As a member of a collaborative research team awarded a research grant by the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the…
Africa
Rethinking Responses to Displacement in Northeast Nigeria
As a panelist at the maiden Kofi Annan Peace and Security Forum held in Accra in early September 2019, I…
Points of Tension between African States and the International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has been accused of unfairly targeting African states. The ICC began operating in 2002 and…
An Interview with 2019 APN Grantee Umar Ahmed
Umar Ahmed is a lecturer at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria. He received both his BA and MA degrees from…
Navigating the Research Terrain for Graduate Students in Africa: A Reflection
Early this year, a woman I know from her public engagement in Uganda walked up to me after I had…
‘#ChurchToo’? The Women’s Rights Movement and the Sexual Emancipation of “Sacred” Spaces in Nigeria
Sexual abuse is about predation and power and the Fatoyinbo spectacle exposes the dark side of Nigeria’s Pentecostal ‘erotic economy’…
Notes on Uganda’s “Refugee Paradise”
“…this thing is an industry; budgets are exploding…” An international refugee agency worker based in Kampala. By January 2018, media reports…
Challenges to Food Security in Nigeria’s Oil-Rich Niger Delta Region
Introduction Although narratives of environmental degradation in the Niger Delta region are increasingly shifting attention to the human security challenges…
Fees Must Fall: Lessons from Student Struggles in South Africa
South Africa is currently undergoing a resurgence in student protests, with students agitating for free, decolonized education. The most prominent…
Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in South Sudan: The Security Dilemma in a Transitional Government of National Unity
[Photo: A wide view of the historic Independence Ceremony of the Republic of South Sudan (UN PHOTO/Eskinder Debebe)] An uneasy…