Fellows

Muema Wambua is a PhD candidate in international relations at the United States International University-Africa (USIU-Africa). He holds a Master of Arts degree in international relations (Summa Cum Laude) from USIU-Africa and a Bachelor of Arts in history (First Class Honors) from Kenyatta University, Kenya. He is the author of “The Ethnification of Electoral Conflicts in Kenya: Options for Positive Peace” (2017) published by African Journal on Conflict Resolution and “Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding: The ICC and TJRC Processes in Kenya” (2019) published by African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review. He has also contributed a chapter titled “Hurting Stalemate in International …

Hlengiwe Ndlovu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand. She is a doctoral fellow at Transforming Humanities Through Humanities Through Interdisciplinary Knowledge (THINK), and a doctoral associate at Society, Work and Politics Institute (SWOP). She is a 2018 Margaret McNamara Memorial Trust – African Programme fellow and a Canon Collins Educational and Legal Assistance Trust scholar. Ndlovu is the co-editor of the book Rioting and Writing: Diaries of the Wits Fallists (2017). 

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.

Jacob Tagarirofa is a socio-cultural anthropologist who is interested in peace, conflict, and gender in post-war communities. He is a lecturer at Great Zimbabwe University in the Department of Peace, Conflict, and Governance. Some of the modules he teaches include Gender and Conflict; Democracy and Governance; and Religion and Conflict. He is a holder of a Bsc Social Anthropology (Great Zimbabwe University); MA Development Studies (University of the Western Cape, South Africa); Post Graduate Diploma in Higher and Tertiary Education (Great Zimbabwe University). He is currently pursuing his PhD in africa studies at the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies,

Seun Bamidele is a PhD research fellow at the Institute of Peace, Security, and Governance, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. He is presently a lecturer in international relations at Chrisland University, Abeokuta, Nigeria and mostly works with topics related to peace and conflict in Africa, including issues such as land rights and conflicts of citizenship, migration and the new landscape that is emerging with regard to insurgency and geopolitics. Bamidele holds the United Nations training certificate in peace and security from the Peace Operations Training Institute, United States of America and is also a recipient of many international grants, awards,

Nicodemus Minde is a PhD student in international relations at the United States International University–Africa (USIU-Africa) in Nairobi, Kenya. He previously worked as an advisor at International Law and Policy (ILPI) Centre for African Studies, Norway. He holds a MA and BA in international relations from USIU-Africa. His doctoral research examines the influence of one-party dominance in African democracies with a specific focus on the challenge of democratizing the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union under a one-party dominance system. Minde’s areas of interest include the political history of Tanzania, international law, foreign policy analysis and peace and conflict studies. Minde, a Tanzanian national,

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,