Fellows

Mandipa Machacha is a feminist development practitioner with a comprehensive range of skills acquired from having worked for the Botswana government, the non-profit sector, and the United Nations. Passionate about social justice (gender-justice in particular), she has worked for over 10 years either for or supporting activist groups, donors, and international organizations to deepen analysis, shape policy, and refine interventions that defend minority and women’s rights, with the overarching goal of developing strategies that will enable us to build intersectional feminist futures. This work has included human rights advocacy, humanitarian assistance, conflict resolution, sustainable development initiatives, curriculum development, advisory roles …

Rose Mbezi is a PhD candidate at the University of Dar es Salaam. She holds a Master of Philosophy in anthropology of development from Bergen University (Norway), Masters of Arts and Bachelor of Arts both from University of Dar Es Salaam and a Diploma in Education from Marangu Teachers college. She has over 20 years of experience in projects, programs, research and forums in relation to gender and development endeavors. She has participated in different project assignments regarding gender and development in the following sectors: Health, Crop-Livestock, Fisheries, Agriculture, Tourism, Land, informal sector, Gender Based Violence and Fertilizer. Her involvement

Joseph Kimaru Karanja is an assistant lecturer in the Department of Security and Correctional Sciences, Kenyatta University. He possess a bachelor’s degree in criminology and a Master of Criminology both from Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology. As a faculty member, Karanja facilitates various units ranging from crime studies, security management, private security, correctional sciences, justice systems, rule of law, peace, justice, and reconciliation both at the university level and disciplined forces training colleges. In terms of consultancy, Karanja has been involved in training needs assessment for disciplined services, module, and curriculum development for correctional institutions and university. He

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

Nkululeko Majozi is currently a PhD Candidate in the Department of Development Studies at the University of South Africa (UNISA). He holds a Master of Security Studies (MSS) from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and a BA Hons in international studies from Rhodes University, South Africa. Nkululeko has previously worked as a Doctoral Researcher at the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA) in the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) (2018-2020), where his work entailed providing research and evidence-based policy advice on a range of public affairs issues to African governments and multilateral organisations operating in Africa. At AISA, Majozi

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

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

Nasser Ahmedin Mohammed is a stateless (formerly Eritrean) refugee and a PhD candidate completing his dissertation. He was born in July 1978 and grew up in the town of Asmara. His dissertation deals with the wartime nationalist discourse in Eritrea and the construction of the new enemy. He was a journalist for the culture and arts program through the years  from 1998 to 2000. Before he left Eritrea in 2009, he worked at the Research and Documentation Center of Eritrea, where he was a research assistant. He did his Masters of Philosophy from Addis Ababa University. He believes being introduced

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