Makerere University Uganda 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2015 Making Somaliland: Poetry, Song and the Campaign for International Recognition Makerere University Uganda 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2016 MAKING SOMALILAND: POPULAR CULTURE, IDENTITY AND INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	PhD Fellow/Tutorial Assistant; Tutor; PhD Fellow and Tutorial Assistant	Makerere Institute of Social Research; INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH (MISR)	Makerere University	Uganda	2014; 2015; 2016	I authored 'The Naked Excellencies', a short story appearing in Butterfly Dreams and other New Stories from Uganda (2010) by CCC Press UK. After my BA in Literature and English, I was apprenticed as reporter and editor at The Independent magazine, in the able hands of Editor Joseph Were, and Charles Bichachi. In late 2008, I joined Fountain Publishers as editor until 2012 when I left for an Mph/PhD in Social Studies at Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR). I focus on Cultural and Literary Studies, and since last year I have been researching, and reading Somali cultural history and poetry. I have been also interested in understanding the roots of the conflict in Somalia and chosen to enter it through its cultural reading.	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Serunkuma; 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Serunkuma; 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Serunkuma	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Yusuf Kajura Serunkuma	Serunkuma	Uganda	Yusuf Kajura
Phiri, Madalitso Zililo	Post Doctoral Research Fellow/Sessional Lecturer	South Africa United Kingdom Bilateral Research Chair in Political Theory	University of the Witwatersrand		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2014 South Afruca and Brazil's Comparative Political Economy of Development: Durable Inequalities Under Progressive Social Policy Reforms—The Humanist Imperative University of South Africa South Africa 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2015 Durable Inequalities under Progressive Social Policy Reforms—a Comparative Study of South Africa and Brazil University of South Africa South Africa 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2016 Social Assistance in National Social Policy Architectures: A Comparative Study of South Africa and Brazil's Selected Districts University of South Africa South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	PhD Candidate; Doctoral Research Fellow; DST/NRF SARChl Chair in Social Policy	Archie Mafeje Research Institute; College of Graduate Studies; Archie Mafeje Research Institute (AMRI)	University of South Africa	South Africa	2014; 2015; 2016	Madalitso Zililo Phiri is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the South Africa United Kingdom Bilateral Research Chair in Political Theory, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is a former Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre of African Studies; Visiting College Research Associate, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (2023-2024); and Carnegie Corporation Fellow (2014-2017) through the Next Generation of Social Science in Africa, Social Science Research Council, New York, United States. He is author of The Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil: Making Sense of Social Policy as Reparations (Brill: Leiden, 2025). Phiri’s publications include book chapters and refereed journal articles in outlets such as History of Intellectual Culture, Critical Sociology, Monthly Review, Global Health Promotion, Journal of Southern African Studies, and South African Journal of International Affairs. His ongoing research interests include, political economy of racialised welfare (South Africa and Brazil), sociology of race, and black political thought. Phiri earned a Bachelor of Social Science degree in Politics and Sociology, a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) in International Relations, a Master of Philosophy in Development Studies, all from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology from the University of South Africa. He was previously a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg. He has presented his scholarly works as an invited keynote and inaugural speaker and participant at international symposia, conferences, and workshops. He is the recipient of the Carnegie Corporation Scholar and Emerging African Scholars awards through the African Studies Association and African Studies Review, respectively. He has taught undergraduate and graduate classes in African Studies, Sociology, Politics and Research Methods at the University of Cambridge, University of Witwatersrand, University of Pretoria, and Rhodes University. He is proficient in English and fluent in his native Chichewa, and competent in Portuguese.	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Phiri; 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Phiri; 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Phiri	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Madalitso Zililo Phiri	Phiri	Malawi	Madalitso Zililo
Sika-Bright, Solomon	Post-Doctoral Research Fellow	Centre for Interdisplinary Studies of Children, Family and Society	University of the Western Cape	Social Work	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2014 NATURE OF MATERNAL EMPLOYMENT AND ITS INFLUENCES ON EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING IN CAPE COAST University of Cape Coast Ghana	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Department of Sociology & Anthropology	University of Cape Coast	Ghana	2014	Solomon Danga is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at centre for Interdisciplinary studies of children, family and society at University of the Western Cape. Recently, in April 2023, he awarded his PhD in child and family studies from the University of the Western Cape. Solomon obtained a Bachelor of Arts in educational psychology and a Master of Arts in developmental psychology from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Solomon’s doctoral studies was focused on mental health of adolescent refugees in refugee camps in Ethiopia. His research areas focus on mental health and psychosocial intervention of migrants, refugees, and internal displaced people. Currently, he is engaged on research project of strengthening social cohesion and human capabilities through families. Solomon is awarded bursary from Mwalimu Nyerere African Union Scholarship scheme [MNAUSS] (2017-2020), Next -generation Social Science Research Council in Africa doctoral dissertation fellowship [SSRC-Next generation] in 2019-2020, New York, HUMA-LASPAD PROJECT: The State of African Scholarly Publishing and Dissemination, Cape Town University, May- June 30, 2022, awarded fellowship as a Country Researcher to research and write a brief report on the topic of “The State of Scholarly Publishing in Ethiopia”, and ERASMUS Plus scholarship for student mobility exchange program with partner universities in Germany in 2022, Frankfurt University of Applied Science, during his doctoral study.	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Sika-Bright	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Solomon Sika-Bright	Sika-Bright	Ghana	Solomon
Agaba, Peninah	Lecturer	Population Studies	Makerere University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2014 Determinants of utilization of Maternal Health services among Refugees in Nakivale Refugge camp, Uganda Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Population Studies	Makerere University	Uganda	2014		2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Agaba	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Peninah Agaba	Agaba	Uganda	Peninah
Addo, Patience Afua					Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2014 EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON SOCIAL NETWORKS AND GENDER INEQUALITY AND THE IMPLICATION FOR FOOD SECURITY IN FISHING COMMUNITIES IN GHANA. University of Ghana Ghana	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Teaching Assistant	Institute of African Studies	University of Ghana	Ghana	2014	My name is Patience Adzande and I was born and raised in Nigeria. I obtained a PhD in urban and regional planning from the Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria in 2017. During my PhD study, I received the Dissertation Research Fellowship (2013) and the Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award (2014) from the Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC) Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa programme. In 2017, I also received the SSRC’s African Peacebuilding Network grant to conduct research on farmer-herder conflicts in Central Nigeria. Before joining ACRC, I was a lecturer at the Benue State University. My research interest in crime and the built environment was motivated by the works of Jane Jacobs and Oscar Newman. However, my decision to focus on broader issues of human security became imperative with increasing conflict and violence in rural and urban areas of Nigeria. Currently, my research focuses on the influence of the built environment on crime patterns; residents’ experiences of safety and (in)security in cities; informal policing in cities; the role of conflict/violence in re-configuring urban spaces and shaping lived experiences in cities; the lived experiences of internally displaced people (IDPs) in non-camp situations; and farmer-herder conflicts in Nigeria.	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Addo	2014 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Patience Afua Addo	Addo	Ghana	Patience Afua
Mugabe, Paschal Arsein	Head		Zeus International		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2014 To examine the effects of climate variability on food consumption in Tanzania. The case of Bagamoyo district University of Ghana Ghana	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Administrative Officer	College of Arts and Social Sciences	University of Ghana	Ghana	2014	Paschal has extended his research skills to facilitate international academic partnerships, organizing seminars and enhancing research methodologies. This experience, coupled with previous works, has refined his ability to produce impactful publications and corporate reports. By focusing on effective communication and strategic analysis, we've translated complex data into actionable insights, driving forward environmental policies and practices.	2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Mugabe	2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Paschal Arsein Mugabe	Mugabe	Tanzania	Paschal Arsein
Efanodor, Harriet	Associate Professor	Political Science and Public Administration	Edo State University Uzairue	International Relations	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2014 The impact of Contemporary Globalisation Policies on Rural Women in Nigeria Delta State University Nigeria	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D Student and Research Assistant	Department of Political Science	Delta State University	Nigeria	2014	Harriet Omokiniovo Efanodor-Obeten, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Edo State University Iyamho, Edo State, Nigeria. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science, an M.Sc. in Political Science, and a B.A. in History and International Studies from Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State. She is a recipient of the Next Generation Social Science in Africa Programme: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2014 of the Social Science Research Council, Brooklyn, New York, USA. Dr. Harriet is the Director, Career Services Centre at the University. She was the pioneer coordinator of the General Studies Unit, a former Head of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, a former Dean, Students Affairs Division, and the pioneer Dean of the Faculty of Management and Social Sciences at Edo State University Iyamho, Edo State. Her research interest focuses on international relations, politics, gender, and development studies.	2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Efanodor	2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Harriet Efanodor	Efanodor	Nigeria	Harriet
Mpofu-Mketwa, Tsitsi Jane	Assistant Professor	Sociology	Carleton University	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2014 “Asihlali phantsi!" A Study of Agency among isiXhosa-speaking women traders from a Cape Town township University of Cape Town South Africa 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2017 “Asihlali phantsi!” A study of agency among isi-Xhosa-speaking women traders in a Cape Town Township. University of Cape Town South Africa 2023 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2023 “'Vuku’zenzele!': The pivotal role of agency in alleviating urban poverty, lessons from Cape Town’s Langa Township women informal traders” University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship; Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Next Gen	Research Assistant; Academic Instructor	Energy Research Centre	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2014; 2017; 2023	I have worked for 12 years as a social development practitioner in the fields of child protection social work, youth wellbeing, women’s empowerment, poverty alleviation, and community development in Cape Town. I conducted research in the Cape Flats vulnerable communities of Cape Town in projects that sought to explore violence prevention amongst young people in selected Cape Town township schools, the wellbeing of young people in Cape Town’s most deprived communities and gendered sustainable energy use in the informal food sector in Cape Town vulnerable communities. I worked on a research project that aimed to address higher education equity access in selected high-risk courses that impeded graduation for most deprived students, at the University of Cape Town. I apply participatory visual methods to enhance community engagement with multiple stakeholders to facilitate dialogue and address structural and systemic constraints that impede sustainable livelihoods and wellbeing outcomes.	2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Mpofu-Mketwa; 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Mpofu-Mketwa; 2023 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship-Mpofu-Mketwa	2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship; 2023 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Tsitsi Jane Mpofu-Mketwa	Mpofu-Mketwa	Zimbabwe	Tsitsi Jane
Xaba, Nkhaba Jantjie	Lecturer		Stellenbosch University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2014 A comparison of Afrikaner Economic Empowerment and Black Economic Empowerment: A South African case Stellenbosch University South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	Sociology and Social Anthropology	Stellenbosch University	South Africa	2014		2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Xaba	2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Nkhaba Jantjie Xaba	Xaba	South Africa	Nkhaba Jantjie
Ndlovu, Xichavo Alecia	Senior Lecturer	Department of Political Studies	University of Cape Town	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2014 Sustaining the unsustainable? Political institutions and development in sub-Saharan Africa's resource economies University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2015 Ethnic identity in post-apartheid South Africa: A case study of Southern Ndebele identity in the KwaMhlanga region in Mpumalanga province University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Teaching Assistant and Sessional Lecturer; PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant	International Relations; Political Studies	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2014; 2015	Alecia Ndlovu is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town, specialising in the political economy of development and the governance of Africa’s resource economies. She led a Worldwide Universities Network project on Mining Accountability and Development in Africa and has co-edited The Encyclopaedia of African Politics (Edward Elgar) and a special issue of The Extractive Industries and Society. Ndlovu holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), which was awarded two international Honourable Mentions: the APCG Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation Award and the African Studies Review Best Africa-Based Dissertation Award. She is a visiting research fellow at the University of Michigan through the 2025 African Presidential Scholars Program.	2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Ndlovu; 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ndlovu	2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Xichavo Alecia Ndlovu	Ndlovu	South Africa	Xichavo Alecia
Geronimo, Isy India					Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2014 Policing Sex University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Research Assistant and Tutor	Law and Anthropology	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2014		2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Geronimo	2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Isy India Geronimo	Geronimo	Nigeria	Isy India
Amaechi, Chidi Mike	Professor	Department of History and International Studies	University of Nigeria		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2014 Traditional Peacebuilding in Nigeria: The Case of the Umuada (Daughters of the Community) in Igboland up to 2010 University of Nigeria Nigeria 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2015 Traditional Peacebuilding in Nigeria: The Case of the Umuada (Daughters of the Community) in Igboland up to 2010 University of Nigeria Nigeria	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer II; Lecturer I	Department of History and International Studies	University of Nigeria	Nigeria	2014; 2015	Chidi M. Amaechi (B. A., M. A., M. Sc, PhD, PGDE) is a Professor of Political and Social History (since 2023) in the Department of History and International Studies at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where he is currently the Head of Department (since 2023). He holds B. A. , M. A. and PhD in History and International Studies from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, M.Sc in Political Science from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) from Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria and Certificate in US-African Policy, Howard University, USA. He worked with the Centre for Peace Across Borders (CePAB) and lectured at the Imo State University and Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education (now Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education ) both at Owerri, Nigeria before joining the University of Nigeria in 2009. He is a Fellow of the SSRC’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowship, Research Fellow, INTI International University, Malaysia etc. His areas of interests include International Relations, Ethnic, Peace, Conflict and Gender studies. Amaechi has publications in learned journals and books and has attended many academic conferences and workshops within and outside Africa. Chidi belongs to several professional bodies, including: Historical Society of Nigeria (HSN), Nigeria; African Studies Association (ASA), USA; and Igbo Studies Association (ISA), USA.	2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Amaechi; 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Amaechi	2014 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Chidi M. Amaechi	Amaechi	Nigeria	Chidi M.
Agbonifo, John O.	Associate Professor	Global Affairs and Sustainable Development Institute	Osun State University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Residential Postdoc 2014 Conflict Prevention and Peace-Building: Assessing the Effectiveness of UN Targeted Sanctions in Sub-Saharan Africa Osun State University Nigeria	Next Gen Residential Postdoc	Next Gen	Assistant Professor	Sociology	Osun State University	Nigeria	2014		2014 Residential Postdoc-Agbonifo	2014 Residential Postdoc	John O. Agbonifo	Agbonifo	Nigeria	John O.
Animasawun, Gbemisola Abdul-Jelil	Professor	Centre for Peace & Strategic Studies	University of Ilorin	Peace and Conflict Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2014 Residential Postdoc 2014 Autochthony, Horizontal Inequalities and Ethnic Insecurity: Implications for Peaceful Co-Existence and Inter-Ethnic Crisis in Select Markets in Lagos, Nigeria University of Ilorin Nigeria	Next Gen Residential Postdoc	Next Gen	Lecturer II	Centre for Peace & Strategic Studies	University of Ilorin	Nigeria	2014	Gbemisola Animasawun is the Director of the Center for Peace & Strategic Studies, University of Ilorin and a Professor of Peace Studies. He was a 2019 African Studies Association (ASA) scholar and has over a decade experience in researching (f)actors, relationships and issues shaping conflict, violent extremism, peace, and security in local, transnational, and global contexts. Gbemisola links research, policy and practice as a trainer, facilitator and consultant to national institutions and development agencies. He has been a recipient of academic grants from distinguished including academic Residencies and Fellowships in the University of Oxford, Harvard University, and the Kofi Annan International Peace-keeping Center (KAIPTC). In 2025, he won the prestigious National Research Fund (NRF) of TETFUND awarded to outstanding scholars based on their ground-breaking ideas.	2014 Residential Postdoc-Animasawun	2014 Residential Postdoc	Gbemisola Abdul-Jelil Animasawun	Animasawun	Nigeria	Gbemisola Abdul-Jelil
Murara, Odette	Doctoral Candidate	Department of Anthropology & Sociology	University of the Western Cape		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2015 ‘Performing diversity’: Everyday social interaction among migrants from the Great Lakes region and South Africans in Cape Town University of the Western Cape South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Tutor	Anthropology and Sociology	University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2015		2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Murara	2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Odette Murara	Murara	Rwanda	Odette
Kizito, Simon	Lecturer and Psychotherapist	Mental Health and Community Psychology	Makerere University,Africa Retreat Centre	Psychology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2015 Maternal Mental Health: A Longitudinal cohort study of predictors and Its impact on infant growth and development in post -war torn rural Masaka District, Uganda Stellenbosch University South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Mental Health and Community Psychology	Stellenbosch University	South Africa	2015	Simon Kizito has a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He obtained his Master of Science degree in Clinical Psychology and Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences majoring in Psychology from Makerere University Uganda. He lectures at the Department of Mental Health and Community Psychology at Makerere University. Simon also works with at Africa Retreat Centre (ARC) providing psychotherapy. He is interested in Maternal, Parental and infant mental health and how it relates to different predictor variables such as poverty, intimate partner violence and social support systems within different communities. Other areas interests include, addictions, mental health at the work place, child and adolescence mental health, neuropsychological assessment, and cross cultural psychology.	2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Kizito	2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Simon Kizito	Kizito	Uganda	Simon
Onor, Kester Chukwuma	Senior Research Fellow	Security and Strategic Studies Division. Research Department	Nigerian Institute of International Affairs		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2015 United States Africa Command and Human security in Africa University of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Political Science	University of KwaZulu-Natal	South Africa	2015	Dr. Kester Chukwuma Onor is a distinguished scholar, security expert, and Senior Research Fellow at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA). With over two decades of experience spanning academia, military service, and policy advisory, he has become a leading voice in human and critical security studies, international relations, and strategic analysis. Dr. Onor holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, along with advanced degrees from the University of Ibadan and Nnamdi Azikiwe University. His academic work is reinforced by professional certifications from globally recognized institutions, including Yale University, Columbia University, and the University of Maryland. He has held academic positions at Covenant University, Trinity University, and the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and currently lectures at Nnamdi Azikiwe University’s Institute of Peace, Security and Development Studies. Prior to academia, Dr. Onor served with distinction in the Nigerian Army, participating in multiple peacekeeping missions across West Africa. A prolific author and policy analyst, Dr. Onor has published extensively on human security, foreign policy, and governance. He is an active member of several scholarly networks, including the International Political Science Association and the Social Science Research Council. He frequently appears on national media as a commentator on security and international affairs.	2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Onor	2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Kester Chukwuma Onor	Onor	Nigeria	Kester Chukwuma
Baligira, John	Lecturer	History	Makerere University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2015 Land rights and conflict in Uganda: A case study of Kibaale district since 1962 University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	History	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2015		2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Baligira	2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	John Baligira	Baligira	Uganda	John
Gwaibi, Numvi Wallace	Lecturer	Department of Political Science	University of Bamenda		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2015 Decentralisation and Community Participation: An Ethnography of Local Development and Municipal Politics in Cameroon University of Pretoria South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Research Assistant	Anthropology and Archaeology	University of Pretoria	South Africa	2015	Dr Numvi Gwaibi was born in Bali in the North-West Region of Cameroon. He holds a BA in International Relations and Media Communications from Regents University in London UK, an MSc in Global Studies at Roskilde University in Denmark, and a PhD in Humanities (Political Science and Social Anthropology) from the University of Pretoria. He is currently serving as Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Bamenda in the North-West Region of Cameroon. He is also involved in the administrative affairs of the faculty as Head of Service for Teaching and Programming. His research and publication activities span the broader social sciences with particular emphasis on Cameroon; about which he has published a book, book chapters, and several articles.	2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Gwaibi	2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Numvi Wallace Gwaibi	Gwaibi	Cameroon	Numvi Wallace
Ndlovu, Sifiso	Lecturer	Political Science	University of Mpumalanga		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2015 Ethnic identity in post-apartheid South Africa: A case study of Southern Ndebele identity in the KwaMhlanga region in Mpumalanga province University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant	Political Studies	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2015	Sifiso Ndlovu is political science lecturer at the University of Mpumalanga who has taught a number of courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She previously held a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies (JIAS)-University of Johannesburg and Public Affairs Research Institute. Her PhD project-obtained from the University of the Witwatersrand- broadly examined intersections and divergences in the articulations of belonging to ethnic identity and nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa in the culturally heterogeneous KwaMhlanga region. She also holds MA in Political Studies, an Honours degree in Political Studies and a BA in Political Studies and Sociology, all from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her research interests include the state in Africa, African politics, public policy, democratization, social justice and the politics of nation-building, ethnic identities, and belonging and citizenship and has published journal articles and book chapters on the politics of belonging, nation-building and Ndebele ethnicity. She has received academic awards and scholarships, including the prestigious African Humanities Program (AHP), Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa doctoral fellowship, University of the Witwatersrand’s Council Postgraduate Merit Scholarship, National Research Foundation bursary, and University of the Witwatersrand’s Postgraduate Merit Award Doctoral Scholarship.	2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ndlovu	2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Sifiso Ndlovu	Ndlovu	Zimbabwe	Sifiso
Ocen, Lawrence Laury	Lecturer	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2015 Reading Monuments: Politics and Poetics of Memory in Postwar Northern Uganda Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Registrar/Lecturer	Literature	Makerere University	Uganda	2015		2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ocen	2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Lawrence Laury Ocen	Ocen	Uganda	Lawrence Laury
Mgumia, Jacqueline Halima	Assistant Lecturer		University of Dar es Salaam	Economic Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2015 Choices on Money: Entrepreneurship, Livelihood, and Youth Aspiration in Tanzania University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Department of Sociology and Anthropology	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2015		2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Mgumia	2015 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Jacqueline Halima Mgumia	Mgumia	Tanzania	Jacqueline Halima
Akinjobi-Babatunde, Christiana Oluwatosin		History and International Relations	Elizade University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2015 Military-Political Relations: Assessing Specialization and Interactive Dynamics of Female Security Forces in the UN Peacekeeping Missions in Africa Obafemi Awolowo University Nigeria 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2016 A Historical Analysis of Nigerian Women Peacekeepers in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations in Africa Obafemi Awolowo University Nigeria 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2018 A Historical Appraisal of Nigerian Women Peacekeepers in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations in Africa since 1962 Obafemi Awolowo University Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer II	History and Languages; History and International Relations	Obafemi Awolowo University	Nigeria	2015; 2016; 2018		2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Akinjobi-Babatunde; 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Akinjobi-Babatunde; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Akinjobi-Babatunde	2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Christiana Oluwatosin Akinjobi-Babatunde	Akinjobi-Babatunde	Nigeria	Christiana Oluwatosin
Nankinga, Olivia	Assistant Lecturer	Population Studies	Makerere University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2015 Health Status and Well Being of Children in Uganda: A Comparative Analysis of Childcare Arrangements in Relatively Secure and Post Conflict Areas Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Population Studies	Makerere University	Uganda	2015		2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Nankinga	2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Olivia Nankinga	Nankinga	Uganda	Olivia
Leach, Noleen	Dr. Noleen Leach is the Interim Co-ordinator and co-founder of the Unit for Applied Law		Cape Peninsula University of Technology		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2015 The Paralegal: Access to Justice and the Transformation of the Legal Profession in South Africa University of the Western Cape South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Acting Coordinator	Unit for Applied Law	University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2015	Dr. Noleen Leach is the Interim Co-ordinator and co-founder of the Unit for Applied Law at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in South Africa. She holds an honours degree in education and a doctorate in law from the University of the Western Cape and has been admitted as an advocate of the Western Cape Division of the High Court. She is the project leader for paralegal curriculum development at CPUT and designer of the first degree in paralegal studies in South Africa. Dr. Leach's research interests span law, language and education, with the focus on access to justice, the transformation of the legal profession and multi-lingualism in higher education. Her doctoral thesis, The Paralegal and the Right of Access to Justice in South Africa, conceptualises the values, regulatory framework, infrastructure and resources that embody access to justice in the country and focuses on the paralegal as the first aid to the legal needs of South African citizens. She is an advocate for the recognition of paralegals and the expansion of primary legal services.	2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Leach	2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Noleen Leach	Leach	South Africa	Noleen
Ohaegbuchi, Moses Ugochukwu					Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2015 Peacebuiding and Social Transformation by Women Societies in Post-civil War Southeast Nigeria University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	IFRA Research Fellow	Institute of African Studies	University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2015		2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ohaegbuchi	2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Moses Ugochukwu Ohaegbuchi	Ohaegbuchi	Nigeria	Moses Ugochukwu
Nyuke, Simbarashe	Post-Doctoral Researcher	Department of Anthropology	University of the Witwatersrand	Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2015 Fear of Violence and the Pentecostalisation of everyday life among migrants in Johannesburg. University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2017 Pentecostal Urbanism? Exploring the experiences of immigrants in Johannesburg University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2018 Pentecostal Urbanism? Exploring the immigrants’ experiences of violence in Johannesburg University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2023 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2023 “The price of Hope: Sacrificing and ‘Seeding’ for Churchizenship in Johannesburg” University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship; Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Next Gen	Tutor; Sessional Lecturer; Ph.D. Candidate; Post-Doctoral Research Fellow	Institute for Humanities in Africa; Anthropology; Humanities Graduate Centre	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2015; 2017; 2018; 2023	Simbarashe Nyuke is a Postdoctoral Fellow on the Volkswagen-funded project Mobility Regimes of Pandemic Preparedness and Response (MoRePPaR), hosted by the Department of Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. His research broadly engages with questions of social and redistributive justice, existential fear, religion, peacebuilding, and urbanisms, with a particular focus on how these dynamics are articulated and experienced at the margins of society. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of the Witwatersrand, where his doctoral thesis examined the role of Pentecostalism in mediating the everyday experiences, structural constraints, and opportunities of immigrants in Johannesburg. He has been awarded several prestigious fellowships, including the 2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship, the 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship, the 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship, and the 2022 Next Gen Postdoctoral Fellowship.	2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Nyuke; 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Nyuke; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Nyuke; 2023 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship-Nyuke	2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship; 2023 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Simbarashe Nyuke	Nyuke	Zimbabwe	Simbarashe
Badasu, Innocent	Doctoral Research Fellow		University of Ghana		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2015 The role of civil society in Peace-building: A case study of West Africa University of Ghana Ghana 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2017 The role of CSOs in preventing electoral violence in Africa: The case of Ghana. University of Ghana Ghana 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2018 The role of CSOS in preventing electoral violence in Africa: The case of Ghana University of Ghana Ghana	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	PhD Student; Ph.D. Candidate; Graduate Teaching Assistant	Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy	University of Ghana	Ghana	2015; 2017; 2018		2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Badasu; 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Badasu; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Badasu	2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Innocent Badasu	Badasu	Ghana	Innocent
Oketcho, Phillip	PhD Fellow	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2015 Ethnic conflicts and the dilemma of ethnic identity in Uganda Makerere University Uganda 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2016 Symbolic identities: Language, conflict and identity making in Uganda Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	PhD Fellow	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Uganda	2015; 2016		2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Oketcho; 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Oketcho	2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Phillip Oketcho	Oketcho	Uganda	Phillip
Cilliers, Carolé	Lecturer	School of Social Sciences	University of the Witwatersrand		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2015 Intersexed bodies and medicine in South Africa University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2017 Intersex Bodies and Medicine in South Africa University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2018 Intersex Bodies and Medicine in South Africa University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	School for Social and Government Studies; School of Social and Government Studies, North-West University; School of Social Sciences	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2015; 2017; 2018		2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Cilliers; 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Cilliers; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Cilliers	2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Carolé Cilliers	Cilliers	South Africa	Carolé
Bebelleh, Frederick Der	Lecturer		University for Development Studies		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2015 Managing Development-Induced Livelihood Vulnerabilities: A Study of Ghana's Bui Dam Affected Peoples' Livelihood Changes University for Development Studies Ghana	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	Social, Political and Historical Studies	University for Development Studies	Ghana	2015		2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Bebelleh	2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Frederick Der Bebelleh	Bebelleh	Ghana	Frederick Der
Murambadoro, Ruth R.	Assistant Professor		Memorial University of Newfoundland		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2015 Transitional justice and reconciliation in Zimbabwe: A comparative study on tradition-based approaches in three ethnic rural communities University of Pretoria South Africa 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2016 Transitional justice and reconciliation in Zimbabwe: A case study on tradition-based approaches in two local communities. University of Pretoria South Africa 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2017 Transitional justice and reconciliation in Zimbabwe: A case study on tradition-based approaches in two local communities. University of Pretoria South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Postgraduate Associate; Assistant Lecturer; Junior Researcher	Department of Political Science; Department of Political Sciences; Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation	University of Pretoria	South Africa	2015; 2016; 2017	Ruth Murambadoro is a Black political feminist whose scholarship centers on women, transitional justice, social justice, and the politics of the Global South. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms at Memorial University of Newfoundland, located in Mi’kma’ki—the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq and Beothuk peoples. Her growing body of work includes the monograph Transitional Justice in Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and the co-edited volume The PhD Experience in African Higher Education (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). Ruth also contributes thought-provoking essays to platforms such as Kujenga Amani, Africa Is A Country, and Herizons, among others. A former board member of the Zimbabwe Peace Project and the African Studies Association, Ruth is a committed scholar-activist who actively works to advance holistic peace and development—both within academia and in broader society.	2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Murambadoro; 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Murambadoro; 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Murambadoro	2015 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Ruth R. Murambadoro	Murambadoro	Zimbabwe	Ruth R.
