Fellows

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