Abubakari Ahmed

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University for Development Studies

Proposal Title: The Political Ecology of Cattle Ranching for Farmer-Herder Water-Land Conflicts in the Semi-Arid Regions of Ghana

Kimberley Usher

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): South African Research Chair in Social Policy, University of South Africa

Proposal Title: The political economy of healthcare reform in South Africa: the case of the National Health Insurance Scheme

Ehijele Eromosele

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2019

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

Proposal Title: Narrative Comorbidity: Madness, Disability, and African Fiction

Hlengiwe Ndhlovu

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Understanding the shifting dynamics of resistance and claim-making in South Africa: A case study of Duncan Village 1980- 2015

Allan Wefwafwa

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Journalism and Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand

Proposal Title: Kenyan TV News as Africanised Public Sphere: Analysing the Representation of “Voice” Participation in African Democracy

Mpumezo Ralo

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of South Africa

Proposal Title: The Use of Patronage to Consolidate Political Power in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. The Case of Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment

Folorunsho Ogunmefun

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Criminology and Security Studies, Ogun State University

Proposal Title: Predictors of Gang Violence and Crime Outcomes among youths in Mushin, Lagos Metropolis

Moses Osiro

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): CRIMINOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology

Proposal Title: THE DEVELOPMENT-SECURITY NEXUS AS A ‘PERFORMANCE’: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF INTERVENTIONS COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM (CVE) IN KENYA

Nixon Wamamela

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2019

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

Proposal Title: A Philosophical Assessment of Democracy in Post-colonial Legislations in Uganda

Fikile Masikane

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2019

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

Proposal Title: Understanding work and rest: an African Perspective

Jacqueline Namukasa

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2019

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

Proposal Title: "The Island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda" Uganda- Kenya contestations over Migingo Island 2009 -2018

Michael Mgonja

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Political Science and Development Studies, University of Dar es Salaam

Proposal Title: 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

Benyin Akande

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2019

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

Proposal Title: The Impacts of Environmental Hazards on Sustainable Food Security in Nigeria's Niger Delta Region : Towards a Policy Framework

Chibuzor Azubuike

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2019

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

Proposal Title: Politics of Identity and the Political Economy of Refugee Status in New Bakassi Cross River State.

Bolanle Aina

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 2019

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

Proposal Title: Proclivity to Utilize Grievance Redress and Citizens Engagement Mechanisms in Herders-Farmers Conflict Resolution in North Central Nigeria

Isaac Dery

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2016

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

Proposal Title: Ghanaian men and the performance of masculinity: negotiating gender-based violence in postcolonial Ghana

Evarist Ngabirano

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Politics and Violence: A Comparative Study of Bakiga Politics in Kigezi and the Politics of Ethnicity in Toro and Bunyoro in Uganda.

Noosim Naimasiah

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Being Pastoralists In Neoliberal Times: The Story of Capital From The Maasai Of Mashuuru

Nicodemus Minde

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: Political Parties, Democratization and Constitutional Developments in the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union, 1992-2015

Margaret Monyani

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

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

Proposal Title: IMPLICATIONS OF SECURITISATION ON THE HUMAN SECURITY OF SOMALI WOMEN REFUGEES IN NAIROBI KENYA

Oluwaseun Bamidele

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Institute of Peace, Security and Governance, 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

Abdulhakim Nsobya

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2019

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

Proposal Title: Mediated Mimbar in East Africa: Muslim Electronic Media in Contemporary Uganda

Theogene Niwenshuti

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Sol Plaatje University - School of Education and Humanities, University of Cape Town

Proposal Title: Memory, Museum and Mental Health: Making sense of Contestation over the interpretation of violence in Contested Spaces at William Humphreys Art Gallery

Poloko Ngaba

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Rhodes University

Proposal Title: Isithwalandwe (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

Solomon Danga

Competition: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): School and Counseling Psychology, University of the Western Cape

Proposal Title: Mental health of adolescents in refugee camps in Ethiopia: The development of an exploratory model based on trauma, coping and resilience