Dare Leke Idowu holds a PhD in Political Studies from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a recipient of a 2023 SSRC Next Generation in Social Sciences in Africa, Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship Award, and a 2024 recipient of the British Academy Fellowship on Writing and Researching the Political Economy of Inequality in (WARIA) Africa. He is the Publications Officer of the Conflict Research Network West Africa (CORN), Nigeria. His research interest lies at the intersection of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and geopolitics, diplomacy, social movements, Warfare and regional power politics in Africa. He has published articles in the Creative Industries Journal, the Round Table Journal, and the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.