Decide Mabumbo

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2013

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

Proposal Title: Understanding the Dynamics of Large Scale Investments of Bio fuels in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Prudence Kemigisha

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2013

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Development Studies, Mbarara University of Science & Technology

Proposal Title: Land Rights and Food Security in Uganda: Assessing the influence of women’s land rights on food security in Bushenyi district

Umesh Bawa

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2013

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

Proposal Title: Using Photovoice to Elicit Young People’s Representations of Peace and Security in their Communities

Yusuf Serunkuma

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH (MISR), Makerere Univeristy

Proposal Title: MAKING BIOGRAPHIES IN SOMALI POETRY: SCULTPING A SOMALILAND IDENTITY OUTSIDE OF SOMALIA

Emeka Njoku

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2014

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

Proposal Title: Counter Terrorism and Civil society in Nigeria

Madalitso Phiri

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Archie Mafeje Research Institute, College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa

Proposal Title: South Afruca and Brazil's Comparative Political Economy of Development: Durable Inequalities Under Progressive Social Policy Reforms—The Humanist Imperative

Ebenezer Oni

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATION, University of Ibadan

Proposal Title: THE POLITICS OF ELECTION PETITIONS IN NIGERIA'S FOURTH REPUBLIC

Leigh-Ann Naidoo

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand

Proposal Title: From intellectuals to functionaries? : A brief history of black teacher consciousness in South Africa 1970 - 2013

Olugbenga Falase

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2014

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

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

Oluwagbemiga Ajayi

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2014

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Sociology and Criminology, Obafemi Awolowo University

Proposal Title: STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE IN NIGERIA : HOW RELIGION DEPOLITICIZES YOUNG PEOPLE AND SILENCES THEIR VOICE.

Simbarashe Nyuke

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: Fear of Violence and the Pentecostalisation of everyday life among migrants in Johannesburg.

Ruth Murambadoro

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: Transitional justice and reconciliation in Zimbabwe: A comparative study on tradition-based approaches in three ethnic rural communities

Carolé Cilliers

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): School for Social and Government Studies, University of the Witwatersrand

Proposal Title: Intersexed bodies and medicine in South Africa

Innocent Badasu

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2015

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

Proposal Title: The role of civil society in Peace-building: A case study of West Africa.

Christiana Akinjobi-Babatunde

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2015

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History and Langauages, Obafemi Awolowo University

Proposal Title: Military-Police Relations: assessing specialisation and interactive dynamics of female security forces in the UN peacekeeping missions in Africa

Yahya Sseremba

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere Univeristy

Proposal Title: BEYOND CLASS AND ETHNICITY: A Genealogical study of the social violence in the Rwenzori Region of Uganda

Ajumeze Obi

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town

Proposal Title: The 'Theatre of the Bloody Metaphor': the Aesthetics of Violence in Modern Nigerian Drama and Theatre

John Githigaro

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: The Insecurity Within? Pathways to Youth Radicalization in Kenya's Nairobi and Mombasa County

Lydia Amoah

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy, University of Ghana

Proposal Title: WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY: A STUDY OF AKAN QUEENMOTHERS AS INTERMEDIARIES IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION.

Sisanda Mguzulwa

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: "An exploration of youth violence perceived impact on young people and the reaction of the community towards youth violence".

Bernadette Adjei

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana

Proposal Title: Water Resources Governance in Ghana; Outcomes of Formal and Customary Management Frameworks – Selected Case Studies.

Aminu Dramani

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History and Political Studies Department, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Proposal Title: ETHNIC CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: A CASE-STUDY OF THE BAWKU CONFLICT IN NORTHERN GHANA.

Moduppe Animashaun

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2016

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ibadan

Proposal Title: commercial Sex Workers and Gender Violence in Communities Along the Southern Axis of Nigeria-Benin Republic Border Corrridor

Chenai Matshaka

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2017

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

Proposal Title: Truth telling, memorialisation and the role of civil society in the shaping of narratives on the 2008 electoral violence in Zimbabwe.

Abdullahi Shehu

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2017

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of History, Ahmadu Bello University

Proposal Title: Performing Religion in Northern Nigeria: A Study of the Maukibi ( of Qadiriyya) Religious Procession in Kano, 1958-2015