Research & Analysis

Publications by Alumni

Njoki Wamai

2008-2009 Cohort

Wamai, Njoki (2020), 'International relations and the International Criminal Court', in Nic Cheeseman, Karuti Kanyinga, and Gabrielle Lynch (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Kenyan Politics, Oxford Handbooks

Toyin Ajao

2009-2010 Cohort

Ajao, T. (2022). Ushahidi’s Nonviolent Technological Impact in Kenya’s 2008 Post-Election Violence. In Youth and Non-Violence in Africa’s Fragile Contexts (pp. 163-188). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Ajao, T. (2021). Citizen journalism and conflict transformation: Exploring netizens’ digitized shaping of political crises in Kenya. In Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies (pp. 155-165). Routledge

Alfred Muteru

2010-2011 Cohort

Olonisakin, 'Funmi, Alagaw Ababu Kifle, and Alfred Muteru. "Shifting ideas of sustainable peace towards conversation in state-building." Conflict, Security & Development 21, no. 4 (2021): 409-430.

Olonisakin, ’Funmi, Alagaw Ababu Kifle, and Alfred Muteru. "Introduction: reframing narratives of peace-building and state-building in Africa." Conflict, Security & Development 21, no. 4 (2021): 401-407.

Olonisakin, Funmi, Alagaw Ababu Kifle, and Muteru Ndumo. "Shifting Ideas of Sustainable Peace through Conversations in State-building." Conflict, Security & Development (2020).

Akinola Olojo

2010-2011 Cohort

Ngari, A., & Olojo, A. (2020). Besieged but not relenting: ensuring fair trials for Nigeria’s terrorism suspects. Africa Portal

Olojo, A. (2020). Making sense of resilience in the Boko Haram crisis. ISS West Africa Report, 2020(30), 1-16.

Olojo, A., & Mahdi, M. (2022). Transitional justice Testing the waters in the Lake Chad Basin. ISS West Africa Report, 2022(39), 1-12.

Sigsworth, R., Olojo, A., & Kombo, Z. (2020). Preventing violent extremism in Nairobi, Wajir and Kwale Counties in Kenya: resilience and dialogue. ISS East Africa Report, 2020(33), 1-28.

Olojo, A., Sigsworth, R., & Kaduyu, NM (2020). Preventing violent extremism in Uganda: the role of resilience and dialogue. ISS East Africa Report, 2020 (34), 1-12.

Olojo, A., & Allen, K. (2021). Social Media and the State: Challenges to the Rules of Engagement. ISS Today. Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies.

Moses Tofa

2010-2011 Cohort

Olonisakin, F., & Tofa, M. (2020). Appropriating African agency in international relations. Beyond History: African Agency in Development, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution, 13.

Tofa, M. (2020). The Rise and Demise of the “New Dispensation” in Zimbabwe. In Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa (pp. 173-199). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Clement Sefa-Nyarko

2012-2013 Cohort

Sefa-Nyarko, C., Okafor-Yarwood, I., & Boadu, E. S. (2021). Petroleum revenue management in Ghana: How does the right to information law promote transparency, accountability and monitoring of the annual budget funding amount? The Extractive Industries and Society, 8(3), 100957.

Sefa-Nyarko, C. (2021). Ethnicity in electoral politics in Ghana: colonial legacies and the constitution as determinants. Critical Sociology, 47(2), 299-315.

Okafor-Yarwood, I. M., van den Berg, S., Collins, Y. A., & Sefa-Nyarko, C. (2022). “Ocean Optimism” and Resilience: Learning From Women’s Responses to Disruptions Caused by COVID-19 to Small-Scale Fisheries in the Gulf of Guinea. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 862780.

Atkinson, M., Brodie, A., Kafcaloudes, P., McCarthy, S., Monson, E. A., Sefa-Nyarko, C., ... & Yu, W. (2021). Illuminating the liminality of the doctoral journey: precarity, agency and COVID-19. Higher Education Research & Development, 1-15.

Sefa-Nyarko, C. (2022). The liminality of institutional design of petroleum governance in Ghana: Political will, political settlements and contentions as defining factors. Energy Research & Social Science, 92, 102799.

Sefa-Nyarko, C. (2022). Institutional design of Ghana and the Fourth Republic: on the checks and balances between the state and society. Third World Quarterly, 1-19.

Okafor-Yarwood, I., & Sefa-Nyarko, C. (2021). Towards an inclusive implementation of sustainable oceans, seas and marine resources–SDG14: A holistic approach in Nigeria. In Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria (pp. 226-244). Routledge.

