Dare Leke Idowu

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Dare Leke Idowu holds a PhD in Political Studies, which he completed at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa. He was an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bowen University Iwo, Nigeria, where he researched Cultural Diplomacy, African Diplomacy, Regional Power Dynamics, Migration, and Conflict Studies between November 2020 and December 2023. During his three years as an Assistant Lecturer, he published three journal articles in the Creative Industries Journal (Q1), the Round Table Journal (Q3), and the Journal of Contemporary African Studies (Q2). He co-authored eight book chapters published by Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, Springer, and Lexington Books. He also published book reviews in African Affairs (Oxford University Press), Africa Today, and the Journal of Church and State (Oxford University Press). In addition to these, he published blog articles in the Conversation Africa, the Republic Journal and the LSE Africa. Dare is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Contemporary African Studies, the Journal of Gender Studies, and the Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research. He has also reviewed a Book Proposal for the Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations series, edited by Peace Medie, Nic Cheeseman, and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira. He won the Bowen University Iwo Highest Published Awards (Humanities-Based Discipline, Third Position) in 2022. He was a 2023 Fellow of the Next Generation in Social Science and a recipient of the Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship Award of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). He was a 2024/2025 participant in the British Academy-funded Writing and Researching the Political Economy of Inequality in Africa workshop.

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