Conflict & Development in Africa Podcast

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Professor Noah Echa Atta, Professor of African Economic History and Development and currently visiting Professor at the National of Lesotho, and Olawale Yemisi, a lecturer and PhD candidate at the University of Ibadan. Our topic focuses on the targeted xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in Ghana.

In this episode, I am joined by Dr Jacob Mundy, associate professor in peace and conflict studies, Colgate University, to discuss the United States arms sales to Morocco and President Trump’s recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara.

In this episode, Kenyan-based international relations and expert, Vincent Okangi, joins me in discussing the constitutional change in Togo that is seen as a step towards consolidating Faure Gnassingbe’s position in power.

In this week’s episode, Nigerian-based public affairs and political commentator and analyst, Jaye Gaskia, joins me in discussing the controversial labelling or Nigeria’s major political parties, APC and PDP, as terrorist organisations by a Canadian court.

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Dr Oladotun Awosusi, research fellow at University of Arkansas, to discuss the flurry of immigration policies under Trump 2:0 and their implications for Africa.

In our 100th episode, we discuss the increasing sale of arms to Nigeria by the Trump’s administration, a departure from the Obama administration. We look at the implications of the arms sale on Nigeria’s heavily militarized response to insurgency and insecurity. Our guest is retired Brigadier General Saleh Bala, President at White Ink Consult, a private defence and security research, strategic communication and training consultancy based in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja.

In this episode, I am joined by Dr Daniel Volman, the director of the African Security Research Project in Washington and a specialist on U.S. military policy towards Africa and African issues. We discuss the conflict in the Sahel and talks between the Trump’s administration and the Alliance of Sahel States military regimes.

In this week’s episode, we focus on the prospects of and challenges facing Africa’s teeming youth population. Our guest is Dr Kayode George, a Nigerian-based scholar with vast experience both nationally and internationally in the field of security, peace and conflict studies.

In this week’s episode, we focus on the politics of political party coalition in Nigeria and Nigeria’s forthcoming general election in 2027. I am joined by Dr Babayo Sule, Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at National University of Lesotho. Babayo is the author of numerous books including Political party financing and electoral politics in Nigeria’s fourth republic.

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Dr Eric Tevoedjre, instructor at the Catholic University in Lille, France, to discuss the future of regional economic communities (REC) in Africa following the withdrawal of the Alliance of Sahel States (Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger) from ECOWAS and Rwanda from ECCAS.