Ufo Okeke Uzodike
Biographic Data
| ID | 207438 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ufo Okeke Uzodike |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ufo Okeke |
| FAMILY NAME | Uzodike |
| SIGNATURE | UZODIKE U O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond the Card Reader
With the increasing spread of information technology in Africa, digitalisation of elections is gradually becoming a popular phenomenon in the continent. However, there has not been sufficient awareness on the potential dangers in the process of digitalising elections. In this regard, this article provides analysis of the connection between the use of technological model in elections and security using the Nigerian example. The article acknowledge…
Ubuntu and the Quest for Conflict Resolution in Africa
Many postcolonial African states have experienced violent conflicts, prompting the quest for viable approaches to conflict resolution and peace-building. Certain groups’ desire to control power and resources at the expense of others lies at the heart of the racism, civil wars, armed insurrections, terrorism, ethnic conflict, genocide, xenophobia, and intracommunity and domestic conflict prevalent in Africa, particularly in countries that experien…
Anatomy of the Lockerbie bombing
Despite its long historical antecedents, terrorism is amongst the growing realities of the national history of contemporary sovereign states. With this emergence, destabilizing influence, and internationalization, terrorism has made the associated security challenge a major diplomatic headache for all key international actors and diplomats. This paper, which adopts a theoretical approach, assesses claims that Ghadafi’s Libya championed state-spon…
Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria
Since the July 2009 Boko Haram terrorist outburst in Nigeria, there have been increasing questions on the phenomenon in the country. There has not been any substantial analysis on the emergence of the Boko Haram group and its terrorist activities in Nigeria as the out-rage continues. This study is advanced to explain the phenomenon of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria. It employs the levels of analysis framework popular in the field of internationa…
Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria
The terrorist group Boko Haram, or the self-described People of the Tradition of the Prophet (SAW) for Preaching and Striving, continues to terrorise Nigeria, with horrible consequences. Clearly, study of the problem cannot be disconnected from the complex nature of Boko Haram itself, considering the group's unclear agenda and its shadowy sponsors — internal or external. A key question regarding the nature of Boko Haram is whether it has a transn…
Operationalising the Sadc Mutual Defence Pact
This article focuses on analysis and recommendations that could assist the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) with the further development of policy frameworks for collaborative security and mutual defence. The Mutual Defence Pact (MDP) provides a legal framework designed to enhance collaborative defence cooperation to deal with issues ranging from aggression of a member state to cooperation in the field of joint training and informatio…
Whose security? Understanding the Niger Delta crisis as a clash of two security conceptions
Keywords: traditional securityhuman securityNiger Deltamilitarisationarmed conflictenvironmental despoliation
The United States Africa Command
This paper scrutinises the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) by raising a number of questions to unravel its true purpose; either as an instrument to enhance American security interests in Africa or to foster African development as claimed by the US. It contends that Western strategic / security needs in Africa would be best assured not by using military means to check China or terrorism in Africa, but rather by looking to meaningfully addre…
In Search of a Public Sphere
The debate about the role of religion in public life has intensified in the last decade against the backdrop of ascendant religiosity that has challenged the secularisation and modernisation theses. Hitherto discarded or marginally treated as purely tenacious and atavistic in social science research, religion has become an important motif in the scholarly analyses of contemporary issues that shape interpersonal, social, national, and internationa…
Gender relations in the context of HIV/Aids in rural South Africa
As part of the Microbicides Development Programme, we conducted formative research to explore gender relations at a site in rural KwaZulu-Natal. We were interested in gender relations and in assessing their implications for emerging female initiated and controlled HIV prevention methods in the form of microbicides. Eleven focus group discussions were conducted with men and women in the community. Participants were asked about decision making abou…
Democracy and Economic Reforms
During the early 1980s many African countries were compelled by bad economic circumstances and poor economic prospects to adopt structural adjustment programs dictated by their external creditors. By the late 1980s, it had become clear that these economic reform programs were failing to achieve their objectives. This factor as well as the effective disintegration of the Soviet empire enabled the Western-dominated multilateral institutions to insi…
Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria
Since the July 2009 Boko Haram terrorist outburst in Nigeria, there have been increasing questions on the phenomenon in the country. There has not been any substantial analysis on the emergence of the Boko Haram group and its terrorist activities in Nigeria as the out-rage continues. This study is advanced to explain the phenomenon of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria. It employs the levels of analysis framework popular in the field of internationa…
Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria
The terrorist group Boko Haram, or the self-described People of the Tradition of the Prophet (SAW) for Preaching and Striving, continues to terrorise Nigeria, with horrible consequences. Clearly, study of the problem cannot be disconnected from the complex nature of Boko Haram itself, considering the group's unclear agenda and its shadowy sponsors — internal or external. A key question regarding the nature of Boko Haram is whether it has a transn…
Democracy and Economic Reforms
