Fellows

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,

Evarist Ngabirano is a graduate student at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. He holds a Master of Advanced Studies in theology and religion (KU Leuven, Belgium), Masters of Religious Studies (KU Leuven, Belgium), a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Makerere), a Bachelors of Divinity (Makerere), and a Bachelors of Philosophy (Urbaniana University, Italy). He has now received the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa fellowship three times (2017, 2018, 2019). His area of concentration is culture and politics in an interdisciplinary PhD in social studies program. His topic of research is “The Politics of Tribalism: A Comparative Study of Kigezi and Toro

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).