Leigh-Ann Naidoo

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of the Witwatersrand

Proposal Title: Black Student Intellectuals and the New Student Movement in South Africa: The Case of the Rhodes Must Fall Movement 2015-2016

Tsitsi Mpofu-Mketwa

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town

Proposal Title: “Asihlali phantsi!” A study of agency among isi-Xhosa-speaking women traders in a Cape Town Township.

Olugbenga Falase

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Sociology and Psychology, University of Ibadan

Proposal Title: The Politics of Forest Governance in South-Western Nigeria

Haydee Bangerezako

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Makerere Univeristy

Proposal Title: Lake communities and hinterland relations: Histories of Politics of the Imbo region on Lake Tanganyika in the 19th and 20th Century

Yonas Demisse

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Political Science, Makerere University

Proposal Title: Developmetalism in Africa: a geneology of Ethiopian developmetal state

Toyin Ajao

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Political Sciences, University of Pretoria

Proposal Title: Citizen Journalism and Conflict in Africa: The Ushahidi Platform in Kenya’s 2008 Post-Election Violence

Simbarashe Nyuke

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Humanities Graduate Centre, University of the Witwatersrand

Proposal Title: Pentecostal Urbanism? Exploring the immigrants’ experiences of violence in Johannesburg

Ajumeze Obi

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of Cape Town

Proposal Title: The Biopolitics of Violence in the Drama of the Niger Delta

Wellington Mvundura

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand

Proposal Title: ‘Operating under the Radar’: Rethinking Forestry Plantation Workers’ Resistance & Quiescence in Zimbabwe’s Eastern Highlands, Chimanimani District.

Pedzisai Maedza

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Drama Department, University of Cape Town

Proposal Title: Chains of Memory in the Postcolony : Performing and Remembering the Namibian Genocide

Juma Marmo

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of History, University of Dar es Salaam

Proposal Title: The History of Land Conflicts between Peasants and Pastoralists in Kiteto District; 1945 to 2016

Decide Mabumbo

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Human Economy Programme, University of Pretoria

Proposal Title: Understanding the dynamics of large scale biofuel developments in Zimbabwe

Bernadette Adjei

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of Ghana

Proposal Title: Legal Pluralism and Water Resouces Goverance In Ghana - Outcomes of Formal and Customary Management Frameworks

John Githigaro

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Development Studies, United States International University-Africa

Proposal Title: Community Based Approaches to Countering Youth Radicalization in Kenya’s Nairobi and Mombasa Counties

Carolé Cilliers

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): School of Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand

Proposal Title: Intersex Bodies and Medicine in South Africa

Innocent Badasu

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy, University of Ghana

Proposal Title: The role of CSOS in preventing electoral violence in Africa: The case of Ghana

Christiana Akinjobi-Babatunde

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of History and International Relations, Obafemi Awolowo University

Proposal Title: A Historical Appraisal of Nigerian Women Peacekeepers in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations in Africa since 1962

Patricia Afrifa

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of Ghana

Proposal Title: Changing Cultures of Care in Ghana: The Commercialisation of Childcare and its Impact on Development in neo-liberal urban Accra

Patricia Afrifa

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of Ghana

Hlengiwe Ndhlovu

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand

Proposal Title: The shifting dynamics of state-society relations in South Africa: A case study of Duncan Village, East London: 1980 – present

Evarist Ngabirano

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): School of Education, Makerere University

Proposal Title: The Politics of Tribalism: A Comparative Study of Kigezi and Toro districts in Uganda.

Noosim Naimasiah

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of the Western Cape

Proposal Title: Being Maasai in Neoliberal Times: The Story of Capitalism and Resistance From The Maasai of Mashuuru

Nicodemus Minde

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): School of Humanities and Social Sciences, United States International University-Africa

Proposal Title: One-Party Dominance and the Challenge of Democratizing the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union

Margaret Monyani

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Political Science and Public Administration, University of the Witwatersrand

Proposal Title: Implications of securitisation on the Human Security of Urban Somali Refugee Women in Nairobi, Kenya

Oluwaseun Bamidele

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of International Relations, Ekiti State University

Proposal Title: 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