Hutton, Lauren					Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2015 Interrogating fragility and intervention in the greater Horn of Africa University of Johannesburg South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	PhD Candidate	Department of Politics	University of Johannesburg	South Africa	2015		2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Hutton	2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Lauren Hutton	Hutton	South Africa	Lauren
Maractho, Emilly Comfort	Senior Lecturer and Chair of Media, Democracy and Development Research	School of Journalism, Media and Communication	Uganda Christian University	Media Studies,Culture studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2015 Media, women and public life in Uganda: Interrogating representation, interaction and engagement University of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	Development Studies	University of KwaZulu-Natal	South Africa	2015	Dr. Maractho is a Ugandan academic and researcher with a 20-year experience in academia. She is a Senior Lecturer of Journalism and Media Studies at Uganda Christian University. Her research focuses on various aspects of media development, in particular media regulation and communication policy, and an expertise in gender and media. She is an advocate for gender sensitive research and reporting. Dr. Maractho is a Columnist with the Daily Monitor and speaker at Media and Communication events. She serves as a member of the Monitor Publications Limited Board, African Centre for Media Excellence Board, Uganda Media Women’s Association Board and Editorial Board of the Journal of Critical Arts. She does capacity building for journalists and institutional capacity strengthening. Dr Maractho holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Cultural and Media Studies from the University of Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa. She also holds an MA in Communication (Daystar University), MA in Development Studies (Uganda Martyrs University) and BA in Development Studies (Makerere University). She previously served as Director Africa Policy Centre at Uganda Chrisitan University, Head of Department of Journalism and Media Studies at UCU and Coordinator of Programmes at Makerere University.	2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Maractho	2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Emilly Comfort Maractho	Maractho	Uganda	Emilly Comfort
Zikhali, Thobekile Nyoni	PhD Candidate	Political Studies	University of the Witwatersrand		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2015 Power and Hydro-Hegemony: Understanding the dynamics of transboundary water interactions in the Incomati International River basin and their impact on Southern Africa’s regional peace and security after apartheid University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2016 Power, Hydro-Hegemony and their Impact on Southern Africa’s regional peace and security: The Case of the Incomati International River Basin University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2021 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2021 The Role of Third Parties in the Incomati River Basin University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship; Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Next Gen	PhD Candidate; Ph.D. Fellow	Political Studies	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2015; 2016; 2021		2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Zikhali; 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Zikhali; 2021 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship-Zikhali	2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship; 2021 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Thobekile Nyoni Zikhali	Zikhali	Zimbabwe	Thobekile Nyoni
Adefehinti, Bolutife Olubukola Folasade					Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2015 Exploring Child Poverty in South Africa: Incorporating children’s views into child poverty measurement via participatory poverty assessment and quantitative methods. University of the Western Cape South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Research Assistant	Institute for Social Development (ISD)	University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2015		2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Adefehinti	2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Bolutife Olubukola Folasade Adefehinti	Adefehinti	Nigeria	Bolutife Olubukola Folasade
Mbete, Sithembile	Lecturer	Political Science	University of Pretoria	International Relations	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2015 The ‘middle power’ debate revisited: South Africa on the United Nations Security Council, 2007-2008 and 2011-2012 University of Pretoria South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	Department of Political Sciences	University of Pretoria	South Africa	2015	Dr. Sithembile Mbete is a lecturer in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria where she lecturers international relations and South African politics. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Centre for Governance Innovation (GovInn) at the University of Pretoria. She has a doctorate from the University of Pretoria on the subject of South Africa’s foreign policy during its two elected terms in the United Nations Security Council (2007-2008 and 2011-2012). She has published on the Economic Freedom Fighters’ (EFF) in accredited journals. Her research has been funded by the National Institute for Humanities and Social Science (NIHSS), National Research Foundation (NRF), the American Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the Mellon Foundation. In 2014 she was a visiting scholar at the Department of Political Science and Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Sithembile is a 2019 Open Society Foundation Democracy Fellow. She is part of an international study group on the rise of populism across the world. She comments frequently in the media on a range of issues in South African politics and international politics. She has appeared in local and international media including eNCA, SABC, Kaya FM, BBC, NPR, the Mail and Guardian, The Financial Times and the New York Times. Sithembile joined the University of Pretoria from The Presidency of South Africa where she was a researcher in the secretariat of the National Planning Commission. She contributed to the drafting of the National Development Plan in the areas of public service reform, anti-corruption policy and community safety. Prior to this she worked as a political researcher at IDASA (Institute for Democracy in Africa) where she was responsible for Parliamentary monitoring and political analysis. While at Idasa she monitored the parliamentary deliberations on the Protection of State Information Bill (POSIB), commenting on and writing about the bill in the media. She served on the provincial and national working groups of the Right2Know Campaign and helped coordinate activism against the legislation.	2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Mbete	2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Sithembile Mbete	Mbete	South Africa	Sithembile
Ajao, Toyin	Restorative Healing Researcher and Practitioner	Restorative Healing Research and Praxis	Ìmọ́lẹ̀ of Afrika Centre (iAfrika)	Peace and Conflict Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2015 Citizen journalism, a catalyst for conflict transformation in Africa: A case of Ushahidi Crowd-Sourcing Platform in Kenya University of Pretoria South Africa 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2017 Citizen Journalism and Conflict in Africa: The Ushahidi Platform in Kenya’s 2008 Post-Election Violence University of Pretoria South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Political Science; Political Sciences	University of Pretoria	South Africa	2015; 2017	Toyin Ajao (Gypsy Oríșà/ Dr Witch/Moon Goddess) is a Restorative Healing Researcher and Practitioner with the soul-vision of transforming transgenerational traumas and intra/interpersonal relationships among Africans. She founded Ìmọ́lẹ̀ of Afrika Centre (iAfrika) to advance restorative healing and Ubuntu culture across Africa by tapping into her many years of esoteric healing journeys, peace and security scholarship and Afro-feminist activism. Her main foci are restorative healing research and praxis, ancestral healing technologies, healing justice, organizational development, systems change leadership and conflict transformation. Her empirical multidisciplinary research, praxis, and activism spanned two decades across academia, civil and political societies, LGBTQIA+ and feminist organisations. Toyin Ajao who has several scholarly and creative publications to her credit is an alumna of Next-Gen SSRC and Africa Leadership Centre. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Pretoria (majoring in conflict transformation and new media), an MA in Conflict, Security and Development from King's College London and a BSc in Account from Obafemi Awolowo, Ile-Ife.	2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Ajao; 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ajao	2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Toyin Ajao	Ajao	Nigeria	Toyin
Jones, Bernadine	Lecturer in Journalism; Programme Director for Journalism	Communications, Media and Culture	University of Stirling	Journalism	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2015 From the miracle to the mundane: South Africa's 5 general elections on television news University of Cape Town South Africa 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2016 From miracle to the mundane University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Educational Development Teaching Assistant; Tutor and PhD Candidate	Centre for Film and Media Studies	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2015; 2016	My expertise lies in visual news analysis, semiotic theory, and investigating the intersection between the media and political communication. My doctorate was in the television news coverage of South Africa's five democratic general elections, wherein I drew the link between visual analysis of television news and political journalism theory. I was the Social Science Research Council fellow at the Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town between 2014 and 2017. I have published on visual analysis methodologies, political journalism, and African representation. Research interests: Media studies, media and democracy, representation theory, African media systems, comparative media systems, qualitative research methods, semiotics, visual communication theory, television news analysis.	2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Jones; 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Jones	2015 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Bernadine Jones	Jones	South Africa	Bernadine
Nwoko, Kenneth Chukwuemeka	Professor & Director of Academic Planning	Department of History & International Studies	McPherson University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2015 Residential Postdoc 2015 The Nigeria-Cameroon Border Conflict Settlement and Matters Arising: Failed Pacification of the Bakassi People and Lessons for Post-Conflict Peace-building Approaches McPherson University Nigeria	Next Gen Residential Postdoc	Next Gen	Associate Professor	History and International Studies	McPherson University	Nigeria	2015	Prof Kenneth Chukwuemeka Nwoko, PhD, MNAL, is professor in the Department of History & International Studies, McPherson University, Seriki Sotayo, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria. He received his PhD (History & Strategic Studies) from the University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, Nigeria. His teaching and research interests include African History, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies. He was the pioneer Ag Head of Department of History & Diplomatic Studies, McPherson University. Presently, he is the Director of Academic Planning having earlier served as Director of the Centre for Research and Innovation at McPherson University. In August 2024, he completed his tenure as the Dean of the College of Postgraduate Studies. From 2018 to 2022, he served as the Dean of the College of Humanities in the same university. He has won numerous grants and fellowships of learned international bodies, some of which include: Laureate of CODESRIA’s Afro-Arab Advance Institute, Rabat, Morocco(2012); Residential Postdoctoral Fellowship of the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), USA (2015); External Scholar of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), Accra, Ghana (2015) and Visiting Fellow, World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Boston MA, USA (2015). He was a recipient of the Postdoctoral Fellowship of the African Humanities Program of the American Council of Learned Societies in 2018. Earlier In 2015, he was awarded the Carnegie Corporation of New York Scholar (CCNY) in San Diego, California, USA. In July 2022, he received a funding/grant, from the Endangered Archive Programme of the British Library supported by the Arcadia Fund (Arcadia) (August 2022- July 2023) for a digitisation and cataloguing Project in Lokoja, Nigeria with Dr Abah Danladi. In July 2024, he was awarded Senior Research Fellowship at the Maison de la Création et de l'Innovation (MaCI) – Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), France, by the International Excellence in the Humanities Programme Scientific Committee, a position he has just completed on July 15 2025. He is a member of the Historical Society of Nigeria (HSN), and the prestigious Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL) amongst other prestigious learned bodies. He was also a member of the McPherson University Governing Council from 2013 to 2023.	2015 Residential Postdoc-Nwoko	2015 Residential Postdoc	Kenneth Chukwuemeka Nwoko	Nwoko	Nigeria	Kenneth Chukwuemeka
Asfaw, Semeneh Ayalew	Lecturer and Researcher	Institute of Ethiopian Studies; Africa Institute	Addis Ababa University,Global Studies University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2016 Youth politics in Addis Ababa: Towards a popular history of revolution in Ethiopia, c. 1950-1974 Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer and Researcher	Institute of Ethiopian Studies	Makerere University	Uganda	2016	Semeneh Ayalew Asfaw holds a Ph.D. in Political Studies from the University of Cape Town. His dissertation, “The Young and the Urban in Addis Ababa: Towards a popular history of the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution, c. the 1950s-1974” explores the nexuses between socio-cultural processes, subject formation, and the Ethiopian revolution. Asfaw’s research and publications cover themes ranging from social and cultural history, political consciousness, revolutionary terminology, youth subject formation, city making, and urbanism in 20th-century Ethiopia. As a fellow at The Africa Institute, he plans to further his research on the relationship between cultural processes and subject formation. By examining social and cultural formations of everyday youth in Addis Ababa between the 1950s and 1974, as well as by mobilizing “archives”, such as musical and literary documents, hitherto unexplored in the study of the history of political militancy, his work seeks to reframe accounts of the Ethiopian Revolution by going beyond the study of student activism. He has been working at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University as a Lecturer and Researcher since 2009. In addition to his intellectual practice as an academic, Asfaw has many years of experience in non-academic spaces contributing opinion pieces in popular newspapers on Ethiopian politics and history and participating in radio and television shows.	2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Asfaw	2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Semeneh Ayalew Asfaw	Asfaw	Ethiopia	Semeneh Ayalew
Ogungbemi, Temitope	English Language Coordinator		Nationalities Service Center		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2016 Patterns of Interaction on Boko Haram Insurgency in Online Newspapers University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Doctoral Student	English	University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2016	Temitope Ogungbemi is a critical discourse analyst whose studies engage social theories in interpreting dimension of identity, power, class and contest in post-colonial Africa. His research highlights that patterns and politics of language in discursive contexts are representative of the complexities inherent in post-colonial Africa. Temitope was awarded a doctorate of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in 2018. He was also a 2016-17 fellow of Next Gen Social Science in Africa, Social Science Research Council, Brooklyn, N.Y., and 2018-19 Fulbright Scholar at Penn Language Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He is currently a lecturer at McPherson University, Nigeria.	2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ogungbemi	2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Temitope Ogungbemi	Ogungbemi	Nigeria	Temitope
Camminga, B	Lecturer; Fellow	SPAIS Bristol; African Centre for Migration and Society	University of Bristol ,University of the Witwatersrand		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2016 Bodies over Borders and Borders over Bodies: The journey of the ‘gender’ refugee and the imagined South Africa University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Doctoral Fellow	Institute for Humanities in Africa	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2016	B Camminga (they/them) is a Lecturer in the Sociology of Gender at the University of Bristol and a Research Associate at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand. Their research explores gender identity, expression, and sexuality on the African continent, with a focus on queer and transgender migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. They are the author of Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa (Palgrave, 2019), winner of the 2019 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies (with Aren Aizura), the 2023 South African Academy of Sciences Emerging Scholars book award, and recipient of honourable mention for the Ruth Benedict Prize in Queer Anthropology. B is co-editor of Beyond the Mountain (2019), Queer and Trans African Mobilities (2022), and East African Queer and Trans Displacements (2025). They co-convene the African LGBTQI+ Migration Research Network, and their work appears in journals including Sexualities, The Sociological Review, and Transgender Studies Quarterly.	2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Camminga	2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	B Camminga	Camminga	South Africa	B
Ncube, Senzeni	Researcher	Centre for African Studies	University of Cape Town		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2016 Fast Track Land Reform and Social Change: A Case of Bubi District, Matabeleland North Province, Zimbabwe, 2000-2015. University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	PhD Student	Centre for African Studies	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2016		2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ncube	2016 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Senzeni Ncube	Ncube	Zimbabwe	Senzeni
Dramani, Aminu	Senior Lecturer	History and Political Studies	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2016 ETHNIC CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: A CASE-STUDY OF THE BAWKU CONFLICT IN NORTHERN GHANA. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology South Africa 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2018 Peace Agreements, Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict Resolution in Ghana Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	History and Political Studies Department	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology	South Africa	2016; 2018	DRAMANI AMINU is a senior lecturer in the History and Political Studies Department, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Aminu Dramani attended the University of Ghana, Legon-Accra, where he read Political Science with Sociology for his B.A. degree (Political Science major). He has also obtained Post Graduate Diploma in Education from University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana. He further pursued and received M.Phil in Political Science from university of Ghana (with a specialization in conflict resolution). He is currently pursuing his PhD in Sociology. I have an interdisciplinary background with a foundation in Political Science and additional training in sociology, quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Aminu Dramani enjoys teaching and does research on various topics including conflict, conflict resolution and party politics. He is media friendly and enjoys commenting on socio-political and other national issues in the media, on both radio and television. My research interest is at the politics and development; conflict and conflict; and the political economy of post-conflict peace. My recent publications have been on sustainability of social insurance policy in Ghana; and political rhetoric of political party aspirants. I am currently pursuing a research with the title “LOW INTENSITY CONFLICTS IN GHANA: THE CASE OF BAWKU CHIEFTAINCY CONFLICT, UPPER EAST”, which is qualitative in nature.	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Dramani; 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Dramani	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Aminu Dramani	Dramani	Ghana	Aminu
Kidega, Joesph Lucky	PhD candidate	Department of Governance and Peace Studies	Uganda Martyrs University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2016 Uganda’s Military Interventions in Sovereign States: An Analysis of UPDF Interventions in South Sudan and DRC Uganda Martyrs University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	PhD candidate	Department of Governance and Peace Studies	Uganda Martyrs University	Uganda	2016		2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Kidega	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Joesph Lucky Kidega	Kidega	Uganda	Joesph Lucky
Animashaun, Moduppe Elizabeth		Institute of Peace, Security and Humanitarian Studies	University of Ibadan		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2016 commercial Sex Workers and Gender Violence in Communities Along the Southern Axis of Nigeria-Benin Republic Border Corrridor University of Ibadan Nigeria 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2017 commercial Sex Workers and Gender-Based Violence in Communities Along Benin Republic-Nigeria Border Corrridor University of Ibadan Nigeria 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2020 Commercial Sex Work and Gender Based Violence along Nigeria-Benin Republic Border Corridor University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Peace and Strategic Studies	University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2016; 2017; 2020	Animashaun Elizabeth Modupe recently completed her PhD in Peace, Security and Humanitarian Studies. Her thesis was titled ‘Commercial Sex Workers and Gender Based Violence Along the Nigeria-Benin Republic Border Corridor. Animashaun’s thesis interrogated the experiences of criminalized sex workers and the ways they exploit the dynamics of six transnational border communities along Nigeria-Benin Republic border corridors, to produce a unique performance of sex work activities and layers of violence disposition. Animashaun work engages the intersections of illicit sex within borderlands, and unearths the impact of the largely precarious border as a spatiality on sex workers engagement and negotiation of both the borderland and their criminalized status. Aside from her thesis, she has carried out researches on parenting at the borders, human trafficking for sexual and domestic reasons at the border among others. Modupe’s research areas span illicit sex(uality), Nigeria-Benin Republic borderlands, violence, Female vulnerabilities.	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Animashaun; 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Animashaun; 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Animashaun	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Moduppe Elizabeth Animashaun	Animashaun	Nigeria	Moduppe Elizabeth
Mguzulwa, Sisanda M.	Postdoctoral Researcher	Centre of Criminology	University of Cape Town		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2016 "An exploration of youth violence perceived impact on young people and the reaction of the community towards youth violence". University of Cape Town South Africa 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2018 An exploratin of the "crew members" phenomenon: youth violence in Khayelitsha and its influence on broader community University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Social Development	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2016; 2018	I have a background in Social Development and Qualitative research studies. My extensive knowledge and research are on the legacies of violence, youth violence, and crime with a focus on marginalised and vulnerable groups. Outside academia, I am a volunteer and involved in a few projects in relation to the education and development of the youth. I am passionate about issues of civil society especially on aspects of community and youth development, education, peacebuilding, and good governance. My passion working with students and youth from all aspects of life is shaped by this understanding that only equality and fairness can heal our society.	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Mguzulwa; 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Mguzulwa	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Sisanda M. Mguzulwa	Mguzulwa	South Africa	Sisanda M.
Ajumese, Henry Obi	Discipline of English		University of Galway	Theatre,Literature Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2016 The 'Theatre of the Bloody Metaphor': the Aesthetics of Violence in Modern Nigerian Drama and Theatre University of Cape Town South Africa 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2017 The Bio-politics of Violence in the Theatre of the Niger Delta. University of Cape Town South Africa 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2018 The Biopolitics of Violence in the Drama of the Niger Delta University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Student; Ph.D. Candidate	Centre for African Studies	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2016; 2017; 2018		2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ajumeze; 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Ajumeze; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ajumese	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Henry Obi Ajumese	Ajumese	Nigeria	Henry Obi
Adjei, Bernadette Araba	Director	Legal, Licencing, and Compliance Directorate	Water Resources Commission of Ghana		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2016 Water Resources Governance in Ghana; Outcomes of Formal and Customary Management Frameworks – Selected Case Studies. University of Ghana Ghana 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2017 Water Resources Governance in Ghana - Outcomes of Formal and Customary Management Frameworks University of Ghana Ghana 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2018 Legal Pluralism and Water Resouces Goverance In Ghana - Outcomes of Formal and Customary Management Frameworks University of Ghana Ghana	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	PhD Student; PhD Candidate; Ph.D. Candidate	Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research	University of Ghana	Ghana	2016; 2017; 2018	Dr. Bernadette Araba Adjei is the Director of the Legal, Licencing and Compliance Directorate of the Water Resources Commission in Ghana. Dr. ADJEI is a lawyer of 24 years with 19 years of experience in environmental law and water governance. She has been involved in the development and administration of a number of laws and regulations in the water sector in Ghana. Among these are water and buffer zone policies for Ghana, and regulations on the administration of surface and groundwater use and management, and dam safety. She also has a wide knowledge of transboundary water resources governance and has collaborated with ECOWAS-WRCC, the Volta Basin Authority in West Africa, and UNECE. She holds a PhD in Development Studies from the Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana. She has an LLM in Environmental Law from the University of Nottingham, UK and an LLB from the University of Ghana. She is a member of the Ghana Bar Association. She lectures on environmental and water law, conflict of laws and gender and the law in universities in Ghana. Her research area includes environmental and water governance, development studies and gender issues.	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Adjei; 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Adjei; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Adjei	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Bernadette Araba Adjei	Adjei	Ghana	Bernadette Araba
Prempeh, Charles	Research Fellow	Centre for Cultural and African Studies	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2016 The Practice of Sakawa (Cybercrime) and illicit drug use among Muslim Youth in Zongo Communities in Accra: Emerging security threat to Ghana's democracy Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Part-time Lecturer	Nketia Center for Africana Studies	Makerere University	Uganda	2016	Dr. Charles Prempeh is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Cultural and African Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana. From October 2024 to January 2025, he was a Visiting Associate Professor of African Studies at the African Studies Centre, Tokyo University of Foriegn Studies, Japan. Prempeh holds a doctorate from the University of Cambridge United Kingdom. He also holds a certificate in Public Engagement with Research (AHRC-TORCH outline course): organised by the University of Oxford. Prempeh undertook two years of doctoral coursework in interdisciplinary Social Studies at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University (Uganda). He also holds MPhil in African Studies from the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. In 2010, he was awarded the prestigious Agyeman Duah Award for academic excellence. Prempeh holds an unprecedented First-Class degree in African Studies from the University of Cape Coast. He is a recipient of the 2016 Next Gen Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship Award.	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Prempeh	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Charles Prempeh	Prempeh	Ghana	Charles
Muliro, Wilfred Nasong'o	Research Fellow		Global Centre for Policy Strategy		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2016 Addressing Emerging Security Challenges in Africa: the reltionship between Somalia Peace Support Operations and Organized Crime in East Africa University of Nairobi Kenya	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Governance and Public Policy	University of Nairobi	Kenya	2016	Muliro Wilfred Nasong’o holds an MA in International Studies from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and a B.Ed (English/Literature major) from Kenyatta University, Kenya. Muliro teaches International Relations and International Security at the Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies (IDIS), University of Nairobi as a part time tutorial fellow. He also teaches Principles of Conflict Management and Resolution at Nazarene University Kenya. He taught in Langata High; a Public/Government secondary school for eight years. Muliro worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kenya as an intern at the African Union and Africa Desk. Muliro has been a rapporteur for symposiums among them the ‘India-EAC security Relations Symposium’ held at the National Defence College Nairobi. Before taking up fellowship by African Leadership Centre at King’s College London, he was the acting College registrar for Marist International University College, a constituent of Catholic University of East Africa, Nairobi Kenya.	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Muliro	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Wilfred Nasong'o Muliro	Muliro	Kenya	Wilfred Nasong'o
Magadzike, Blessed	Researcher		University of Cape Town		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2016 Rewriting post colonial representations and historical omissions: the case of refugees in Zimbabwe's war of liberation University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Student	Historical Studies	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2016		2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Magadzike	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Blessed Magadzike	Magadzike	Zimbabwe	Blessed
Amoah, Lydia		Institute of African Studies	University of Ghana	African Studies,Area and Cultural Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2016 WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY: A STUDY OF AKAN QUEENMOTHERS AS INTERMEDIARIES IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION. University of Ghana Ghana 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2020 QUEENMOTHERS AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION AMONG THE AKAN OF GHANA. A STUDY OF THE ASANTEHEMAA’S COURT IN KUMASI. University of Ghana Ghana 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2022 Queen Mothers and Conflict Resolution among the Akan of Ghana. A Study of the Asantehemaa’s Court in Kumasi. University of Ghana Ghana	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Teaching Assistant; Ph.D. Candidate	Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy; Institute of African Studies	University of Ghana	Ghana	2016; 2020; 2022	Lydia Amoah recently completed her doctoral studies at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. Her doctoral thesis employed an ethnographic study of the Asantehemaa's court to show how Akan Female traditional leaders (Ahemaa) avert and resolve disputes in their communities, as well as employ indigenous methods to arbitrate disputes reported to their traditional courts. She holds a Master's degree in African Studies from the Institute of African Studies (2011) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Arts (2007), both from the University of Ghana, Legon. For more than five years, Lydia worked as a graduate assistant at the University of Ghana's Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy, where she taught introductory gender courses. Lydia received a Next Gen Proposal Development Fellowship in 2016, a Dissertation Research Fellowship in 2020, and a Dissertation Completion Fellowship in 2022, respectively.	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Amoah; 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Amoah; 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Amoah	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Lydia Amoah	Amoah	Ghana	Lydia
Alusa, Doreen Susan	Legislation and Policy, Department of the Chief Minister and Cabinet		Northern Territory Government		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2016 Acculturation and the Radicalization of Young Women in Kenyan Universities Murdoch University Australia	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	International Relations	Murdoch University	Australia	2016		2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Alusa	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Doreen Susan Alusa	Alusa	Kenya	Doreen Susan
Mose, Norah N.	Lecturer	School of Humanities and Social Sciences	South Easter Kenya University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2016 Lexical pragmatic choices of 2013 Kenyan presidential campaign discourse in conflict management Maseno University Kenya	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Linguistics, language, communication and journalism	Maseno University	Kenya	2016	Dr. Norah Mose is a Lecturer of Linguistics at South Eastern Kenya University (SEKU). She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Maseno University (2018), where her dissertation examined language and politics. Her focuses on Kenyan Sign Language, digital activism and decolonial approaches to peace and development. She is an editor of Jarida la Dira ya Lugha and recipient of the 2016 Next Generation Doctoral Proposal Fellowship Award. At SEKU, she also coordinates the Cohesion and National Values Mainstreaming Unit where she advances national values as enshrined in Kenya’s constitution.	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Mose	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Norah N. Mose	Mose	Kenya	Norah N.
Musa, Sallek Yaks	Lecturer	School of Law, Criminology and Criminal Justice	University of Northampton	Criminology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2016 Military internal security operation: Creating security or insecurity for society? The case of Plateau State, North Central Nigeria Stellenbosch University South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Special Student	Sociology and Social Anthropology	Stellenbosch University	South Africa	2016	Dr. Sallek Yaks Musa is a Lecturer in the School of Law, Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Northampton, and a humanitarian security risk mitigation specialist. He earned his PhD in Sociology from Stellenbosch University in 2018 with his doctoral research focusing on conflict and civil–military relations, and an MSc. in Criminology. Dr. Musa has held academic roles in South Africa, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom and has extensive field experience working with international non-profit and development organizations to mitigate risks for humanitarian workers in hostile environments. His research spans critical military studies, criminologies of the military, security and conflict, governance and armed groups, and human rights. He has received grants from Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Gerda Henkel Foundation, and SSRC Next Generation Africa. He is a member of the Nigerian Society of Criminology, and the South African Sociological Association, and serves as a reviewer for reputable journals.	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Musa	2016 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Sallek Yaks Musa	Musa	Nigeria	Sallek Yaks
Maedza, Pedzisai	Assistant Professor	School of English, Drama, and Film	University College Dublin	Intercultural Performance	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2016 Chains of Memory in the Postcolony: Performing collective remembering in Namibia and Zimbabwe. University of Cape Town South Africa 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2018 Chains of Memory in the Postcolony : Performing and Remembering the Namibian Genocide University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Fixed term Lecturer	Drama Department	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2016; 2018	Pedzisai Maedza is an Intercultural Performance Scholar and Theatremaker. He holds a split-site PhD from the Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, completed through a DAAD research stay at the Institute for Anthropology and African Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University-Mainz, Germany. Prior to joining UCD he was a British Academy Newton International Fellow in the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. His interdisciplinary research sits at the intersection of performance, memory, and genocide studies. It interrogates the formative function of violence and its representation in the Global South, particularly in Southern Africa. His work interrogates how Performance as Cultural Memory shapes and informs how violence, and colonial genocide is remembered and commemorated. He investigates how postcolonial communities use performance to resist, transmit and contest the archival erasure of the memory of colonial genocide across time and space.	2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Maedza; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Maedza	2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Pedzisai Maedza	Maedza	Zimbabwe	Pedzisai
Mvundura, Wellington	Postdoctoral Fellow, Researcher	African Centre for Migration and Society	University of the Witwatersrand		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2016 ‘Operating under the Radar’: Rethinking Forestry Plantation Workers’ Resistance & Quiescence in Zimbabwe’s Eastern Highlands, Chimanimani District. University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2018 ‘Operating under the Radar’: Rethinking Forestry Plantation Workers’ Resistance & Quiescence in Zimbabwe’s Eastern Highlands, Chimanimani District. University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Undergraduate Tutor; Sessional Lecturer		University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2016; 2018	Wellington Mvundura is from Zimbabwe. He is currently an engineering and society course coordinator at the Faculty of Engineering (Wits University). He completed his Masters at ACMS in 2014 and his Master’s thesis is entitled Memory and violence: Displaced Zimbabwean rural communities reliving the memories of the March 2008 political violence. He is also a research expert on issues surrounding international labour law, political violence and forced displacement.	2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Mvundura; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Mvundura	2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Wellington Mvundura	Mvundura	Zimbabwe	Wellington
Nedziwe, Cecilia Lwiindi	Lecturer	Department of Anthropology and Development Studies	University of Johannesburg		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2016 Beyond state-centrism: informal regionalisation by gender-based civil society and its implication for future region-building in southern Africa Rhodes University South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Doctoral Student	Political and International Studies	Rhodes University	South Africa	2016		2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Nedziwe	2016 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Cecilia Lwiindi Nedziwe	Nedziwe	Zambia	Cecilia Lwiindi
Troco, Albano Agostinho	Research Associate	Political Studies	University of the Witwatersrand	Political Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2017 Electoral Politics in Post-conflict Angola, 2008-2017: Furthering Democracy or Sustaining Authoritarian Rule? University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2017 Electoral Politics in Post-conflict Angola, 2008-2017: Furthering Democracy or Sustaining Authoritarian Rule? University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Sessional Lecturer	Political Studies	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2017	Witwatersrand.	2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Troco	2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Albano Agostinho Troco	Troco	Angola	Albano Agostinho
Lekakeny, Ruth Nekura	Human Rights Lawyer		University of Cape Town		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2017 Evaluating integration as a means of fulfilling State obligation to address sexual violence against women and girls: A comparative study of integration models in Kenya and South Africa University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Cape Town	South Africa	2017	Ruth Nekura Lekakeny is a feminist human rights lawyer from Kenya. Her research, litigation, and advocacy work focuses on the use of domestic, regional, and international human rights legal frameworks, specifically regarding women’s human rights with a focus on violence against women and girls, constitutionalism, and governance. Lekakeny holds an LLB degree from Moi University–Kenya, a postgraduate diploma in legal practice from the Kenya School of Law, and an LLM in human rights law from the University of Cape Town. She is pursuing her PhD at the Centre for Law and Society Research Unit with the Public Law Department. She won the African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship for her research project, “Violence Against Women and Girls,” in 2016, and she is a Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Doctoral Dissertation Completion fellow (2017–2018).	2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Lekakeny	2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Ruth Nekura Lekakeny	Lekakeny	Kenya	Ruth Nekura
Weldesenbet, Netsanet Gebremichael	Assistant Professor and Researcher	Institute of Ethiopian Studies	Addis Ababa University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2017 Topographies of Memories: Remembering Asmara through Personal Histories, Metaphors of Place and Time from Ethiopia (1952-1975). Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	Institute of Ethiopian Studies	Makerere University	Uganda	2017	Netsanet Gebremichael earned her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Social Studies from Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University Uganda in 2019. She currently works as an Assistant Professor and researcher at Addis Ababa University's Institute of Ethiopian Studies. Since October 2021, she has also been a Fatima Mernissi Post-Doctoral Fellow at The Africa Institute in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. From April 2010 to November 2012, Gebremichael served as the Director of Addis Ababa University's Gender Office, where she initiated several projects, including a Gender Resource Center IT lab and a library for disadvantaged students. Gebremichael's academic research focuses on memory, archival studies, historical and cultural documentation practices, particularly through oral history projects. Recently, she completed the first phase of documentation on oral recollections of the 1977 Famine in Ethiopia as experienced by women. She also compiled a monograph based on an oral history study of inter-generational perspectives on Emperor Hailessilassie's era. Her works also include documentation on Women in the Ethiopian Student Movement (1950-78), which she conducted as the recipient of the Global Research Network Grant managed by SOAS University of London (2019-2021). Gebremichael's research outcome led to an archival exhibition titled Kibibilosh, which she curated at the Modern Art Museum, Gebre Kristos Desta Center in Addis Ababa (7 May – 28 July 2021). She has published several academic articles, including "Mapping the notion of the transnational: A close reading of the ‘Women’s Question’ from the Ethiopian Student Movement’s publications in the 1960s and 1970s" (2023); A book chapter, “PPPs meet the developmental state: The case of Ethiopia,” in book, Corporate Capture of Development (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023) which has been adapted into a podcast and an animation film; "Oral Memories of the 1977 Famine in Ethiopia" in Transition, Issue 133 (2022); "Ambivalent Memories of Imperial legacies: Asmara as ‘Beautiful' and ‘Segregationist' from Ethiopia," published in the Journal of Cultural Studies (2020); and "Travel Writing as an Empirical Mode of Knowing: A Methodological Critique of James Bruce’s Travels and Adventures in Abyssinia," published in MISR Review (2019).	2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Weldesenbet	2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Netsanet Gebremichael Weldesenbet	Weldesenbet	Ethiopia	Netsanet Gebremichael
Babili, Innocent H.	Lecturer		Sokoine University of Agriculture		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2017 A novel theory for clarifying successes of decentralized forest management: Institutional dynamics and institutional performance in Babati District, Tanzania University of Bagamoyo Tanzania	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant training, research and consultancy	Institute of Continuing Education	University of Bagamoyo	Tanzania	2017		2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Babili	2017 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Innocent H. Babili	Babili	Tanzania	Innocent H.
