2026 Fellows Cohort
Meet the 12 Fellows of the 2026 cohort and their research projects.
Ashiraf Mugalula
- Waiting to Work: Temporal Precarity, Legal Status, and Cross-Border Labour Mobilities of Refugees in Uganda
Eva Ann Wanjiku Chege
- Intra-Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Governance of Climate-Induced Mobility at the Kajiado鈥揔iambu Borderland, Kenya
Evelyn Bayani
- Ubuntu, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Refugee-Host Community Relations in Malawi: Lessons from Dzaleka and Host Communities
Gloria Ilivieda
- Governing the Margins: Indigenous Trade Knowledge and Women鈥檚 Agency in the Nigeria- Benin Borderlands
Ismail Hussein Ismail
- They Did Not Wait for Permission: Refugee-Built Economic Systems at the Uganda-Kenya Border and the Regional Policy Gap They Expose
Jabulile H. Mzimela
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Mobility, and Borderland Development: Experiences of Indigenous and Refugee Women in the Kosi Bay and Beitbridge Borderlands
Johannes Bhanye
- “The Border Beneath鈥: Informal Mobility, Statelessness and Everyday Citizenship among Zimbabwean Migrants in South Africa
Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka
- Unthinking and Rethinking the Global Compacts: Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Conflicts, and Refugees in the Copperbelt鈥揔atanga鈥揕unda Borderlands
Mohamed Sallieu Barrie
- Moving beyond Reaction to Action: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge Systems as Instruments for (Trans) border Conflict Resolution in Conflict-Prone Communities in the Mano River Region
John Nahr
- Understanding Indigenous Refugee Management Practices through Cross Talk Methodology
Resty Nabaggala
- Women鈥檚 Indigenous Knowledge in Mitigating Conflict in Migration-Affected Borderlands: A Case of Uganda- South Sudan Borderland
Woledzi Delali Freedman
- Blood is Thicker than Borders: Explaining Migration Cycle in Relation to Indigenous Knowledge in Ghana and Togo Border Communities