Fellows

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 …

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

Cletus Moyo is a PhD candidate studying drama and performance Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban, South Africa. He is a recipient of the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2020 – 2021 administered by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). The fellowship is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Moyo also holds a Master of Arts in dramatic art from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and a Bachelor of Arts Hons in theatre arts from the University of Zimbabwe (UZ). Moyo has been a drama lecturer at Lupane State University

Patrick Lugwiri Okombo is an East African linguist from Kenya. He holds a MA in Kiswahili studies from the University of Nairobi, and is currently a full-time PhD candidate of linguistics at Makerere University. His current research interest in the Kiswahili sociolinguistics is the understanding of Kiswahili sociolinguistics, and the use of Kiswahili as a lived practice in the socially multilingual settings that characterize the East African urban locales. He targets the ordinary citizens’ understanding and use of Kiswahili in their social life. His theoretical and methodological frames cut across various sub-disciplines such as contact linguistics, linguistic ethnography, interactional sociolinguistics,

Zaid Sekito was born on February 10, 1981 in Wakiso, Uganda. Zaid Sekito holds a BA in education (history – major, economics – minor) and a Master of Arts in history both from Makerere University in 2006 and 2015, respectively. He served as a teaching assistant in the Department of History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Makerere University from 2010 to 2013. In 2014, he was promoted to the position of Assistant Lecturer in the same department, a position he holds up to today on a part-time basis. From 2015 to 2017, Sekito worked as a research assistant to Professors Justin

Rosette Sifa Vuninga is a doctorate fellow in History at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in Cape Town (South Africa). After completing a BA degree majoring in history, sociology and tourism, she immediately registered for a Honours degree in history. For the latter, she did research on gender and migration focusing on Congolese women in Cape Town. For her MA mini-thesis in the same discipline, she worked on African films focusing on Congolese local films and how they portray Congolese diasporic identity. Rosette’s PhD project is entitled Baswahili and Bato ya Mangala: Regionalism and Congolese diasporic identity in

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

Ngozi U. Emeka-Nwobia is a senior lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki-Nigeria where she also obtained her PhD in Sociolinguistics. She is a Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY) Scholar (2015) and has also received other international fellowships and research grants among which include; Postdoctoral fellowship award of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)’s African Humanities Program (AHP), 2016/2017; Social Science Research Council (SSRC)’s Next Generation Social Sciences Research in Africa 2013 Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship Award; and 2014 Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award; a collaborative research grant on ‘Language, Literature, Music