BIO
Personal Profile
Dr. Godwin Onuoha is a broadly trained social scientist with more than two decades of experience in critical social science and humanities research and practice. Dr. Onuoha has lived and worked in five countries across three continents. He has extensive research experience on broad questions of state and citizenship; culture, power and identity in the modern world; conflict resolution; memory and post-war conflict resolution; post-conflict peace, reconciliation and social justice; questions of genocide; self-determination, nationalism and identity politics; conflict, resources and development in Africa. He has demonstrated skills in independent in-depth research and analysis, excellent interpersonal and communication skills in a variety of working environments spanning five countries across three continents.
I have written several expert testimonies and have been qualified numerous times in immigration court as an expert in Country of Origin Information (COI), Asylum, Deportation, Immigration/Migration issues, Human Security issues, Human Rights Claims, State Violence, Discrimination/Persecution Based on Politics, Religion, Ethnicity, Related Cases of people fleeing persecution, violence or conflict from Nigeria, and from other countries in the broader West African sub-region.
As an African social anthropologist, I have taught and designed courses in American Universities bordering on Female genital cutting, Gang-related violence, General country knowledge, LGBTQ+ issues, Political associations, Race/ethnicity, Religion, Trafficking, Violence against children, Violence against women. I equally have extensive experience on a variety of theorical, epistemological and practical cultural problems in African societies.