Twinamasiko, Specioza S.T	Lecturer and Head of Department	Department of Community Engagement and Service Learning	Mbarara University of Science and Technology		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2017 Oil discovery and compensation over Land: Conceptualizing the risks and vulnerability of women’s House Hold livelihoods in Albertine Graben, Uganda Mbarara University of Science and Technology Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	Department of Gender and Women Studies	Mbarara University of Science and Technology	Uganda	2017	Specioza Twinamasiko is a Faculty member in the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies at Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda. In 2021, she completed her Doctor of Philosophy in Development Studies, with a specialty in Gender and natural Resource Development-Induced displacement. She also holds a Master of Science in Peace and Development Work from Linaeuse University (LNU), Sweden, and a Bachelor of Development Studies (First Class Honors) from Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda. Specioza’s current Research expertise and interests are aligned with refuges studies, Internal Displacement, Gender relations and sustainable development, women/children and development-induced displacement and resettlement, and women in peace and conflict resolution	2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Twinamasiko	2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Specioza S.T Twinamasiko	Twinamasiko	Uganda	Specioza S.T
Awodi, Peter Inalegwu	Researcher	Department of Political Science	University of KwaZulu-Natal		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2017 EMBEDDING CONFLAGRATION: LARGE-SCALE LAND ACQUISITION, WOMEN'S LAND RIGHTS AND FARMERS-HERDERS CONFLICT IN NORTH-CENTRAL NIGERIA University of Ibadan Nigeria 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2018 POLITICS OF LARGE-SCALE LAND ACQUISITIONS AND THE LAND RIGHTS OF SMALLHOLDER WOMEN FARMERS IN NORTH-CENTRAL NIGERIA University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2017; 2018	Mr. Peter Inalegwu Awodi is a Nigerian of the Idoma ethnic descent of Benue State in the Middle-belt of Nigeria. He is a Political Scientist and a researcher in International Relations with interests in Migration Studies, Women and Gender Studies and Human Security. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at UKZN, which is consequent on holding an M.Sc. degree in Political Science (International Relations) from University of Ibadan and a B.Sc. degree in Political Science from Benue State University. Peter is currently a member of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA); member African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA), member of the International Association of Reconciliatory Studies (IARS) and fellow of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). Peter is also a fellow/recipient of the Beyond Borders scholarship program of the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. Languages spoken include: English (Basic), Idoma (Native), Yoruba and Hausa (Intermediate).	2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Awodi; 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Awodi	2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Peter Inalegwu Awodi	Awodi	Nigeria	Peter Inalegwu
David, Stephen Temitope	Postdoctoral Fellow	Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ)	Stellenbosch University	Literature	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2017 Biafra as Third Space: Reading the Dynamics of Dominance in Biafra/Nigeria Civil War Literature University of the Free State South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of the Free State	South Africa	2017	Stephen Temitope David is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ) at Stellenbosch University. He holds a PhD in Literature from Stellenbosch University and a master’s degree in African Literature from the University of Ibadan. His research takes the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War and its afterlife as a point of departure in examining the links that exist between nostalgia and political violence in African countries with emotionally charged histories.	2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-David	2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Stephen Temitope David	David	Nigeria	Stephen Temitope
Shehu, Abdullahi Hamisu	Faculty member	Department of History, Faculty of History and Development Studies	Bayero University	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2017 Performing Religion in Northern Nigeria: A Study of the Maukibi ( of Qadiriyya) Religious Procession in Kano, 1958-2015 Ahmadu Bello University Nigeria 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2018 Performing Religion in Northern Nigeria: A Study of Religious Processions in Kano,1958-2016 Ahmadu Bello University Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Department of History	Ahmadu Bello University	Nigeria	2017; 2018	Abdullahi Hamisu Shehu, holds B.A and M.A. (in History) is a faculty member, Department of History, Faculty of History and Development Studies, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. He obtained his PhD from the Department of History, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Shehu is the recipient of the IFRA-MasterClass Fellowship, 2017, Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowships, 2017 – 2018, 2018 – 2019. He is also Fellow, Lisa Maskell Foundation PhD Fellowship, Postgraduate School, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Shehu is also a registered member with American Anthropological Association (AAA). Shehu published with various reputed journals and contributed chapters to different book projects. Shehu’s PhD dissertation won the African Studies Review (ASR)/Cambridge University Press Prize/Award of the Best Africa-Based Doctoral Dissertation of 2023. Shehu’s research interest include social history and social anthropology, with specific focus on Sufi-based identities, public space and public religious performances in post-colonial northern Nigeria.	2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Shehu; 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Shehu	2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Abdullahi Hamisu Shehu	Shehu	Nigeria	Abdullahi Hamisu
Kanyamurwa, John Mary	Country Coordinator, African Indigenous Knowledge Research Network; Coordinator for Seminar Series & Colloquia	Political Science and Public Administration Department	Kyambogo University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2017 Citizen Competence and Local Governance in Uganda: The CAse of Mbarara District Nairobi University Kenya	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	History & Political Science	Nairobi University	Kenya	2017	John Mary Kanyamurwa is the current and founding Head of Political Science and Public Administration Department at Kyambogo University.A scholar trained at undergraduate and Masters from Makerere University and doctoral studies from University of Nairobi, Kanyamurwa teaches Political Theory-oriented courses, Political Economy, Third World Politics and critical fields in the theory and practice of Public Administration as well as security policy. His research interests broadly fall in the arenas of local governance, transitional justice, decentralization, peace and conflict, resource governance, AU-EU research and the wider inquiry into the subfields of democracy as influenced by diverse contextual dispensations. To these central research interests, an equally fundamental research strand addressing indigenous scholarship as a dynamic contemporary concern constitutes yet another novel intellectual concentration. A number of studies in this theoretical arena are currently underway, with explicit scholarship on marginalized indigenous communities. Recent studies in the pertinent intellectual endeavor have concentrated on governance mechanisms for indigenous youth entrepreneurship and dynamics in indigenous youth deprivation patterns. Kanyamurwa has recently published his research in poles apart reputable academic outlets, with the latest on “Reconstructing Global Security and Peacebuilding in Somalia’s Changing Context in The Palgrave Handbook of Africa and the Changing Global Order (2022). His article on “Citizens’ Political Knowledge and the State of Local Governance Interest Determination in Uganda” has similarly, not long ago, appeared in the Journal of Public Policy and Administration (2022).	2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Kanyamurwa	2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	John Mary Kanyamurwa	Kanyamurwa	Uganda	John Mary
Rubin, Maxine	Research Fellow	Institute of African Affairs	German Institute for Global and Area Studies		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2017 Exit, Voice and Loyalty: A Theoretical Case Study of African States’ Behaviour in Relation with the International Criminal Court. University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Cape Town	South Africa	2017		2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Rubin	2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Maxine Rubin	Rubin	South Africa	Maxine
Rugazia, Aloys Rwehabura	Head of Programs and Research, PhD candidate	Graduate School, Prison Fellowship Rwanda	Prison Fellowship Rwanda,Kampala University	Peace and Conflict Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2017 Petroleum Framework for Land Acquisition and Compensation in Tanzania: A Conflict Mitigating Approach University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Public Law	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2017	My name is Felix BIGABO, a Rwandan by nationality. I am a Master's degree holder in psychology, and a Ph.D. candidate in peace and conflict studies at Kampala University (KU), in Uganda. From 2008 to date, I worked in different NGOs, and currently at Prison Fellowship Rwanda, as head of programs and research. Dedicated and experienced Peacebuilding practitioner, with a proven track record of promoting conflict resolution, fostering community healing and reconciliation dialogues. I conducted various trainings on peace and mental health. I participated in different international conferences and workshops such as the African Peace building network (APN) writing and dissemination workshop in Accra/Ghana, a workshop on research methodology in social sciences in Morocco, organized by APN, and a Berlin seminar on Truth, Justice, and Remembrance. Some of the research I conducted included “The acceptance in post-genocide Rwanda: Understanding the action-based reconciliation model between the former genocide prisoners and genocide survivors, living in reconciliation villages”, a research conducted during my APN 2022 fellowship. Another research was “From a child to a genocide perpetrator: Narrative identity among genocide prisoners” an Action-based reconciliation model between the former genocide prisoners and genocide survivors.	2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Rugazia	2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Aloys Rwehabura Rugazia	Rugazia	Tanzania	Aloys Rwehabura
Ngabirano, Evarist	Post-doctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University,Mountains of the Moon University	Culture studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2017 Beyond Ethnic Violence: A Genealogical Study of the Bakiga Culture and Politics in Kigezi and the Diaspora Makerere University Uganda 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2018 Politics and Violence: A Comparative Study of Bakiga Politics in Kigezi and the Politics of Ethnicity in Toro and Bunyoro in Uganda. Makerere University Uganda 2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2019 The Politics of Tribalism: A Comparative Study of Kigezi and Toro districts in Uganda Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate; Assistant Lecturer	School of Education	Makerere University	Uganda	2017; 2018; 2019	Dr Aloys Rugazia, is a consultant in investment matters, energy laws, investment laws, public laws and a negotiator. His intellectual interest is in Human Rights and Development, Conflicts, Peace and Security and Africa Development. He is also an affiliate at the Law School of Tanzania.	2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ngabirano; 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Ngabirano; 2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ngabirano	2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Evarist Ngabirano	Ngabirano	Uganda	Evarist
Bamidele, Oluwaseun	Lecturer/Researcher	Department of Peace and Conflict Studies	Federal University Oye-Ekiti		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2017 Securing the Local: The Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) and the Struggle against Terrorism in the North-Eastern Region of Nigeria Ekiti State University Nigeria 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2018 SECURING THE LOCAL: CIVILIAN JOINT TASK FORCE (CJTF) – A COMMUNITY SECURITY OPTION AND THE FUTURE OF COUNTER-INSURGENCY IN THE NORTH-EASTERN REGION OF NIGERIA Ekiti State University Nigeria 2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2019 SECURING THE LOCAL: CIVILIAN JOINT TASK FORCE (CJTF) – A COMMUNITY SECURITY OPTION AND THE FUTURE OF COUNTER-INSURGENCY IN THE NORTH-EASTERN REGION OF NIGERIA Ekiti State University Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Junior Researcher/Research Assistant; PhD Research Fellow; Lecturer II	Institute of Peace, Security and Governance	Ekiti State University	Nigeria	2017; 2018; 2019	Dr. Seun Bamidele is a lecturer and researcher in Conflict, Security, and Development Studies at the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria. He holds dual Ph.D. degrees in Development Studies (University of Pretoria, South Africa) and Peace and Security Studies (Ekiti State University, Nigeria). An interdisciplinary scholar, his research focuses on the intersections of conflict, peacebuilding, civilian protection, post-conflict governance, and the political economy of violence in Africa. Dr. Bamidele has conducted extensive field-based research across the continent and actively contributes to both academic and policy dialogues on peace and security. He has published widely in leading journals and serves in editorial and collaborative capacities within international research networks dedicated to advancing peace, security, and development.	2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Bamidele; 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Bamidele; 2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Bamidele	2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Oluwaseun Bamidele	Bamidele	Nigeria	Oluwaseun
Matshaka, Chenai Gillian	Researcher	Centre for Mediation in Africa	University of Pretoria		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2017 Truth telling, memorialisation and the role of civil society in the shaping of narratives on the 2008 electoral violence in Zimbabwe University of Pretoria South Africa 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2019 Civil society narratives of violence and the shaping of the transitional justice agenda in Zimbabwe (2000-2013) University of Pretoria South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Postgraduate Forum	Political Sciences	University of Pretoria	South Africa	2017; 2019	Dr. Chenai Matshaka is a researcher at the Centre for Mediation in Africa (CMA), University of Pretoria, where she works with a dynamic team of researchers focusing on African women in mediation, as well as women and traditional systems of conflict resolution. Over the past 10 years, Dr Matshaka’s work has centered on human rights in Africa, focusing on migration, displacement, and transitional justice. Dr Matshaka received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Pretoria and is a former Next Gen SSRC grantee (2017 and 2019). She is the author of a monograph on transitional justice and is passionate about advancing peacebuilding research from an African perspective.	2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Matshaka; 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Matshaka	2017 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Chenai Gillian Matshaka	Matshaka	Zimbabwe	Chenai Gillian
Bruwer, Carina	Programme Manager	Wildife in Trade	Endangered Wildlife Trust		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2017 Understanding and Responding to Maritime Trafficking off the East African Rim: Do the Measures against Piracy off the Horn of Africa provide a Model? University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Centre of Criminlogy/Public Law	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2017	I am a lawyer, researcher and currently a programme manager at the Endangered Wildlife Trust. I focus on organized crime and environmental crime in Southern Africa, with a particular interest in maritime crimes. I hold a PhD in Public Law from the Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town. I previously worked as a senior organized crime researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and as a project officer for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Global Maritime Crime Programme. My professional interests include public law, international law, criminal law, environmental law, organized crime, and maritime security.	2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Bruwer	2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Carina Bruwer	Bruwer	South Africa	Carina
Goga, Safiyya	Lecturer		University of Pretoria		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2017 Clothing and becoming Muslim in post-apartheid Johannesburg: the politics of middle class women’s distinction University of Pretoria South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Junior Lecturer	Department of Political Science	University of Pretoria	South Africa	2017		2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Goga	2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Safiyya Goga	Goga	South Africa	Safiyya
Atambo, Norah Bonareri	Lecturer	Literature, Linguistics and Foreign Languages	Kenyatta University	Applied Linguistics,Interdisciplinary	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2017 Language, Gender and Power: The Discursive Construction of the Kenya National Assemby Politician Kenyatta University Kenya	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Tutorial Fellow	English and Linguistics	Kenyatta University	Kenya	2017	Norah Atambo is a researcher, scholar and lecturer at Kenyatta University, Kenya. She has a Doctorate in Applied Linguistics from Kenyatta University, Kenya; a Master's Degree in English and Linguistics from Egerton University, Kenya; and Bachelor of Education, Arts, in English and Literature from Moi University, Kenya. Her interests are in Discourse Analysis and specifically language and power, language and gender, language and communication, language and conflict and language and social media. She understands that language and society are inseparable and the way we use language plays a role in creating unequal power relations, (mis)communication of important issues in society, and that in every conflict, there is a language dimension. Her research focus is anchored on the premise that a critical focus on language can offer alternative resolutions to many problems in society. She has published articles relating to language and communication of adolescent reproductive health information, language, gender and power in the political context, and language use in social media in relation to COVID-19. She is currently working on articles which touch on language and conflict and language and power.	2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Atambo	2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Norah Bonareri Atambo	Atambo	Kenya	Norah Bonareri
Afrifa, Patricia Serwaa	Independent Researcher/ English Instructor	English	Central High School		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2017 Changing Cultures of Care in Ghana: The Commercialization of Childcare and its impact on development in neoliberal urban Accra University of Ghana Ghana 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2018 Changing Cultures of Care in Ghana: The Commercialisation of Childcare and its Impact on Development in neo-liberal urban Accra University of Ghana Ghana	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Graduate Assistant; Ph.D. Candidate	Institute of African Studies	University of Ghana	Ghana	2017; 2018	Dr. Patricia Serwaa Afrifa holds a PhD in African studies from the University of Ghana, Legon. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in linguistics and sociology and a Master of Philosophy degree in African studies from the same university. Her teaching and research interests are family studies (with specific emphasis on childhood studies), gender and youth studies. Dr. Afrifa’s PhD thesis received five awards, including the Ghana Studies Thesis Grant and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship in 2015. She also received the Next Gen Dissertation Research Fellowship in 2017 and the Dissertation Completion Fellowship in 2018. In the same year, Serwaa got the Pan-African Doctoral Academy (PADA) Thesis Completion Grant at the University of Ghana. A published author and an activist, she is passionate about mentoring youth and creating networks that provide opportunities for the cross-cultural exchange of ideas.	2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Afrifa; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Afrifa	2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Patricia Serwaa Afrifa	Afrifa	Ghana	Patricia Serwaa
Marmo, Juma	Lecturer		University of Dar es Salaam		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2017 The Co-existance and Conflicts over Land Use between Farmers and Pastoralists in Kiteto Districts from 1945-210 University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2018 The History of Land Conflicts between Peasants and Pastoralists in Kiteto District; 1945 to 2016 University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	History Department; Department of History	University of Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	2017; 2018	Juma Marmo is a lecturer and researcher. He is currently teaching at the University of Dar es Salaam-Tanzania. His research areas are natural resources conflicts and conflict resolution. He specifically focuses on land, forest, and water conflicts.	2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Marmo; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Marmo	2017 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Juma Marmo	Marmo	Tanzania	Juma
Makau, Esther Mwongeli	Principal Probation Officer		State Department for Correctional Services		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2018 Exploring the Intervention Efforts in Combating Women's Sexual Violence in the Aftermath of the 2007/08 Post-Election Violence in Kenya. A Case Study of Kisumu County. University of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of KwaZulu-Natal	South Africa	2018		2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Makau	2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Esther Mwongeli Makau	Makau	Kenya	Esther Mwongeli
Anying, Irene Winnie	Associate Professor and Head of Department	Urban Planning	Benue State University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2018 Legal Pluralism And Customary Land Dispute Resolution In Post War Northern Uganda ‘Testing The Potential Of Plurality In Practice Gulu University Uganda	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		Gulu University	Uganda	2018	I have been teaching in the University since 2007 as well as practicing Architecture and Urban Planning on a professional Level.I have authored and co authored close to forty (40) scholarly articles.Currently i am the coordinator of the Post Graduate program at the Urban Planning Department in Benue State University,I also hold the position of Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Deputy Director at the center for research all in Benue state University	2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Anying	2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Irene Winnie Anying	Anying	Nigeria	Irene Winnie
Bugembe, Barbara Nakangu	Ph.D. Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2018 Title: Understanding Protected Area (PA) Related Conflicts: Re-casting Natural Resources Management in Uganda as a Framework for Centralised Despotic Rule Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		Makerere University	Uganda	2018	Barbara possesses a total of 13 years work experience in implementing development programs with the field of Agriculture and Environmental Conservation. Until she joined MISR as a PHD student, she worked as the Head of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Uganda. She also worked at the National Council for Science and Technology as a Policy Officer and as a Project coordinator with a local NGO known as FIT Uganda. She holds a MSc. in Agricultural economics and a Bsc. in Agricultural sciences.	2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Bugembe	2018 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Barbara Nakangu Bugembe	Bugembe	Uganda	Barbara Nakangu
Kiprotich, Chtalu Bruce	Research Analyst		Kenyatta University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2018 SOCIO-POLITICAL EFFECTS OF MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN DOMESTIC SECURITY IN KENYA Kenyatta University Kenya	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Part-time Lecturer	DEPARTMENT OF SECURITY AND CORRECTION SCIENCE	Kenyatta University	Kenya	2018	Studies and Comments on organized violence, Military Conflicts and National (In)Security with specific focus on Armed Forces in the Great Lakes region	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Kiprotich	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Chtalu Bruce Kiprotich	Kiprotich	Kenya	Chtalu Bruce
Ogwumike, Alaba Favour	Senior Executive Officer 1 and Researcher	Department of Peace, Security and Humanitarian Studies	University of Ibadan		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2018 Pastoralists' Movement in Edo and Delta States, Nigeria University of Ibadan Nigeria 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2019 Pastoralists' Movement, Conflicts and Peace in South-Southern Nigeria University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Institute of Peace and Strategic Studies	University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2018; 2019	Alaba Favour OGWUMIKE is a Senior Executive Officer 1/Researcher at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where she obtained her PhD in Peace, Security and Humanitarian Studies in 2025. Her doctoral thesis focused on pastoralists’ movement, conflict and indigenous peacebuilding mechanisms in Delta and Edo States, Nigeria. Her first article Living as a victim: Experiences of Women Raped during Farmers-Pastoralists’ Conflict in Delta State, Nigeria (Journal of Victimology and Victim Justice, 2025) gave an insight into how pastoralists’ rape victims in Delta state, Nigeria, are further stigmatised because pastoralists are seen as “dirty” and are “strangers”. She is a recipient of the 2018, Next Gen Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship and the 2019 Next Gen Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship. She is currently a peer reviewer for the Journal of Victimology and Victim Justice and a current Member of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC), APN and Next/Gen University Seminar Series – Nigeria.Unknown	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ogwumike; 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Ogwumike	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Alaba Favour Ogwumike	Ogwumike	Nigeria	Alaba Favour
Malala, Makhukwane Josephine	Lecturer	Department of Anthropology and Archaeology	University of South Africa	Social Change,Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2018 Where Did we go Wrong? A Critical Exploration of Humanitarian Aid on the Sex Worker Communities of Gauteng, South Africa” University of South Africa South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Anthropology and Archaeology	University of South Africa	South Africa	2018		2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Malala	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Makhukwane Josephine Malala	Malala	South Africa	Makhukwane Josephine
Akinyemi, Adebayo Emmanuel	PhD Student		University of Ibadan	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2018 Practices and Social Relations Dynamics of 'shrinking' Sacred Waters in selected Communities of Lagos University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2018	I am a Development Sociologist, with research interest in Higher Education and National Development, Social Change, Indigenous Knowldge System, Water Practices, and Religious Study.	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Akinyemi	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Adebayo Emmanuel Akinyemi	Akinyemi	Nigeria	Adebayo Emmanuel
Brevis, Chad C.					Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2018 Communicative Freedom in a Digital Democracy: Political and Economic Resistance to Free Speech and the Rise of Digital Activism. University of Cape Town South Africa 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2019 Communicative Freedom in a Digital Democracy: Political and Economic Resistance to Free Speech and the Rise of Digital Activism in South Africa University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate; Tutor and academic facilitator	Department of English	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2018; 2019		2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Brevis; 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Brevis	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Chad C. Brevis	Brevis	South Africa	Chad C.
Wambua, Muema	Adjunct Lecturer ; Director, Investment & Industrialization		United States International University Africa	International Relations	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2018 International Interventions in Conflict Transformation Processes in Kenya, 2008-2017 United States International University Africa Kenya 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2019 International Interventions in Conflict Transformation Processes in Kenya, 2008-2017 United States International University Africa Kenya 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2020 The Re-Entry Phenomenon in International Interventions: The Case of Kenya, 2008-2017 United States International University Africa Kenya	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate; Part-time Lecturer; Lecturer	Peace and International Relations	United States International University Africa	Kenya	2018; 2019; 2020	I am an International Relations expert. Key interests include; international interventions, peace and conflict, security, foreign policy, international development, gender and international politics, environmental politics. Other areas of interest include diplomacy, international law, and public policy analysis. Also, expert practitioner in international trade- in particular international trade negotiations, issues on WTO, EAC, COMESA, AGOA/AGOA+, EU-ACP EPAs, UNCTAD, AfCTFA, trade for peace, etc. Part-time adjunct lecturer in IR. Key courses: IR Theories, Research Philosophy, Research Methods, and Peace and Conflict. Specialized expert training on international trade negotiations, large scale land-based investments in Africa, new approaches to sustainable development. Public service experience in administration, investment, and industrialization- spanning ten years. Extensive experience in policy and academic research. See some of my publications here ---> https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=A4xdEDMAAAAJ&hl=en	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Wambua; 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Wambua; 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Wambua	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Muema Wambua	Wambua	Kenya	Muema
Khatibu, Salma	Lecturer	Institute of Development Studies	University of Dodoma		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2018 Impliaction of Climate Services for Smallholder Farmers Adaptation and Resilience in Semi-Arid Areas of Rural Communities in Tanzania University of Dodoma Tanzania	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Development Studies	University of Dodoma	Tanzania	2018		2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Khatibu	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Salma Khatibu	Khatibu	Tanzania	Salma
Muriungi, Susan K.	Regional Director, Africa		U.S. Embassy		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2018 Exploring the nexus between foreign assistance and security in the Horn of Africa: Evolving civil military relations in the fight against terrorism University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2018	I have over 15 years’ experience in management, programmes and research. My work profile covers institutions and organisations contributing to issues of governance, democracy, security, gender and human rights. I am a strong alliance builder with networks across government and non-government institutions on the African continent. I have also built and supported strategic partnerships outside the continent for the organisations I worked with. I am a professional with high standards of integrity and deeply passionate about social justice causes. I am driven by passion and an innovative and independent mind. A strong believer that change for the better is inevitable, I see myself as an instrumental agent in making that change happen. I thrive in the background where the real impact is made, together with progressive thinking individuals, organisations and institutions. My aspiration; To make significant contributions towards tackling some of the contemporary world’s most challenging debates in Security and Development and command authority in shaping of politics in the Horn of Africa for its people to experience firsthand progress.	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Muriungi	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Susan K. Muriungi	Muriungi	Kenya	Susan K.
Mabera, Faith	Senior Researcher		Institute for Global Dialogue		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2018 The Responsibility to rebuild and Jus Post Bellum: mapping the normative discourse on stabilization in Africa University of Pretoria South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Pretoria	South Africa	2018	Ms Faith Mabera is currently a senior researcher at the Institute for Global Dialogue. Ms Mabera holds an an MA (cum laude) in International Relations from the University of Pretoria. Her research interest include foreign policy analysis, regional and international peace and security issues, norms dynamics in international relations, political and security risk analysis and global governance. In addition to contributing to several peer-reviewed journals and book editions, she is a regular commentator on international and local media covering foreign policy issues, geopolitical trends, and international relations across Africa and the globe. Ms Mabera is also the creator, producer and host of the Strategic Dialogues podcast, which focuses on topical issues relevant to international relations, global governance and geopolitics. Some of her recent publications include a chapter on ‘South Africa’s defence diplomacy strategy: an appraisal of a viable instrument of foreign and security policy,’ in South African Foreign Policy Review Vol. 4, and a policy brief entitled ‘Enhancing the multilateral utility of regions in a pluralist, multi-order international order,’ published by the Southern Voice.	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Mabera	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Faith Mabera	Mabera	Kenya	Faith
Hasunga, Flora	Lecturer	Gender Studies	Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2018 CONTRIBUTION OF CUSTOMARY LAND TITLES ON RURAL WOMEN'S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT IN TANZANIA: A CASE OF MBOZI DISTRICT,SONGWE REGION, TANZANIA The Open University of Tanzania Tanzania 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2020 Contribution of Customary Land Titles on Rural Women's Economic Empowerment in Tanzania: A Case of Mbozi District, Songwe Region, Tanzania. The Open University of Tanzania Tanzania 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2021 Contribution of Customary Land Titles on Rural Women's Economic Empowerment in Tanzania: A Case of Mbozi District, Songwe Region. The Open University of Tanzania Tanzania	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate; Ph.D. Student; Assistant Lecturer	DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK	The Open University of Tanzania	Tanzania	2018; 2020; 2021	Dr. Flora Hasunga is a Sociologist, Gender Specialist, and Social Development Expert specializing in conducting Gender Assessments, Social Security, Gender-Based Violence, and Women’s Economic Empowerment. She has been a lecturer at the Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy (MNMA) in the Department of Gender Studies since 2008. Her primary teaching areas are Gender Analytical Framework, Gender and development, Development Studies, Sociology, Women’s Empowerment, Project design, Implementation, Monitoring, and Evaluation. She is also a Researcher, Consultant, and Development Project Designer on Gender, Age, and Inclusion (GAI), Gender, Equality, and Social Inclusion (GESI), Preparation of the Strategic Plan and Action Plan of GESI and GAI. Also, she is a Competence-Based Curriculum Training and Development Expert who is currently a PhD Holder in Sociology. Her Ph.D Academic Research based on Assessment on the Contribution of Customary Land Titles to Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment in Tanzania, A Case of Mbozi District, Songwe Region. Flora also has a Degree of Arts in Sociology and a Master’s Degree in Development Studies from the University of Dar es Salaam. She worked as an assistant training officer with Word Vision, based in Tanzania, in a project of creating awareness to religious and community leaders on Gender -Based Violence and good governance at Kinondoni District, Dar es Salaam Region. Also, she worked as a consultant in reviewing the Strategic Plan of Mkuranga District, Dar es Salaam region, which covered the years 2017-2021, and the Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Strategic Plan 2021-2024. She is also involved in GESI assessment of Care International Tanzania and GAI assessment of Plan International Tanzania as an assistant Consultant. She finally saved as Coordinator of the Undergraduate Evening Programme at the MNMA. She also presented research on gender-based violence with intimate partners at the University of Dar es Salaam. In 2018, 2019, 2022, and 2025, she attended several workshops on project, research, and consultancy Proposal Development Fellowships prepared by the Next Generation Social Science Research Council in the African program held at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, and at the United States International University, Nairobi, Kenya. She is ready to work as a researcher, assistant researcher, consultant, project planner, and trainer of different programs relating to gender issues, GESI, GAI, women’s rights, and other works relating to her areas of specialization.	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Hasunga; 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Hasunga; 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Hasunga	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Flora Hasunga	Hasunga	Tanzania	Flora
Jepkemboi, Anne	Assistant Lecturer		Kyambogo University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2018 Plantation agriculture and socio-economic development in Busoga sub-region, Eastern Uganda 1910-2012. A Historical Perspective Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Journalism and Communication	Makerere University	Uganda	2018		2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Jepkemboi	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Anne Jepkemboi	Jepkemboi	Kenya	Anne
Ajisafe, Dickson Olusola	PhD Candidate	Political Science	University of Pretoria		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2018 Radicalization and extremism in United Kingdom Prisons University of Pretoria South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Associate Fellow	The Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn)	University of Pretoria	South Africa	2018	Ajisafe is a Doctoral candidate at the department of Political Sciences, (specialising in International Relations), University of Pretoria, South Africa. His academic backgrounds include a Master degree in African and European Cultural Relations at the University of Pretoria, two semesters Master study abroad at the department of Politics and Public Administration, Konstanz University, Germany; a Master degree in International Relations from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Nigeria; Honours degree in History and International Studies from Adekunle Ajasin University, Ondo State, Nigeria and a university diploma in Local Government Studies from OAU, Nigeria. Ajisafe has participated in international seminars, conferences, academic studies, professional training, as well as travel visits to South Africa, Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Hungary, UAE and Qatar. As an Erasmus+ scholar, his story of accomplishment has been featured by the European Commission in 2017 ESAAeu magazine.	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ajisafe	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Dickson Olusola Ajisafe	Ajisafe	Nigeria	Dickson Olusola
Fasuyi, Jojolola Ololade					Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2018 The practice and challenges of Monitoring and evaluation in a conflict prone region, Nigeria University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2018		2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Fasuyi	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Jojolola Ololade Fasuyi	Fasuyi	Nigeria	Jojolola Ololade
Julius, Furaha	Lecturer	Department Of Political Science And Public Administration	The Open University of Tanzania		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2018 A study on the changing trend of minerals resource governance in Tanzania University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION	University of Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	2018		2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Julius	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Furaha Julius	Julius	Tanzania	Furaha
Akurut, Catherine					Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2018 Humanitarian Organisations’ response to conflict-related male sexual victimisation: an exploratory study Nelson Mandela University South Africa 2020 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2020 Humanitarian response to conflict-related sexual violence against males in Africa Nelson Mandela University South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate; Assistant Lecturer	Political and Conflict Studies	Nelson Mandela University	South Africa	2018; 2020	Catherine's most recent work focuses on examining gender inclusion as a humanitarian strategy to address the needs of male victims of sexual violence in armed conflict situations. Her doctoral research investigates the prejudice faced by men who experience sexual violence during ongoing conflicts. On the one hand, it reviews interventions related to the specific care and support required for these victims. On the other hand, it argues that the lack of adequate measures seriously undermines the effectiveness of humanitarian interventions aimed at addressing the hidden forms of conflict-related sexual violence against men. In this light, her study serves as a critical analysis of humanitarian intervention, incorporating discourses that are often overlooked in the development of humanitarian policies. Catherine previously served as an assistant lecturer in conflict management at Nelson Mandela University (NMU). Her primary research interests include armed conflicts and humanitarian responses, as well as men's studies.	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Akurut; 2020 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship-Akurut	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2020 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Catherine Akurut	Akurut	Uganda	Catherine
Lester, Claire-Anne Louise	Lecturer	Sociology	Stellenbosch University	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2018 The Concept of Violence in the Official Discourse of Commissions of Inquiry: colonial and post-colonial South Africa Stellenbosch University South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Graduate student/ Teaching Assistant		Stellenbosch University	South Africa	2018	I am a lecturer in Sociology at Stellenbosch University. I completed my PhD in Sociology at the University of Stellenbosch. My research is on the function of commissions of inquiry investigating state violence in the South African Mining Sector. My academic qualifications include an Mphil. in Transitional Justice from the University of Cape Town. Transitional Justice is the study of states and society that are transitioning from forms of authoritarian rule and/or civil war. My Mphil. specialisation was in Human Rights, where I was awarded distinction in the dissertation with no corrections required. I am intersted in the mechanisms behind the South African transition but have extensive work and research experience covering politics in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Southern Africa, democratic institution biulding, social justice and advocacy work. I also have extensive experience working in a university environment as an ajunct lecturer and teaching assistant. Academic awards and recognition include (but not limited to): Fulbright Scholarship, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) Programme, MMUF Graduate Initiatives fellow, Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Proposal Development fellowship. I was placed in the top ten of the De Beers Olympiad for creative writing.	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Lester	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Claire-Anne Louise Lester	Lester	South Africa	Claire-Anne Louise
Sanan, Sophia Olivia	Project Manager for MuseumFutures Africa		Goethe-Institut Johannesburg		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2018 Being Dark and Foreign in South Africa and India University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Cape Town	South Africa	2018	I have been working as a researcher, writer, teacher and leader in the field of arts and culture for the last 12 years in South Africa and internationally. I have co-ordinated community arts programs (2009-2011), and taught art history, drawing and visual studies at the University of Stellenbosch (US) (2010-2016). At US, I developed and ran a Social Responsibility focused module, developed impact assessment tools to monitor and evaluate the project, and delivered a number of peer reviewed research papers emerging from the data. I also developed the curriculum for both the undergraduate and Masters degree program in Arts Education at the US Visual Arts Department (2010-2016), and was part of a research group focused on institutional transformation. In 2014 I completed an MA in Sociology with distinction, after coursework and fieldwork in India, Germany and Cape Town from UCT (University of Cape Town) and the University of Freiburg. From 2014-2016, I worked as the research manager at the African Arts Institute (a civil society cultural organisation in Cape Town), focusing on intensive and regular stakeholder engagement with the arts sector, research and writing work in cultural policy (locally, nationally, continentally and internationally)and engagement with local and national government in matters relating to cultural policy. From 2016-2019 I worked as travelling faculty, academic co-ordinator and as Program Director for the International Honours Program Social Innovation: Entrepreneurship, Design and Development (a program of SIT Study Abroad/ World Learning), which allowed me to spend extensive time in Brazil, India, Uganda and the USA. My academic research skills, practical management experience and policy based experience in arts and culture ensures that I am ideally suited to positions with a focus on social transformation and innovation at an advanced, leadership level. My published research has focused on art and design education for social justice, race and institutional transformation and cultural policy development in Africa. Most recently I have engaged this interest in the field of museums and heritage. My PhD research investigates politics of identity, loss, representation and heritage through a study of parts of the African art collection at the Iziko South African National Gallery. Since late 2020, I have been working (with the support of the Goethe Institut South Africa), with 12 museums in Africa, Latin America and South Asia, exploring ideas and practices of museology from Southern perspectives.	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Sanan	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Sophia Olivia Sanan	Sanan	South Africa	Sophia Olivia
Adekola, Oluwole Gabriel	Part-time lecturer (Education); Guest Lecturer (Anthropology)	Sol Plaatje University	University of Cape Town		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2018 Time Threshold and Public Confidence in the War against Terrorism in Kenya and Nigeria University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer 1	International Relations	University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2018		2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Adekola	2018 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Oluwole Gabriel Adekola	Adekola	Nigeria	Oluwole Gabriel
Ngendo-Tshimba, David	Chair, Centre for African Studies & Associate Professor (UMU)	Department of Governance, Peace & International Studies	Uganda Martyrs University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2018 Transgressing the State: An Inquiry into Violence in the Rwenzori Borderlands Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Governance and Peace Studies	Makerere University	Uganda	2018	David Ngendo-Tshimba chairs the Centre for African Studies at Uganda Martyrs University where he also lectures in its Department of Governance, Peace and International Studies as Associate Professor of Political History and African Studies. His research interests include (political) violence, (forced) migrations and (social) justice, with special focus on Africa’s Great Lakes region.	2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Tshimba	2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship	David Ngendo Tshimba	Tshimba	Uganda	David Ngendo
Alamin, Alamin Hamid	Co-Founder; Supervisory Board Member		Addey Agricultural and Food Cooperative	Literature	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2018 Eritrean National Identity Versus its Constituent Parts: Problematizing the Concepts of 'Beiher' and Village of Origin Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Tutor and Ph.D. Student	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Uganda	2018	Political Science & Social Science Research Specialist | Expert in Quality Assurance, Curriculum Design & Development | Skilled in Journalistic Writing, Editing, Translation, and Public Relations. Alamin has his B.A degree in Political Science from the University of Asmara, Eritrea. MPhil in Political Studies from Makerere Institute of Social Studies, Makerere University, Uganda. Currently finalizing his PhD in Political Studies at Makerere Institute of Social Studies. Worked as a Freelance journalist for the Ministry of Information, the state of Eritrea, (2007 - 2014). Worked as Quality Assurance Manager at the International University of East Africa, Kampala Uganda (2022- 2024). Co-founded Addey Agricultural and Food Cooperative, Budapest, Hungary (2024 - update).	2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Alamin	2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Alamin Hamid Alamin	Alamin	Eritrea	Alamin Hamid
Mohammed, Nasser A.	Ph.D. Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2018 Myth, Memory and Identity: The Re-invention of Tigray as the new External Significant Other of Eritrea Makerere University Uganda 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2020 Myth, Memory and Identity: Reinventing Tigray as the new significant Other of Eritrea (1998-2000) Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Uganda	2018; 2020	Before joining MISR, Nasser obtained an MA in philosophy from Addis Ababa University. From 2007-2010, he was a research assistant at the Research and Documentation of Eritrea (RDC). He has interest in a range of topics mainly on political philosophy, ethnicity and nationalism.	2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Mohammed; 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Mohammed	2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Nasser A. Mohammed	Mohammed	Eritrea	Nasser A.
Masengo, Jacqueline Adongo	Assistant Lecturer	School of Languages, Literature and Communication	Makerere University	Literature	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2018 Rethinking Childhood: Child Identity Formation in Post-War Northern Uganda, Lira District Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Open, Distance and E-Learning	Makerere University	Uganda	2018	Ms Jacqueline Adongo Masengo has interest in auto/biographical studies, children’s literature, historical and archival studies, war narratives and drama. She has taught in both secondary and tertiary institutions around the world. She is completing her PhD from Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR). Her focus is on children’s war narratives from postwar northern Uganda. She blends historical, archival and ethnographical explorations of childhood in war and post war contexts.	2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Masengo	2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Jacqueline Adongo Masengo	Masengo	Uganda	Jacqueline Adongo
Liaga, Emmaculate Asige	Associate Researcher	Centre for African Studies	University of Basel	Peacebuilding	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2018 THE LOCAL TURN IN PEACEBUILDING: CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF PEACEBUILDING STRATEGIES IN SOUTH SUDAN, 2005-2015. University of Pretoria South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Pretoria	South Africa	2018	Emmaculate Asige Liaga is an associate researcher at the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel. Her research investigates the strategies of peacebuilding employed by both local and international organizations of peace operations in post-conflict communities, analysing the top-down and bottom-up approaches employed by both foreign intervention and local level organizations. She is a holder of a Doctorate degree (2020) with a thesis titled, ‘The Local Turn in Peacebuilding: A Critical Analysis of Peacebuilding Strategies in South Sudan’ and an undergraduate (2014) degree from Pretoria University, South Africa. She also graduated from the University of Manchester with her Masters degree (2016), where she majored in International Conflict and Security Studies. She is an awardee of the Chevening Scholarship (2015/2016); Woodrow Wilson Centre Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding Scholarship; German Institute of Area and Global Studies (GIGA) seed funding scholarship (2017); Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018/2019; and Oumou Dilly Scholarship for completion of doctoral studies in Switzerland (2019/2020). She worked at the Centre for Advancement of Scholarship (2018) and Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (2015) as a researcher. She also worked as a politics tutor at the department of political sciences and as an intern at the United Nations Information Centre. Her research interests include peace and security from below, conflict resolution, agency of communities in policymaking, and international relations theories (critical theories and marginalized theories).	2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Liaga	2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Emmaculate Asige Liaga	Liaga	Kenya	Emmaculate Asige
Naimasiah, Noosim	Ph.D. Candidate		University of the Western Cape		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2018 Being Pastoralists In Neoliberal Times: The Story of Capital From The Maasai Of Mashuuru University of the Western Cape South Africa 2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2019 Being Maasai in Neoliberal Times: The Story of Capitalism and Resistance From The Maasai of Mashuuru University of the Western Cape South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2018; 2019	Noosim Naimasiah is a member of local and Pan-African social movements and libraries that use political education, community organizing and self-reliance to organize for freedom politically based on Ujamaa, Ecofeminism and Pan-Africanism. Her academic work currently focuses on the political economy of sand within pastoralist communities.	2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Naimasiah; 2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Naimasiah	2018 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Noosim Naimasiah	Naimasiah	Kenya	Noosim
Eromosele, Ehijele Femi	Assistant Professor	Department of Languages, Literature and Communication	Utrecht University	Comparative Literature	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2019 Narrative Comorbidity: Madness, Disability, and African Fiction University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Senior Lecturer	African Literature	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2019	Femi Eromosele is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. He obtained his PhD in African Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand, and has held visiting fellowships at the Free University of Berlin, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study. Before joining Utrecht University, he was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, and Lecturer of English and Critical Thinking in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand. He has published on topics around African literature, health humanities, and African screen media.	2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Eromosele	2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Ehijele Femi Eromosele	Eromosele	South Africa	Ehijele Femi
Usher, Kimberley Ann	Doctoral Fellow	South African Research Chairs Initiative in Social Policy (SARChl) and Archie Mafeje Research Institute (AMRI)	University of South Africa		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2019 The political economy of healthcare reform in South Africa: the case of the National Health Insurance Scheme University of South Africa South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	South African Research Chair in Social Policy	University of South Africa	South Africa	2019	Kim is a doctoral fellow at the South African Research Chairs Initiative in Social Policy, where she conducts research on the political economy of South Africa’s National Health Insurance (NHI) through a comparative framework examining the healthcare systems of Brazil and the United Kingdom. Her work contributes to critical scholarship on health policy implementation and the political-economic dynamics shaping universal healthcare coverage in emerging economies	2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Usher	2019 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Kimberley Ann Usher	Usher	Zimbabwe	Kimberley Ann
Olufisayo, Ajala Temitope	Independent Researcher/Postdoctoral Fellow	Centre for Death and Society (CDAS)	University of Bath	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2019 Women and Non Lethal Impacts of Insurgency: Coping Mechanisms of Terror-Widowed Wives of Nigeria Army in the War against Boko Haram Stellenbosch University South Africa 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2020 Women and Insurgency: Coping Mechanisms of Terror-Widowed Wives of Nigerian Army Combatants in the War against Boko Haram Stellenbosch University South Africa 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2021 Women and Insurgency: Coping and Social Support Strategies of War Widows of Nigerian Army Combatants in the War against Boko Haram Stellenbosch University South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate; Ph.D. Student		Stellenbosch University	South Africa	2019; 2020; 2021	Fisayo Ajala holds a PhD in Sociology from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is a Visiting Research Fellow (2025-2028) of the Centre for Death and Society (CDAS), University of Bath. He is a 2019 - 2021 fellow of the Next Generation Social Science in African Doctoral Fellowships. His research has been published in His current research interests are in the areas of military and society, death and conflict studies, gender , peace and security . His book reviews and articles have been published in African Security, Armed Forces and Society, Critical Military Studies, The Conversation Africa, Kujenga Armani, LSE Book Review, African Studies Quarterly, and The Republic: Journal of Nigerian Affairs.	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Olufisayo; 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Olufisayo; 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Olufisayo	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Ajala Temitope Olufisayo	Olufisayo	Nigeria	Ajala Temitope
Chekero, Tamuka	Post Doctoral Researcher	Department of Anthropology	University of Cape Town	Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2019 Mobility, Space and Urbanism: The study of practices and relationships among migrants from African countries in Cape Town, South Africa University of Cape Town South Africa 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2020 Mobility, Space and Urbanism: The study of practices and relationships among migrants from African countries in Cape Town, South Africa” University of Cape Town South Africa 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2021 Mobility, Space and Urbanism: The study of practices and relationships among migrants from African countries in Cape Town, South Africa. University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	PhD Candidate; Ph.D. Candidate		University of Cape Town	South Africa	2019; 2020; 2021	Tamuka Chekero, a Zimbabwean anthropologist and migration scholar, holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pretoria (2023-2024). His research critically engages with the lived experiences of mobility, migration and sociality in Southern Africa. Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork, his scholarship interrogates the fluid intersections of conviviality, hushamwari (a Zimbabwean Shona concept of friendship), kuhanyisana (a South African Tsonga concept of helping one another to live), and informal economies as structuring forces in the lifeworlds of migrants. Through his engagement with African epistemologies, he challenges rigid categorisations of belonging and demonstrates how mobile subjects co-create spaces of possibility and survival within and beyond structural constraints. His scholarship is significant for its reframing of dominant approaches in migrant studies: rather than centring nationality as a fixed analytical category, he asks how African migrants, regardless of their country of origin, make and remake social worlds in new contexts. By moving beyond the nationalistic frameworks employed by the state, Chekero reveals the diverse strategies, particularly those rooted in conviviality and relational agency, which migrants draw upon to overcome barriers. His recent book, Resilient Social Networks and Mobility Strategies among Migrants in Cape Town (Chekero, 2025), published by the African Books Collective, exemplifies his contributions.	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Chekero; 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Chekero; 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Chekero	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Tamuka Chekero	Chekero	Zimbabwe	Tamuka
Wefwafwa, Job Allan	Post-Doctoral Researcher and Sessional Lecturer	Political Science	University of the Witwatersrand	Communications,Politics	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2019 Kenyan TV News as Africanised Public Sphere: Analysing the Representation of “Voice” Participation in African Democracy University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Tutorial Fellow		University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2019	I am an enthusiastic and versatile lecturer and researcher, with experience on researching digital media use in African electoral politics. I innovatively use digital ethnography in studies around social media groups in Africa, and the deployment in electoral politics. I develop new knowledge centred around inclusivity and social justice within Afrocentric perspectives. I aim to discover new trends, and analyse them in strands linked to existing problems, to find African solutions. I work best in a challenging environment, with uncertainties and ambiguities that create the discomfort necessary for knowledge and insight generation. I am proficient in both qualitative and quantitative research methods, including netnography, and in-depth interviews (unstructured, semi-structured, and structured), questionnaires, and surveys. I centre ethics and integrity in my research. My research focuses on finding extraordinary digital African electoral insights from ordinary human experiences. My current research outputs inform academics, policy makers, social justice groups, user experience researchers (UX researchers), product and service developers in the media industry, and curriculum developers. I am committed to reflectivity, transparency, and attention to detail. My passion and creativity are reflected in my academic and career trajectory. I understand the intersectionality within the African people, their electoral politics, and the digital media. I welcome new opportunities that will enable me to utilise my skills and training, challenge my Afrocentric research positionality, and broaden my professional and intellectual understanding of digital media and African electoral politics.	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Wefwafwa	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Job Allan Wefwafwa	Wefwafwa	Kenya	Job Allan
Jemberie, Yosef Sintayehu	Postdoctoral Fellow	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2019 The Dialectic of Power and the Modern Political Subject: A Perspective from the Study of Political “State of Exception” in Modern Ethiopian History since the 19th Century Makerere University Uganda 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2020 The Making of State of Emergency: A Historical Critique of Modern Political Power in Ethiopia Makerere University Uganda 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2022 The Making of State of Emergency: A Historical Critique of Modern Political Power in Ethiopia. Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	PhD Fellow; Ph.D. Fellow	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Uganda	2019; 2020; 2022	Yosef Sintayehu Jemberie is a postdoctoral fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University, Uganda. Previously, he was a lecturer of history and philosophy at Samara University, Ethiopia. He received his PhD from Makerere University in 2024. His research focus includes the history and theory of state formations in Africa and beyond, comparative genealogies of political modernity, and the philosophy of humour.	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Jemberie; 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Jemberie; 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Jemberie	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Yosef Sintayehu Jemberie	Jemberie	Ethiopia	Yosef Sintayehu
Ralo, Mpumezo Welcome	PhD candidate ; Researcher	Political Science ; N/A	University of South Africa,Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2019 The Use of Patronage to Consolidate Political Power in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. The Case of Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment University of South Africa South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of South Africa	South Africa	2019	Mpumezo Ralo is currently working for Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality as a researcher and a PhD student at the University of South Africa. He holds an MPhil in South African politics and political economy from the Nelson Mandela University. He also received an Honors degree in anthropology & sociology at the University of the Western Cape and a Bachelor's degree from the same university. He co-published with Joleen Steyn-Kotze in 2014 “Bitter Battles and Factionalism: Assessing the impact of the post-Polokwane political contestations in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality.” Ralo previously held positions as a researcher at the University of the Western Cape. He occasionally contributes to local and national newspapers for political analysis.	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ralo	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Mpumezo Welcome Ralo	Ralo	South Africa	Mpumezo Welcome
Ogunmefun, Folorunsho Muyideen	Lecturer II	Sociology	"Chrisland University, Abeokuta"	Criminology,Security Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2019 Predictors of Gang Violence and Crime Outcomes among youths in Mushin, Lagos Metropolis Ogun State University Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Tutorial Fellow	Department of Criminology and Security Studies	Ogun State University	Nigeria	2019	I am Dr Folorunsho Muyideen Ogunmefun, a lecturer from Chrisland University, College of Arts, Management and Social Sciences, specializing in the Department of Criminology and Security Studies. A fellow of Social Science Research Council. Also a fellow of the Nigerian Society of Investigators, Nigeria.	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ogunmefun	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Folorunsho Muyideen Ogunmefun	Ogunmefun	Nigeria	Folorunsho Muyideen
Masikane, Fikile Goodness	Researcher and Lecturer	Department of Sociology	University of Pretoria	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2019 Understanding work and rest: an African Perspectiv University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2019	Fikile Masikane is a social scientist, researcher and a lecturer of Sociology at the University of Pretoria. She has submitted her PhD in Industrial Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand. She serves as one of the board members of the Black Intellectual Praxes (BIP), which is an intellectual collective in South Africa. She holds fellowships at the Next Generation of Social Sciences (SSRC)2019/20, National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) 2020/23 and the Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST) 2021/24. Her research interests include Black intellectual thought, Black spirituality and labour studies.	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Masikane	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Fikile Goodness Masikane	Masikane	South Africa	Fikile Goodness
Tagarirofa, Jacob	Lecturer and Researcher		Great Zimbabwe University	"Peace, Conflict, and Governance",Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2019 Posthuman Security and Landmines: Gendered Meaning-making and Materialities in the North-Eastern Border Area of Zimbabwe University of the Free State South Africa 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2020 Posthuman Security and Landmines: Gendered Meaning-making and Materialities in the North-Eastern Border Area of Zimbabwe University of the Free State South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology	University of the Free State	South Africa	2019; 2020		2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Tagarirofa; 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Tagarirofa	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Jacob Tagarirofa	Tagarirofa	Zimbabwe	Jacob
Owigo, Jacqueline Akoth	Research and Innovation Adviser	East Africa Research and Innovation Hub	British High Commission	International Relations	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2019 Return and Reintegration in Post Conflict Societies: A Case Study of Somali returnees United States International University Africa Kenya 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2020 Return Migration and (Re)Integration in Fragile Contexts: A Case Study of Somali Returnees United States International University Africa Kenya	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	School of Humanities and Social Sciences	United States International University Africa	Kenya	2019; 2020	Dr Jacqueline Owigo is a Research and Innovation Adviser with over 15 years’ experience in evidence generation, policy, and programme management. Her experience focuses on strengthening science, technology, and innovation systems in Africa, with an emphasis on inclusion and equitable partnerships. As a scholar of International Relations, her research explores forced migration, displacement, and their impact on societies in Africa.	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Owigo; 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Owigo	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Jacqueline Akoth Owigo	Owigo	Kenya	Jacqueline Akoth
Olumoyegun, Bolanle Aina	PhD Candidate ; Lecturer	Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development ; Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension	University of Ibadan,Ajayi Crowther University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2019 Proclivity to Utilize Grievance Redress and Citizens Engagement Mechanisms in Herders-Farmers Conflict Resolution in North Central Nigeria University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2019	Bolanle Aina is a PhD student in agricultural extension and rural development at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Her doctoral research interest centers around investigating the utilization of grievance redress and citizen’s engagement mechanisms in Herders-Farmers conflict resolution. Exploring communication dynamics of agrarian conflict, employing network analysis research design using mixed methods to probe conflict actors’ behavioral posture as baseline data to inform communication strategy design, implementation, and evaluation for conflict resolution. Also, she is currently a lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension at Ajayi Crowther University, Nigeria.	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Aina	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Bolanle Aina	Aina	Nigeria	Bolanle
Kolawole, Ridwan A.	Faculty Lecturer	Communication and Language Arts	University of Ibadan		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2019 Exploratory Analysis of Media Reportage of Herdsmen-Farmers Conflict in Nigeria University of Ibadan Nigeria 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2020 Exploratory Analysis of identity construction in Nigerian media framing of farmer-herder conflict in the North Central Nigeria University of Ibadan Nigeria 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2022 Exploratory analysis of Identity Construction in Nigerian Media Framing of Farmer-Herder Conflict University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate; Lecturer II		University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2019; 2020; 2022	Dr Ridwan Abiola Kolawole teaches Communication, Journalism and Media Ethics in the Department of Communication and Language Arts, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Communication from the same department in 2024. His research focuses on applied communication, specifically media and conflict, as well as media performance. He is an alumnus of the Next Generation Social Science in Africa Program of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York, having won the three stages of the fellowship (2019, 2020, 2022). Dr Kolawole was a research associate for multi-country research work on Africa Youth Aspirations and Resilience of funded by the MasterCard Foundation (2021-2024). Although a communication and media researcher, Dr Kolawole has a great interest in trans-disciplinary research; he has applied his communication knowledge to the field of peace and conflict, identity construction and rural sociology. He is a member of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice (SPSP) and the Rural Sociological Association of Nigeria (RUSAN).	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Kolawole; 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Kolawole; 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Kolawole	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Ridwan A. Kolawole	Kolawole	Nigeria	Ridwan A.
Mgonja, Michael Greyson	Lecturer	History, Political Science and Development Studies	Mkwawa University College of Education		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2019 The Paradox of Government Interventions and the Quest for Peace and Food Security in Indigenous Communities: A Case Study of the Hadzabe Community in Tanzania University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	History, Political Science and Development Studies	University of Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	2019	Michael Greyson Mgonja is a PhD candidate in the Political Science, and Public Administration (PSPA) Department at the University of Dar es Salaam. He is also an assistant lecturer in the Department of History, Political Science and Public Administration, and Development Studies at Mkwawa University College of Education (MUCE), a constituent college of the University of Dar es Salaam. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in education and Master of Arts in public administration in 2012 and 2015, respectively, at the University of Dar es Salaam. He researches the broader issues of public administration, food security, peace, public policy, human resource management, and local governance in Tanzania.	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Mgonja	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Michael Greyson Mgonja	Mgonja	Tanzania	Michael Greyson
Wamamela, Nixon	Lecturer	Department of Philosophy	Makerere University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2019 A Philosophical Assessment of Democracy in Post-colonial Legislations in Uganda Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Philosophy	Makerere University	Uganda	2019	Dr. Nixon Wamamela is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Makerere University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts in Philosophy and PhD in the same field from Makerere University. Dr. Nixon Wamamela has extensive trainings in human rights and governance from Universities of Ghana and Dar es Salaam, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and Peace Research Institute Oslo. He is a beneficiary of Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Next Generation of Social Sciences in Africa research fellowships. He is also a former awardee of University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars Program (UMAPS) and African Research and Universities Alliance (ARUA) Early Research fellowships. His areas of research, teaching and publication are Political philosophy, Ethics African Philosophy and Philosophy of law.	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Wamamela	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Nixon Wamamela	Wamamela	Uganda	Nixon
Osiro, Moses Adama	Lecturer		Masinde Muliro University of Science & Technology		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2019 THE DEVELOPMENT-SECURITY NEXUS AS A ‘PERFORMANCE’: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF INTERVENTIONS COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM (CVE) IN KENYA Masinde Muliro University of Science & Technology Kenya	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	ASSISTANT LECTURER	CRIMINOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK	Masinde Muliro University of Science & Technology	Kenya	2019	Moses Adama Osiro is a PhD student and assistant lecturer in the Department of Criminology and Social Work at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology in Kenya. A social scientist with interdisciplinary inclination, Osiro holds an MA in sociology from the University of Nairobi and an MSc in criminology and criminal justice from University of Portsmouth. Research interests span security and development studies and criminal justice.	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Osiro	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Moses Adama Osiro	Osiro	Kenya	Moses Adama
Ibrahim, Hafsa Ali	Assistant Lecturer	Philosophy	Egerton University	History,Religion	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2019 "MAKING OF JIHADI BRIDES": CONTESTED REPRESENTATION OF KENYAN MUSLIM WOMEN Egerton University Kenya 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2020 'MAKING OF JIHADI BRIDES'': MUSLIM WOMEN INVOLVEMENT IN RADICALISATION AND TERROR-RELATED ACTIVITIES IN MANDERA COUNTY, KENYA Egerton University Kenya 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2021 Making of the jihadi brides: Muslim women involvement in radicalisation and terror related activities in Mandera County, Kenya. Egerton University Kenya	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Part-time Lecturer; Assistant lecturer	Department of History, Philosophy, and Religion	Egerton University	Kenya	2019; 2020; 2021	Hafsa Ali Ibrahim is a Kenyan citizen who lives in Nakuru County. She is a wife and a mother of four children: a daughter and three sons. She is also a teacher by profession with more than six years of experience in secondary education and four years in tertiary. Ibrahim is currently a part time lecturer at Egerton University in the Department of Philosophy, History, and Religion. She is pursuing a doctoral degree in philosophy and religious studies in the same university. She holds a Master of Arts in philosophy and religious studies from the University of Nairobi and an undergraduate degree in Education from Kenyatta university. Ibrahim specialises in counter violent extremism (CVE) programs in Kenya regarding the integration and empowerment of the youth and the women as a strategy to encounter terrorism. She is a volunteer in Integrated Initiative for Community Empowerment, a local NGO that deals with women, youth and security. She is particularly interested in the issues of terrorism and countering violent extremism programs in her county Nakuru by engaging the youth and women in matters of insecurity caused by terrorism. Ibrahim has managed to introduce Nakuru to Strong Cities Network, (SCN), the first ever global network of mayors, governors, municipal-level policymakers and practitioners united in building social cohesion and community resilience to counter violent extremism in all its forms. ‘Nakuru youth bila noma’ is a slogan under which they work with by actively integrating youth and women in peace building processes.	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ibrahim; 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Ibrahim; 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ibrahim	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Hafsa Ali Ibrahim	Ibrahim	Kenya	Hafsa Ali
Azubuike, Chibuzor Mirian	PhD Candidate	Sociology	University of the Witwatersrand	Labour	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2019 Politics of Identity and the Political Economy of Refugee Status in New Bakassi Cross River State University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2019	Social Scientist, researcher . PhD candidate at Wits.	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Azubuike	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Chibuzor Mirian Azubuike	Azubuike	Nigeria	Chibuzor Mirian
Namukasa, Jacqueline	Lecturer	Department of History, Achaeology and Heritage	Kyambogo University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2019 "The Island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda" Uganda- Kenya contestations over Migingo Island 2009 -2018 Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Head of Department	Department of History	Makerere University	Uganda	2019	Jacqueline Namukasa, PhD, is a former Gerda-Henkel Stiftung Fellow at Makerere University (2018-2023), Next Generation of Social Sciences Fellow (2019), CODESRIA Fellow (2019) and British Academy fellow (2022). She is currently a Lecturer and Assistant Coordinator of Graduate Studies in the Department of History, Archaeology and Heritage, Kyambogo University. Jacqueline holds a PhD in History of Makerere University, a Master of Arts in History and Bachelors of Arts with Education (History, Economics) from the Islamic University in Uganda (I.U.I.U). Her interests revolve around boundary/territorial/border conflicts, International relations, Hydro-politics, Uganda’s Political History, Gender history and Regionalism. Her current project is on the “Drivers of Regional Integration: A case of the East African Community.”	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Namukasa	2019 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Jacqueline Namukasa	Namukasa	Uganda	Jacqueline
Ngaba, Poloko Sindiso	Ph.D. Candidate	Political and International Studies	Rhodes University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2019 sithwalandwe (one who wears the plumes of the rare bird): The Leadership and Ideas of Ruth Segomotsi Mompati in the Struggle for National Liberation and Democratic South Africa Rhodes University South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		Rhodes University	South Africa	2019	Poloko Sindiso Ngaba (Sindi) is a PhD candidate at the Political and International Studies Department, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. A lawyer by profession, she studied B Juris and Bachelor of Laws (LLB) at the University of Zululand, Empangeni, South Africa. Thereafter, she was awarded a Fullbright Scholarship to further her studies. She graduated with a Master of Laws (LLM) from Georgetown Law School (Washington DC, USA). She has been admitted as an advocate of the High Court of South Africa. Her professional experience includes; serving as an executive Head of company secretariat of the Oil and Gas Company of South Africa; Manager legal services and contracts at National Ports Authority of South Africa (both Ports of Cape Town and Saldanha); Judicial officer Cape Town University of Technology; Researcher at Community Law Centre (University of Western Cape); Legal and general administrator at E.S Mchunu & Company Law firm (Empangeni). Sindi also served as a non executive director of the following boards: Civil Aviation Authority of South Africa; Artscape Opera House South Africa and Reatile Group (Pty) Limited.	2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Ngaba	2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Poloko Sindiso Ngaba	Ngaba	South Africa	Poloko Sindiso
Danga, Solomon Dribsa	Post doctoral research fellow	Global Change Institute	University of the Western Cape	Psychology,Social Work	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2019 Mental health of adolescents in refugee camps in Ethiopia: The development of an exploratory model based on trauma, coping and resilience University of the Western Cape South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	School and Counseling Psychology	University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2019	Solomon Dribsa Danga holds a PhD in Child and Family Studies from the University of the Western Cape. He is currently working under Cascade: Climate and Health risks in African Cities Project, employing a transdisciplinary approach to tackle the complex interplay between climate change and urban health risks. He specifically examines the impacts of extreme heat and health risks in urban informal settlements to inform adaptation strategies. Solomon’s dissertation focused the mental health of adolescent refugees in refugee camps in Ethiopia. His study tested a mental health model to examine how coping and resilience mediate the relationship between potential traumatic experience and mental health outcomes. Dr. Solomon has dedicated his career to understanding the resilience of vulnerable populations.	2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Danga	2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Solomon Dribsa Danga	Danga	Ethiopia	Solomon Dribsa
Niwenshuti, Theogene	Part-time lecturer ; Guest Lecturer	Education ; Anthropology	University of Cape Town		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2019 Memory, Museum and Mental Health: Making sense of Contestation over the interpretation of violence in Contested Spaces at William Humphreys Art Gallery University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Part-time lecturer (Education); Guest Lecturer (Anthropology)	School of Education and Humanities	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2019	Prince Théogѐne Niwenshuti is a PhD student student at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He received a BA (with distinction) from National University of Rwanda (NUR) and MA (cum laude) from Wits University School of Arts in Johannesburg. He travels extensively facilitating, lecturing, performing and campaigning for peace, healing, human rights, awareness and prevention of war and genocide. For about 25 years he has lived, studied, worked and conducted research in several post-conflict zones on the African continent. He has intervened in several academic and nonacademic events on a global level including the International Culture Summit held at the Scottish Parliament in 2018 in Edinburgh (as speaker, facilitator and performer), the 2nd Conference on Memory Studies in 2018 in Copenhagen (as special performance-presenter), the International Leadership Summit at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein in 2018 (as keynote speaker and cohort mentor), Conflict Resolution, Arts and Health Research seminars in 2016 and 2017 in Dublin (as keynote speaker, performer and facilitator), the Youth Voices Conference at the Constitutional Court of South Africa in Johannesburg in 2017 (as keynote speaker and facilitator). Théogѐne NIWENSHUTI was among artists selected for a funded creative residence at the William Kentridge’s Center for the Less Good Idea in 2018. He has received several other awards, prestige scholarships, medals and honors from a number of African and international institutions for his community, artistic and academic contributions.	2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Niwenshuti	2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Theogene Niwenshuti	Niwenshuti	Rwanda	Theogene
Nsobya, Abdulhakim Abdalla	Research Fellow and Guest Lecturer	Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) and Study of Religions	University of Cape Town	Religious Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2019 Mediated Mimbar in East Africa: Muslim Electronic Media in Contemporary Uganda University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Tutor	Department of Religious Studies	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2019	Abdulhakim Abdalla Nsobya is the HUMA–UCT/CCNY Africa AI Ethics Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town, where his research focuses on “Ethics of AI Moderation: Muslim Identity and Religious Expression in African Digital Spaces.” He is also an incoming Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast on the project “Governing Jihad in Africa: Ideology, Political Economy, and Violence” (starting October 2025). He recently completed his PhD in the Department for the Study of Religions at UCT, where he has also served as a tutor, guest lecturer, and researcher since 2016. His interdisciplinary research bridges media and religion, with a focus on Muslim electronic and social media (radio, television, Facebook, and YouTube) and their influence on Ugandan Muslim identity and national belonging. His earlier work explored the religious and political dimensions of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), one of the oldest Islamist militant groups in Sub-Saharan Africa. His recent publications include the journal article “A Political History of Uganda’s ADF, and an ADF Nashīd in Luganda” (2020), and a book chapter titled “To Vote or Not to Vote: Facebook as Platform for Salafi Discourses on Voting in Uganda” (2023).	2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Nsobya	2019 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Abdulhakim Abdalla Nsobya	Nsobya	Uganda	Abdulhakim Abdalla
Appiah-Boateng, Sabina	Research Fellow	Department of Peace Studies	University of Cape Coast		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2020 Land-Use Conflicts and Psychosocial Well-Being: A Study of Farmer-Herder Conflict in Asante Akyem North District of Ghana University of Cape Coast Ghana	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Division of Academic Affairs	University of Cape Coast	Ghana	2020	Dr. Sabina Appiah-Boateng is a Research Fellow at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Cape Coast. She has a background in Psychology and holds cotutelle PhD qualifications in Development Studies from the University of Hildesheim, Germany and University of Cape Coast, Ghana. Her areas of interest in research include conflict and mental health, gender studies, migration, and peace and development. She is a promising young scholar who has researched on a variety of topics, including conflict and framing, anxiety, depression, catastrophising thoughts, post-traumatic stress disorder, coping in conflict areas, conflict management, mothering experiences in conflict areas, women and conflict, women and commercial surrogacy, Ghana’s peace architecture, women’s experiences and violent extremism, migration among others. Dr. Appiah-Boateng teaches on varieties of Peace and Development courses such as ethnicity, inequalities, and conflicts gender and conflict, chieftaincy and land resource management, sociology and economics of conflict, peace research methods among others. She has received awards and grants from the German Academic exchange Services (DAAD), USAID, Next Generation of Social Sciences in Africa (SSRC), African Humanities Program (AHP), and University of Cape Coast’s Directorate of Research, Innovation, and Consultancy. Dr. Appiah-Boateng is the Ghanaian Coordinator of the SDG Graduate School, “Performing Sustainability. Cultures and Development in West Africa. The interdisciplinary Graduate School ‘Performing Sustainability’ is a collaborative training network for graduate students run by the University of Cape Coast (Ghana), University of Hildesheim (Germany), and University of Maiduguri (Nigeria). The initiative focuses on innovative research that brings together approaches from performance, arts, and culture to bear on sustainable development as defined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A specific focus lies on issues of peace and conflict resolution. Dr. Appiah-Boateng is a determined, open-minded, goal-oriented, and ambitious person. She is a resourceful problem-solver, proactive, team player and results oriented with a nice demeanour which makes it easier to interact, collaborate and communicate well with colleagues and superiors. She possesses unique personality in her constant engagements with her students in and outside the classroom. Her skills include dedication to teaching, teamwork, commitment to students’ success, support for students, enthusiasm for quality and perfection, and strong work ethics.	2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Appiah-Boateng	2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Sabina Appiah-Boateng	Appiah-Boateng	Ghana	Sabina
Akech, Joseph	Director, Advocacy, Campaigns, Communications and Media, Save the Children Somalia programme		Save the Children International		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2020 Foreign influence and the legitimacy of constitution building in South Sudan University of Pretoria South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	LLD (PhD) candidate	Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law	University of Pretoria	South Africa	2020	human rights lawyer, campaigner and researcher on constitution making in fragile contexts	2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Akech	2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Joseph Akech	Akech	South Sudan	Joseph
Moyo, Cletus	Senior Lecturer	Department of Languages, Media and Communication Studies	Lupane State University	Drama/Theater and Performance Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2020 Theatre as Grieving: A Theatrical Response to Matabeleland and Midlands Genocide of the 1980s (a.k.a. Gukurahundi) in Zimbabwe University of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Professional Instructor	Languages	University of KwaZulu-Natal	South Africa	2020	Dr Cletus Moyo is a Senior Drama Lecturer at Lupane State University in Zimbabwe. He holds a PhD in Drama and Performance Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a Master of Arts in Dramatic Art from the University of the Witwatersrand and an Honours in Theatre Arts from the University of Zimbawe. His research interests are in Applied Theatre/Drama, Theatre and Trauma, Theatre and Performance Studies, Art and Society, Social Drama and Devised Theatre. Dr Moyo is also an artist, art trainer and facilitator.	2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Moyo	2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Cletus Moyo	Moyo	Zimbabwe	Cletus
Okombo, Patrick					Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2020 A Citizen Sociolinguistics Appraisal of Kiswahili as a Tool for Social Integration in the East African Community Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		Makerere University	Uganda	2020	Patrick Lugwiri Okombo is an East African linguist from Kenya. He holds a MA in Kiswahili studies from the University of Nairobi, and is currently a full-time PhD candidate of linguistics at Makerere University. His current research interest in the Kiswahili sociolinguistics is the understanding of Kiswahili sociolinguistics, and the use of Kiswahili as a lived practice in the socially multilingual settings that characterize the East African urban locales. He targets the ordinary citizens’ understanding and use of Kiswahili in their social life. His theoretical and methodological frames cut across various sub-disciplines such as contact linguistics, linguistic ethnography, interactional sociolinguistics, and the recent citizen sociolinguistics. The central thesis of his research echoes the argument that, because language is a social act, its social value should be best evaluated in the social contexts where the language is used. Other than academic pursuits, Okombo is an experienced Kiswahili/English translator, editor, and proofreader, having previously worked for several private publishing companies in Nairobi to the level of acting publishing manager.	2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Okombo	2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Patrick Okombo	Okombo	Kenya	Patrick
Moshugi, Kgomotso Samuel	Post-Doctoral Fellow and Director		University of the Witwatersrand,Samtso Trading Enterprise	Music,Interdisciplinary Arts,Culture studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2020 Trans-nationalisation and indigenisation of Euro-American hymns in South Africa University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2023 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2023 “Mobility and Dispersed Collaborations through Localisation” University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship; Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Next Gen	Teaching Assistant; Post-Doctoral Research Fellow	School of Arts	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2020; 2023	A highly accomplished academic and creative professional with solid music (arranging, composing, and ensemble leadership), cultural policy, and management background. With extensive experience in teaching, research, and civic engagement, demonstrated expertise in interdisciplinary arts and culture studies, creative and cultural industries, and artistic practice and research. Adept at fostering collaborative relationships within academia and community-based initiatives, dedicated to advancing arts, culture, and heritage knowledge through transformative education and innovative research. A prolific writer and researcher in the humanities, with numerous published (and forthcoming) articles, books, book chapters, and creative works, showcasing an innovative research approach that merges artistic data collection and analysis modes with traditional qualitative social sciences tools.	2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Moshugi; 2023 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship-Moshugi	2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship; 2023 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Kgomotso Samuel Moshugi	Moshugi	South Africa	Kgomotso Samuel
Mahajubu, Abudul	Lecturer and Post-Graduate Coordinator	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences	Mountains of the Moon University	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2020 ETHNIC FLUIDITY, CONTESTED CITIZENSHIP AND THE SURVIVAL OF THE NUBI ETHNIC MINORITY IN UGANDA Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	Humanities	Makerere University	Uganda	2020	Dr. Abudul Mahajubu is a lecturer of History and Heritage Studies and a post-graduate coordinator in the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Mountains of the Moon University, a public university located in western Uganda. Abudul holds a PhD in History, a Master's of Arts in History, and a Bachelor's of Arts with Education, all from Makerere University. Abudul is an AHP/ACLS Post-Doc Fellow 2022, a Next Gen/ SSRC Dissertation Completion Fellow 2020, and a Lisa Maskell/Gerda-Henkel Stiftung PhD fellow 2017. Abudul's research interest is located in African history and heritage, focusing on minority societies in Africa. He has comprehensively researched and published on the Uganda Nubi.	2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Mahajubu	2020 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Abudul Mahajubu	Mahajubu	Uganda	Abudul
