President John Dramani Mahama’s recent state visit to Zambia produced an unexpected flashpoint: not on trade or security cooperation, but about his attire. He arrived in Lusaka wearing a traditional Ghanaian smock known as the fuguor batakari, a handwoven garment deeply rooted in the culture and heritage of northern Ghana. As images of him circulated […]
Introduction In a social experiment, I asked Chat GPT: Which publications will you recommend for gender and student activism in Africa? Several of the scholars on the list were non-African scholars. As an emerging scholar in the field, I went further to ask why my publications on gender and student activism were left out. The […]
Introduction: Violence and militarization of the Niger Delta The Niger Delta is one of the most oil and gas-rich regions in the world. Yet, it is mired in cycles of conflict and environmental crises that fuel underdevelopment and threaten human security.1 Each state in the region has unique and crosscutting forms of insecurity, including those […]
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS) recognized the Dean of the School of Liberal and Performing Arts (SLPA), Dr. Pamela Khanakwa (APN IRG 2015), for outstanding academic leadership at Makerere University, which has seen her supervise six of eighteen doctoral graduates, with three graduating within the official three-year timeframe. Link to full story: […]
Introduction Global climate change poses a profound threat to the right to a clean and healthy environment, intensifying conflict, displacement, food insecurity, poverty, biodiversity loss, and ecological degradation. These negative impacts are disproportionately borne by Africa despite the continent’s negligible contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions. This stark injustice exposes a deeper epistemic problem: dominant […]
“Obstacles to Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Key Challenges Seen Through a Sudanese Lens” offers a sustained and well-grounded interrogation and analysis of the structural, historical, and socio-economic constraints that continue to impede democratic consolidation across Sub-Saharan Africa. Anchored in Sudan as a principal case study, the book situates national political trajectories within wider theoretical and regional […]
