Fellows

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, …

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:

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

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,

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

Jacqueline Owigo is a PhD candidate at the United States International University –Africa. Her research interests include forced migration, return migration and repatriation, and postcolonial and feminist theory. She holds a Master’s degree in international studies with a research focus on United Nations charcoal ban in Somalia and its implication on terrorism. As part of her professional experience, Owigo has worked on migration policies and programmes in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia on refugee protection, return and (re)integration, migrant smuggling, and human trafficking. She is a 2019 recipient of SSRC Next Generation’s Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship and 2018 PhD Scholar

Chad Brevis is a PhD student in the Centre for Film & Media Studies at the University of Cape Town specializing in socio-political disapprobation to freedom of speech and the rise of online ‘hacktivism’ culture in a digital democracy. During his undergraduate and honors years, he worked as a tutor for the Department of Religion and Theology specializing in ethical theory. Brevis currently works as a tutor in the Department of English at the University of the Western Cape and also as an e-tutor for English at UNISA. His work experience includes journalism, editing, literary critique, and activism for the NGO

Yosef Sintayehu Jemberie was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He did his bachelor’s degree in history education at Haramaya University, Ethiopia, in 2008. He received his MA in philosophy from Addis Ababa University in 2013 and his MPhil in Interdisciplinary Social Studies from Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University, Uganda, in 2020. Jemberie taught history and philosophy for eight years at Samara University, Ethiopia, where he also served as the head of the Department of Civics and Ethics. The title of his MA thesis was “On the (Non-)Question of ‘What is Knowledge?’” in which he attempted to do

Tamuka Chekero, a Zimbabwean national, is a PhD student in anthropology at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. He holds an MSc in social anthropology (UCT), a BSc Honors degree in social anthropology (Great Zimbabwe University), Zimbabwe. His current research, based in Cape Town, looks at how people who have crossed and re-crossed national borders form relationships, make and maintain connections through conviviality. The project interrogates systems of blockage in the mobility of people, ideas, and resources necessary to on-going world-making in Southern Africa. Chekero has worked as a researcher at New Somerset Hospital in Cape Town where

Sani Yakubu Adam is a lecturer in the Department of History, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. His broader area of interest is in the history of Islam in northern Nigeria. He was a fellow of the All Africa House program at the University of Cape Town in 2015 and is presently a grantee of Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Doctoral Completion Fellowship. He is currently working on a PhD dissertation focusing on the formation and expansion of the book market of Kano, the major entrepot of northern Nigeria. It examines the book business located in this space but also beyond