Interview with Oge Samuel Okonkwo, Lisa Maskell Fellow at the University of Ghana
In 2014, the Gerda Henkel Foundation initiated a scholarship programme supporting young humanities scholars from Africa in honour of the foundation's founder, Lisa Maskell. It is the largest international support programme for PhD students in the history of the Foundation. The Lisa Maskell Fellowships aim to strengthen universities in the partner countries, to counter the outflow of qualified young scholars and to ensure the doctoral students enjoy excellent academic training.
In this series, L.I.S.A. publishes interviews with Lisa Maskell Fellows, in which they talk about their research projects as well as their experiences during their academic career and the Lisa Maskell fellowship.
Today, we welcome Oge Samuel Okonkwo from Nigeria. After graduating from the University of Ibadan with a B.Sc. in International Relations as well as from the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna with a M.Sc. in Defence and Strategic Studies, he started his PhD in History with the thesis The Changing Phases of Igbo Separatist Movements, 1970–2015 at the University of Ghana in 2020.