Obi, Ajumeze	Lecturer I	College of Liberal Studies	University of Cape Town		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2020 The Niger Delta Theatre and ‘the Refuse of History’ in Ben Binebai’s My Life in the Burning Creeks Bowen University Nigeria	Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer I	Centre for African Studies	Bowen University	Nigeria	2020		2020 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship-Obi	2020 Next Gen Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Ajumeze Obi	Obi	Nigeria	Ajumeze
Gaaki, Kigambo	Ph.D. Candidate	Centre for Film and Media Studies	University of Cape Town	Media Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2020 Mediating Contentious Politics in Hybrid Regimes: Press Coveragee of Political Protests in Uganda University of Cape Town South Africa 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2023 “Mediating Contentious Politics in Hybrid Regimes: Press Coverage of Political Protests in Uganda” University of Cape Town South Africa 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2025 Mediating Contentious Politics in Hybrid Regimes: Media Coverage of Political Protests in Uganda University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Student		University of Cape Town	South Africa	2020; 2023; 2025	Gaaki Kigambo is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town specialising in Media Studies. His doctoral research examines how Ugandan news media interpret and portray political protests in Uganda. It also explores interplaying factors that shape protest coverage within the country’s militarised authoritarian context where the state restricts the staging of anti-government protests, and equally discourages news coverage of them. He is a recipient of multiple scholarships that include the 2020 Next Gen Doctoral Proposal Development Fellowship, 2023 Next Gen Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, and 2025 Next Gen Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Gaaki holds a Master of Journalism from Carleton University, Canada and a Bachelor of Arts with Education from Makerere University, Uganda. His research, broadly conceived, focuses on media representation(s) of marginalities.Mr. Gaaki holds a Master of Journalism from Carleton University and a Bachelor of Arts with Education from Makerere University. His research, broadly conceived, focuses on media representation(s) of marginalities.	2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Gaaki; 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Gaaki; 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Gaaki	2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Kigambo Gaaki	Gaaki	Uganda	Kigambo
Muradzikwa, Tracey	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Centre for Education Rights and Transformation	University of Johannesburg		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2020 ‘State Laws’, Succession and Women in Chieftaincy Leadership in post-colonial Zimbabwe: A case study of Umzingwane district. University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2021 State law and women in chieftaincy crisis. The case of Nswazi village, Zimbabwe. University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2023 “’State law’ and women in chieftaincy succession crisis: The case of Nswazi, village, Zimbabwe” University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate; Ph.D. Student	Department of Political Studies	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2020; 2021; 2023	Tracey Muradzikwa completed her doctoral studies at the University of Witwatersrand working on the legitimacy of female traditional leaders in Nswazi, Zimbabwe. Her research interests are traditional leaders in Southern Africa, indigeneity, gender, governance and development, and gender and political institutions. She previously taught Feminist Theory and Politics at the University of Witwatersrand’s Department of Political Studies. Her research interests are traditional leaders and politics in Zimbabwe since 1980 and gender politics in the Global South parliaments. She has received international fellowships such as the Global Minds Fellowship, Ghent University, Belgium and Erasmus+ KA107 International Credit Mobility Programme Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. Dr Muradzikwa studies under the research supervision of Prof Morgan Ndlovu.	2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Muradzikwa; 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Muradzikwa; 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Muradzikwa	2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Tracey Muradzikwa	Muradzikwa	Zimbabwe	Tracey
Rwelengera, Benezet	PhD Student and Assistant Lecturer	Dept of Forest and Environmental Economics, Department of Food and Resource Economics, and Department of Geography	University of Dar es Salaam,Sokoine University of Agriculture	Human Geography,Geography	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2020 Re-imagining Rural Futures through Agricultural Growth Corridors: case of the Southern Agricultural Corridor of Tanzania University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2022 Framing Pastoralism – Forestry Relations in Tanzania: Knowledge, Power and Identity University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2023 “Framing Pastoralism- Forestry Relations in Tanzania: Knowledge, Power and Identity” Sokoine University of Agriculture Tanzania	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Department of Geography	University of Dar es Salaam; Sokoine University of Agriculture	Tanzania	2020; 2022; 2023	Benezet Rwelengera is an Assistant Lecturer of Human Geography at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania. He is currently a final-year PhD student at the Sokoine University of Agriculture. His research title is: “Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Challenges: Navigating Pastoralism-Forestry Relations in Tanzania." Broadly conceived, the study is an inquiry into the production, circulation, and reproduction of knowledge and identities on pastoralism-forestry relations. Ben is passionate about drawing from and engaging with African theorists in trying to study postcolonial life through decolonial lenses. V.Y Mudimbe, Achille Mbembe, and Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni feature strongly in Ben’s endeavour to interrogate coloniality and the politics of alterity in the pathologisation of pastoralists. His experience living with the Maasai pastoralists over the past couple of months has un-shaped and re-shaped his views on conservation and life in general. Ben holds a Master of Arts (Geography and Environmental Management) from UDSM.	2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Rwelengera; 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Rwelengera; 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Rwelengera	2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Benezet Rwelengera	Rwelengera	Tanzania	Benezet
Ume, Chukwuma	Lecturer	Department of Agricultural Economics	University of Nigeria		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2020 Assessing the determinants and dynamics for conflict resolution and peaceful coexistence among crop farmers and pastoralists: Political economy approach University of Nigeria Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	Department of Agricultural Economics	University of Nigeria	Nigeria	2020	Chukwuma Ume is a lecturer at the department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nigeria. He is currently doing his PhD at the Center for International Development and Environmental Research, Justus Liebig University, Germany. He holds a master's degree in Environment and Development from the sustainability research institute, University of Leeds, and bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics (First Class and overall best graduating student of the University, 2013/2014 session). He was awarded the Right Livelihood Junior Research Scientist Award in Environmental and resource management by the Centre for Environment and Development Research/ Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF) UN-Campus University of Bonn. His current research focuses on Agroecology and modeling of Socio-Ecological Systems.	2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ume	2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Chukwuma Ume	Ume	Nigeria	Chukwuma
Musamba, William	Lecturer	Department of History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies	Makerere University	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2020 Contested History in Uganda: The Case of Busoga (1800-2015) Makerere University Uganda 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2021 Sub-ethnic Identities and Political Conflict: The Case of Busoga, 1895 to 1967. Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Tutor; Ph.D. Student	Institute of Open Distance and e-learning	Makerere University	Uganda	2020; 2021	I am a Ugandan citizen, holding a PhD in African History from Makerere University, where I also serve as Lecturer in the Department of History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies. My research interests focus on the twentieth-century history of Busoga, eastern Uganda, particularly in the field of ethnicity, inequality, culture, governance, and Leadership. My recent publication on Reimagining Academic Writing: The Writing Experiences of Gelizako Juwiva Chrinjalinya, features in the Journals of Global Policy and Wiley. I have also published two articles with Taylor and Francis; “Record Keeping and Political Advocacy in Late Colonial Uganda; the case of Abataka Abasoga, 1940 to 1950”, April 2024, and “Busoga States Amalgamation and Ethnic Formation, 1900 to 1950”, June 2023, I have curated my academic views in diverse intellectual environments both at Makerere University and universities outside Uganda to as far as Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia where I also obtained a certificate of training in Peace Agreement Implementation as a NORHED fellow in 2022. I aim at building my career as a scholar, teacher and mentor contributing to the production of historical knowledge and the use of historical narratives to shape modern policy.	2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Musamba; 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Musamba	2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship	William Musamba	Musamba	Uganda	William
Gamedze, Asher Simiso	Cultural worker	Department of History	University of the Witwatersrand	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2020 Yu Chi Chan Club and the National Liberation Front: A history of revolutionary pedagogy, theory and practice University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2022 Ensemble study and struggle: A history of the Yu Chi Chan Club and the National Liberation Front University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2023 “Ensemble study and struggle: A history of the Yu Chi Chan Club and the National Liberation Front” University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate; Ph.D. Fellow		University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2020; 2022; 2023	Asher Simiso Gamedze is a cultural worker based in Cape Town, South Africa working mainly as a musician, student, a writer, an organiser and an educator. His work as a musician is primarily as a drummer with various ensembles across and between musical traditions of improvised and free music, pop, rock and roll, hip-hop and soul music. His debut album as a bandleader, dialectic soul, is out on On the Corner Records in July 2020. As a writer and a researcher Gamedze’s interests include African history, histories of revolutionary thought and practice, Black cultural production, and radical pedagogy. His written work is published in online popular and news forums (NewFrame, Mail&Guardian, etc), academic journals (South Atlantic Quarterly, Mobilities, New Music South Africa Bulletin) and books, as well as independent activist publications (Publica[c]tion, Pathways to Free Education, Ispili, etc). He has taught and tutored history at the University of Cape Town where he also worked as a researcher for a number of years and is involved as an educator, organizer, and facilitator with various social movements and community activists.	2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Gamedze; 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Gamedze; 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Gamedze	2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Asher Simiso Gamedze	Gamedze	South Africa	Asher Simiso
Machacha, Mandipa Goitsemang	Feminist Human Rights Lawyer	Centre for Human Rights	University of Pretoria		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2020 Gender, Migration and the Law: a socio-legal review of the laws and policies which regulate Zimbabwean women labour migrants who work in Botswana's informal sector University of Pretoria South Africa 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2021 A rights-based framework for Zimbabwean migrant women who work in Botswana’s informal economy University of Pretoria South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Researcher	Centre for Human Rights	University of Pretoria	South Africa	2020; 2021	I am a feminist human rights lawyer with diverse experience from working in the Botswana Government, non-profits, and the United Nations. My expertise includes human rights advocacy, minority rights, project management, research, and humanitarian assistance. Currently, I serve as an Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Researcher/Advisor at Amnesty International. I am a Mandela Washington Fellow, SSRC Next Generation Fellow, Obama Foundation Africa Leader, Commonwealth Scholar, Reuters Trust Woman Scholar, and International Lawyers for Africa Fellow. I've held a research fellowship at Abo Akademi University in Finland and am a board member at WoMen-Against-Rape and on the editorial board of the BUWA! journal. My academic background includes a Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology) and a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Cape Town. I also hold a Master of Laws (Public International Law) from the University of London and a Master’s in Public Administration (International Development) from the University of York. Currently, I am completing a Doctor of Laws in Human Rights Law at the University of Pretoria. My research focuses on women’s economic, social, and cultural rights, particularly concerning intersecting identities. I contribute to scholar-activism through academic research, peer review, and knowledge production, aiming to advance human rights and social justice. [SSRC] Mandipa Machacha is a feminist development practitioner with a comprehensive range of skills acquired from having worked for the Botswana government, the non-profit sector, and the United Nations. Passionate about social justice (gender-justice in particular), she has worked for over 10 years either for or supporting activist groups, donors, and international organizations to deepen analysis, shape policy, and refine interventions that defend minority and women’s rights, with the overarching goal of developing strategies that will enable us to build intersectional feminist futures. This work has included human rights advocacy, humanitarian assistance, conflict resolution, sustainable development initiatives, curriculum development, advisory roles as well as training, facilitation, and capacity building. Machcha holds a Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology) and a Bachelor of Laws, both from the University of Cape Town. A Master of Laws (Public International Law) from the University of London and a Master’s in Public Administration (International Development) from the University of York. She is currently completing her Doctor of Laws in Human Rights Law at the University of Pretoria (Centre for Human Rights), a role which has transitioned her into the field of scholar-activism where she intends to further contribute to social activism through research and knowledge production.	2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Machacha; 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Machacha	2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Mandipa Goitsemang Machacha	Machacha	Botswana	Mandipa Goitsemang
Agbelengor, Samson	Post-graduate studies, UG-Legon		University of Ghana		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2020 A comparative analysis of the United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture and the Ghanaian Peace Architecture under the Fourth Republican Constitution University of Ghana Ghana	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Graduate Assistant	Department of Political Science	University of Ghana	Ghana	2020		2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Agbelengor	2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Samson Agbelengor	Agbelengor	Ghana	Samson
Mbezi, Rose	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Dar es Salaam		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2020 Women's Access to Land in the Context of Neoliberalism in Rural Tanzania. A case Study of Rufiji District, Coastal Region in Tanzania. University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2021 Women's access to land in the context of multiple users and systems in the contemporary rural Tanzania. A case study of Rufiji District Coastal region in Tanzania University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	2020; 2021	Rose George Mbezi is currently a PhD candidate at the department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Dar es Salaam. Her research title is Women’s Access to Land in the Context of Multiple Users, Land Access and Grassroots control systems in the Contemporary Rural Tanzania. A Case Study of Muhoro East and West Villages in Rufiji District, Coastal Region. Rose has been awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2020 by the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa. She also holds a Master of Philosophy in Anthropology of Development degree from the University of Bergen-Norway, M.A and B.A (Sociology and Anthropology) from the University of Dar Es Salaam and the Diploma in Education from Marangu Teachers college. Rose has co-authored an article with, Porter, M & Mbezi, R (2010) From hand to Mouth. Why Fisheries Projects fail to alleviate Household Poverty. Canadian Journal of Development Studies-xxxI (3-4) 2010. The academic background has enabled Ms Mbezi to develop a range of expertise which rewarded her over 20 years of experience in a range of fields and specialization. She has particularly participated in different project assignments in a number of sectors including the agriculture (crop-Livestock, fisheries, land, fertilizer), tourism, women in the informal sector, gender based violence, gender and development. In her extra time Rose is involved in mass media educative programs. She has continuously been invited as the guest speaker with the Tanzania Broadcasting Cooperation (TBC Taifa Radio) in LEA MWANA programme. She also serves as feature writer on socio economic and political development issues in Tanzanian newspapers mainly Daily News and The Guardian. She has also been invited to participate in My Country Nchi yangu Television shows including those with Dr Bana- What should be done to Restore Ethics in Tanzania 21st January 2017 and Prof Mlama- The role of Customs and Traditions to Restore Ethics amongst Tanzanians 26th January 2017. Generally, positions and experiences Ms Mbezi has accumulated over the years has enabled her a rewarding capacity in Social science research design and analysis; project development, planning and management; Project proposal development; Advocacy and facilitation; Public speaking; Teaching/Lecturing; Human Resources Management; Ethnographic data collection and analysis and report writing.	2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Mbezi; 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Mbezi	2020 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Rose Mbezi	Mbezi	Tanzania	Rose
Kung'u, Susan Wangui	Lecturer	Communication Studies	Presbyterian University	Communications	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2020 Portrayal of Gender Based Violence in selected locally produced Soap Operas in Kenya University of Nairobi Kenya 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2022 Portrayal of Gender Based Violence in Selected Locally Produced Soap Operas in Kenya Kenyatta University Kenya	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Part-time lecturer; Lecturer	Department of communication and media studies	University of Nairobi; Kenyatta University	Kenya	2020; 2022	Dr. Susan Kung’u is a media studies lecturer at the Presbyterian University of East Africa. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication and Information Studies from the University of Nairobi in 2024. Her dissertation examined portrayals of gender-based violence in television soap operas. Her research interests include media, gender and peacebuilding. Her publications include the interdisciplinary article, “Traversing Horizons: Reflections on the Global South Conference in Bangkok, Thailand” (Kujenga Amani, 2024), which examined the Global South’s role in international organizations and world politics. Dr. Kung’u is a recipient of the 2020 Next Generation Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, the 2022 Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship, and a 2022 British Institute in Eastern Africa Thematic Award. She is a founding executive member of the Peace and Development Researchers’ Association (PADRA) and serves on the organizing committee of the African University Seminar Series (Kenya chapter). Additionally, she is a member of the African Studies Association.	2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Kung'u; 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Kung'u	2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Susan Wangui Kung'u	Kung'u	Kenya	Susan Wangui
Majozi, Nkululeko	Regional Researcher: Southern Africa		Amnesty International		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2020 The 'Saint' and the 'Monster': A Decolonial Comparative Study of Nelson Mandela and Robert Mugabe University of South Africa South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of South Africa	South Africa	2020	[LinkedIn] Currently a Regional Researcher for Southern Africa at Amnesty International with a focus on monitoring the respect, protection, promotion, and fulfilment of human rights in Malawi, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Previously a Social Security Researcher at the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) (now Social Policy Initiative); Doctoral Researcher in the Office of the Executive Director of the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA). Also the Founder and Managing Director of the Young Leaders Initiative (YLI), a pan-African community of young African entrepreneurs, professionals and change agents under the age of 34 who are set to become the future generation of African leaders who will drive and impact Africa’s future social and economic development. Previously a Leadership Strategist / Research Associate at the African Leadership Network, the premier pan-African network for the most influential leaders in the private, public and civil society sectors on the continent.	2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Majozi	2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Nkululeko Majozi	Majozi	South Africa	Nkululeko
Yingwana, Ntokozo	Communication and Research Uptake Officer	African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS)	University of the Witwatersrand		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2020 Queering Sex Work and Mobility in southern Africa: How does migration/mobility/movement influence gendered sexualities in sex work? University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Researcher	African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS)	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2020		2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Yingwana	2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Ntokozo Yingwana	Yingwana	South Africa	Ntokozo
Orimolade, Oluwatosin	Postdoctoral Fellow	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2020 People and State: A Genealogy of the Political Constitution of the Nigerian State Makerere University Uganda 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2022 People and State: A Genealogy of the Political Constitution of the Nigerian State Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	Department of Political Science and Public Administration	Makerere University	Uganda	2020; 2022	Oluwatosin Orimolade is postdoctoral fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. He is interested in the Ideas that shaped the making of the Nigerian State. His research focuses on state making ideas and practices, constitution politics, nationalism and decolonization.	2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Orimolade; 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Orimolade	2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Oluwatosin Orimolade	Orimolade	Nigeria	Oluwatosin
Karanja, Joseph	Lecturer	School of Law, Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Security Diplomacy and Peace Studies	Kenyatta University	Geographic Information Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2020 Concepts of Justice and Adoption of State Judicial Safeguards within Somali Adjudication Processes in Garissa County (2005-2019) Kenya Kenyatta University Kenya	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Tutorial Fellow	Department of Environmental Studies, Geography and Agriculture	Kenyatta University	Kenya	2020	Dr. Joseph Karanja is a Lecturer in the Department of Security, Diplomacy and Peace Studies at Kenyatta University, specializing in the customization of rule of law values for sustainable peace, security, and development. He earned his Ph.D. in Peace and Conflict from Kenyatta University in 2022 with his doctoral dissertation focusing on how local concepts of justice developed from local realities shape the uptake of judicial safeguards within alternative justice systems. His article, Aligning Customary Justice Processes with Rule of Law Kenya provided insights towards operationalization of Article 159 of the 2010 Kenyan constitution. He is also a recipient of the 2020-2021 Next Gen Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship Award. He is currently a full-time lecturer in the Department of Security, Diplomacy and Peace Studies at Kenyatta University, where he facilitates units in security management and conflict resolution. His research interests include urban conflict, alternative justice forums, corporate fraud, and policing.	2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Karanja	2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Joseph Karanja	Karanja	Kenya	Joseph
Madhuha, Edmond	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, School of Clinical Medicine	University of the Witwatersrand	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2020 The persistent health burden: understanding black South African working-class men’s experiences of living with tuberculosis University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2022 The persistent health burden: understanding black South African working-class men’s experiences of living with tuberculosis. University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Graduate Teaching Assistant; Teaching Assistant	Sociology; Department of Sociology	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2020; 2022	Dr. Edmond Madhuha is a medical sociologist and postdoctoral fellow at the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, University of the Witwatersrand. As an alumnus of the SSRC’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa programme, his research explores how race, class, and gender, especially masculinities, influence experiences of tuberculosis. He currently investigates knowledge production and structural inequalities in infectious disease research. He utilises decolonial and global health ethics frameworks to examine how power affects which voices, experiences, and epistemologies are included or excluded in infectious disease scholarship.	2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Madhuha; 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Madhuha	2020 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Edmond Madhuha	Madhuha	Zimbabwe	Edmond
Kauma, Bryan	Assistant Professor	Department of History	Southwestern University	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2021 A social, economic and environmental history of small grains in Zimbabwe, c1890-2013 Stellenbosch University South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		Stellenbosch University	South Africa	2021	Bryan Kauma is a historian of Southern Africa. His research interests focus on Southern Africa's food and environmental history from the pre-colonial past to the present. His work shows how (African) food and indigenous African crops are political, and embedded in the social, economic, political and cultural everyday lives of African society. He is interested in the way food and crops extend the lens of re-examining Africa’s past, unpacking the myriad topical, emotive, and contested themes, including race, colonialism, agrarian systems and African peasantry, food security, indigeneity, and agency. He is currently working on my first monograph, which examines the social, environmental and political development of African small grains – sorghum and millet – in Zimbabwe, c.1880-2017. He welcomes supervision applications from students interested in researching agrarian, social and environmental history in Southern Africa and food (nutrition, food security and culinary cultures) history-related topics.	2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Kauma	2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Bryan Kauma	Kauma	Zimbabwe	Bryan
Mugambi, Munene	Assistant Professor	Environmental Studies	Al Akhawayn University	Environmental Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2021 Understanding the Impacts of Environmental Change and Climate Uncertainty on the Livelihood of Maasai Pastoralists of Ildamat-Oloyiankalani, Kajiado County, Kenya University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Cape Town	South Africa	2021	My interests lie within academic teaching, research and consultancy in both public and private sectors. My disciplines are within the discourses of climate and environmental change, political ecology and economy and natural resource management.	2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Mugambi	2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Munene Mugambi	Mugambi	Kenya	Munene
Nqambaza, Palesa	Postdoctoral Fellow		University of the Witwatersrand,University of Leeds	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2021 Mapping The Sex/Gender Trajectories of amaMpondo University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Sessional Lecturer		University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2021	Palesa Nqambaza-Lebea holds a Ph.D in Political Studies from Wits University specialising in Gender Politics. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow within the same department and a visiting research fellow at Leeds University.	2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Nqambaza	2021 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Palesa Nqambaza	Nqambaza	South Africa	Palesa
Zharare, Chiedza Nyengeterai	Ph.D. Candidate	Centre for African Studies	University of Cape Town	Culture studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2021 CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CHANGING SOCIETIES AFTER NATURAL DISASTERS IN EASTERN ZIMBABWE; A CASE OF CHIMANIMANI AND CHIPINGE AFTER CYCLONE IDAI. University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Cape Town	South Africa	2021	Chiedza N Zharare is currently a PhD candidate in African Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her dissertation title is ‘Cultural Heritage and Changing Societies After Natural Disasters in Eastern Zimbabwe: A Case of Chimanimani and Chipinge After Cyclone Idai’. Chiedza holds an MA in African History from the Midlands State University (2015), Zimbabwe. She is a 2021 Next-Gen Doctoral Dissertation proposal fellow and a 2024 Canon Collins scholar. Her research interests lie in the History of Zimbabwe, African studies, Cultural Heritage and Climate Change. She is also a curator of Antiquities at Mutare Museum in eastern Zimbabwe. She has over a decade working experience in the museum field and has participated at international workshops and conferences on cultural heritage preservation and conservation. She intends to contribute to the African studies discipline and projects around preserving cultural heritage in the face of environmental challenges in Zimbabwe and beyond.	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Zharare	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Chiedza Nyengeterai Zharare	Zharare	Zimbabwe	Chiedza Nyengeterai
Olorunlambe, Wasiu	Lecturer II	Social and Management Science	Makerere University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2021 Gender-based Violence against Women and Children during United Nations Peace Keeping Operations in Sub-Saharan Africa (Central Africa Republic and South Sudan) Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer		Makerere University	Uganda	2021		2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Olorunlambe	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Wasiu Olorunlambe	Olorunlambe	Nigeria	Wasiu
Kassaw Fentie, Alene	PhD candidate; Senior Lecturer	Religion and Peace Studies	Makerere University,University of Gondar		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2021 Trans-border Security Threats in the Horn of Africa: Actors, Their Modi operandi and Implications for Human Security in Ethiopia Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Senior Lecturer		Makerere University	Uganda	2021	Alene Kassaw has been working as a senior lecturer at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia. He graduated in Political Science and International Relations from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia in 2008. He obtained his masters in International Relations from the same university in 2011. He also joined Pan African University, Cameroon in 2016 in pursuit of master of science in Governance and Regional Integration. Since 2021, he has been doing a PhD in the Department of Religion and Peace Studies, CHUSS, Makerere University, Uganda.	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Kassaw Fentie	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Alene Kassaw Fentie	Kassaw Fentie	Ethiopia	Alene
Amoah, Douglas	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Ghana		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2021 COMMUNITY POLICING IN GHANA'S FOURTH REPUBLIC: AN ASSESSMENT University of Ghana Ghana	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Ghana	Ghana	2021		2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Amoah	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Douglas Amoah	Amoah	Ghana	Douglas
Oswald, Martin Fikiri	Lecturer and Researcher	Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa	University of Cape Town	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2021 Who votes in Tanzania and why? An empirical examination of individual and contextual predictors of electoral participation The Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy Tanzania 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2023 “Who votes and why? An empirical examination of the predictors of voter turnout and democratic consolidation in Tanzania, 2010-2020” University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant lecturer; Ph.D. Student	Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa (IDCPPA)	The Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy; University of Cape Town	Tanzania; South Africa	2021; 2023	Martin is a Tanzanian and a PhD student at the Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa (IDCPPA), University of Cape Town in South Africa. Alongside his PhD project, he works as a Research Assistant with Afrobarometer, a leading non-partisan and pan-African research institution that conducts public opinion surveys on democracy, governance, the economy and society in 30+ African countries. Martin holds an MA in Development Studies (Governance and Democracy) from the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Netherlands as well as a BA in Political Science and Public Administration from the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Martin's PhD examines individual-level and contextual predictors of voter turnout in Tanzania and implications for democratic consolidation. Martin has 10+ years of experience as an assistant lecturer and researcher at The Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy and other higher learning institutions in Tanzania. Martin is a published author in his area of interest, with his most recent work “Let Me Register, But I Will Not Vote” Examining Voter Abstention in Tanzania’s 2010-2020 Elections From a Political Trust Perspective featured in the Taiwan Journal of Democracy.	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Oswald; 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Oswald	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Martin Fikiri Oswald	Oswald	Tanzania	Martin Fikiri
Ndirangu, Grace	Program Manager-Livelihoods		RefugePoint		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2021 The effects of wartime sexual violence on the reproductive health of displaced women from South Sudan University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Student		University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2021	I'm a development practitioner in the Gender, Economic Empowerment, Peace, and Conflict fields with ten years of progressive experience implementing projects and delivering training in gender mainstreaming, women empowerment, participation and, the inclusion of women and youth in peace processes among marginalized and refugee communities in Kenya. Experienced in managing and leading multi-disciplinary teams; Programme management, delivering training content, capacity building of program teams, key partner stakeholders, and community beneficiaries. Skilled in proposal writing, resource mobilization; community needs assessments, analysis, and report writing skills. Missing Peace Network Alumna (USIP/WIIS/PRIO)-USA, 2018-2019; Women in International Security(WIIS) Alumna 2017, United States Institute of Peace(USIP) Generation Change Fellow 2016-2018. Member of the Network of African Women in Conflict Prevention and Mediation(FemWise Africa)	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ndirangu	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Grace Ndirangu	Ndirangu	Kenya	Grace
Ncube, Vuyolwethu	Research Coordinator, Sessional Lecturer and Research Supervisor	Psychology Department	University of the Witwatersrand,University of Amsterdam	Psychology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2021 Uncovering the unseen scourge: How does violence against women occur in situ? University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2021	Vuyo Ncube is a joint PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Amsterdam, specialising in violence and asymmetrical social dynamics and the use of innovative methods to study social interactions. Her PhD is focused on studying violence against women using Systematic Video Observation and Analysis - an innovative method of studying human conflicts using various forms of video data, and in her case CCTV footage. She holds a Masters Degree in Social and Psychological Research and is fluent in qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research. She is a recipient of the 2021 Next Gen Proposal Development Fellowship Award.	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ncube	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Vuyolwethu Ncube	Ncube	Zimbabwe	Vuyolwethu
Ndhlovu, Nontando	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Qatar-South Africa Centre for Peace and Intercultural Understanding (CPIU)	University of Johannesburg		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2021 Colonial Gender Structures as Influencing the Political Leadership Landscape in Zimbabwe: An intersectional Feminist Critique. University of Pretoria South Africa 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2022 Colonial gender structures as a contributing factor in influencing the political leadership landscape in Zimbabwe. An intersectional feminist critique University of Pretoria South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Pretoria	South Africa	2021; 2022	Dr. Nontando Ndhlovu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Qatar-South Africa Centre for Peace and Intercultural Understanding (CPIU) at the University of Johannesburg. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pretoria in 2025, with her doctoral dissertation examining how the gendered legacies of colonialism continue to shape political leadership in postcolonial Africa. Her research focuses on the gendered dynamics of transitional justice, peacebuilding, mediation, governance, and post-conflict reconstruction, extending to the political economy of mediation and development in post-conflict societies. Her work bridges academia and policy, contributing to advancing inclusive peace and security in Africa. In 2024, she served as a Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding (SVNP) Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. She is a recipient of the 2021 and 2022 Next Gen Doctoral Dissertation Proposal and Research Fellowship.	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ndhlovu; 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Ndhlovu	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Nontando Ndhlovu	Ndhlovu	Zimbabwe	Nontando
Maina, Grace Njoki	Lecturer	School of Education, Arts and Social Sciences	KCA University	Women and Gender Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2021 (Dis) Continuities In Agikuyu Women Traditional Justice Systems, 1895-2013. Makerere University Uganda 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2022 A Historical Analysis of Women in Traditional Governance Institutions: The Agikuyu ‘Ndundu Cia Aaka’, 1925-2010. KCA University Kenya 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2023 “A Historical Analysis of Women in Traditional Governance Institutions: The Agikuyu 'NDUNDU CIA AAKA', 1925-2010” Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Associate Faculty; Assistant Lecturer; Tutorial Fellow	School of Women and Gender Studies	Makerere University; KCA University	Uganda; Kenya	2021; 2022; 2023	Dr. Grace Njoki Maina is a Lecturer at KCA University, Nairobi, in the School of Education, Arts and Social Sciences. She earned her Ph.D. in Gender Studies from Makerere University, Uganda, with a dissertation analysing the historical role of women in traditional institutions of governance in Kenya. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in History from Kenyatta University. Dr. Maina has received multiple prestigious fellowships, including three Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowships - Doctoral Dissertation Proposal (2021), Doctoral Dissertation Research (2022), and Doctoral Dissertation Completion (2023), as well as the Gerda Henkel Stiftung Foundation Ph.D. Scholarship (2021–2023), and the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) Fellowship (2023). Her research focuses on feminist history, gender, and governance in Africa, with recent work examining gender dynamics in land (re)distribution and alternative justice systems.	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Maina; 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Maina; 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Maina	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Grace Njoki Maina	Maina	Kenya	Grace Njoki
Thomas, Angelique Candice	Doctoral Fellow	HUMA - Institute for Humanities in Africa	University of Cape Town	Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2021 Tentative title: From risk to resilience: Reimagining sexual and reproductive health in an exploratory study with young women living with HIV and their partners in the Western Cape, South Africa. University of Cape Town South Africa 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2022 Reimagining sexual and reproductive health in an exploratory study with young women living with HIV and their partners in the Eastern and Western Cape, South Africa University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Senior Research Assistant; Research Assistant		University of Cape Town	South Africa	2021; 2022	I am a story-crafter, social scientist, and a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. As a qualitative researcher, I am interested in research on sexual and reproductive health, stigma and intersectionality, marginalized population groups, and mental health. I am curious about the 'why’s,' 'how’s' and 'so what’s' ’that plague the sphere of public health, especially the sexual and reproductive health of women and young people, particularly in the Global South.	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Thomas; 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Thomas	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Angelique Candice Thomas	Thomas	South Africa	Angelique Candice
Kachope, Patrick	Lecturer		Nkumba University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2021 Civil Society-State Relations in Small Arms Governance: The Case of Micro-Disarmament in Karamoja, Uganda Nkumba University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer		Nkumba University	Uganda	2021		2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Kachope	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Patrick Kachope	Kachope	Uganda	Patrick
Lunyago, Muhamed	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Interdisciplinary	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2021 “Kyapa Mungalo” and the Land Question in Buganda: Understanding the Dynamics of Formalisation of Customary Tenure Holdings and Socio-Economic Transformation. Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Fellow		Makerere University	Uganda	2021	Muhamed is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Studies (2025), an Interdisciplinary MPhil. in Social Studies (2022) and Bachelor of Development Studies (2018), all from Makerere University. His broader research interests are interdisciplinary with particular focus on the thematic fields of land and agrarian questions, state-society relations, environment and the politics of climate change, the peasantry and peasant intellectualism, and politics, power and the question of development. Before joining MISR, he was working with the Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda (ACCU) under the advocacy and research department.	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Lunyago	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Muhamed Lunyago	Lunyago	Uganda	Muhamed
Yikwabs, Yikwab Peter	PhD Candidate	Department of Sociology	University of Ibadan	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2021 Putting Victims First: Unpacking the Dynamics of Victimization Experiences in the Farmer-Herder Conflict of North Central Nigeria Federal University Lokoja Nigeria 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2022 Putting Victims First': Unpacking the Dynamics of Victimization Experiences in the Farmer-Herder Conflict of North-Central Nigeria University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Department of Sociology	Federal University Lokoja; University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2021; 2022	Yikwab Peter Yikwabs is currently at the completion stage of his Doctoral thesis at the Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His PhD dissertation hopes to unpack the victimisation experiences of orphans and widows from the farmer-herder conflict in North-Central Nigeria. He serves as member of the 4th Governing Council Federal University Lokoja. He holds an MSc Degree in Sociology (Criminology and Penology) from the University of Ibadan in 2018 and BSc Sociology from the University of Jos Nigeria in 2015. In 2023, he was awarded the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) PhD grant. He is an awardee of the 2021-2022/2022-2023 Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Proposal and Research Dissertation Fellowship. He was one of the Awardees of the Embassy of France in Nigeria and Institute of French Research in Africa Nigeria Field Work Grants (2018). His research interest includes, Resource Based conflict, conflict resilience and victimisation.	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Yikwabs; 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Yikwabs	2021 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Yikwab Peter Yikwabs	Yikwabs	Nigeria	Yikwab Peter
Ziyambi, Gabriel					Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2021 Commissioned Women soldiers and Politics in Zimbabwe State University of Western Cape South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		State University of Western Cape	South Africa	2021		2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Ziyambi	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Gabriel Ziyambi	Ziyambi	Zimbabwe	Gabriel