Afenyo-Agbe, E., Afram, A., Hodor, R., Ofori-Davis, L., Sefa-Nyarko, C., Chen, W., & Plank, G. (2021). THE EXPERIENCES OF FEMALE-LED MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN GHANA.

Barnett, I., Faith, B., Mitchell, B., & Sefa-Nyarko, C. (2020). External evaluation of mobile phone technology-based nutrition and agriculture advisory services in Africa.

Eric Blanco Niyitunga

2012-2013 Cohort

Kimari, A. M., & Niyitunga, E. B. (2020). Mobile Financial Services: Design and Development–An Unexplored Pathway to Financial Inclusion. In Impact of Mobile Payment Applications and Transfers on Business (pp. 96-119). IGI Global.

Niyitunga, E. B. (2022). Good Health-Sustainable Development Nexus: Assessing the Prospects and Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence in Africa. African Journal of Governance & Development, 11(1.1.), 47-78.

Niyitunga, E. B., & Musembi, P. M. (2022). A Threat without Borders: Assessing the Effects of Covid-19 on Managing Human Migration and Economic Security. African Journal of Public Administration and Environmental Studies, 1(2), 5-37.

Niyitunga, E. B. (2022). The current and potential role of blockchain-based technology in managing medical records in Africa. Digital Policy Studies, 1(1), 52-68.

Shuman, A., Bohmer, C., & Niyitunga, E. (2021). Telling Our Own Stories and Speaking on Behalf of Others. On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence, 27.

Eric Davidson Ahiable

2011-2012 Cohort

Nkrumah, M. A., Eshun, J. F., & Ahiable, E. D. (2021). Providing quality education for all: the dilemma of deaf students in a mainstream Technical University. Ghana Journal of Education: Issues and Practice (GJE), 7, 114-141.

Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood

2012-2013 Cohort

Okafor-Yarwood, I., Kadagi, N. I., Miranda, N. A., Uku, J., Elegbede, I. O., & Adewumi, I. J. (2020). The blue economy–cultural livelihood–ecosystem conservation triangle: the African experience. Frontiers in Marine Science, 586.

Witbooi, Emma, Kamal-Deen Ali, Mas Achmad Santosa, Gail Hurley, Yunus Husein, Sarika Maharaj, Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood, Inés Arroyo Quiroz, and Omar Salas. "Organized crime in the fisheries sector threatens a sustainable ocean economy." Nature 588, no. 7836 (2020): 48-56.

Okafor-Yarwood, I., & Belhabib, D. (2020). The duplicity of the European Union Common Fisheries Policy in third countries: Evidence from the Gulf of Guinea. Ocean & Coastal Management, 184, 104953.

Sefa-Nyarko, C., Okafor-Yarwood, I., & Boadu, E. S. (2021). Petroleum revenue management in Ghana: How does the right to information law promote transparency, accountability and monitoring of the annual budget funding amount? The Extractive Industries and Society, 8(3), 100957.

Okafor-Yarwood, I. (2020). The cyclical nature of maritime security threats: Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing as a threat to human and national security in the Gulf of Guinea. African Security, 13(2), 116-146.

Okafor-Yarwood, I., & Adewumi, I. J. (2020). Toxic waste dumping in the Global South as a form of environmental racism: evidence from the Gulf of Guinea. African Studies, 79(3), 285-304.

Kadagi, N. I., Okafor-Yarwood, I., Glaser, S., & Lien, Z. (2020). Joint management of shared resources as an alternative approach for addressing maritime boundary disputes: the Kenya-Somalia maritime boundary dispute. Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, 16(3), 348-370.

Holly J. Niner, Noel C. Barut, Tom Baum, Daniela Diz, Daniela Laínez del Pozo, Stuart Laing, Alana Malinde S.N. Lancaster, Kirsty A. McQuaid, Tania Mendo, Elisa Morgera, Payal N. Maharaj, Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood, Kelly Ortega-Cisneros, Tapiwa V. Warikandwa, Sian Rees (2022), “Issues of context, capacity and scale: Essential conditions and missing links for a sustainable blue economy,” Environmental Science & Policy, 130, pp. 25-35

Nompilo Ndlovu

2011-2012 Cohort

Ndlovu, N. (2021). Gender and memory: Lessons from the Gukurahundi massacres in Zimbabwe. In Gender, Transitional Justice and Memorial Arts (pp. 55-74). Routledge.

