Michael Nwankpa
Michael Nwankpa is the Founding Director and Director of Research at the Centre for African Conflict and Development. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Roehampton, London, UK. His main research area is the nexus between conflict and development including the concept of a human rights-based approach to development. His other research interests are counterinsurgency and counterterrorism. He has held two prestigious fellowships at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, and at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), University of Maryland. He has published extensively on Boko Haram and conflict in Nigeria and Africa generally.
He is the co-author of the seminal work on Boko Haram: The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State. His most recent book published by Routledge in 2022 is titled Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, 1999-2021: A Militarised Democracy. He currently teaches postgraduate students registered on Liverpool John Moore’s University online MA programme in International Relations and supervises PhD students at Unicaf University.