Katumusiime, Jacob	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Center for Education Rights and Transformation	University of Johannesburg	"Peace, Conflict, and Governance",Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2021 Beyond Religio-Cultural Violence: A Historico-Political Re-Contextualization of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God Makerere University Uganda 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2023 “Beyond Religio-Cultural Violence: A Historico-Political Re-Contextualization of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God” Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	PhD Fellow and Tutor; Tutor	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Uganda	2021; 2023	Dr. Jacob Katumusiime is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Johannesburg. Jacob is the 2024 Winner of the Rahamon Bello Award for the Best PhD in African and Diaspora Studies. He researches on the intersections of Culture and Politics, navigating questions of Colonialism, Postcolonialism and Decolonization, and exploring issues of Identity, Citizenship, Social Movements, Political Violence and Diasporic Lives. Jacob holds an Interdisciplinary PhD in Social Studies, a Master of Philosophy in Social Studies and a Bachelor of Arts with Education (First Class) from Makerere University.	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Katumusiime; 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Katumusiime	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Jacob Katumusiime	Katumusiime	Uganda	Jacob
Effevottu, Efetobor Stephanie	Research Fellow	Department of History	University of Ibadan	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2021 The Catholic Church and Peacebuilding in Post-Civil War Nigeria, 1970-2015 University of Ibadan Nigeria 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2024 The Catholic Church and Peacebuilding in Post-Civil War Nigeria, 1970-2015 University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate; Doctoral Researcher	Department of History	University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2021; 2024	Efetobor Stephanie Effevottu, PhD is a peace researcher and practitioner with a doctorate in History (Development Studies) from the University of Ibadan. She holds B.A and M.A. degrees in History from the University of Benin and University of Ibadan respectively. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Department of History, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She also works as the Programme Director, Building Blocks for Peace Foundation (BBFORPEACE) where she coordinate programme implementation and lead efforts in promoting peace and sustainable development across communities in Africa. Her research interests span interdisciplinary areas including religion and peacebuilding, migration, gender, youth, peace, and security (YPS), women, peace, and security (WPS), sustainable development, and sexuality studies. She also has a blog/website (https://stephanieeffevottu.com/), where she discusses topical developmental issues. She is also the recipient of several awards, including the Social Science Research Council's Next Generation in Africa Research Fellowships and the Republic of Korea Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Grand Prize in the 2024 Global Youth Essay and Art Contest.	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Effevottu; 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Effevottu	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Efetobor Stephanie Effevottu	Effevottu	Nigeria	Efetobor Stephanie
Maseti, Thandokazi	Lecturer		University of Johannesburg	Psychology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2021 Discourses that Shape Black Women’s Academic Development in South Africa University of Johannesburg South Africa 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2022 Discourses that Shape Black Women’s Academic Development in South African Universities University of Johannesburg South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer		University of Johannesburg	South Africa	2021; 2022	Thando is Lecturer at the University of Johannesburg, trained as a Research Psychologist. She is currently completing my PhD in Psychology at the same university. Her work calls for a reflective, inclusive and socially just psychology curriculum that shapes students who are responsive to societal ills. Thando is passionate about social justice, gender development and mental health.	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Maseti; 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Maseti	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Thandokazi Maseti	Maseti	South Africa	Thandokazi
Chatikobo, Tatenda	Co-ordinator	Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership	Rhodes University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2021 Digital Colonialism in the Global South: Experiences from a marginalised community in South Africa. Rhodes University South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		Rhodes University	South Africa	2021	I'm currently a PhD candidate (focusing on Critical Data Studies) and Research Assistant in the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University in Makhanda, South Africa. My areas of academic interest are ICT-for-development (ICT4D) and interrogating the relationship between technology and socio-economic development in marginalised communities.	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Chatikobo	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Tatenda Chatikobo	Chatikobo	Zimbabwe	Tatenda
Muthegethi, David Maina					Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2021 RETHINKING MATERIALITY ON SOCIAL IDENTITIES: ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THIMLICH OHINGA AND GEDI FROM1000 CE-1900 CE Kenyatta University Kenya 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2022 Rethinking Materiality on Social Identities: Archaeological Perspective of Thimlich Ohinga and Gedi Ruins, Kenya from 1000 -1900CE Kenyatta University Kenya	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Adjunct Lecturer		Kenyatta University	Kenya	2021; 2022		2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Muthegethi; 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Muthegethi	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	David Maina Muthegethi	Muthegethi	Kenya	David Maina
Amakanji, Graham Oluteyo	Lecturer	Department of International Relations	Kenya Methodist University	Afrocentric trans-disciplinary studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2021 CALIBRATING HOMEGROWN EXTREMISM OVER INTRACTABLE COMMUNAL LAND USE CONFLICTS IN MT ELGON CONSTITUENCY OF BUNGOMA COUNTY, KENYA Masinde Muliro University of Science & Technology Kenya 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2022 “Calibrating Homegrown Extremism over Intractable Communal Land Use Conflicts in Mt. Elgon Constituency of Western Kenya.” Masinde Muliro University of Science & Technology Kenya	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Tutorial Fellow; Junior Research Fellow	Department of Peace and Conflict Studies	Masinde Muliro University of Science & Technology	Kenya	2021; 2022	Dr. Amakanji Oluteyo is a Researcher, Lecturer, and Consultant specializing in Peace, Security, and International Relations Studies. He is based in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Masinde Muliro University of Science & Technology (MMUST), Kenya. An accomplished scholar, Dr. Amakanji has garnered global recognition, including prestigious awards from the Social Science Research Council’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Program, securing both the 2021 Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship and the 2022 Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship. A Rotary Peace Alumni of the Rotary Peace Center at Makerere University, Uganda, Dr. Amakanji is a visionary thought leader in Decoloniality and Afrocentric transdisciplinary studies. His expertise continues to shape innovative approaches to addressing contemporary global challenges. In 2024, he was honored as a Visiting Fellow of International Relations at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Currently, Dr. Amakanji is piloting a ground-breaking capacity-building program targeting National Government Administrative Officers (NGAOs) in Kenya. This initiative aims to equip NGAOs with the skills and tools to fulfill a dual role in calibrating and preventing violent extremism, addressing one of Kenya’s most pressing security challenges. The program underscores his commitment to creating sustainable frameworks that bridge policy, community engagement, and security operations. Dr. Amakanji’s dynamic research portfolio spans a diverse range of critical areas, including land use and natural resource conflicts, governance, development studies, and the nexus of homegrown extremism and terrorism. His focus extends to diplomacy and international relations, where he brings a unique Afrocentric perspective to global discourse. As a rising thought leader in his field, Dr. Amakanji is committed to empowering communities and institutions through evidence-based research, policy advocacy, and strategic capacity-building initiatives. His contributions position him at the vanguard of shaping the future of peace, security, and international relations in Africa and beyond.	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Amakanji; 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Amakanji	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Graham Oluteyo Amakanji	Amakanji	Kenya	Graham Oluteyo
Anitah, Atwijuka	Ph.D. Student	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2021 Culture and Decentralised Power: Discerning Nationalism in Contemporary Uganda Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Student	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Uganda	2021		2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Anitah	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Atwijuka Anitah	Anitah	Uganda	Atwijuka
Salomao, Lina Elias	Researcher and Consultant ; PhD Candidate	Centre for Educational Studies and Research - Faculty of Education	Eduardo Mondlane University,Moi University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2021 Gender Relations and School Dropout in Mozambique:Trajectories of Girls in Maputo Province and Maputo City Moi University Kenya 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2022 Gender Relations and School Dropout in Mozambique: The trajectories of girls in Maputo Province and Maputo City Moi University Kenya	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer		Moi University	Kenya	2021; 2022	Ms. Lina Elias Salomão is a Researcher and Consultant at the Centre for Educational Studies and Research, Faculty of Education, Eduardo Mondlane University (EMU), Mozambique. She is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Moi University, Kenya, with her dissertation on Gender Relations and School Dropout in Mozambique: The Trajectories of Girls in Maputo Province and City. She holds a Master’s in Education Sciences (EMU) and a Bachelor’s in Psychology and Pedagogy from the Pedagogic University (UP), and she is an alumna of the Women’s Leadership Programme, Uongozi Institute, Tanzania (2025). She received the Next Gen Doctoral Dissertation Research Award (2021) and the Next Gen Completion Fellowship (2022). She taught Educational Environment, Organization, and Management, while also leading a central unit at EMU’s main campus. She serves as Interim Leader in the establishment of African Scientists United (ASU), is Global Institute Grant Fundraising Coordinator in Mozambique, and a Founding Member of HAQAA3. Her research integrates gender and education with leadership, peacebuilding, and development.	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Salomao; 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Salomao	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Lina Elias Salomao	Salomao	Mozambique	Lina Elias
Yeni, Sithandiwe	Independent researcher and Research Consultant				Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2021 Land, livelihoods and belonging: a gender and generational perspective of agrarian change in the context of dominant corporate control of South Africa’s agro-food system. University of the Western Cape South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2021	Dr. Stha Yeni is an independent researcher with 18 years in civil society, specialising in land and agrarian questions, feminist political economy and environmental justice in Southern Africa. She earned her Ph.D. in Land and Agrarian Studies from the University of the Western Cape in 2025 with her doctoral dissertation focusing on land tenure arrangements, livelihoods and notions of belonging on reclaimed land. Her first solo-authored peer-reviewed journal article, Land, Natural Resources and the Social Reproduction of South Africa’s ‘relative surplus population’ (JOAC, 2024), provided insights into the role of land in addressing the crisis of social reproduction in working-class agrarian societies. It offered a feminist critique of a productivist and neoliberal model of land reform in South Africa. She is a recipient of the 2022 Next Gen Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship Award. She is currently an editorial member of the Commodity Frontiers Journal.	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Yeni	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Sithandiwe Yeni	Yeni	South Africa	Sithandiwe
Mokou, Goitsione	Coordinator		University of Cape Town		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2021 Colonial Discursive Practices and the Discipline/-Ing of the Native Subject in the Colonial University University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Cape Town	South Africa	2021		2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Mokou	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Goitsione Mokou	Mokou	South Africa	Goitsione
Ajiko, Roselyne Kahyana					Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2021 The political economy of neo-extractivism in Uganda Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Fellow		Makerere University	Uganda	2021		2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Ajiko	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Roselyne Kahyana Ajiko	Ajiko	Uganda	Roselyne Kahyana
Rwabyoma, Asasira Simon	PhD Fellow ; Senior Research & Policy Specialist - Endogenous Knowledge Development	Development Studies ; Department of Research, Evaluation, and Foresight (REEF)	The Open University of Tanzania,Organisation of Southern Cooperation	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2021 Men's involvement in achieving gender equality: A study of masculinities-focused interventions in post-genocide Rwanda The Open University of Tanzania Tanzania	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer		The Open University of Tanzania	Tanzania	2021	Rwabyoma is a PhD Fellow in Development Studies at The Open University of Tanzania. His scholarly work mainly focuses on Men and masculinities, Gender and Development, Local Economic Development (LED), Endogenous knowledge systems, and Afrocentric transdisciplinary studies. He taught International Development Studies at Makerere University (Department of Development Studies), the University of Rwanda (Centre for Gender Studies), Kabale University, and Uganda Christian University. In addition to being a 2024 Doctoral Completion Research Fellow, he was a 2021 Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellow of the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) Program of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC, New York), he has previously received more than 15 grants and fellowships. In 2012, along with Asians and Latin Americans, he was one of the 10 African scholars who participated in the Fifth South-South Summer Research Institute on Rethinking Development in the Global South, organized by CODESRIA-APISA-CLASCO in Recife, Brazil. He is an International Consultant on Gender and Development, Program and Project Management, Transdisciplinary Research, and Knowledge Management in the International Development Sector and the International Affairs Industry. He served as a Research Associate at REEV Consult International, a consultant for UNICEF and the Republic of Rwanda, University of Rwanda, Rwanda Management Institute, and the Rwanda Association of Local Government Authorities (RALGA) in collaboration with the GIZ Decentralization and Good Governance Program. He was invited to participate in the University of Cape Town International Summit on SDGs in Africa 2021 as a Thought Leader on Sustainable Development. The African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) certified him as a Trainer of Trainers in Gender-Responsive Economic Policy Management in 2015. He is and has been a member of a number of learned societies, including the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR), the Pan African Network for the Revitalization of Endogenous Knowledge (PANREK), and the African Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems.	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Rwabyoma	2021 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Asasira Simon Rwabyoma	Rwabyoma	Uganda	Asasira Simon
Atwijuka, Anitah	Ph.D. Fellow	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2022 Culture and Decentralised Power: Discerning Nationalism in Contemporary Uganda Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Fellow		Makerere University	Uganda	2022		2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Atwijuka	2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Anitah Atwijuka	Atwijuka	Uganda	Anitah
Hassan, Fatuma Rahma	PhD Fellow	Institute for Development Studies	University of Nairobi	Literature	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2022 Decentralised Land reforms and Pastoralists Land Access University of Nairobi Kenya	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer		University of Nairobi	Kenya	2022	Rahma Hassan is a social economic researcher from Kenya. Her research includes natural resource governance, inclusion, governance, and gender.	2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Hassan	2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Fatuma Rahma Hassan	Hassan	Kenya	Fatuma Rahma
Mupavayenda, Mercy			University of the Witwatersrand	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2022 DREAMS: The making and unmaking of girls and girlhood in Gauteng, South Africa in an era of private/public partnerships in international development University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2022	Mercy is a development and gender scholar, researcher and trainer with a focus on gender equality in the media and women’s empowerment as a global development agenda. Her research is informed by the realization that most responses offered to alleviate women’s inequality are in fact rooted in existing patriarchal structures. She holds a BA in Communication Science and a BA Honours in Gender Studies both from UNISA and an MA in Development Studies from Wits University.	2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Mupavayenda	2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Mercy Mupavayenda	Mupavayenda	Zimbabwe	Mercy
Kanyingi, Benson Waiganjo	Lecturer	Department of Humanities	University of Embu	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2022 At the Periphery in Mau Mau Discourse: A Case of The Mbeere of Embu County, Kenya, 1952-2014 Egerton University Kenya	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer		Egerton University	Kenya	2022	Dr. Kanyingi Benson Waiganjo is a Lecturer in the Department of Humanities at the University of Embu, Kenya. He earned his PhD in History from Karatina University in 2022, an MA in History from Egerton University in 2015, and a BA in History and Sociology from Egerton University in 2012. He is an alumnus of the SSRC’s African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) fellowships. His research explores Kenya’s colonial and postcolonial history, with a focus on the Mau Mau struggle, land politics, indigenous knowledge systems, memory, and peacebuilding. Recent publications include “The Effects of Cattle Rustling on Children’s Educational Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa” (Global Change, Peace & Security, 2025) and “Interpreting Embu-Mbeere Politics through the Lens of Sibling Rivalry, 1906–2021” (Egerton Journal, 2024). Dr. Kanyingi is also an executive member of the Peace and Development Researchers Association (PADRA)–Kenya and a member of CODESRIA, Africa Indigenous Knowledge Research Network (AIKRN) and BIEA networks.	2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Kanyingi	2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Benson Waiganjo Kanyingi	Kanyingi	Kenya	Benson Waiganjo
Tsekpo, Kafui Otis	Post-Doctoral Research Associate		African Leadership Centre	Peace and Leadership Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2022 The Role of Social Policy and Leadership in Post-Conflict Peace-building: The case study of Rwanda and Liberia University of South Africa South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Research Fellow		University of South Africa	South Africa	2022	Kafui Tsekpo is a Research Associate of the African Leadership Centre. His research explores the dynamics between society and the state, focusing on how social and political actors and their interactions within the polity influences leadership, security, and development. Over the past decade, he has been involved in various research activities cantered around issues of inclusivity, peacebuilding, nation-building and transformative development in Africa. He has consulted and provided research support for several organizations in Africa and internationally. Kafui has thought at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. He is a Fellow of the South African Research Chair in Social Policy at UNISA, Pretoria. Currently, he is a member of the Conflict Research Society, Conflict Research Network-West Africa, the Ghana Inclusive Development Research Network, Development Studies Association-UK, and International Public Policy Association.	2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Tsekpo	2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Kafui Otis Tsekpo	Tsekpo	Ghana	Kafui Otis
Mayo, Bungaya Dughangw	Assistant Lecturer	History, Political Science and Development	Mkwawa University College of Education	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2022 A History of the Textile Industry in the Present Day Tanzania, 1957-2015 University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer		University of Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	2022	PhD Candidate in Economic History. M.A. in African Environmental History.	2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Mayo	2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Bungaya Dughangw Mayo	Mayo	Tanzania	Bungaya Dughangw
Landa, Nigel Mxolisi	Post-Doctoral Research Fellow	Department of Sociology	University of Johannesburg	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2022 Gender discourses among Zimbabwean women who live in Johannesburg, South Africa University of Johannesburg South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Permanent Lecturer		University of Johannesburg	South Africa	2022	Nigel Mxolisi Landa is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg. His research focuses on the intersection of gender with migration, state building, and the politics of belonging. His research is inspired by social justice and Afro-feminist worldviews.	2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Landa	2022 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Nigel Mxolisi Landa	Landa	Zimbabwe	Nigel Mxolisi
Mutere, Jane Flora Nguye	Assistant Lecturer	Department of Design and Creative Media	The Technical University of Kenya	Area and Cultural Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2022 The Future of the Nairobi Railway Museum: Education and Decolonization in the Digital Age The Technical University of Kenya Kenya	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer		The Technical University of Kenya	Kenya	2022	Digital Heritage Design Specialist bridging digital innovation, community engagement, and heritage preservation. Expert in developing community-centered approaches to cultural memory preservation, with proven success in international collaborations, capacity building, and decolonizing heritage practices. Nguye's teaching and research focus on design, digital media, and heritage her PhD project examining the future of the Museum through the lens of education and decolonization. Her portfolio can be accessed here: https://www.nguyesportfolio.com/	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Mutere	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Jane Flora Nguye Mutere	Mutere	Kenya	Jane Flora Nguye
Kidane, Freweini Tekle	Ph.D. Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Political Science,Women and Gender Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2022 Gender Issues in Nation-Building Projects: The Case of Eritrea Makerere University Uganda 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2024 Social Reproduction: The Political-Economy of State and Nation-Building in Post-independence Eritrea Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Uganda	2022; 2024	Ms. Freweini Tekle Kidane is a PhD candidate at Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR). She earned her MPhil in Social Studies from the same institution in 2023. Ms. Kidane’s research interest include social reproduction, peace-building, agrarian question, human rights, and gender relations. Her dissertation, titled "Social Reproduction: The Political Economy of State and Nation-Building in Post-Independence Eritrea," examines the broad political and economic policies crafted and enacted as the main mechanisms driving the state formation and nation-building processes in post-independence Eritrea and the impact of these processes on production, social reproduction, and gender relations. Her dissertation is a recipient of Next Generation Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship 2022; WGAPE’s Small Research Grant Competition award 2022; and Next Generation Doctoral Research Fellowship Award 2024. Ms. Kidane is affiliated with the Research and Documentation Center of Eritrea (RDC), Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) and Young African Researchers in Agriculture (YARA).	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Kidane; 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Kidane	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Freweini Tekle Kidane	Kidane	Eritrea	Freweini Tekle
Hazan, Erin Vicky	PhD Candidate	History Department	University of the Witwatersrand	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2022 En(Gendering) Imprisonment: Transvaal, 1920s-1980s University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2023 “En(Gendering) Imprisonment: The Lived Experiences of Female Offenders: Transvaal, 1920s- 1980s” University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	History Department	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2022; 2023	Erin Hazan is a PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand History Department, and a PhD Fellow at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS). She is a Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellow with the Social Science Research Council’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa programme. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in 2017, majoring in History and African Literature, and completed a Bachelor of Arts Honours in History in 2018. Her previous research on the 1927 Immorality Act was the focus of an MSc in African Studies at Oxford University. Her PhD focusses on expressions of gender for women prisoners, imprisoned in South Africa during the twentieth century. Erin has been part of research conducted on the longer histories of sexual violence in South Africa, and radio broadcasting in the 1950s and 1960s. She has a keen focus on gender and feminist history, sexuality, and legal histories.	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Hazan; 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Hazan	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Erin Vicky Hazan	Hazan	South Africa	Erin Vicky
Miti, Bambo	Doctoral Candidate and Religious Leader	Department of Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology	University of South Africa	Systemic Theology,Religion	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2022 Identifying Practices of Reconciliation Embedded in Faith Traditions: A Critical Analysis of African Pentecostalism University of South Africa South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Student		University of South Africa	South Africa	2022	Bambo Miti obtained his Bachelor of Theology degree (BTH), a Bachelor of Theology Honours degree (BTHHONS), and a Master of Theology degree in systematic theology (MTH) from the University of South Africa (UNISA). He is currently a PhD candidate in systematic theology at the same University. He has presented papers at notable international conferences. His research interests straddle African theology, African Pentecostalism, ecumenism, reconciliation, peacebuilding, and migration. His doctoral research focuses on the role of faith traditions (African Pentecostalism) in dealing with the problem of violence and xenophobia in the local South African communities. Miti is a religious leader within the Pentecostal church and serves as the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) Member of the SSRC African University Seminar Series in South Africa (AUSS-SA). He was a Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Next Generation in Africa Proposal research fellow from 2022 to 2023. Bambo Miti is also a beneficiary of the Coimbra group scholarship, a scholarship which allows young African researchers to spend 1-3 months at a European university carrying out research on their proposed PhD research topic and establish academic connections.	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Miti	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Bambo Miti	Miti	Zambia	Bambo
Ringo, Japhet Elisante	Lecturer	Department of Geography	University of Dodoma	Disaster Risk Management (DRM),Environmental Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2022 Effectiveness of Early Warning Systems in Mitigation of Flood Effects in Kilosa, Morogoro University of Dodoma Tanzania 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2024 Effectiveness of Preparedness Measures in Mitigation of Flood Effects in the face of Peace and Security. The Role of Early Warning Systems: A Case Study of Kilosa District in Morogoro Region. University of Dodoma Tanzania	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	LECTURER (By publication) IN DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT SUBJECCTS; Lecturer	Department of Geography	University of Dodoma	Tanzania	2022; 2024	Japhet Ringo is a lecturer at the University of Dodoma, Department of Geography. He lectures on Disaster Risk Management courses. He has a Master's of Science in Natural Resources Management and a Bachelor of Geography and Environmental Studies. His current research interests focus on Hydrological and Atmospheric Disaster Risk Management in relation to peace and security and have been widely published 19 papers in international and local peer-reviewed journals in those areas. He's currently doing a PhD in Disaster Risk Management at Ardhi University, Tanzania, focusing on the performance of flood early warning systems in the mitigation of flood effects.	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ringo; 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Ringo	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Japhet Elisante Ringo	Ringo	Tanzania	Japhet Elisante
Hassan, Mahat Issack	Part-time Lecturer	Institute of Peace and Security Studies	Garissa University	Literature	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2022 Contemporary Construction of Somali Imaginaries in Selected Texts and its Implication on Kenya’s Nationhood. Garissa University Kenya	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer		Garissa University	Kenya	2022	Mahat Issack Hassan obtained his MA degree from the University of Nairobi and a Bachelor of Education (Arts) degree from Egerton University, Kenya. He is a recipient of the 2022 Next Gen Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship Award. He is currently a PhD student at IPSS, Garissa University where he is also a Lecturer. His research will interrogate the contemporary Kenyan-Somali identity in the former Northern Frontier District. It attempts to understand how the Somalis in Garissa, Wajir and Mandera counties construct their identity vis-a-viz other Kenyan ethnicity and their perceptions about their citizenship status and belonging.	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Hassan	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Mahat Issack Hassan	Hassan	Kenya	Mahat Issack
Deng, Gabriel Gabriel	Ph.D. Candidate		Tangaza University College	Peace and Security Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2022 Relationship Between the Executive and the Legislature and Its Impact on Public Policy in South Sudan, 2005-2016 Tangaza University College Kenya	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		Tangaza University College	Kenya	2022		2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Deng	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Gabriel Gabriel Deng	Deng	South Sudan	Gabriel Gabriel
Kugbayi, Oluwaseun Adisa	Lecturer II	Department of Political Science	KolaDaisi University	Public Administration	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2022 Non-lethal Impact of Displacement and Social Support Strategies for the Reintegration of Internally Displaced Persons in North-Eastern Nigeria Obafemi Awolowo University Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of Public Administration	Obafemi Awolowo University	Nigeria	2022	Dr. Oluwaseun Kugbayi is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science, KolaDaisi University, Ibadan. His research interests include conflict management and peacebuilding, rural and urban governance, migration studies, and public policy analysis. He has published articles in both international and local outlets. Oluwaseun has received Fellowship and Grant from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa. Oluwaseun has also attended and presented papers at notable international conferences. Beyond the research and classroom, Oluwaseun has served in some administrative capacity in the university. He is a Fellow of Ife Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS) and Institut français de recherche en Afrique (IFRA), Nigeria. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Local Government and Public Administration of Nigeria; Conflict Research Network, West Africa; and Lagos Studies Association.	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Kugbayi	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Oluwaseun Adisa Kugbayi	Kugbayi	Nigeria	Oluwaseun Adisa
Wafula, Caleb Maikuma	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Nairobi	Environmental Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2022 Assessment of Environmental Peace Building for Climate Change and Conflict Management in Kenya’s Tana River County University of Nairobi Kenya	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Nairobi	Kenya	2022	Caleb Wafula is a social science researcher. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies from Kenyatta University and a Master's degree in Peace and Conflict Management, also from Kenyatta University. Caleb is currently a PhD student at the University of Nairobi in Environmental Governance and Management. His thesis centres on examining climate change and conflict through the lens of environmental peacebuilding	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Wafula	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Caleb Maikuma Wafula	Wafula	Kenya	Caleb Maikuma
Komba, Charles Felix	Ph.D. Student	Political Science and Public Administration	The Open University of Tanzania	Peace and Security Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2022 Understanding Non-State Interventions in Preventing Violent Extremism in Tanzania: The Role of NGOs. The Open University of Tanzania Tanzania 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2023 “Understanding Interventions of Non-State Actors in Preventing Violent Extremism in Tanzania” University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Student; Ph.D. Candidate	Political Science and Public Administration	The Open University of Tanzania; University of Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	2022; 2023	Charles Felix Komba is a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Candidate in Political Science and Public Administration at the Open University of Tanzania, researching on 'Understanding Interventions of Non-State Actors in Preventing Violent Extremism in Tanzania’. He holds a Master of Arts in Strategic and Peace Studies from the University of Dar es Salaam and a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication, specialized in Public Relations from St. Augustine University of Tanzania. He is a research affiliate of the University of Dar es Salaam’s Centre for Strategic and Peace Studies (CSPS). Recently, he has participated in a number of security-related research projects, notably ‘Existing Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) Programs, Policies and Legislations in East and Horn of Africa: Tanzania Case’, ‘Relationship between COVID-19 and Violent Extremism in the Horn and East Africa Region: Experiences from Tanzania’, ‘Community Perceptions of Security and Violent Extremism in Tanzania’, ‘Effectiveness of the Grassroots Security Infrastructure in Addressing Violence in Tanzania’, as well as ‘The Role of Nyumba Kumi as a Community Early Warning Mechanism to Mitigate Violence in Tanzania and Kenya’. He has co-authored with Dr. Deo Mwapinga unpublished article on "Beyond Dusit: Understanding the Evolution of Violent Extremism and the Prevailing Threat of Terrorism in East Africa". He is also the author of unpublished article on "Bridging Pan-Africanism to Conventional, Indigenous and Hybrid Peacebuilding Approaches in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities and Prospects", which originated from the Social Science Research Council – SSRC’s APN-Next Gen Special Panel on “Connecting Pan-Africanism to Indigenous Peacebuilding in Africa: Challenges and Prospects” as part of the African Peace and Education Association Conference on “Ujamaa, Ubuntu and New Pan Africanisms”, which was held at the MS Training Center for Development Cooperation in Arusha, Tanzania from 23rd to 25th May 2024.	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Komba; 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Komba	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Charles Felix Komba	Komba	Tanzania	Charles Felix
Leteane, Mosangoaneng Mangaka Esther	Ph.D. Law Candidate	Wits School of Law	University of the Witwatersrand	Law and Society,Interdisciplinary	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2022 The State v Crimes of Apartheid: Inquests, Amnesty, and the Constitutional Right to a Fair Trial University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Student		University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2022	Mosa Leteane is a South African legal scholar and transitional justice practitioner passionate about addressing historical injustices and promoting accountability. She holds an LLB, MPhil in International Studies, and LLM, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Law focused on transitional justice. Mosa has worked with leading human rights organizations, including the Foundation for Human Rights and the Legal Resources Centre, and serves as a Research and Advocacy Officer at the Youth Organisation for Reconciliation and Justice in Africa (YORJA). Her work spans advocacy, policy engagement, and community-driven justice initiatives, with a focus on intergenerational and environmental justice. A Mandela Rhodes Scholar and Fulbright Fellow, she is committed to amplifying African youth voices in global justice dialogues. Through writing, public speaking, and research, Mosa bridges grassroots realities and scholarly insights to advance transformative justice across Africa.	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Leteane	2022 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Mosangoaneng Mangaka Esther Leteane	Leteane	South Africa	Mosangoaneng Mangaka Esther
De Sousa, Suzana Helizena Da Rosa	Ph.D. Student	Department for Historical Studies	University of the Western Cape	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2022 Angola Avante! Making and contesting political narratives of the nation through art and visual culture University of the Western Cape South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Student		University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2022	Suzana Sousa is completing a PhD at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. Her research focuses on nation-building processes in Angola within the context of museums and the visual arts. She is a research fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape. In 2022, she was awarded the Next Generation Social Sciences for Africa Doctoral Scholarship and the Ivan Karp Research Award. She is an art curator and researcher interested in developing narratives and producing knowledge from the Global South through collaboration and experimentation. Over the past decade, her work has explored themes of contemporary African art, cultural politics, and the construction of nationalisms and national discourses through culture and the visual arts. She has also engaged with feminist curatorial practices and have been researching the works of African women artists.	2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship-De Sousa	2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Suzana Helizena Da Rosa De Sousa	De Sousa	Angola	Suzana Helizena Da Rosa
Kok, Anna-Maria	Researcher	Researcher: Portfolio Committee on Police	"Parliament, Republic of South Africa"	Law and Society,Interdisciplinary	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2022 Dark Networks: A South African Cash-in-Transit Crime Case Study University of Cape Town South Africa 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2023 “Dark Networks: A South African Cash-in-Transit Crime Case Study” University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Research Assistant	Centre of Criminology	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2022; 2023	Dr Annie Kok is a researcher with the South African Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Police. She also worked as a researcher at the Centre of Criminology and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime. She received her PhD in Criminology from the University of Cape Town in 2025, her dissertation analysed the structure and policing of organised criminal networks in South Africa using network analysis. Annie is the recipient of the 2023 Next Gen Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship and the 2024 Next Gen Doctoral Completion Fellowship.	2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Kok; 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Kok	2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Anna-Maria Kok	Kok	South Africa	Anna-Maria
Anyanwu, Timothy Chibuike	Researcher and Lecturer	Department History and Strategic Studies	Alex Ekwueme Federal University	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2022 Beyond Mere Leisure: Football and Peace in Igboland, 1904-1976 Alex Ekwueme Federal University Nigeria	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Department History and Strategic Studies	Alex Ekwueme Federal University	Nigeria	2022	Timothy Anyanwu is a researcher/teacher whose research interest includes Football History, Gender Studies, African Studies, and so on. He is a receiver of Next Gen Social Science Research Council’s Dissertation Research Stage Award in 2022, and FIFA Research Scholarship in 2023. He belongs to such societies as James Currey Society, University of Oxford, Trans-Atlantic Research Group, Historical Society of Nigeria.	2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Anyanwu	2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Timothy Chibuike Anyanwu	Anyanwu	Nigeria	Timothy Chibuike
Mukonde, Thomas Kasonde	Ph.D. Candidate		University of the Witwatersrand	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2022 Black Theatre and the End of Apartheid, 1977 - 2000 University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2022		2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Mukonde	2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Thomas Kasonde Mukonde	Mukonde	Zambia	Thomas Kasonde
Banjwa, Adventino	Ph.D. Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2022 Contesting the Postcolonial Political Order: A Critical Historical and Political Study on the Federalist Movement in Uganda Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		Makerere University	Uganda	2022	Adventino Banjwa is a Ph.D. Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. He is a recipient of the SSRC Next Gen. Research Fellowship (2022/2023), and his doctoral work seeks to interrogator postcolonial attempts to reconstitute the state in Africa with a focus on the federalist movement in Uganda.	2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Banjwa	2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Adventino Banjwa	Banjwa	Uganda	Adventino
Muinga, David	PhD Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2022 Yet Another Silk Road? Situating Uganda in China-Africa Development Relations. Uganda Christian University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Teaching Assistant		Uganda Christian University	Uganda	2022	Muinga David is a PhD fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), of Makerere University, Uganda. David has an MPhil in Social Studies from Makerere University and a Bachelor of Public Administration and Management (1st Class Hon.) from Uganda Christian University, Uganda. David’s research centers around development and the state particularly within the context of China-Africa relations. His research seeks to better understand the role of the post-colonial African states within Sino developments on the continent to adequately complicate, critique and problematize how these developments are understood. David is a Ugandan, currently living in Kampala.	2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Muinga	2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship	David Muinga	Muinga	Uganda	David
Mohammed, Salahadin Ali	Ph.D. Candidate		Makerere University	Social Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2022 Genealogy of the ‘Customary’ in Central Highlands of Eritrea: Historical Perspectives on Personal Status, Property Relations and the Local State Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		Makerere University	Uganda	2022		2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Mohammed	2022 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Salahadin Ali Mohammed	Mohammed	Eritrea	Salahadin Ali
Shelembi, Magolanga Shagembe	Lecturer	Department of Sociology and Anthropology	University of Dar es Salaam	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2023 "An Exploration of the Child Domestic Workers' Lived Experiences and their Psychosocial Wellbeing in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania” University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Sociology	University of Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	2023	Magolanga Shagembe is a lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. With trainings in psychometric testing and assessment, Mental health and psychosocial support, a bachelor’s degree in educational psychology, a master's degree and PhD in Social Psychology, Shagembe teachers, researches, and consultants in mental health and psychosocial well-being, teaching and learning processes and behavior, interpersonal and group dynamics, social opportunities and challenges, and child and youth development and learning. He has been involved in various national and international projects, outreaches, and awareness campaigns on mental health and psychosocial wellbeing, parenting and child development, care, protection, and learning through community outreaches and media houses. Shagembe's PhD research was about “The Lived Experiences and Psychosocial Well-being of child domestic workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.” He is also the president of the Tanzanian Psychological Association (TAPA), a national master trainer on mental health and psychosocial support and the Deputy Secretary General of the National Technical Working Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) services in Tanzania. Shagembe is also the Managing Editor of the Journal of Population Studies and Development ( in Tanzania) and he is currently serving as a part-time postdoctoral researcher in a project known as "Usitawi wa Vijana Tanzania (UVITA): Youth Well-being, Healthy Relationships and Gender Based Prevention in Tanzania" - a collaborative project between the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and the University of Sussex (UK).	2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Shelembi	2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Magolanga Shagembe Shelembi	Shelembi	Tanzania	Magolanga Shagembe
