Vigilante groups in the Lake Chad Basin region are pivotal yet precarious actors in the conflict against Boko Haram. While instrumental in providing security and countering the insurgency, they are also implicated in human rights violations, abuses of power, and occasional instances of tactical cooperation with Boko Haram insurgents. These realities blur the lines between violent actors and community protectors and show the risk of vigilantes devolving into regional security

By Mikal Woldu What does it mean to hold a conference on the Global Black experience on  the African continent? What does it signal—to...

The SOAS Centre for Pan-African Studies (CPAS) and the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) at Addis Ababa University have...

By Dengiyefa Angalapu   Pan-Africanism is a movement rooted in the ideals of African unity and collective self-reliance. It emerged in...

This study on children of Ghanaian immigrants, also called second generation Ghanaians (SGGs), set out to discover how SGGs create and maint

The Centre for Pan-African Studies at SOAS and Shabaka have published a new policy brief that calls for a fundamental shift in the...

by Yasmine Hafez, PhD Candidate at SOAS, University of London What are your privileges as a researcher? How do you expect these...

By Abdul Wando On the 28th of January 2024, the military junta governments of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso (who make up the Alliance of...

Key takeaways. On the 29th of November, the Centre for Pan-African Studies (CPAS) at SOAS University of London, in partnership with...

by Dr Daniel Mulugeta. SOAS, University of London The development of extraction economies in colonial Africa relied heavily on the...

By Mikal Woldu Last week I attended a public lecture hosted by the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa (LSE University of London), and the...