If you'll be in Leeds on 26th November, please join us for this seminar of CRPL to reflect on the problem of separatism in post-colonial Nigeria & how it's driven by religious identity. Venue: Baines Wing 1.13, Leeds University Time: 11.30-13.00

Join us for the next in our series of decolonising events! 5th December at 5pm in Bowland North SR23 or contact us for the link to join online!

I'm pleased to share our new paper showing that perceived realistic & symbolic threats related to ethnic & religious identities drive public demand in Igboland for the partition of multi-ethnic #Nigeria into Biafra & other (semi) nation-states. doi.org/10.1163/156921…

A very different week and I am reminded why I enjoy my job, from sharing my research with colleagues at a Collaboration Cafe, delivering training to PGRs on anti-colonial participatory research & finally, a paper acceptance after rejections and R+R. I am excited for this 2 b out!

Yesterday, our Global Religions team at PPR @ Lancaster visited KC's African & Caribbean Cuisine on campus.

Our prolific scholar Professor Rachel Cooper, sends her greetings for a joyous Christmas filled with love, happiness and prosperity! Check her profile! lancaster.ac.uk/ppr/people/rac…

Almost 4 years after finishing my PhD, I can now share one of the key conceptual contributions from my PhD. I argue for the need for a new strand of new institutionalist theory, anti-racist institutionalism. I put forward two theoretical propositions:

Excited to share our new article. 🎉Co-authored with Joshua Idris4Peace. We highlight the complexities of shared identities, existential (in)security, and the politics of fieldwork, advancing feminist-informed reflexivity in international relations. academic.oup.com/isp/article/do…

Excited to see this article finally published in Peacebuilding Journal . The article conceptualises Sulhu as a framework for local peacebuilding. Thus elucidating the ontological imprecision & abstraction of "the local" in local peacebuilding discourses. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Jehovah-Allah Prophet: Many Christians And Imams Think I Am Spoiling Their Business Prophet Elijah Ganiu, the leader of God The Creator Of The World Interfaith Mission, has sparked controversy with his unique approach to worship, blending Christian and Islamic practices.

I have returned to these texts for my Christian-Muslim relations lecture. Great sources for early Christian theological responses to Islam. Many thanks to the authors, Charles Tieszen, Mona Siddiqui, and Miroslav Volf. Are there other ones I should read?

In the mid-1980s, South Africa appeared to be on the brink of socialist revolution. A decade later, the ANC was presiding over a regime of privatization. What happened? This paper rethinks the transition as a 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. But "from below"?

In an unforgettable gesture of humility in 2019, Pope Francis knelt and kissed the feet of South Sudanese leaders at the Vatican, pleading with them to make peace. A Pope on his knees for unity. ✝️💔🤝

A new and exciting space for sharing research on Religion in Africa. Thank you so much to the editors for making this possible Dr Abel Ugba and Adriaan van Klinken 'Utambuzi: Journal for the Study of Religions of Africa and its Diaspora' journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/ujsr…

Calling African researchers in the humanities and social sciences! We are accepting applications for our CAS Visiting Fellowship Programme 2025-26 until 30 May 2025.

In 2016, Robert Cardinal Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, visited the Augustinian community in Nigeria.

My PPR @ Lancaster colleague, Julie Hearn, on the legendary Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

Mwape Chimpampa, a 15-year-old secondary school student from Zambia, was driven to create an affordable sunscreen for people with albinism after her father, who had albinism, died from skin cancer in 2017. #FocusOnAfrica's Audrey Brown finds out more🎧 bbc.in/4kXjW3z

Pope Leo prays for the victims of a “terrible massacre” in Benue State, Nigeria. Around 200 people were “brutally killed” in Yelwata, in the Guma Local Government Area on the night of the 13th/14th June, the Pope said, most of them internally displaced persons “sheltered by the

I am really pleased that my article on marriage in eighteenth-century West Africa has now been published. It was a labour of love! The article is Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…