Dele Babalola is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy at Baze University, Abuja, Nigeria. He formerly lectured in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, having received his PhD in Politics and Government from this institution. He also obtained an MPhil in West African Politics from the University of Birmingham, UK, an MSc in Research Methods in the Social Sciences from London South Bank University, UK, and a BSc in Political Science from Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria. His research focuses on federalism, political economy, ethnicity, and terrorism in Nigeria.

Hakeem Onapajo is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Nile University, Abuja, Nigeria. He was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Zululand, South Africa, and currently the Editor-in-Chief of The Nigerian Academia, an online magazine on Nigeria’s higher education system. He has taught at the International and Public Affairs Cluster of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, having received a PhD in Political Science from the same institution. He completed his Master’s degree in Political Science at the International Islamic University Malaysia, and his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science at the Lagos State University, Nigeria. He researches in the areas of religion and politics, conflict and terrorism, elections and democratisation and Africa’s international relations.