Chauke, Lesego Thabang	Lecturer	Theatre and Performance Department	University of Cape Town	Drama,Theatre,Performance Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2023 “Mnemonic Sketches: On Mourning and Spectrality in Contemporary South African Performance” University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Research Fellow		University of Cape Town	South Africa	2023	Dr Lesego Chauke is a graduate of the University of Cape Town's Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies. She holds a PhD, MA and BA (Hons) in theatre and performance. She currently works as a sessional lecturer in Wits University's Theatre and Performance department. Her current research sits at the intersection of classical tragedy, orality and digital humanities.	2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Chauke	2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Lesego Thabang Chauke	Chauke	South Africa	Lesego Thabang
Otieno, Brezhnev Henry	Disability Researcher and Policy and Advocacy Manager		Acton Foundation	Social Change,Sustainability Science,Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2023 “Societal Perceptions and Attitudes towards Women with Disabilities’ Access to Maternal Healthcare Services in Kibra, Nairobi” Tangaza University College Kenya	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Institute for Social Transformation	Tangaza University College	Kenya	2023	Dr. Brezhnev Otieno is a social researcher and the Policy and Advocacy Manager at the Acton Foundation, a Kenyan NGO focusing on disability issues. His areas of operation include disability rights, health equity, and sexual and reproductive health within the African context. He was conferred with a Ph.D. degree in Social Transformation (Sustainable Development) from Tangaza University in 2024. His dissertation entitled “Societal Perceptions and Attitudes towards Disability, Sexuality, and Pregnancy of Disabled Women in Kibra Sub County” examined how cultural beliefs and social barriers limit reproductive autonomy and access to care for disabled women. His present research interests include decolonial perspectives on disability and sexuality and research how gender, poverty, and disability intersect to curtail the sexual and reproductive health rights of women with disabilities. He was awarded the 2023 Next Gen Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award. He has published for the African Journal of Empirical Research, and another article is forthcoming in the African Journal of Disability.	2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Otieno	2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Brezhnev Henry Otieno	Otieno	Kenya	Brezhnev Henry
Faboye, Samson Olaoluwa	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Centre for Applied Research and Innovation in the Built Environment	University of Johannesburg	Urban Planning	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2023 "Exploring the Future of Traditional Governance Systems in Response to Expanding Urbanisation in North West and KwaZulu Natal Provinces of South Africa” University of Johannesburg South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Urban and Regional Planning Department	University of Johannesburg	South Africa	2023	Samson Faboye is an urbanist with research interests in built heritage, urban policy and governance. Samson’s interdisciplinary background in built environment research hails from qualifications in architecture (Bachelor and Masters) from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria (2010 and 2012 respectively), a Master in Urban Studies (urban politics and governance speciality) from the University of the Witwatersrand (obtained in 2021) and PhD in urban planning from the University of Johannesburg (obtained in 2024). The mantra of Samson’s research is to bridge the gap between urban development policies and on-the-ground outcomes in cities. For instance, through his doctoral research on customary land governance systems, he sheds light on how indigenous leadership and community structures can adapt within rapidly urbanizing contexts. This work contributes to understanding how socio-cultural dynamics intersect with formal urban planning. He is open to collaborating on studies that explore the built environment's historical and socio-cultural dynamics.	2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Faboye	2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Samson Olaoluwa Faboye	Faboye	Nigeria	Samson Olaoluwa
Shaba, Jabulani	Dr.	History Department	University of Groningen	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2023 “A socioeconomic, environmental and political history of women in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining in Mazowe, Zimbabwe, c.1980 to 2021” Stellenbosch University South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Student	History Department	Stellenbosch University	South Africa	2023	Jabulani Shaba is a scholar on African studies, Environmental Peacebuilding, Political Ecology, Gender, Energy Minerals and the Geopolitics of the Just Energy Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa. He completed his PhD at Stellenbosch University in South Africa and is currently a European Research Council (ERC) postdoctoral fellow in a research project that analyses oil drilling in the Niger Delta, copper mining on the Zambian Copperbelt and environmental history of gold mine dumps in Johannesburg in South Africa. Jabulani deploys interdisciplinary and multiscalar approaches in understanding the contested and shifting changes of extraction on society and environment.	2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Shaba	2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Jabulani Shaba	Shaba	Zimbabwe	Jabulani
Maphosa, Keneuoe Alice	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Pretoria	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2023 “A Different Class!? Basotho Women Informal Cross-Border Traders to Botswana” University of Pretoria South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Development Studies	University of Pretoria	South Africa	2023	Keneuoe Maphosa holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Social Anthropology obtained from the National University of Lesotho. She also holds a master’s degree in development studies from the University of Botswana as well Postgraduate Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation obtained from the Institute of Development Management (IDM) Botswana. Keneuoe is currently a Ph.D. student in Development Studies in the Department of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Development Studies in the Humanities Faculty of the University of Pretoria, South Africa where she joined in 2020 January. Her research interest is in migration, specifically the changes in migration trends and her main focus is on Basotho women informal cross-border traders. She has a particular interest in understanding who Basotho women informal cross-border traders are, their way of operation and the challenges they face in their cross-border business, and how the government of Lesotho and other relevant stakeholder influence the engagement of these women in informal cross-border trade. Before her enrolment in Ph.D. studies her work experience involved working as a field officer under Disaster Management Authority in Lesotho, Monitoring and Evaluation officer, and M&E consultant for the Botswana National Sports Commission and Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HV/AIDS (BONELA).	2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Maphosa	2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Keneuoe Alice Maphosa	Maphosa	Lesotho	Keneuoe Alice
Beyers, Delecia Leigh	Lecturer	Department of Criminal Justice & Procedure	University of the Western Cape	Law and Society,Interdisciplinary	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2023 “The Protection of Child Witnesses in the South African Criminal Justice System” University of the Western Cape South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	Faculty of Law	University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2023	Dr. Delecia Beyers, is a lecturer in the Law Faculty at the University of the Western (UWC), her alma mater. She enrolled as a law student in 2004 and completed her Bachelor’s in Law in 2007. She commenced her Articles of Clerkship at the UWC Law Clinic and was admitted as an Attorney and Conveyancer in 2010. After admissions, she was employed at the UWC Law Clinic as a Project Attorney, Lecturer, and Clinician, where she presented classes on legal practice modules and supervised final-year students in preparing them for the world of practice. She qualified as a SASSETA Accredited Assessor and Moderator in 2011 and 2012, respectively, and as a Mediator in 2014. In 2016, she completed her Master’s in Law. Her LLM dissertation focused on the Rights of Unmarried Fathers. In 2019, she started lecturing on a full-time basis in the Department of Criminal Justice and Procedure. She is currently the Module Coordinator and lecturer for two modules, namely Law of Criminal Procedure and Child Justice. She completed her Doctorate in Philosophy in 2024. Her Ph.D. dissertation is titled The Protection of Child Witnesses in the South African Criminal Justice System.	2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Adams	2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Delecia Leigh Adams	Adams	South Africa	Delecia Leigh
Sanger, Cherith Amanda	Lecturer		University of the Western Cape	Law and Society,Interdisciplinary	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2023 “Corruption in the Policing of Sex Work: A Feminist Legal Analysis” University of the Western Cape South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Lecturer	Faculty of Law	University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2023	Cherith holds an LLB from the University of the Western Cape and an LLM with a specialisation in Public Interest Law and Policy from the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed her LLM with a 3.86 GPA having passed with the 3rd highest GPA in her class. She was admitted as an attorney in 2007. After working as an attorney in the private sector she started her career in public interest law. From 2009 to 2018, Cherith conducted impact litigation, legal advocacy and training in the area of women’s rights and gender equality in the non-profit sector. Cherith also later consulted as an attorney in the private sector providing legal services in the areas of sex work, gender, labour and family law. She has since published both formally and informally in the areas of gender, sex work and the law. In 2009 and 2010 Cherith was selected as one the Mail & Guardians Top 300 Young South Africans. More recently, in 2021, Cherith was awarded UWC’s DVC Academic Achievers Emerging Excellent Lecturer Award (Faculty of Law). Presently, Cherith is reading for her PhD with titled: ‘The Corrupt Policing of Sex Work: A Feminist Legal Analysis’.	2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Sanger	2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Cherith Amanda Sanger	Sanger	South Africa	Cherith Amanda
Yeboah, Daniel Kojo Leon Brenya	Postdoctoral Researcher	Department of Food and Resource Economics	University of Copenhagen	Environmental Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2023 “Conflict and State-building: The Dynamics of Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Asante Akim North Municipality, Ghana” University for Development Studies Ghana	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of Environment and Sustainability Sciences	University for Development Studies	Ghana	2023	Daniel Kojo Leon Brenya Yeboah is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.  Leon holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and an MPhil in History from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, and the Higher School of Economics, Russia, respectively, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Management and Sustainability from the University for Development Studies, Ghana. He possesses over six years of research experience. His research focuses on Land rights and property regimes in urban spaces, the political economy of natural resource conflict, particularly farmer-herder conflicts, pastoralism, and state-building in Ghana, West Africa. Leon’s current research focuses on urban land dynamics and their impact on state-building in Tamale, Ghana.	2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Yeboah	2023 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Daniel Kojo Leon Brenya Yeboah	Yeboah	Ghana	Daniel Kojo Leon Brenya
Woledzi, Freedman Delali	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Ghana	Migration Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2023 “Move to Where? Smallholder Farmers Climate Im(mobility) Decisions on Household Food Security in the Kwahu Afram Plains North District” University of Ghana Ghana 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2024 "Move to Where? Smallholder Farmers Climate Im/mobility Decisions on Household Food Security in the Kwahu Afram Plains North District." University of Ghana Ghana	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Ghana	Ghana	2023; 2024		2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Woledzi; 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Woledzi	2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Freedman Delali Woledzi	Woledzi	Ghana	Freedman Delali
Bushu, Nyasha Blessed	Ph.D. Candidate	African Studies	University of the Free State	History,African Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2023 “Beyond Chiefly Courts: African Indigenous Justice Delivery Practices Under Early Colonial Contact in Southern Rhodesia c.1890-1923” University of the Free State South Africa 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2024 Beyond chiefly courts: African grassroots justice practices in Southern Rhodesia c.1890-1937 University of the Free State South Africa 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2025 Beyond chiefly courts: African grassroots justice practices in Southern Rhodesia c.1890-1937 University of the Free State South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Student; Ph.D. Candidate	African Studies	University of the Free State	South Africa	2023; 2024; 2025	Nyasha Blessed Bushu is a third-year PhD student in African Studies in the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State in South Africa. He is working on a socio-legal history of Zimbabwe in a thesis provisionally titled, Beyond chiefly courts: African grassroots justice practices in Southern Rhodesia c.1890-1937. Nyasha holds a BA Honours Degree in Economic History and an MA in African Economic History from the University of Zimbabwe. His research interests are on conflict, violence, and justice in colonial and post-colonial Africa. Notably, in 2022, he interfaced with the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission of Zimbabwe on issues related to conflict and justice through his participation in the Spirits of Peace: Recovering Zimbabwe’s Heritage of Traditional Reconciliation for Today’s Peacemakers Project, which the University of Liverpool organised in conjunction with the British Academy. His latest publication is titled “The Zimbabwean Economic Crisis,” in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History 2024.	2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Bushu; 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Bushu; 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Bushu	2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Nyasha Blessed Bushu	Bushu	Zimbabwe	Nyasha Blessed
Nwachukwu, Kenechukwu Peace	Ph.D. Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Political Science,History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2023 “State Power, Production of History and Political Development in Nigeria: Reading Post- Independence Nigeria’s Unresolved Political History through the IPOB Separatist Agitation” Makerere University Uganda 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2024 State Power and the Production of History: Reading Post-Independence Nigeria's Political History through the IPOB Separatist Agitation Makerere University Uganda 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2025 State Power and the Production of History: Reading Post-Independence Nigeria's Political History through the IPOB Separatist Agitation Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Uganda	2023; 2024; 2025	Kenechukwu P. Nwachukwu is PhD Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University, Kampala. She holds an MPhil degree in Social Studies (Political and Historical Studies) from Makerere University; an MSc in Political Science (International Relations) from the University of Ibadan; and a BSc in Political Science from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Her Doctoral Dissertation titled: "State Power and the Production of History: Reading Post-Independence Nigeria's Political History through the IPOB Separatist Agitation" explores the knowledge dimensions of pro-Biafran separatism in Nigeria and the implications of the Nigeria-Biafra war history for political violence. In particular, her research focuses on the Nigeria-Biafra War history within and without formal education channels, and what role the state and its institutions play in the various mediums the memorialisation of the war history takes. On the successful completion of her PhD, Kenechukwu intends to take up a teaching position in the field of (Nigerian and African) Political History, as well as continue to research and publish relevant pieces arising from research investigations. Through commitment to grounded historical research and collaboration with policymakers, she hopes that her work will inform people-oriented socio-political policies, especially with regards to de-radicalising knowledge frameworks, within Nigeria, Africa and beyond.	2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Nwachukwu; 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Nwachukwu; 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Nwachukwu	2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Kenechukwu Peace Nwachukwu	Nwachukwu	Nigeria	Kenechukwu Peace
Birungi, Brenda	Ph.D. Fellow	Department of Sociology and Anthropology	Makerere University	Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2023 “Receiving Cash Amidst Diverging Norms: A Study on Lactating South Sudanese Refugee Beneficiaries in West Nile, Uganda” Makerere University Uganda 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2025 Receiving Cash Amidst Competing Norms: The Case of Breastfeeding South Sudanese Refugees In Bidi-bidi Settlement, Uganda. Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Fellow	Department of Sociology and Anthropology	Makerere University	Uganda	2023; 2025	Brenda Birungi is a doctoral candidate in Social Anthropology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Makerere University. She has a keen interest in refugees, humanitarian assistance, and cultural norms. In her doctoral study, Receiving Cash Amidst Competing Norms: The case of Breastfeeding South Sudanese Refugees in Bidi-bidi Settlement, Uganda, she explores how breastfeeding South Sudanese refugees navigate their cultural norms to receive humanitarian cash transfer assistance. Her previous studies include; informal cross-border transportation, Humanitarian assistance to urban refugees during the COVID-19 pandemic and witchcraft (in)securities among urban refugees.	2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Birungi; 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Birungi	2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Brenda Birungi	Birungi	Uganda	Brenda
Bosomprah, Ebenezer Kwesi	PhD Candidate and Executive Secretary	Institute of African Studies	University of Ghana	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2023 “Conceptualisations of Children in Conflict with the Law in Ghana” University of Ghana Ghana	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Research Assistant	Institute of African Studies	University of Ghana	Ghana	2023	Ebenezer Kwesi Bosomprah is a final-year PhD candidate in the societies and culture department of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana. He is currently the executive secretary of the African Studies Association of Africa, a publications assistant at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, and an editorial assistant for the Critical Investigation into Humanitarianism in Africa Blog. For his doctoral thesis, he is conducting a social constructionist analysis of children as offenders in Ghana's Senior Correctional Centre. He is a recipient of the 2023 Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa's Doctoral Proposal Development Fellowship. He is also a Henry Luce graduate fellow with the Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa. His recent co-published article is titled "Navigating Reintegration Challenges: Coping Strategies of Juvenile Offenders in Ghana." He has also worked with the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy of the University of Ghana as a research assistant. His research interests encompass children, youth, and issues of (in)justice and religious issues.	2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Bosomprah	2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Ebenezer Kwesi Bosomprah	Bosomprah	Ghana	Ebenezer Kwesi
Peter, Athanas Mutisya	PhD student	Literature	University of Nairobi	Literature	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2023 “Narrating Violence: Narrative Representation of War Memory in Selected War Autobiographies from Africa” University of Nairobi Kenya 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2025 Narrating Violence and Peace: War Memory in Selected Ex-Child Soldiers' Autobiographies from Africa University of Nairobi Kenya	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Literature	University of Nairobi	Kenya	2023; 2025	Athanas Mutisya is a Kenyan currently working on his PhD in Literature at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He works as an auxiliary lecturer at Umma University, South Eastern Kenya University, and the University of Nairobi. My areas of interest are women's studies, war memory, and war narratives.	2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Peter; 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Peter	2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Athanas Mutisya Peter	Peter	Kenya	Athanas Mutisya
Modongo, Lorato Palesa	PhD Student	Psychology	Stellenbosch University	Psychology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2023 “‘What maketh a man’: An exploration of Media Reporting on Intimate Femicide cases in Botswana and linkages with constructs of masculinities” Stellenbosch University South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		Stellenbosch University	South Africa	2023	Ms. Modongo is a Psychologist from Botswana, with interests in Social Psychology Research, Policy, Knowledge Production, African feminisms, and Gender Justice in Africa. She is a Gender Research and Policy Officer at the African Union - International Center for Girls & Women's Education in Africa based in Burkina Faso focusing on advocacy, research and lobbying for policy reform for girls education in Africa. She is a PhD Psychology candidate at Stellenbosch University and holds an MA Psychology completed as a Mnadela Rhodes Scholar, BA (Hons) Psychology both from Stellenbosch University, BA Social Sciences (Psychology and Accounting) from the University of Botswana and a Certificate in Civil Society Law from the University of Pretoria. She is a fellow of Johns Hopkins University where she completed a 1 year Gender Equity program. She is a 2015 Mandela Washington Fellow who completed her studies at Tulane University, New Orleans, under Civic Leadership at the Centre for Public Service.	2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Modongo	2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Lorato Palesa Modongo	Modongo	Botswana	Lorato Palesa
Kiswaga, Stanley Elias	Assistant Lecturer	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Literature	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2023 “Popular Theatre and the Nation: Rethinking Nation-building in the neoliberal Tanzania” Makerere University Uganda 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2024 Theatre for Development and the Nation : Rethinking nation-building in "post-socialist Tanzania" University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2025 Theatre for Development and the Nation : Rethinking nation-building in "post-socialist Tanzania" Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer; Ph.D. Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University; University of Dar es Salaam	Uganda; Tanzania	2023; 2024; 2025	Stanley Elias is a PhD Fellow at Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University, Uganda. He holds a BA with education from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and MA in Literary and Cultural Studies from Airlangga University, Indonesia, and MPhil in Interdisciplinary Social Studies from Makerere University, Uganda. His research interests include popular culture and nationalism, literature and trauma studies, and media and gender studies. His major research interests combine political science, history, and popular culture approaches to engage with the question of nation in postcolonial Africa. Elias is currently working on the project titled Theatre for Development and the Nation: Rethinking Nation-building in post-socialist Tanzania. In the project, Elias seeks to investigate state-non-state actors' relationship through Tanzanian theatre for development in the process of nation-building in post-socialist contexts. Elias is also a faculty member at the University of Dar es Salaam where he teaches literature and cultural studies courses.	2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Kiswaga; 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Kiswaga; 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Kiswaga	2023 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship; 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Stanley Elias Kiswaga	Kiswaga	Tanzania	Stanley Elias
Khaemba, Elizabeth Nafula	Ph.D. Candidate	Linguistics	Moi University	Linguistics	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2023 “Language of Reporting Murders Associted with Prominent Personalities in Print Media in Kenya” Moi University Kenya 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2025 REPORTING THE POWERFUL: MURDER AND INEQUALITY IN PRINT MEDIA IN KENYA Moi University Kenya	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of Literature, Linguistics, Foreign Languages and Film Studies	Moi University	Kenya	2023; 2025	Elizabeth Nafula Khaemba B.Ed., MPhil., PhD is an author at Kujenga Amani, a digital forum of the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC), a research fellow with the Social Sciences Research Council funded by NextGen foundation and a former fellow with the project ‘Recalibrating Afrikanistik’ funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. She is a part-time lecturer in Linguistics and Communication Studies at Koitaleel University in Eldoret, Kenya and a high school teacher of English. Her main research areas are: Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis; Language use in the Media, Morpho-syntactic Analysis. She also has a keen interest in conducting Academic Social Research and presenting papers in conferences, seminars and workshops.	2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Khaemba; 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Khaemba	2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Elizabeth Nafula Khaemba	Khaemba	Kenya	Elizabeth Nafula
Nnanwube, Ebere Florence	Ph.D. Candidate	Sociology Department	University of Ibadan	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2023 “Plastic recycling practices and the victimization experiences of female plastic recyclers in Lagos state, Nigeria” University of Ibadan Nigeria	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Sociology Department	University of Ibadan	Nigeria	2023	Ebere Florence Nnanwube is an advanced-stage doctoral student in the Sociology Department, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She majors in Sociology of Development. Her doctoral research is titled, Plastic Recycling Practices and the Experiences of Women Plastic Recyclers in Lagos State, Nigeria. Ebere is a qualitative feminist researcher, currently participating in the Young Scientists Summer Programme (2025) at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis. There, she focuses on the topic: From zero plastic waste to resource contestation: Tackling inequalities at Lagos landfill sites, under the POPJUS Program. Through this topic, she is exploring practical ways of combating workplace gender-based inequality among the resource-scarce population of women waste pickers and how justice can be achieved for powerless and neglected groups of diverse ages. Ebere has participated in several regional capacity-building programmes and fellowships at CODESRIA, SSRC and PASR. Her career aim includes working in academia and organisational developmental roles.	2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Nnanwube	2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Ebere Florence Nnanwube	Nnanwube	Nigeria	Ebere Florence
Idowu, Dare Leke	Dr.	Department of Politics and International Relations	University of Johannesburg	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2023 “Regional Power Politics in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR): Nigeria and South Africa in comparative perspective” University of Johannesburg South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Department of Politics and International Relations	University of Johannesburg	South Africa	2023	Dr. Dare Leke Idowu completed a PhD in Political Studies at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, focusing on the political implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) for regional power politics in Africa. He seeks to advance scholarship on African International Relations in the 4IR. His research interests lie at the intersection of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies and diplomacy, foreign policy, digital peacebuilding, geopolitics and regional power politics in Africa. He was a 2023 awardee of the Next Generation in Social Sciences in Africa, Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship Award, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and a 2024 recipient of the British Academy Fellowship on Writing and Researching the Political Economy of Inequality in Africa. He has published articles in the Creative Industries Journal, the Round Table Journal, and the Journal of Contemporary African Studies. He has contributed ten chapters to books.	2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Idowu	2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Dare Leke Idowu	Idowu	Nigeria	Dare Leke
Abasabyona, Milcah	PhD Researcher	Development Studies	Makerere University	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2023 "Intimacies of identification and lived citizenship among the ghetto youths in Kampala-Uganda" Makerere University Uganda 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2024 Intimacies of Identification and Lived Citizenship among the Ghetto Youths in Kampala-Uganda Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Student; Ph.D. Researcher	Department of Development Studies'	Makerere University	Uganda	2023; 2024	Milcah Abasabyona, a CERTIZENS PhD researcher at the department of Development Studies-Makererere University, and a Next Gen Fellow 2023 and 2024. Holds a bachelors in business education, and a Masters in Anthropology of Education and Globalization from the Danish Pedagogical School (DPU)-Aarhus University. She has also completed short courses like the ‘International, Regional and Domestic Human Rights’ certificate from Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in 2022. Her research excellence is reflected in awards, grants, and fellowships, including research stays at the University of Copenhagen, grants from Danida Fellowship Center, and two Next Gen SSRC fellowships (PhD research and completion). She excels in collaborative interdisciplinary research, demonstrated through her work with CERTIZENS project and renown think tank organizations like ACODE.	2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Abasabyona; 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Abasabyona	2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Milcah Abasabyona	Abasabyona	Uganda	Milcah
Mandisodza, Gerald Jeremiah Tendai	Ph.D. Candidate	Private Law / Center for Legal Integration in Africa	University of the Western Cape	Law and Society,Interdisciplinary	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2023 “The role of forum shopping in the construction of customary law institutions in legal pluralistic contexts: towards strengthening women’s property rights in Limpopo, South Africa” University of the Western Cape South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of Private Law	University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2023	Gerald Mandisodza is an aspiring scholar who is currently pursuing his Doctoral studies within the Department of Private Law at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), in South Africa. His doctoral research focuses on investigating the role of rural women's preferences for dispute resolution (forum shopping), on the development of customary law institutions in South Africa. Additionally, he explores the impact of such preferences on the pace at which customary law institutions evolve and enhance rural women's property claims. Prior to his doctoral studies, Gerald completed his Master of Arts in Labour Policy and Globalisation at the University of Witwatersrand. During this program, his dissertation delved into the intricate processes and extent of participatory and internal democracy prevalent within South Africa's trade unions. Employing a case study approach, he examined the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa to gain insights into this subject matter. Gerald Mandisodza passionately advocates for social justice, particularly concerning critical issues relating to gender equality, human and property rights for marginalised groups in society, and the democratic and labour rights of individuals and workers within the Southern African region.	2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Mandisodza	2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Gerald Jeremiah Tendai Mandisodza	Mandisodza	Zimbabwe	Gerald Jeremiah Tendai
Moosa, Medina	Ph.D. Candidate		University of the Western Cape	Political Science,Social Studies,Interdisciplinary	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2023 “Visions of Jihad: South African liberation and apartheid counterinsurgency through the movement of the Afghan Mujahedeen in southern Africa in the 1980s” University of the Western Cape South Africa 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2024 “Visions of Jihad: South African liberation and apartheid counterinsurgency through the movement of the Afghan Mujahedeen in southern Africa in the 1980s” University of the Western Cape South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Political Science and History; Centre for Humanities	University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2023; 2024	I am 30 years old, in my third year of my PhD research. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, now based in Cape Town, South Africa at the University of the Western Cape. I have been a research fellow at the CHR for the past 8 years, having completed my Masters, I am now a Joint PhD research fellow in Political Science and History at the University of the Western Cape and Ghent University (Belgium) under the Strategic International partnership, I am based at the Centre for Humanities research at the University of the Western Cape. Specializing in Conflict and Development, I have been interested in the Afghanistan Mujahedeen relations to South Africa in the 1980s. My Master’s titled “Portrait of a Mobile Political subject: The Afghanistan Mujahedeen in South Africa in the 1980s.” My PhD research follows up on the investigations conducted in my Master’s. My interests in the Afghanistan relations to South Africa came out of a unconfirmed lead at the time of the Mujahedeen having been linked to the apartheid government which was confirmed through investigation in my Masters.	2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Moosa; 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Moosa	2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Medina Moosa	Moosa	South Africa	Medina
Motsoane, Matseliso Rethabile	Ph.D. Candidate and Part-time Lecturer	Wits History Department	University of the Witwatersrand	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2023 “The Making of Mohlouoa Ramakatane's photographic archive, 1950s-present” University of the Witwatersrand South Africa 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2024 The making of Mohloua Ramakatane's photographic archive, 1950s-present University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	History Department	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2023; 2024	Matseliso is a writer, cultural historian and emerging curator. Her research interests are in African cultural history with a particular focus on visual archives. In her work she addresses (post)coloniality, transnationalism and the politics of archives. Her ongoing PhD project titled 'The making of Mohlouoa T. Ramakatane's photographic archive, 1950s-present' has been an opportunity for her to engage with the question of agency and Black subjectivity in African photographic collections. Besides her PhD work, Matseliso is also involved in provenance research of Southern African cultural objects in Western Museums. She is the founder of Mabalane Centre for Living Cultures and Documentary Heritage, and is completing her PhD at the Wits History Department/Wits History Workshop.	2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Motsoane; 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Motsoane	2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Matseliso Rethabile Motsoane	Motsoane	Lesotho	Matseliso Rethabile
Lomokol, Olive	Ph.D. Candidate ; Member	Makerere Institute of Social Research ; Faculty of Peace and Diplomacy	Makerere University,Karamoja Peace and Technology University	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2023 “Shifting perspectives on 'pastoral' violence: the persistence of the "Karamoja problem" in Uganda” Makerere University Uganda 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2024 Shifting perspectives on "pastoral" violence: the persistence of the "Karamoja Problem" in Uganda Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Uganda	2023; 2024	Olive Lomokol is a PhD candidate in political studies at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University, Kampala. Her doctoral dissertation, Shifting Perspectives on “Pastoral” Violence: The Persistence of the “Karamoja Problem” in Uganda, examines the intersection of pastoralism, political violence, and state power in postcolonial Africa. She is a 2024 and 2023 recipient of the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Doctoral Dissertation Completion and Research Fellowship. Olive holds a Master of Philosophy in Political Studies from Makerere University, a Master of Arts in Peace and Conflict Studies, and a Bachelor of Ethics and Development Studies from Uganda Martyrs University. Her research interests include pastoralism and the state, political violence, decolonization, and critical political economy. She is also a founding faculty member for Peace and Diplomacy at Karamoja Peace and Technology University. Her work seeks to historicize and challenge dominant narratives that naturalize violence in pastoralist societies.	2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Lomokol; 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Lomokol	2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Olive Lomokol	Lomokol	Uganda	Olive
Buhamizo, Martin	Ph.D. Fellow	Development Studies	Makerere University	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2023 “Bureaucracies of National Digitisation and Citizen Certification in Uganda” Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Student	Department of Development Studies'	Makerere University	Uganda	2023	Martin Buhamizo is a PhD fellow at the Department of Development Studies, School of Liberal and Performing Arts, Makerere University, and is part of the CERTIZENS research project. He holds an MSc in Peace and Development Studies from Linnaeus University in Sweden and an undergraduate degree in Development Studies from Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda. His PhD research focuses on the bureaucracies surrounding national identification and citizen certification in Uganda, with an emphasis on their implications for peace, security, and development. He is a recipient of the 2023 Next Gen Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship Award. He worked as an assistant lecturer at Makerere University Jinja Campus from 2012 to 2022.	2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Buhamizo	2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Martin Buhamizo	Buhamizo	Uganda	Martin
Chaunza, Garikai	Ph.D. Student		Rhodes University	Communications	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2023 “Activist Radio, the struggle to empower audiences and the shift from analogue to digital media; a case study of Zimbabwe” Rhodes University South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Student		Rhodes University	South Africa	2023	Garikai is a PhD candidate in Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University, South Africa, where he is researching the historical narratives of Activist Radio in Zimbabwe and its pivotal role in advancing democracy. His study focuses on how radio activists utilise media ecologies to navigate restrictive media landscapes where state monopoly on the broadcasting spectrum persists. His academic interests encompass activist journalism, media traditions, journalism norms, political economy, and development communication. With over 15 years of journalism practice, Garikai has held diverse roles, including serving as a news reporter for the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), Radio VOP, and NewZimbabwe.com. Subsequently, he assumed an editorial position at Community Radio Harare. Concurrently, he contributed as a part-time media studies lecturer at the Zimbabwe Open University for four (4) years. Beyond academia, Garikai actively contributes to several international media outlets, such as DW (German), KPFA Pacifica Radio https://kpfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CHAUNZA-on.mp3 (USA), and https://www.afrika-sued.org (German). He chaired the MISA-Zimbabwe's Harare advocacy committee from 2015 to 2021, leading initiatives focused on media freedom campaigns and vehemently advocating against state-sponsored violence targeting journalists.	2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Chaunza	2023 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Garikai Chaunza	Chaunza	Zimbabwe	Garikai
Maryline, Chepngetich	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of Literature, Linguistics, Foreign Languages and Film Studies	Moi University	Literature	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2024 CONSTRUCTIONS OF MARGINALIZED IDENTITIES, VIOLENCE, AND TRAUMA IN SELECTED TEXTS FROM EAST AFRICA Moi University Kenya	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of Literature, Linguistics, Foreign Languages and Film Studies	Moi University	Kenya	2024	Maryline Chepngetich Kirui is PhD student in Literature in the Department of Literature, Linguistics, Foreign Languages and Film Studies, Moi University, Kenya. Her research interests are African studies and cultures with particular focus on post-colonial studies, trauma studies, memoir and life writing. She has a Bachelor of Education (Arts) degree and a Master of Arts in Literature from Moi University and is currently a PhD in literature candidate in the same institution. She is also an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (2022), a Recalibrating Afrikanistik Fellow (2023) and an SSRC completion fellow (2024/2025.	2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Maryline	2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Chepngetich Maryline	Maryline	Kenya	Chepngetich
Gasinzigwa, Kagoyire Marie Grace	Ph.D. Candidate	The Center of the Afterlife of the Violence and Reparative Quest	Stellenbosch University	Psychology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2024 Construction of Genocide memories: Narratives of Second-Generation Rwandans Stellenbosch University South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		Stellenbosch University	South Africa	2024	Marie Grace earned her PhD in Psychology from Stellenbosch University in South Africa, holds a Master’s degree in Public Health from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and completed postgraduate studies in Psychosocial Counselling at the University of Rwanda. Her research explores the enduring impact of the 1994 genocide memories on Rwanda’s first generation, examining how these traumatic legacies continue to shape the psychosocial well-being of subsequent generations—including descendants of both survivors and perpetrators. Central to her work is an investigation into the individual coping and navigational strategies developed by those affected, as they strive to overcome the consequences of their traumatic past. Recently, she has expanded her focus to assess the potential of mental health and psychosocial support interventions in strengthening these coping mechanisms. Her aim is to contribute to sustainable peacebuilding in societies recovering from conflict by reinforcing individual trauma healing and resilience.	2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Gasinzigwa	2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Kagoyire Marie Grace Gasinzigwa	Gasinzigwa	Rwanda	Kagoyire Marie Grace
Williams, Tyne Ashley	Postdoctoral Fellow	Centre for Mediation in Africa, Department of Political Sciences	University of Pretoria	Peace and Security Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2024 Local Conceptions of Child Agency in Post-Conflict Reintegration University of Pretoria South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Researcher	International Relations	University of Pretoria	South Africa	2024	Dr. Tyne Ashley Williams is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Mediation in Africa (CMA), Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, where she leads a research lab series advancing projects, publications, and skills development. She also serves on the Local Organising Committee for the African University Seminar Series–South Africa (AUSS-SA). During her PhD in International Relations (University of Pretoria, 2025), she was a recipient of the SSRC’s 2024 Next Gen Doctoral Completion Fellowship. Her research explores local conceptions of child agency and resilience in post-conflict reintegration, capturing the nuanced, everyday realities and participatory avenues of returnees beyond wartime narratives while critically engaging with evolving conceptions of the ‘child’ and childhood after decades of conflict. Leveraging her findings from her fieldwork in Gulu, northern Uganda, she seeks to cultivate and co-develop collaborative networks and pathways among local organisations to address post-conflict challenges.	2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Williams	2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Tyne Ashley Williams	Williams	South Africa	Tyne Ashley
Muhuruzi, Mary Kajumba	Ph.D. Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Philosophy	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2024 AN ANALYSIS OF HISTORY WRITING: POLITICAL IMAGINATION OF BUNYORO KITARA KINGDOM AND ITS CUMULATIVE IMPACT ON THE FORMATION OF THE NATIONAL PROJECT Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Uganda	2024	Muhuruzi Mary Kajumba is a PhD Candidate at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University. She is a recipient of the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship and now, a Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Mary holds a Master of Philosophy, a Masters of Arts in Public Administration and Management studie and a Bachelor of Arts with Education, and she has facilitated tutorial classes in Classical and Modern Political Thought. Her research interests are in political studies, political violence, political economy, decolonisation and, post-colonial studies. Her doctoral research project seeks to revisit the history of Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom with particular interest in understanding the process of state formation in Bunyoro, looking at the social, political, and cultural setup of Bunyoro as well as historicizing the contemporary political violence. She seeks to investigate how the contemporary crises in Bunyoro reflect a specific type of social governance and political management inherited from successive governments in Uganda’s history. Using the decolonisation discourse, Mary historicizes and theorizes the writing of Bunyoro Kitara’s history during the precolonial, colonial, and post-colonial period. She further interrogates how the political imaginations have impacted on the formation of the national project.	2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Muhuruzi	2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Mary Kajumba Muhuruzi	Muhuruzi	Uganda	Mary Kajumba
