Fellows

Ndubuisi Christian Ani is a specialist in governance, peace and security. He serves as a Senior Regional Advisor with the GIZ support project at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), Accra, Ghana. Prior to this, Christian was a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Ethiopia and the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) in South Africa. Christian holds a PhD in international relations; a Master of Social Science degree in conflict transformation and peace studies and a Bachelor of Social Science Honours in international relations (Cum Laude) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South

Sabina Appiah-Boateng is a doctoral student at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, pursuing a Phd in development dtudies (specializing in conflict and development studies). She is working on the research topic, “Land-Use Conflicts and Psychosocial Well-Being: A Study of Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Asante Akyem North District of Ghana.” Appiah-Boateng has worked on conflict projects such as national conflict mapping for UNDP and designing concept paper on religious tolerance for Ghana’s Peace Council. She is a promising scholar who aims to be in academia. She loves research and community engagements. Appiah Boateng’s research interests are in the areas of conflict,

Abudul Mahajubu holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in education and a Masters of Arts in history both from Makerere University. He is a lecturer at Muteesa I Royal University (Uganda) in the Department of Humanities currently on a three-year study leave. Before going on his study leave, Mahajubu also headed the Department of Oral Documentation in the Faculty of Education at the same university. He is currently a PhD student in the Department of History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Makerere University. His research interest focuses on the survival of ethnic minorities in a diversely multi- ethnic global village

Anselmo Matusse is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Cape Town. His current PhD project is based on Mount Mabo, in central Mozambique, and focuses on the changing relations between local communities and the mountain, which became popular in the media as “Google Forest” after it was put on a conservation map in 2005. He received an Early Career Grant from National Geographic, as well as a scholarship from the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and a fellowship from the Social Science Research Council. Matusse has a master’s degree in environmental science from Linköping

KG Moshugi is a researcher and musical arranger currently completing his doctoral research at the University of the Witwatersrand. His current research integrates conventional qualitative modes of inquiry with those that are artistic. As a musical arranger, he incorporates professional practice and academic research within his knowledge production endeavors. Moshugi studies include South African choral cultures, choral arranging, and politics of resistance, appropriation, and the intersection of cultures in post-colonialism, cultural leadership, policy, governance and entrepreneurship, and politics of sacred and market contexts in cultural production

Joseph Geng Akech is a passionate South Sudanese human rights lawyer with a Bachelor of Law and a Master of Law in human rights and democratization in Africa and a constitutional law doctoral researcher of “International Involvement in Constitution Building in Post Conflict South Sudan.” He speaks English, Arabic, and basic level French. Akech is an advocate of children’s rights with over 10 years of professional experience in child rights governance, protection, and advocacy. He has worked with and for children in some of the most difficult contexts – South Sudan, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia. Whilst at Save the