Episode 90 – White Farmer Genocide’ and Trump’s Amnesty
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Dr. Michael Nwankpa discusses about the White Farmer Genocide’ and Trump’s Amnesty with Prof Christi van der Westhuizen.
Christi van der Westhuizen, Associate Professor and Senior Researcher, leads the research programme at CANRAD. As transdisciplinary scholar interested in identities, differences, ideologies, and discourses with a focus on (post)apartheid South Africa, she has published widely, both academically and popularly. Christi has held research associateships with the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice, Free State University, and the Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, and previously worked as Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pretoria.
She has served on several global initiatives, including as an expert on globalisation and gender on a project for the World Communion of Reformed Churches, and on a high-level fact-finding mission to Palestine. Her working life started at the anti-apartheid weekly newspaper Vrye Weekblad and she has worked as Political Correspondent in Parliament and as Associate Editor in online media. She is a regular public speaker and columnist, and her public scholarship has featured in local and international radio, TV, print and online media.
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.