Mlilo, Silindile Nanzile	Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Manager	African Centre for Migration & Society	University of the Witwatersrand	Other	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2024 Political subjectivities in post-colonial States: Identity and Belonging of Second-Generation Migrants in Botswana University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Project Manager and Doctoral Researcher		University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2024	Silindile N. Mlilo is a migration scholar, practitioner, and consultant with extensive experience in research and project management at the intersection of migration and mobility governance, xenophobia and social cohesion, youth, and policy development across Africa and Asia. She is also a part-time content creator, producer, and interviewer, committed to amplifying African voices in migration scholarship and public discourse. Silindile is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher and Project Manager at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), University of the Witwatersrand, where she leads research and monitors xenophobic discrimination in South Africa through the Xenowatch project. She is also the co-founder of Meraki Afrique, a social enterprise focused on advancing regional integration in Africa. Silindile holds a Ph.D. in Migration and Displacement from Wits University, an MA in Advanced Development in Social Work through a consortium of European universities, including the University of Lincoln, Aalborg University, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (University of Lisbon), and Université Paris Nanterre, an MA in Human Rights and a Bachelor of Social Work both obtained at the University of Fort Hare, respectively. Her doctoral dissertation, "Political Subjectivities in Post-colonial States: Identity and Belonging Among Botswana’s non–Tswana Migrant Descendants," examined how postcolonial nation-building in mono-ethnic states shapes identity, belonging, and citizenship for people of migrant descent, introducing new theoretical insights into hybrid identities and everyday practices of citizenship. Silindile was a 2024 Next Gen Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellow. She is also an alumna of the Young African Leaders Programme at the European University Institute’s School of Transnational Governance (2022) and an Erasmus Mundus Scholar (2013 -2015). Her research interests lie at the intersection of migration, citizenship, and postcolonial statehood, with a particular focus on belonging, exclusion, and the politics of identity in Southern Africa. Beyond academia, Silindile is a podcast interviewer and is passionate about translating research into accessible and actionable formats.	2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Mlilo	2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Silindile Nanzile Mlilo	Mlilo	Botswana	Silindile Nanzile
Asasira, Simon Rwabyoma	Ph.D. Fellow		The Open University of Tanzania	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2024 Men's resistance to gender equality: A study of masculinities-focused interventions in post-genocide Rwanda The Open University of Tanzania Tanzania	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Fellow		The Open University of Tanzania	Tanzania	2024	Rwabyoma is a PhD Fellow at The Open University of Tanzania's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He taught international development studies at Makerere University and the University of Rwanda, among other universities. He was a 2021 Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellow of the Social Science Research Council's Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Programme. He has presented and facilitated international conferences and workshops throughout South America, Europe, and Africa. As an emerging thought leader, he took part in the University of Cape Town International Summit on SDGs in Africa 2021. He is a 2025 certified Trainer of Trainers on Gender Responsive Economic Policy Management by the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). He was a laureate of the Fifth South-South Summer Research Institute on Rethinking Development for the Development in the Global South, which was held in Recife, Brazil, in 2012 and was organized by CODESRIA-APISA-CLASCO. The institute also included ten young African, Asian, and Latin American scholars. Among the learned societies he has belonged to are the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR).	2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Asasira	2024 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Simon Rwabyoma Asasira	Asasira	Uganda	Simon Rwabyoma
Okumu, Alloice Salex	Teaching Assistant	Department of Project Planning and Management	University of Nairobi	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2024 Enhancing community awareness and engagement for trafficking prevention in the context of climate change in Kenya - PEMS project. University of Nairobi Kenya	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Teaching Assistant		University of Nairobi	Kenya	2024	Alloice Salex Okumu is a distinguished researcher and Ph.D. candidate, holding an MA in Project Planning and Management from the University of Nairobi and a Postgraduate Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation from the University of Washington. With over nine years of experience in development work, Alloice has collaborated with international bodies such as the UN Agency for Migration, UNDP, and Save the Children International, making significant contributions to research and development projects. His academic partnerships with the University of Massachusetts Lowell and New York University have led to the creation of a pivotal monitoring and evaluation platform. As an educator at the University of Nairobi, Alloice shares his extensive knowledge in data management and analysis, utilizing both qualitative and quantitative methods, including SPSS and NVivo. His expertise in project cycle management, training, and capacity building, combined with his leadership and communication skills, has driven successful research initiatives. Alloice's commitment to social and economic development is evident in his efforts to support sustainable development goals in Africa's conflict-affected regions, inspiring global discourse on conflict, migration, and trafficking in persons.	2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Okumu	2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Alloice Salex Okumu	Okumu	Kenya	Alloice Salex
Shawarira, Patience	Ph.D. Student	Sociology	University of Cape Town	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2024 “The Revolution shall be televised”: Representations of unruly Politics in SA campus protests. A Phenomenological examination of selected documentaries. University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of Cape Town	South Africa	2024	Patience Shawarira is a gender justice and digital rights researcher. Her work focuses on advancing digital literacy, online safety, and equitable participation in the digital economy, especially for women and marginalized communities. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Media Studies from the National University of Science and Technology, a Postgraduate Diploma in Media Management from Rhodes University, and a Master’s in Education from Rhodes University. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Cape Town, with a focus on digital participation and structural inequalities.	2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Shawarira	2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Patience Shawarira	Shawarira	Zimbabwe	Patience
Ntauazi, Clemente Jorge	Ph.D. Student	Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies	University of the Western Cape	Other	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2024 Land Politics in the Context of Climate Change Mitigation: Reforms, climate responses and social reproduction in rural Mozambique University of the Western Cape South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies	University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2024	Clemente Jorge Ntauazi was born in Niassa province, north of Mozambique. He is a PhD candidate in Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape (UWC). Mr. Ntauazi graduated with the MPhil in Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies programme Cum Laude from PLAAS in 2022. For undergraduate qualification, he graduated with a BSc in International Relations and Diplomacy from the Higher School of International Relations, Universidade Joaquim Chissano in Maputo, Mozambique. Currently, he is working as a programme manager for climate change and renewable energy at Livaningo – a Mozambican non-profit organization. His PhD focuses on the topic “Land Politics in the Context of Climate Change Mitigation: Reforms, Climate Responses and Social Reproduction in Rural Mozambique”. His areas of interest include land and agrarian change, land reforms, tenure systems, women’s land rights, land governance and wide impacts on climate change and renewable energies.	2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ntauazi	2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Clemente Jorge Ntauazi	Ntauazi	Mozambique	Clemente Jorge
Mutinda, Patrick Matata	Tutorial Fellow	Department of Cadastre and Land Management	Kenyatta University	Environmental Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2024 MODELING THE IMPACT AND THE FUTURE OF THE TRANSITIONAL COMMUNAL LAND TENURE SYSTEM ON THE LIVELIHOOD OF THE INDEGENOUS PASTORALIST COMMUNITIES: CASE OF GROUP RANCHES IN KENYA Kenyatta University Kenya	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Tutorial Fellow	Department of Cadastre and Land Management	Kenyatta University	Kenya	2024	Patrick Matata Mutinda is a Tutorial Fellow at the Department of Cadastre and Land Management, School of Survey and Spatial Sciences at the Technical University of Kenya. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Land Administration from the same institution and a Master's in Geographic Information Systems from the University of Nairobi. He is pursuing a PhD in Environmental Planning and Management at Kenyatta University. His doctoral research focuses on Spatial Modeling of the Transitional Communal Land Tenure System and the Future Tenure Needs of Indigenous Pastoralist Communities in Kenya. A passionate advocate for community land rights, Patrick integrates geospatial technologies with community land policies to promote sustainable access, use, and management of communal lands. His work aims to address the unique challenges pastoralist communities face in Kenya, ensuring their land tenure systems are robust and future-proof. With a solid academic background and a commitment to social justice, Patrick is dedicated to advancing the field of land administration & management and supporting the rights of Indigenous communities through innovative and practical solutions.	2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Mutinda	2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Patrick Matata Mutinda	Mutinda	Kenya	Patrick Matata
Birungi, Robert	Junior Lecturer	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Philosophy	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2024 The Nexus Between Ethnicity and Land Conflicts: A Critical Analysis of The Banyoro-Bafuruki Violence in Uganda. Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Uganda	2024	Birungi Robert is currently pursuing an Interdisciplinary PhD in Social Studies at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), an Institute under the management of Makerere University, Kampala-Uganda. Birungi’s research interests broadly span the areas of Political and Decolonial Thought, Identity Politics, Political Violence, Political History and the Land/Agrarian Question. His PhD working title is ‘’The Nexus Between Ethnicity and Land Conflicts: A Critical Analysis of the Banyoro-Bafuruki Violence in Uganda’’ where he i deploys a historical-political approach to ably understand, explore and historicize the problem and the changes that have taken place over time in the area under study. Birungi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Ethics and Human Rights from Makerere University, and a Master of Philosophy in Social Studies (with a Major in Political Studies and a Minor in Political Economy) from The Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University. He has previously lectured in the Department of Philosophy and The School of Gender and Women Studies at Makerere University. Upon completion of this PhD, he intends to take a post-doctoral position and engage in university teaching.	2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Birungi	2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Robert Birungi	Birungi	Uganda	Robert
Afolabi, Kehinde Adebayo	Ph.D. Student	School of Humanities	United States International University Africa	Migration Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2024 EXAMINING THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE POLITICAL EFFICACY OF CITIZENSHIP AND ADVANCING DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION IN NIGERIA United States International University Africa Kenya	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		United States International University Africa	Kenya	2024	I, Afolabi Kehinde Adebayo, a young scholar with a passion for academic excellence and a drive to make a significant impact in the academic field, have consistently demonstrated outstanding dedication and perseverance throughout my educational journey. Born in Oyo State, Nigeria, I have exhibited keen interest in learning from a very young age. My early fascination with books and 9pm NTA News has caught my curiosity about the world around and politics in Nigeria, which has also set the stage for my remarkable academic career. My academic journey is a testament to the power of determination, hard work, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. My academic consistency and drive to achieve have not only paved the way for my academic success but have also inspired others to strive for greatness. As I continue to advance my career, I remain committed to making a lasting impact in the academic field and contributing to the betterment of society through my research and unwavering dedication.	2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Afolabi	2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Kehinde Adebayo Afolabi	Afolabi	Nigeria	Kehinde Adebayo
Rai, Sasha Claude	Ph.D. Candidate	History	University of the Witwatersrand	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2024 What We Do in the Shadows: A History and Culture of Kink in South Africa University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	History	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2024	Sasha Rai is currently enrolled at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, as a doctoral candidate in the research stage of her History PhD. Her supervisor is Dr Prinisha Badassy. Areas of research interest include the intersections of feminism, race, religion, and sexuality. As a South African Indian, her research interests have been informed by both her lived experiences and the histories of her communities. As a scholar of African histories, she is also interested in the political and legal histories of human rights in eugenics, bioethics, artificial intelligence, and the histories of sex and medicine. She currently serves as a Tutor in the Schools of Electrical and Information Engineering, and Mechanical, Industrial, and Aeronautical Engineering, and as the Principal Tutor and Academic Intern in the History Department at Wits University. She has previously produced work on Pakistani diasporas and Islamic feminism in South Africa, and has presented on her work at a number of conferences and workshops. Before entering her doctoral programme, she worked as an English teacher in Beijing, China, for almost 5 years.	2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Rai	2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Sasha Claude Rai	Rai	South Africa	Sasha Claude
Kachena, Lameck	PhD Student	Department of Environment and Geographical Science	University of Cape Town	Environmental Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2024 Migration, Socioecological and Geopolitical Trajectories along the Great Limpopo and Chimanimani Transboundary Parks University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Research Assistant		University of Cape Town	South Africa	2024	Mr. Lameck Kachena is a human geographer with hands-on experience in socio-environmental interactions. He holds a Certificate in Climate Change and its Impacts from Brown University, an M.Sc. in Social Ecology, and a B.Sc. in Sociology from the University of Zimbabwe. He is currently a PhD student in the Department of Environment and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town. He is a recipient of the 2023 Next Generation Proposal Writing Fellowship Award. His doctoral research examines the socio-ecological and geopolitical dynamics at the crossroads of migration and conservation within transboundary parks linking Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Lameck has published in journals including Conservation and Society, Geojournal, Biological Invasions, and Mobilities.	2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Kachena	2024 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Lameck Kachena	Kachena	Zimbabwe	Lameck
Komane, Kgomotso	PhD Candidate	International Relations	University of Pretoria	International Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2024 An intersecting theoretical analysis on the participation of women in peace processes: A case study on the (re)configuration and (re)construction of University of Pretoria South Africa 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2025 An intersecting theoretical analysis on the participation of women in peace processes: A case study on the (re)configuration and (re)construction of Basotho women in mediation and peacebuilding in Lesotho University of Pretoria South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship; Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Assistant Lecturer	International Relations	University of Pretoria	South Africa	2024; 2025	Ms. Kgomotso Komane is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is a Research Assistant for the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (Govinn) and a researcher for the Centre for Mediation in Africa (CMA). Her research focuses on understanding the role of women in peace processes using an intersecting theoretical framework. Using Lesotho as a case study, her doctoral research seeks to provide an in-depth understanding of the role of women in peacebuilding and mediation in Lesotho through an intersecting theoretical framework of decolonial peace, decolonial feminism, African feminism and indigenous knowledge systems to explore the complex and integrated challenges Basotho women face.	2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Komane; 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Komane	2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship; 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Kgomotso Komane	Komane	South Africa	Kgomotso
Botes, Tamia Bianca	Ph.D. Candidate; Lecturer	Anthropology	University of the Witwatersrand,Sol Plaatje University	Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2024 Eldorado Park as Demonic Grounds: A social history from the early 1960s-2023 University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Anthropology	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2024	Tamia Botes is an Anthropology PhD candidate and lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, recognized for her impactful contributions to the field. She won the prestigious 2021 Africa Thesis Award and is the author of the influential book “Where Have the Midwives Gone? Everyday Histories of Voetvroue in Johannesburg.” Her current research delves into the social history of Eldorado Park, examining it as a discursive space for reimagining race and the ‘human’ within the South African context. Beyond this, her scholarly work is deeply committed to issues of gender equity and justice. She investigates reproductive justice and the crucial roles of midwives, while also focusing on raising social awareness about gender-based violence. Tamia is dedicated to promoting gender transformation, aiming to create a more just and equitable society through her research and advocacy.	2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Botes	2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Tamia Bianca Botes	Botes	South Africa	Tamia Bianca
Ssenoga, Hamudan	Ph.D. Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2024 Last Becomes First: The Politics of Mwe Abali Mu Kintu and the Nationality Question in Uganda. Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Uganda	2024	Mr. Hamudan Ssenoga is a Ph.D. Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University. His major specialty is Political Studies, and minors in Cultural Studies engaging themes of: Political Identity, Political violence, State governance, and Nationalism in Uganda and Africa at large. His doctoral dissertation is entitled Last Becomes First: The Politics of Mwe Abali Mu Kintu and statecraft in Uganda. It historicizes the relationship between politicized identity, state governance, and the cyclic reproduction of political violence against beneficiaries of state power across different political regimes in Uganda. He is a recipient of the 2024 – 2025 Next Gen Doctoral Research Fellowship Award of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).	2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Ssenoga	2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Hamudan Ssenoga	Ssenoga	Uganda	Hamudan
Komuhangi, Olivia	Ph.D. Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Social Studies,Interdisciplinary	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2024 Political Discourse in Stand-Up Comedy and Editorial Cartooning in Uganda, 1996-2021 Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		Makerere University	Uganda	2024	I am Olivia Komuhangi, a Ugandan and a teacher. I have taught English Language and Literature since 2000 when I got a Diploma in Education. I have since attained a Bachelor of Education, Master of Education, and Master of Philosophy. I am currently a Doctoral student and my research interests lie in the field of satire, with recent focus on the interplay between politics and culture, education and politics, African Literature and political disavowal. I hope that my recent study on comedy and editorial cartoons as political discourse will enable me to situate popular culture within political debates. Using an interdisciplinary approach, I have written essays on the legacy of colonial education in Uganda, made a critical analysis of African Literature as a means by which the subaltern speaks, and assessed the role of women in pre-and post-independence violence in Uganda. Outside academia, I watch historical and religious movies.	2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Komuhangi	2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Olivia Komuhangi	Komuhangi	Uganda	Olivia
Odoyo, Nicholas Ochieng	Ph.D. Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Other	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2024 Rural Land Struggles and Social Differentiation in Kenya: Contradictions of Post-Colonial Land Reforms Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Uganda	2024	Nicholas Odoyo is a PhD candidate in Political Economy at the Makerere Institute for Social Research’s Interdisciplinary MPhil/PhD program at Makerere University in Uganda. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Economics from the University of Nairobi. His thematic research interests focus on development, land, labor and gender relations in Africa. His research aims to contribute to political, economic, and epistemological decolonization in Africa. He is a member of the Agrarian South Network, a tri-continental network of researchers in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, with an interest in land, labor, and agrarian questions and the political economy of world development. His previous research on land and agrarian issues in Kenya has appeared as book chapters. The New York-based Social Science Research Council recently awarded him a Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship to support dissertation research and writing in Africa. He is currently conducting research for his doctoral dissertation on the political economy of rural differentiation and land struggles under neoliberalism in Kenya.	2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Odoyo	2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Nicholas Ochieng Odoyo	Odoyo	Kenya	Nicholas Ochieng
Matheka, Jacinta Mwongeli	Part-time Lecturer	Department of Literature	Kiriri Women's University of Science and Technology	Literature	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2024 “Of History and Representation: Re-imagining the Aftermath of the Anti-Arab Revolt in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Fiction.” Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Part-time Lecturer	Department of Literature	Makerere University	Uganda	2024	Jacinta Matheka is a Kenyan who attained her MA in Literature from the University of Nairobi. Her MA thesis centered on societal disintegration as depicted in the literary works of Abdulrazak Gurnah. Currently, she is pursuing her Ph.D. in Literature at Makerere University, Department of Literature. She is part of the 2022 Gerda-Henkel Fellows under the Makerere College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her Research areas include History, Migration, Trauma, and Memory as depicted in fictional works. She examines how literature convenes grounds for writers to articulate historical traumas catalyzed by asymmetrical power relations.	2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Matheka	2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Jacinta Mwongeli Matheka	Matheka	Kenya	Jacinta Mwongeli
Msweli, Lerato Thelma	Ph.D. Candidate	Theology and Development	University of KwaZulu-Natal	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2024 Unpaid and invisible work in the context of community volunteerism in South African faith communities. University of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Theology and Development	University of KwaZulu-Natal	South Africa	2024	Lerato Msweli is a Ph.D. candidate in Theology and Development at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, specializing in Theology of Work, skills development, and gender development. She holds an Honours degree in Theology and Development, where she explored ""Theology of Work and Youth Skills Development as a Response to the Unemployment Crisis in South Africa,"" and a Master's degree (cum laude) in Theology and Development with a research focus titled ""Engaging Gender Inequality in Theology of Work: An African Feminist Theological Critique."" Her research addresses critical societal challenges, including youth unemployment, gender inequality, and the intersection of theology with societal challenges. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Lerato received a scholarship in gender, religion, and health, enriching her understanding with feminist and gender development theories. Currently, she is exploring ""Unpaid and Invisible Work in the Context of Community Volunteerism in South African Faith Communities"" from a sociological perspective, benefiting from her membership in the International Research Training Group. Alongside her academic pursuits, Lerato serves as an assistant lecturer in the sociology of religion at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, contributing to the discourse in her field.	2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Msweli	2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Lerato Thelma Msweli	Msweli	South Africa	Lerato Thelma
Nko, Kagiso	Ph.D. Candidate	Anthropology	University of the Western Cape	Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2024 Understanding township life: exploring embodied practices of joy, pleasure, and leisure in Munsieville, Krugersdorp. University of the Western Cape South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate		University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2024	My name is Kagiso Nko (31). I am a Johannesburg-based scholar and broadly study Black life and life-making. I am currently completing my PhD with the University of the Western Cape, looking at practices of joy, pleasure, and leisure amidst incessant precarity and structural violence in a South African Township. I am interested in Black life holistically as it exists alongside its often ontologized trauma and abjectness done through processes such as colonialism and apartheid, in the context of South Africa. In my research, I’m interested to find out how Black people make sense of their own life in a world that is inherently anti-black. Previously, I had looked at Black immigrant traders in Johannesburg and their livelihood strategies (2017). For my MA, I looked at how Black university students make sense of their Blackness and mental health post the Fees Must Fall protests of 2015-16 (2018). I broadly believe that we as Black people constantly reconfigure and reconcile our humanity through different practices that render our lives full despite vicious experiments of dehumanization and anti-blackness. My research interests lie in those practices.	2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Nko	2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Kagiso Nko	Nko	South Africa	Kagiso
Sikhafungana, Zuko Wonderfull	Ph.D. Candidate	Anthropology	University of the Western Cape	Anthropology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2024 Black aesthetics and theatre: An ethnography of contemporary South African theatre— creators, spaces and institutions University of the Western Cape South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Anthropology	University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2024	Zuko Wonderful Sikhafungana, born in Matatiele, Eastern Cape, South Africa, is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and a fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR). A versatile artist, Zuko is a film and theatre maker- playwright, director, and co-founder of Back Stage Theatre Production (BSTP). His work explores contemporary performing arts in the Western Cape— with the aim of understanding how black artists; theatre makers, puppeteers, dancers and poets have been developing performing arts— as a field of empowerment that drives activism, resistance, expression and advocacy for social justice in South Africa since the 2000s. While looking at established institutions and the growing new performance spaces that have emerged for instance within black marginalised communities, popularly known as shack theatres or through process of requalification of pre-existing buildings in ruin. Interrogating how performing arts today confronts and challenge toxic remains and oppressive legacies of apartheid— marginalisation, inequality, violence and racialised separation—while forging a new aesthetics, transforming and reclaiming exclusionary spaces.	2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Sikhafungana	2024 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Zuko Wonderfull Sikhafungana	Sikhafungana	South Africa	Zuko Wonderfull
Buju, Alfred Ndrabu	Ph.D. Candidate	Institute for Social Transformation	Tangaza University College	Peace and Security Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2025 Exploring Nrunga Heritage for Transformative Peacebuilding Among Hema and Lendu in Djugu, Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo Tangaza University College Kenya	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Institute for Social Transformation	Tangaza University College	Kenya	2025	2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Buju	2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Alfred Ndrabu Buju	Buju	Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)	Alfred Ndrabu
Chitaukire, Rumbidzai Hazel	Doctoral candidate	History Department	Stellenbosch University		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2025 A Socio-economic History of Women Small-Scale Traders in Zimbabwe, c.1965-2022 Stellenbosch University South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Doctoral candidate	History Department	Stellenbosch University	South Africa	2025	2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Chitaukire	2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Rumbidzai Hazel Chitaukire	Chitaukire	Zimbabwe	Rumbidzai Hazel
Mbele, Ongezwa Nomthokozisi	Ph.D. Candidate	Centre for Education Rights and Transformation	University of Johannesburg	Drama/Theater and Performance Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2025 Community Education of ukuzabalaza in Cape Town: Representations of Gendered Violence at the Zabalaza Theatre festival in Worst of Both Worlds (2014) written by Bulelani Mabutyana, The Champion (2015) written by Khayalethu Anthony, Tip-ex (2017) written by Lauren Synders and The First Accused (2020) directed by Mava Silumko. University of Johannesburg South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Centre for Education Rights and Transformation	University of Johannesburg	South Africa	2025	2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Mbele	2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Ongezwa Nomthokozisi Mbele	Mbele	South Africa	Ongezwa Nomthokozisi
Chengeta, Gorata	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of African Literature	University of the Witwatersrand		Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2025 Recognizing and re-conceptualizing sexual violence: insights from survivor experiences of harm University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of African Literature	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2025	2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Chengeta	2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Gorata Chengeta	Chengeta	Botswana	Gorata
Munyoro, Aldridge	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of Social Work	University of the Witwatersrand	Social Work	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship 2025 LIVING IN THIS SKIN: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF BLACK PEOPLE WITH ALBINISM IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of Social Work	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2025	2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship-Munyoro	2025 Next Gen Completion Fellowship	Aldridge Munyoro	Munyoro	Zimbabwe	Aldridge
Masondo, Ingrid Lehlohonolo	Ph.D. Candidate	Centre for Humanities Research-Department of Historical Studies	University of the Western Cape	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2025 Exiled Archives, near and far University of the Western Cape South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Centre for Humanities Research-Department of Historical Studies	University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2025	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Masondo	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Ingrid Lehlohonolo Masondo	Masondo	South Africa	Ingrid Lehlohonolo
Ncube, Desmond Farai	Ph.D. Candidate	Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)	University of the Western Cape	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2025 The lithium rush in Zimbabwe: An analysis of its socio-economic, political and ecological implications University of the Western Cape South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)	University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2025	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Ncube	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Desmond Farai Ncube	Ncube	Zimbabwe	Desmond Farai
Lakay, Tammy-Lee	Researcher and PhD Candidate	Department of Historical Studies	University of the Western Cape	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2025 A Study of the Labour and Community Resources Project (LACOM): Educational Radicalism and the Informal Economy under Apartheid University of the Western Cape South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Researcher and PhD Candidate	Department of Historical Studies	University of the Western Cape	South Africa	2025	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Lakay	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Tammy-Lee Lakay	Lakay	South Africa	Tammy-Lee
Edobor, Osasumwen Catherine	Doctoral Candidate	Department of Sociology	Baze University	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2025 An examination of the accessibility of service providers on gender-based violence (GBV) in Nigeria Baze University Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Doctoral Candidate	Department of Sociology	Baze University	Nigeria	2025	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Edobor	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Osasumwen Catherine Edobor	Edobor	Nigeria	Osasumwen Catherine
Saidu, Danjuma	Ph.D. Student	Department of Library and Information Science	Federal University of Technology Minna	Other	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2025 Sustainable Strategy to mitigate the Herdsmen-Farmers Conflict in North-Central Nigeria: The concept of Oral Tradition Federal University of Technology Minna Nigeria	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Student	Department of Library and Information Science	Federal University of Technology Minna	Nigeria	2025	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Saidu	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Danjuma Saidu	Saidu	Nigeria	Danjuma
Abraham, Pretty	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of Religion and Social Transformation	University of KwaZulu-Natal	Religion	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2025 Trauma and lived religion among women: A comparative study of the impact of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and of the Gukurahundi atrocities in Zimbabwe. University of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of Religion and Social Transformation	University of KwaZulu-Natal	South Africa	2025	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Abraham	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Pretty Abraham	Abraham	Zimbabwe	Pretty
Batte, Baker Lule Kirwana	Doctoral Student	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Interdisciplinary	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2025 THE STATE, THE MEDIA AND THE (MIS)REPRESENTATION OF THE MUSLIM MINORITY IN UGANDA Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Doctoral Student	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Uganda	2025	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Batte	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Baker Lule Kirwana Batte	Batte	Uganda	Baker Lule Kirwana
Bafana, Ronald Mpilo	PhD scholar	Department of Sociology	University of Pretoria	Sociology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2025 Labour Exploitation at the Conservation-Extraction Nexus in iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa University of Pretoria South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	PhD scholar	Department of Sociology	University of Pretoria	South Africa	2025	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Bafana	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Ronald Mpilo Bafana	Bafana	South Africa	Ronald Mpilo
Siswana, Anele	Ph.D. Candidate	Collge of Human Sciences	University of South Africa	Psychology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship 2025 Bridging Mental Health interventions and African healing practices: The role of AmaGqirha (Xhosa Divine Healers) in advancing an integrative model of clinical practice. University of South Africa South Africa	Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Collge of Human Sciences	University of South Africa	South Africa	2025	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship-Siswana	2025 Next Gen Proposal Fellowship	Anele Siswana	Siswana	South Africa	Anele
Musenze, Junior Brian	Ph.D. Student	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Social Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2025 State and society in the modern tradition: Rethinking state formation and political power in the Busoga region of Uganda Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Student	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Uganda	2025	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Musenze	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Junior Brian Musenze	Musenze	Uganda	Junior Brian
Adebayo, Mary Toluwani	Doctoral Candidate	Department of Economics	University of Zululand	Economics	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2025 Assessment of Climate Risks, Macroprudential and Monetary Policy Interactions: Case Study of South Africa University of Zululand	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Doctoral Candidate	Department of Economics	University of Zululand		2025	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Adebayo	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Mary Toluwani Adebayo	Adebayo	Nigeria	Mary Toluwani
Sichinga, Izu Daniel Lifuka	Ph.D. Candidate and Researcher	Department of Public Law	University of Cape Town	Criminology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2025 The Untold Stories: How do LGBTQI+ Police Officers Navigate their Identity in the South African Police Service? University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate and Researcher	Department of Public Law	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2025	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Sichinga	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Izu Daniel Lifuka Sichinga	Sichinga	Zambia	Izu Daniel Lifuka
Shongwe, Mbongeni Welcome	Ph.D. Candidate	Wits Business School	University of the Witwatersrand	Economics	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2025 ESSAYS ON LIQUIDITY GLUTS, CREDIT MARKETS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SUB SAHARAN AFRICA University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Wits Business School	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2025	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Shongwe	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Mbongeni Welcome Shongwe	Shongwe	Swaziland	Mbongeni Welcome
Mutura, Roselyne Karegi	Ph.D. Student	Department of Literature	University of Nairobi	Literature	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2025 Reconstruction of the Self: Narration of the Trauma of (Post)Colonialism and Recovery in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Fiction University of Nairobi Kenya	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Student	Department of Literature	University of Nairobi	Kenya	2025	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Mutura	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Roselyne Karegi Mutura	Mutura	Kenya	Roselyne Karegi
Laker, Suzan	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of Linguistics, English Language Studies and Communication Skills	Makerere University	Linguistics	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2025 Communicating Requests among the Acholi of Northern Uganda: A Pragmatic Analysis Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of Linguistics, English Language Studies and Communication Skills	Makerere University	Uganda	2025	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Laker	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Suzan Laker	Laker	Uganda	Suzan
Kelemework, Tsebaot Melaku	Ph.D. Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2025 The Christological Debates of Mentawinet/Nufaque and the Foundations of Ethiopian Secularism: Mysteries from Miaphysite Christianity Makerere University Uganda	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Makerere Institute of Social Research	Makerere University	Uganda	2025	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Kelemework	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Tsebaot Melaku Kelemework	Kelemework	Ethiopia	Tsebaot Melaku
Semba, Victory Kudzai	Doctoral Candidate	History Department	Stellenbosch University	History	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2025 A Historical Overview of Shifting Police-Military Relations in Zimbabwe and its Consequences for National Security in Zimbabwe, c1980-2024. Stellenbosch University South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Doctoral Candidate	History Department	Stellenbosch University	South Africa	2025	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Semba	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Victory Kudzai Semba	Semba	Zimbabwe	Victory Kudzai
Nazare, Rutendo Vimbainashe	Ph.D. Student	Department Political Science and International Studies	Rhodes University	Development Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2025 Extractive Industries and Inclusive Development: A Critical Examination of the Dynamics and Participation of Women in Artisanal and Small-Scale Lithium Mining, Zimbabwe Rhodes University South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Student	Department Political Science and International Studies	Rhodes University	South Africa	2025	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Nazare	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Rutendo Vimbainashe Nazare	Nazare	Zimbabwe	Rutendo Vimbainashe
Kwadwo Asuming, Joseph	Ph.D. Candidate	Department for the Study of Religions	University of Ghana	Religion	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2025 Religion and Peacebuilding in Ghana's Fourth Republic University of Ghana Ghana	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Department for the Study of Religions	University of Ghana	Ghana	2025	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Kwadwo Asuming	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Joseph Kwadwo Asuming	Kwadwo Asuming	Ghana	Joseph
Mhlangulana, Aphiwe	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of Psychology	University of Cape Town	Psychology	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2025 Black African Women Journalists and Bloggers Experiences of technology-facilitated gender-based violence University of Cape Town South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of Psychology	University of Cape Town	South Africa	2025	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Mhlangulana	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Aphiwe Mhlangulana	Mhlangulana	South Africa	Aphiwe
Ojuondo, George Otieno	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of Journalism	Maseno University	Journalism	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2025 UTILIZATION OF RADIO PROGRAMMES IN DISSEMINATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION INFORMATION TO FARMERS IN NYANDO AND LOWER NYAKACH SUB-COUNTIES, KENYA Maseno University Kenya	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of Journalism	Maseno University	Kenya	2025	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Ojuondo	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	George Otieno Ojuondo	Ojuondo	Kenya	George Otieno
Shaibu, Mohammed Tiyumtaba	Doctoral Candidate	Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness	University of Ghana	African Economic History and Development	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2025 The effects of farmer-led innovations on food security and resilience to climate change in northern Ghana University of Ghana Ghana	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Doctoral Candidate	Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness	University of Ghana	Ghana	2025	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Shaibu	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Mohammed Tiyumtaba Shaibu	Shaibu	Ghana	Mohammed Tiyumtaba
Ihembe, Martin Ayankaa	Doctoral Candidate	Department of Political Science	University of Pretoria	Political Science	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2025 The Role of the Judiciary in the Politics of Electoral Reform Nigeria University of Pretoria South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Doctoral Candidate	Department of Political Science	University of Pretoria	South Africa	2025	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Ihembe	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Martin Ayankaa Ihembe	Ihembe	Nigeria	Martin Ayankaa
Mundando, Janet	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of Political Science	University of the Witwatersrand	Women and Gender Studies	Fellowship Year Project Title Institution (ToA) Country of Institution (ToA) 2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship 2025 Political Parties as Patriarchal Gatekeepers? The Experiences of Women Seeking and Holding Political Office in Zambia. University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Next Gen Research Fellowship	Next Gen	Ph.D. Candidate	Department of Political Science	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	2025	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship-Mundando	2025 Next Gen Research Fellowship	Janet Mundando	Mundando	Zambia	Janet