Fellows

Ntokozo Yingwana initially joined the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS, at the University of the Witwatersrand) in 2016 as the Communication and Research Uptake Officer, and subsequently became a PhD Candidate. Yingwana holds a Masters in gender and development from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS, at the University of Sussex in England), funded by the Chevening UK Scholarship. Prior to joining ACMS she worked for IDS as the Content Coordinator for the Open Knowledge and Digital Services Unit. Yingwana’s experience and skills are in journalism, online media, advocacy, open access/knowledge, and research. She occasionally freelances as an …

Flora Hasunga is a sociologist, gender specialist, and social development expert specialized in social security, gender-based violence, and women’s economic empowerment. She is an assistant lecturer of the Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy in the Department of Gender Studies since 2008. Her primary areas of teaching are gender and development, development studies, sociology, gender mainstreaming, women’s empowerment, gender analytical frameworks, and gender policy formulation. Currently, she is a PhD student in Sociology. Her PhD academic research assesses “The Contribution of Customary Land Titles on Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment in Tanzania, A case of Mbozi District, Songwe Region.” Hasunga has a degree

Edmond Madhuha is a PhD candidate in health sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is also a teaching assistant in the same department. He mainly works with first-year students assisting with lecturing, assessment of assignments, tests, tutor coordination as well as curriculum counseling. As a researcher, Madhuha was the in-Country (South Africa) research consultant for the African Population and Health Research Center – International Organisation for Migration sponsored project in 2017. The research project he coordinated was on sexual and reproductive health within the migration corridors of South Africa. He successfully handled this

Oluwatosin Orimolade is a PhD student at the Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Orimolade’s research interest is at the intersection of Political Theory and History. His PhD research is concerned with debates within political society on the most fitting political arrangement conducive to the preservation of Nigeria as a united political entity. Methodologically, Orimolade’s interest in historical social sciences enables him to pay attention to enduring structures, historical processes, temporal sequences, and the spatial dimensions of social and political phenomena. He participated in the 7th Annual Seminar of the Bielefeld Graduate School of History and Sociology

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

Ridwan Abiola Kolawole is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication and Language Arts at the  University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His research interest is in the area of applied communication with a particular interest in media studies, journalism, development communication as well as the interface between conflict and the media. He is interested in multi-disciplinary research and has applied his communication knowledge to the area of conflict which gave birth to his PhD topic, “Exploratory Analysis of Identity Construction in Nigerian Media Framing of Farmer-Herder Conflict in North Central Nigeria.” Before now, he earned a BA and a MA

Hafsa Ali Ibrahim is a Kenyan citizen who lives in Nakuru County. She is a wife and a mother of four children: a daughter and three sons. She is also a teacher by profession with more than six years of experience in secondary education and four years in tertiary. Ibrahim is currently a part time lecturer at Egerton University in the Department of Philosophy, History, and Religion. She is pursuing a doctoral degree in philosophy and religious studies in the same university. She holds a Master of Arts in philosophy and religious studies from the University of Nairobi and an