Adhikari, M., Daniels, L. A., Krondorfer, B., Ndlovu, N., & Chauhan, K. (2020). Panel 10-Culture, Truth and Reconciliation?

Yousif, M., Rachida, S., Taukobong, S., Ndlovu, N., Iwu-Jaja, C., Howard, W., ... & McCarthy, K. (2022). Molecular identification of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern at urban wastewater treatment plants across South Africa. medRxiv.

Olajide Akanji

2011-2012 Cohort

Aderemi, A., & Akanji, O. O. (2022). African legislatures in social emergencies: challenges and outcomes. The Theory and Practice of Legislation, 10(2), 113-116.

Akanji, O. O. (2021). Nigeria between 1914 and 1960: Political-constitutional changes and crises in an era of colonialism. In Nigerian Politics (pp. 37-53). Springer, Cham.

Akanji, O. O. (2022). In Hindsight: The African Union’s Peace-making Role in Cote d’Ivoire’s Post-Election Crisis (2010-2011). African Security, 1-21.

Akanji, O. O., Bonkat-Jonathan, L., & Ngara, C. O. (2022). Legislating in Hard Times: Covid-19 and the Federal Legislature in Nigeria. International Journal of Parliamentary Studies, 1(aop), 1-23.

Akanji, O. O., Bonkat-Jonathan, L., & Ngara, C. O. (2022). Legislating in Hard Times.

Akanji, O. (2022). Politics of Covid-19 Response and Human Rights in Nigeria and Kenya. Revista Brasileira de Estudos Africanos, 7(14).

Akanji, O. O. (2021). Nigeria’s counter-terrorism policy: Paradox or (sp) oiler of civil society activism?. In Counter-terrorism and civil society (pp. 191-203). Manchester University Press.

Akanji, O. (2022). Cities and crimes: Urbanisation and security conundrums in Ibadan, Nigeria. African Cities Journal, 3(2).

AKANJI, O. O. (2021). AIDS AND FAITH-BASED ORGANISATIONS: THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD (RCCG) AND HIV/AIDS ADVOCACY IN NIGERIA. AFRICAN JOURNAL FOR THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES OF SOCIAL ISSUES, 24(3), 61-75.

Abayomi, K. Q., Ejalonibu, G. L., & Jide Akanji, J. (2021). Non-Negotiation Policy and Safety of Nigerians: When Should We Talk to Terrorists and Bandits?

Abayomi, K. Q., & Akanji, J. (2021). Addressing the Burden of Open Defecation in Nigeria: Some policy recommendations.

Abayomi, K. Q., & Akanji, J. (2021). Implications of the Chadian President’s Death for Nigeria’s Internal Security.

Udefuna, P. N., Nandi, L. A., & Akanji, J. (2021). Rising Insecurity and the Need to Enact the National Security Agencies Welfare and Protection Act.

Robert Turyamureeba

2011-2012 Cohort

Twinamasiko, S., Turyamureeba, R., & Ahimbisibwe, F. (2021). No sources of fuelwood, all vegetation cover is done! Women Livelihoods and Environmental Prominence in Oil Induced Displaced Society in Albertine Graben, Uganda. Journal of Internal Displacement, 11(2), 6-27.

Sonja Theron

2011-2012 Cohort

Theron, S. (2020). Power and influence in post-secession South Sudan: A leadership perspective on nation-building. African Security Review, 29(1), 58-81.

Theron, S. (2022). Leadership, Nation-building and War in South Sudan: The Problems of Statehood and Collective Will. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Theron, S. (2024). Theories of War and the African context: Whither strategic theory?. The Strategic Review for Southern Africa. 46(1&2)

Alagaw Ababu Kifle

2011-2012 Cohort

Olonisakin, F., Kifle, A. A., & Muteru, A. (2021). Shifting ideas of sustainable peace towards conversation in state-building. Conflict, Security & Development, 21(4), 409-430.

Tadesse, M., Kifle, A. A., & Desta, D. (2021). Evolving state building conversations and political settlement in Ethiopia. Conflict, Security & Development, 21(4), 455-474.

Olonisakin, F., Kifle, A. A., & Muteru, A. (2021). Introduction: reframing narratives of peace-building and state-building in Africa. Conflict, Security & Development, 21(4), 401-407.

Olonisakin, F., Kifle, A. A., & Ndumo, M. (2020). Shifting Ideas of Sustainable Peace through Conversations in State-building. Conflict, Security & Development.