Episode 98 – The prospect of Africa’s teeming youth population
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Dr. Michael Nwankpa discusses about The prospect of Africa’s teeming youth population with Dr. Kayode George.
Dr GEORGE, Kayode, a former lecturer and Head of Department, Criminology, Security, Peace and Conflict Studies, Caleb University, Imota, Lagos, Nigeria. He taught criminology, peace and conflict courses and served as the Deputy Dean and Dean of Caleb Business School, Magodo City campus; at different times. He had a lecturing stint at the Political Science and International Relations Department where he taught some courses at undergraduate and post graduate levels. He served in the University Senate, University Management and other top level committees. He has PhD and MA degrees in Peace and Security Studies, University of Ibadan, BA.Ed English Language from Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo. He attended the prestigious University of Ulster training on Peace Making and Peace building in Northern Ireland, UK; Gender in Peace and Wat at the United State States Institute of Peace USIP; Inter faith Peacebuilding at the Duke Divinity School, North Carolina, USA; Conflict Sensitivity with International Alert in Kenya and Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) with Elsinki Espania, Madrid and Legrono, Spain among others.
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.