Fellows

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. This project has received Proposal and Research fellowship awards from NextGen. 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 conflict, violence, and justice in colonial and postcolonial Africa. Notably, in 2022, he …

Born in 1968 in DR Congo, Alfred Ndrabu Buju is a PhD candidate studying Social Transformation in the Institute for Social Transformation at Tangaza University, Nairobi, Kenya. He specializes in security and sustainable peace. He has a master’s degree in Sacred Theology with a specialization in Spiritual Theology from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi. He has worked in the Bunia diocese (Democratic Republic of Congo) as spiritual director, rector in a priestly formation house, coordinator of the Justice and Peace Commission, and Director of Caritas-Development. He is a member of the “Bustani ya Mabadiliko” (Garden of Changes),

Izu Daniel Lifuka Sichinga is an LGBTQI+ hate crimes researcher, policing scholar, and criminologist from Chingola, Zambia. His work at the Centre of Criminology, Public Law Department, University of Cape Town, focuses on queering and decolonising criminology/policing in Africa. His recent research explores the experiences, perceptions, and challenges faced by frontline police officers dealing with LGBTQI+ hate crimes in Cape Town. This work has earned him the best PhD presenter award at the 2024 International Network for Hate Studies Biennial Conference. It is set for publication in The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South, scheduled for later in

Essays on Liquidity Gluts, Credit Markets and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan AfricaMbongeni Welcome Shongwe is a PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand and an Associate Macroprudential Specialist at the South African Reserve Bank in the Financial Stability Department. His research focuses on liquidity gluts, credit markets, and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, combining advanced econometric techniques with policy relevance. He holds a Master’s degree in Applied Economics and Finance and Investments from the University of the Witwatersrand. His professional background includes senior roles at the Central Bank of Eswatini, where he led macroprudential research and financial stability assessments.

Mohammed Tiyumtaba Shaibu is a Ghanaian and a doctoral candidate at the University of Ghana. He holds an MPhil in Agribusiness from the University of Ghana (2016) and a BSc Agriculture Technology with majors in Agricultural Economics and Extension from the University for Development Studies, Tamale (2007). He also holds a certificate in Local Economic Development from Wageningen University and Research. His Master’s thesis proposal won him two awards, including the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions Project and the A. G. Leventis Scholarship Foundation awards. Mr Shaibu’s PhD studies are being funded by the Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund

Victory Kudzai Semba is a Doctoral Candidate in History at Stellenbosch University and a 2024–2026 Lisa Maskell Fellow, specializing in national security. She holds a Master of Arts and a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in War and Strategic Studies from the University of Zimbabwe. Before her doctoral studies, she served as a lecturer in Peace and Security Studies at Lupane State University for two years, where she was actively engaged in teaching and mentoring students with a strong focus on peacebuilding and security policy reform in Southern Africa. Her current doctoral research offers a historical analysis of the shifting

Athanas Mutisya is a Ph.D student at the Department of Literature Studies at the University of Nairobi. He holds a BA and MA (Literature) from the University of Nairobi. He is currently an auxiliary lecturer at the University of Nairobi, Umma University, and the South Eastern Kenya University. His research interests are in memory studies, war narratives, life narratives, women’s studies, and African Feminism. His Ph.D. research focuses on the autobiographies of ex-child soldiers in Africa, with the title of his dissertation being: Narrating Violence and Peace: War Memory in Selected Ex-Child Soldiers’ Autobiographies from Africa.

Utilization of Radio Programmes in Dissemination of Climate Change Adaptation Information to Farmers in Nyando and Lower Nyakach Sub-counties, KenyaGeorge Otieno Ojuondo is a PhD candidate in the Department of Journalism at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology and an Assistant Lecturer at Maseno University in Kenya, where he teaches development communication, Introduction to Journalism, and Media House Management among other areas of interest. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Communication Studies from the University of Nairobi and has a rich background in teaching, media production, and development communication. George’s professional experience spans the international development sector,

Ms Roselyne Karegi Mutura is a PhD student in the Department of Literature at the University of Nairobi, where she also serves as an auxiliary lecturer. She holds a Bachelor of Education (Arts) degree and a Master of Arts in Literature from Kenyatta University. Her academic and professional journey reflects a strong commitment to literary studies, with a particular focus on postcolonial literature, trauma studies, and cultural memory. Her ongoing doctoral research, titled “Reconstruction of the Self: Narration of the Trauma of (Post)Colonialism and Recovery in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Fiction,” explores the intersections of (trauma) narrative, identity, and healing in

 Ms. Rutendo Vimbainashe Nazare is a young development professional. She holds a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the University of Sydney, Australia, a Postgraduate Certificate in Political and International Studies from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science with a Major in International Studies from the University of Pretoria, in South Africa. Her Master’s degree thesis focused on how China’s policies on economic development have affected the global discourse and actions on environment and climate change. As a young Pan-Africanist, her interest is to keenly contribute to a dynamic Africa through regional integration that