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Zubairu Wai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His research interests encompass International Relations and Development Studies, with a specific focus on African politics and the epistemological dimensions of conflict, violence, and development. He critically examines the intersections of power and coloniality, exploring the ways these dynamics shape discourses surrounding political economy and knowledge production in the Global South. His notable publications include the award-winning book 'African Conflicts: Violence, Evolutionism, War Sierra Leone' which received the ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award in 2013, and the co-edited volume 'Recentering Africa in International Relations: Lack, Peripherality, Failure' published in 2018. Wai's recent work, 'Thinking Colonial Library: Mudimbe, Gnosis, Predicament of Africanist Knowledge', interrogates the implications of colonial archives on epistemic decolonization, contributing significantly to academic discourse in the field of African Studies.
Department of Sociology