Fellows

Poloko Sindiso Ngaba (Sindi) is a PhD candidate at the Political and International Studies Department, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. A lawyer by profession, she studied B Juris and Bachelor of Laws (LLB) at the University of Zululand, Empangeni, South Africa. Thereafter, she was awarded a Fullbright Scholarship to further her studies. She graduated with a Master of Laws (LLM) from Georgetown Law School (Washington DC, USA). She has been admitted as an advocate of the High Court of South Africa.   Her professional experience includes; serving as an executive Head of company secretariat of the Oil and Gas Company of …

Prince Théogѐne Niwenshuti is a PhD student student at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He received a BA (with distinction) from National University of Rwanda (NUR) and MA (cum laude) from Wits University School of Arts in Johannesburg. He travels extensively facilitating, lecturing, performing and campaigning for peace, healing, human rights, awareness and prevention of war and genocide. For about 25 years he has lived, studied, worked and conducted research in several post-conflict zones on the African continent. He has intervened in several academic and nonacademic events on a global level including the International Culture Summit held at the

Abdulhakim Abdalla Nsobya is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa, where he has been serving as researcher and teaching assistant since 2016. He received his BA and MA in mass communication from Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU) in 2011 and University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) in 2015 respectively. In 2016, he joined University of Cape Town for an MA in religious studies which he completed in 2017, before enrolling in the PhD program in the same department in 2018. His research interests span in both media and

Seun Bamidele is a PhD research fellow at the Institute of Peace, Security, and Governance, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. He is presently a lecturer in international relations at Chrisland University, Abeokuta, Nigeria and mostly works with topics related to peace and conflict in Africa, including issues such as land rights and conflicts of citizenship, migration and the new landscape that is emerging with regard to insurgency and geopolitics. Bamidele holds the United Nations training certificate in peace and security from the Peace Operations Training Institute, United States of America and is also a recipient of many international grants, awards,

Margaret Monyani is a doctoral candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa pursuing a PhD in international relations. Her dissertation focuses on international migration regimes specifically the global dynamics associated with refugee governance from an African standpoint by exploring the livelihood situations of Somali women refugees in Nairobi, Kenya. She also holds a Master’s degree in international relations and a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science (with first class honors) from Moi University, Kenya. She is currently a teaching assistant in the Department of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She has also participated

Nicodemus Minde is a PhD student in international relations at the United States International University–Africa (USIU-Africa) in Nairobi, Kenya. He previously worked as an advisor at International Law and Policy (ILPI) Centre for African Studies, Norway. He holds a MA and BA in international relations from USIU-Africa. His doctoral research examines the influence of one-party dominance in African democracies with a specific focus on the challenge of democratizing the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union under a one-party dominance system. Minde’s areas of interest include the political history of Tanzania, international law, foreign policy analysis and peace and conflict studies. Minde, a Tanzanian national,

Noosim Naimasiah is a member of local and Pan-African social movements and libraries that use political education, community organizing and self-reliance to organize for freedom politically based on Ujamaa, Ecofeminism and Pan-Africanism. Her academic work currently focuses on the political economy of sand within pastoralist communities.

Evarist Ngabirano is a graduate student at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. He holds a Master of Advanced Studies in theology and religion (KU Leuven, Belgium), Masters of Religious Studies (KU Leuven, Belgium), a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Makerere), a Bachelors of Divinity (Makerere), and a Bachelors of Philosophy (Urbaniana University, Italy). He has now received the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa fellowship three times (2017, 2018, 2019). His area of concentration is culture and politics in an interdisciplinary PhD in social studies program. His topic of research is “The Politics of Tribalism: A Comparative Study of Kigezi and Toro

Femi Eromosele is a PhD candidate in the department of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand. His research is largely situated at the intersection of literature and discourses of health and illness.

Kimberley Usher is a doctoral candidate with the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARCHI) in Social Policy, hosted by the Archie Mafeje Research Institute at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Born and raised in Zimbabwe to a strong, African, single mother of two – who herself was raised by a strong African, single mother of nine – the value of education as a means of overcoming poverty was emphasized from childhood. After completing a Bachelor of Social Sciences at Rhodes University, she was awarded a bursary under the Transformative Social Policy Program to complete her Honors degree and achieve