Dare Leke Idowu is a doctoral researcher with the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the publications officer of Conflict Research Network West Africa (CORNWA) and Editor of the CORN Insight Blog. His articles have been published in the Creative Industries Journal, the Round Table Journal, the Journal of Contemporary African Studies, and The Republic: Journal of Nigerian Affairs. He has also contributed chapters to books published by Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, and Lexington Books.