Fellows

Elizabeth Modupe Animashaun is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies at the University of Ibadan. She is working on her thesis titled “Commercial Sex Workers and Gender Based Violence along Nigerian-Benin Republic Border Corridor.” She has been a part of a few local and international projects like the IFRA Nigeria collaboration on Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation. Animashaun has worked on violence and vulnerability of women in volatile communities, such as the border. Animashaun’s childhood experience while living in the military barracks, her various encounters with victims of violent conflict which besieged Africa in the …

Lydia Amoah is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, with research interests in gender, cultures and development, and gender and sexuality. As an affiliate and graduate assistant of the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy at the University of Ghana, Amoah has been teaching Introduction to Gender Studies for over 5 years. She has a Masters of Arts degree in African studies from the Institute of African Studies (2011), and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in theatre arts (2007) both from the University of Ghana, Legon.  Her PhD research explores how Akan

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,

Alaba Favour Ogwumike is a Higher Executive Officer in the Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan. Alaba holds a BA in history from the University of Ilorin, Kwara State (2004) and an MA in peace and conflict studies from the University of Ibadan (2010). She is a research fellow of the Next Generation Social Sciences in in Africa Programs. She is also a member of Women in International Security (WIIS). Currently, she is a PhD student in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Institute of Peace and Strategic Studies at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Her research foci encompass

Titilope Ajayi is a PhD Candidate at the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD), University of Ghana. A feminist researcher and writer on security and civil society, she has held appointments as head of research at the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) and fellow/West Africa analyst with the International Crisis Group (ICS). Ajayi founded and coordinates Doing A PhD in Africa (www.doingaphdinafrica.org) and also works as an independent copyeditor. She was a Next Gen Dissertation Proposal Fellow (2017) and an African Peacebuilding Network Individual Grant recipient (2018). Her latest publications include: The Postponement of Nigeria’s 2019 Elections: