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Research Interests and Current Research

I am an interdisciplinary scholar passionate about global peace and security, with focus on Africa. My research follows trajectories of critical theory, decoloniality, phenomenology, Afrocentricity and African Indigenous philosophy to explore issues around international political economy of resource; wars, conflicts and cooperation in natural resource sectors; race; politics; and governance in global systems of accumulation and asymmetric international relations. My research centers on the agency, interests, human rights and human security of those marginalized by colonial and neocolonial systems of oppression, resource looting, environmental destruction, neoliberal authoritarianism and political repression. I am currently researching mineral resource-based wars/armed conflict and聽the extraction of the minerals for green/renewable energy, and the consequences of聽destruction (community, socio-economic, and environmental), cultural obliteration, land grabbing, displacement, and peacekeeping in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). I am keenly interested in African personhood, cultures, ontologies, axiologies, epistemologies, traditions and histories as聽sine qua nons聽to relocating and recentering Africa鈥檚 agency in issues around peace and security; natural resource governance; environmental sustainability;聽聽politics and economics; and the multidimensions of justice (reparation, restitution, restoration and repatriation) necessary to decolonize and to reclaim Africa鈥檚 authenticity.

I am also interested in critical and Ubuntu pedagogies, particularly questions around decolonization, academic independency, race, systemic and epistemic oppression in higher education. My work on these themes of teaching/research interests is covered in peer-reviewed journals and online articles and book chapters.聽聽I believe that the world will know real peace, security and prosperity when the power of love, knowledge of one’s mortality, awe聽and care for the dignity of every person and the environment will overcome the love for power,聽聽greed, the illusion of immortality, environmental destruction,聽 and the dehumanization of those whose聽 rights, voice, place and space to prosper聽 is denied – the historical and contemporary wretched of the earth.

Selected Professional Associations

• International Studies Association
• African Feminist Initiative
• Great Lakes Leaders Initiative
• American Academy of Religion
• United for Mining Justice
• International mediators

Courses

• HRSJ 2401: Political Repression, Impacts and Responses
• HRSJ 3301: Race, Racialization and Human Rights
• HRSJ 3001: Special Topic in Human Rights
• HRSJ 3305: Anti-Black Racism and Human Rights

Selected Publications

鈥淭he Quest for Africanizing Qualitative Inquiry: A Pathway to Methodological Innovation鈥�. In 鈥�. Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa. 2021, 35-60

鈥淭heology and Peacemaking in Africa.鈥� In Bongmba Elias, Ed. The Routledge Handbook of African Theology, New York: Routledge. 2020, 381-398.

鈥淏iblical and dogmatic theology on Personhood: Application to Africa鈥檚 milieu.鈥� In Bongmba Elias, Ed. The Routledge Handbook of African Theology, New York: Routledge. 2020, 462-499.

鈥淗ear My Tears: Narratives of War and Resilience by the Women and Children of Congo鈥�. In Reimer Laura E., Katerina Standish, and Charles Thiessen, Eds. Expanding Modes of Enquiry: Research from the Mauro Institute. New York: Lexington. 2019, 97-111.

鈥淩evolution and Women鈥檚 Liberation go Together鈥� Thomas Sankara and the Burkina Faso Experience.鈥� In Amber Murrey, Ed. A certain amount of madness: The life politics and legacies of Thomas Sankara. London: Pluto Press, 2018, 209-221.

鈥淎IDS, national security and political leadership in Sub-Saharan Africa.鈥� In Azetsop, Jacqueline, Ed. HIV and AIDS in Africa: Christian Reflection, Public Health, Social Transformation, New York: Orbis Books.

鈥淒emocratic political leadership and governance: Envisioning a post 2015 development Agenda in Africa, Uganda as a case study鈥�. In Andrews, Nathan, KhalemaN. E., and Assie-Lumumba N. Eds. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect: Africa鈥檚 Development Beyond. New York: Springer, 2015, 299-246.

Online, News Papers and Media interviews

Creating healthy communities is our biggest challenge. Winnipeg Free Press. Jan. 4, 2021.

鈥淒RC: An open later to UN Secretary General and the Prime Minister of Canada鈥�. Pambazuka News. 2017, Issue 809 Feb 16,

鈥淭rump order on conflict minerals would send warlords carte blanche signal, say critics鈥�. CBC News. March 18, 2017.

鈥淐ongo killings highlight need for change: Canada is the country to overhaul peacekeeping missions鈥�. Winnipeg Free Press. Dec. 15, 2017.

鈥淭he quest for peace leadership: Remembering Archbishop Munzihirwa. Pambazuka鈥�. 2015. Issue 749 (online)

鈥淧residents in designer suits, citizens in rags Burundi, a mirror of the leadership crisis and legacies of war in the African Great Lakes鈥�. Pambazuka. 2015, Issue 727 (Online).

鈥淩ape of bodies, rape of resources, rape of a nation: the last best chance for sustainable peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)鈥�. Pambazuka .2014, Issue 691 (online)

鈥淐ity activist decries mineral-linked genocide鈥�. Winnipeg Free Press. April 19,2014. https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/city-activist-decries-mineral-linked-genocide-255853211.html