Akachi Odoemene (PhD, African History) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and International Studies, Federal University Otuoke, Nigeria. His current research focuses primarily on the social history of Africa, with interests in peace and conflict studies, development studies, and urban studies. He was a 2009 African Humanities Program (AHP) Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Hewlett Visiting Scholar at Brown University (2012), an APN Individual Research Grant (IRG 2013) recipient, and an Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-2015).