Sub-Saharan Africa | The Harriet Tubman Institute

Patrick Abure

rebsl — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:25:09 +0000

Patrick Chandiga Justine Abure is a master’s student in the Development Studies program at 91��ɫ. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Global Development Studies from the University of Western Ontario. He is the founder and chair of the Board of Directors of Community Empowerment for Creative Innovation (CECI Uganda), a non-governmental organization that empowers refugee women and youth in Uganda through education and entrepreneurship. He is also the founder of JobsToApply.com, a specialized hiring platform that connects nonprofits with professionals committed to advancing social impact work. Patrick’s research interests are refugees, education and poverty reduction, and foreign aid and non-governmental organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Keywords: Refugees, Education, Poverty, Foreign Aid, Localization, Non-governmental Organizations, Sub-Saharan Africa

Felicia Achamah

rebsl — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:59:28 +0000

Felicia Achamah is a first-year MA student in Geography at 91��ɫ. She carries out research on the social and environmental impacts of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in sub-Saharan Africa. She is particularly interested in the link between mercury, environmental health, and gold production. Her current research aims to broaden understanding of the dynamics of mercury supply in small-scale gold mining communities, building on three years of research, funded by the World Bank and United Nations, on the economic impacts women’s livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa. Her current regional focus is Ghana, the location of one of the largest ASM economies in the world.

Keywords: Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM), Sub-Saharan Africa, Mercury, Environmental Health, Gold Production, Social Impacts, Economic, Impacts, Women's Livelihoods, Ghana, Mercury Supply Chain, Environmental Impacts, Mining Communities

Mohamed Sesay

rebsl — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 21:30:22 +0000

Dr. Mohamed Sesay (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science and Coordinator of the African Studies Program at 91��ɫ. He is also a member of the UKRI GCRF Gender Justice and Security Hub hosted by the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security. Mohamed Sesay graduated from McGill University with a Ph.D. in Political Science, specializing in International Relations and Comparative Politics. His research and teaching focuses on the rule of law, legal pluralism, customary justice, transitional justice, international criminal justice, and postconflict peacebuilding and reconstruction in sub-Saharan Africa. His works have appeared in prominent peer-reviewed journals such as Third World Quarterly, Journal of Human Rights, African Affairs, European Journal of International Security, International Journal of Transitional Justice, International Studies Perspectives, and Cooperation & Conflict. Mohamed Sesay’s monograph, Domination through Law, is the winner of the 2021 International Studies Association’s Lee Ann Fujii Book Award.

Elvis Dze Achuo

rebsl — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 18:49:34 +0000

Elvis Dze Achuo is a Cameroonian and holder of a PhD in Mathematical Economics from the University of Dschang, Cameroon. He currently serves in the Ministry of Secondary Education, Cameroon. His research interests are in the domains of Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Resource Economics and Macroeconomics. He is a sustainable development enthusiast, passionate about environmental issues. His research output in these domains has featured in reputable international peer reviewed journals.

Key Words: Environmental Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Natural Resources, Gender Inclusion, Sub-Saharan Africa

Ruth Murambadoro

rebsl — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 01:36:13 +0000

Ruth Murambadoro is a Black political feminist and seasoned public speaker whose scholarship sits at the intersection of feminist theory, politics, and justice. Her work interrogates the structures of power and oppression that shape the lived experiences of marginalized communities in the Global South—particularly women in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms at Memorial University of Newfoundland, located in Mi’kma’ki—the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq and Beothuk peoples.

Her growing body of work includes the monograph Transitional Justice in Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and the co-edited volume The PhD Experience in African Higher Education (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). Ruth also contributes thought-provoking essays to platforms such as Kujenga Amani, Africa Is A Country, and Herizons, among others.

A former board member of the Zimbabwe Peace Project and the African Studies Association, Ruth is a committed scholar-activist who works to advance holistic peace and development—both within academia and in broader society. She holds research affiliations with the Harriet Tubman Institute and the Centre for Feminist Research. Her long-term project, Humanizing African Women Movements, brings together diverse Black artists to build a digital repository of research creations that (re)present African women’s resistance to the geographies of violence shaping their everyday lives.

Keywords: Black feminisms, African Indigenous epistemologies, decolonial methods, intersectionality, gender justice, peacebuilding, sub-Saharan Africa