Episode 86 – Are African military leaders saviours or opportunists
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Dr. Michael Nwankpa discusses about the topic “Are African military leaders saviours or opportunists” with Dr Tapiwa V Warikandwa.
Dr. Tapiwa Victor Warikandwa is a legal scholar with extensive expertise in law and policy development. He earned his Bachelor, Masters, and Doctor of Laws degrees from the University of Fort Hare (UFH) in South Africa. After his law degree, he worked as a legal officer and advisor in Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Public Service, Labour, and Social Welfare, advising on law reform and policy issues. He received training in legal drafting from Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Justice and the International Labour Organisation Training Centre in Turin, Italy.
After completing his doctoral studies, he became a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Trade Law at UFH before being appointed as a senior lecturer at the Nelson R. Mandela School of Law. He later taught at the University of Namibia, where he also served as Head of Department of the Private Law Department. Further he also taught at the University of Botswana and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Venda in South Africa. Dr. Warikandwa has been involved in policy and legislation formulation in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region, contributing to notable projects such as the Global One Ocean Hub Project, UNESCO’s Global Citizenship Education Project, and Namibia’s Africa Peer Review Mechanism Report.
His expertise spans international trade law, mining law, constitutional law, labour law, and more. He is a prolific author, editor, and multidisciplinary researcher, publishing in respected platforms like Taylor & Francis, Springer, and LexisNexis. He serves on editorial boards of national and international journals and has supervised numerous postgraduate and undergraduate students.
About the Podcast
The Conflict & Development in Africa podcast brings experts from Africa and the world as guests to discuss critical conflict and development issues that affect Africa. Our guests include practitioners, academics, journalists, researchers, policy makers and advocates that are renowned and are nationally and internationally recognized for their work, expertise and contribution to conflict and development issues in Africa. Our audience includes policy makers, governments, researchers, students, businesses and anyone that is interested in conflict and development issues in Africa.
About the Host
Dr Michael Nwankpa has an extensive experience spanning over a decade studying, researching, writing and consulting on conflict and development issues in Africa.
Michael Nwankpa has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Roehampton, London, UK. He has held several research fellowships including as a Rice University Fellow and a terrorism research Fellow (past) at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism (START), University of Maryland. He is currently a fellow at the Royal United Service Institute for Defense and Security Studies (RUSI) and a research fellow at the Geneva-based Centre on Armed Groups. Dr. Nwankpa has extensive experience studying counterterrorism and counterinsurgency strategies, advising relevant government development departments and security agencies, and consulting for multilateral organizations. Michael is the author of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, 1999-2021: A Militarized Democracy (Routledge 2022) and co-author of the seminal work on Boko Haram, The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State (Oxford University Press/Hurst 2018). He has written several articles and is currently working on three book projects.