During the early 1980s many African countries were compelled by bad economic circumstances and poor economic prospects to adopt structural adjustment programs dictated by their external creditors. By the late 1980s, it had become clear that these economic reform programs were failing to achieve their objectives. This factor as well as the effective disintegration of the Soviet empire enabled the Western-dominated multilateral institutions to insi…
Whose security? Understanding the Niger Delta crisis as a clash of two security conceptions
Keywords: traditional securityhuman securityNiger Deltamilitarisationarmed conflictenvironmental despoliation
In Search of a Public Sphere
The debate about the role of religion in public life has intensified in the last decade against the backdrop of ascendant religiosity that has challenged the secularisation and modernisation theses. Hitherto discarded or marginally treated as purely tenacious and atavistic in social science research, religion has become an important motif in the scholarly analyses of contemporary issues that shape interpersonal, social, national, and internationa…
Anatomy of the Lockerbie bombing
Despite its long historical antecedents, terrorism is amongst the growing realities of the national history of contemporary sovereign states. With this emergence, destabilizing influence, and internationalization, terrorism has made the associated security challenge a major diplomatic headache for all key international actors and diplomats. This paper, which adopts a theoretical approach, assesses claims that Ghadafi’s Libya championed state-spon…
Democracy and Economic Reforms
During the early 1980s many African countries were compelled by bad economic circumstances and poor economic prospects to adopt structural adjustment programs dictated by their external creditors. By the late 1980s, it had become clear that these economic reform programs were failing to achieve their objectives. This factor as well as the effective disintegration of the Soviet empire enabled the Western-dominated multilateral institutions to insi…
Gender relations in the context of HIV/Aids in rural South Africa
As part of the Microbicides Development Programme, we conducted formative research to explore gender relations at a site in rural KwaZulu-Natal. We were interested in gender relations and in assessing their implications for emerging female initiated and controlled HIV prevention methods in the form of microbicides. Eleven focus group discussions were conducted with men and women in the community. Participants were asked about decision making abou…
The United States Africa Command
This paper scrutinises the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) by raising a number of questions to unravel its true purpose; either as an instrument to enhance American security interests in Africa or to foster African development as claimed by the US. It contends that Western strategic / security needs in Africa would be best assured not by using military means to check China or terrorism in Africa, but rather by looking to meaningfully addre…
In Search of a Public Sphere
The debate about the role of religion in public life has intensified in the last decade against the backdrop of ascendant religiosity that has challenged the secularisation and modernisation theses. Hitherto discarded or marginally treated as purely tenacious and atavistic in social science research, religion has become an important motif in the scholarly analyses of contemporary issues that shape interpersonal, social, national, and internationa…
Whose security? Understanding the Niger Delta crisis as a clash of two security conceptions
Keywords: traditional securityhuman securityNiger Deltamilitarisationarmed conflictenvironmental despoliation
Operationalising the Sadc Mutual Defence Pact
This article focuses on analysis and recommendations that could assist the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) with the further development of policy frameworks for collaborative security and mutual defence. The Mutual Defence Pact (MDP) provides a legal framework designed to enhance collaborative defence cooperation to deal with issues ranging from aggression of a member state to cooperation in the field of joint training and informatio…
Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria
Since the July 2009 Boko Haram terrorist outburst in Nigeria, there have been increasing questions on the phenomenon in the country. There has not been any substantial analysis on the emergence of the Boko Haram group and its terrorist activities in Nigeria as the out-rage continues. This study is advanced to explain the phenomenon of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria. It employs the levels of analysis framework popular in the field of internationa…
Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria
The terrorist group Boko Haram, or the self-described People of the Tradition of the Prophet (SAW) for Preaching and Striving, continues to terrorise Nigeria, with horrible consequences. Clearly, study of the problem cannot be disconnected from the complex nature of Boko Haram itself, considering the group's unclear agenda and its shadowy sponsors — internal or external. A key question regarding the nature of Boko Haram is whether it has a transn…
Anatomy of the Lockerbie bombing
Despite its long historical antecedents, terrorism is amongst the growing realities of the national history of contemporary sovereign states. With this emergence, destabilizing influence, and internationalization, terrorism has made the associated security challenge a major diplomatic headache for all key international actors and diplomats. This paper, which adopts a theoretical approach, assesses claims that Ghadafi’s Libya championed state-spon…
Ubuntu and the Quest for Conflict Resolution in Africa
Many postcolonial African states have experienced violent conflicts, prompting the quest for viable approaches to conflict resolution and peace-building. Certain groups’ desire to control power and resources at the expense of others lies at the heart of the racism, civil wars, armed insurrections, terrorism, ethnic conflict, genocide, xenophobia, and intracommunity and domestic conflict prevalent in Africa, particularly in countries that experien…
Beyond the Card Reader
With the increasing spread of information technology in Africa, digitalisation of elections is gradually becoming a popular phenomenon in the continent. However, there has not been sufficient awareness on the potential dangers in the process of digitalising elections. In this regard, this article provides analysis of the connection between the use of technological model in elections and security using the Nigerian example. The article acknowledge…
Political science (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Development economics (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Terrorism (5 works) · Criminology (4 works)