Episode 93 – Ivory Coast’s 2025 Elections & Foreign Influence
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Dr. Michael Nwankpa discusses about Ivory Coast’s 2025 Elections & Foreign Influence with Dr. Jeslyn Lemke.
Dr. Jeslyn Lemke is a bi-lingual journalist and past journalism professor in the Pacific Northwest. Her research and coverage area focuses on francophone West Africa. She holds a Ph.D. in Media Studies from University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. Her doctoral dissertation and research agenda explores the relationship between media, civil war, disinformation on social media and the dynamic of Francafrique in Cote d’Ivoire’s troubled elections, particularly the 2011 civil war.
In December 2024, she attended a University of Toronto invite-only research summit in Accra, Ghana with leading African media scholars to present research on media freedom and democracy in Africa. Her research on media and conflict in Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire has been published in International Journal of Communication, Journal of African Media Studies, African Journalism Studies, and Global Voices.
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.