Conference Papers
Research presentations, publications, and talks
2026
When the protector becomes the perpetrator: State coercion and moral shocks in Nigeria’s #EndSARS and Kenya’s #RejectFinanceBill movements
Conference of the Canadian Association of African StudiesToronto, Canada
Read abstractYouth in sustained action: Activist biographies at the intersection of development deadlock and developmental aspirations in Nigeria
Development Studies Association ConferenceUK
Read abstractTracing activist trajectories between democratic origins and futures: A biographical approach.
Lagos Studies Association ConferenceLagos, Nigeria
Read abstract2025
Protests and Polls: The Emotional Journey of Hope in Nigeria - From #EndSARS to the 2023 Elections and Aftermath.
Poster presentation at the White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership ConferenceSheffield, UK
Read abstract‘No gree for anybody’: How women activists in Nigeria navigate tides of resistance.
Development Studies Association Conference (with Azeezat Adekanye)Bath, UK
Read abstractWhen social movement legacies become political capitals: Exploring an African dimension to social movements-elections interrelations.
PSA 75th Annual International ConferenceBirmingham, UK
Read abstract2024
The foreign factor mix? How experiences of UK elections shape immigrants’ political views (with Dr Odeyemi, T. I.)
UK in a Changing Europe and PSA Early Career Network pre-EPOP workshopManchester, UK
Read abstractFrom COVID-19 to fuel subsidy removal in Nigeria: Unveiling local governance (un)changes through collective action.
Governance and Local Development Institute 7th Annual ConferenceSweden
Read abstractFrom traditional to technologically-mediated state surveillance: Experiences and circumvention tactics of Nigerian activists.
Susan Manning interdisciplinary & international workshopsUniversity of Edinburgh & University of the Witwatersrand
Read abstract2023
In a quagmire of pandemics: Perceptions and engagement practices fomenting legislative targeting during social movements in Africa.
Taiwan Foundation for Democracy and the Institute for Parliamentary Research “Parliaments in Crises – Crises in Parliaments” International Workshop (with Dr Odeyemi, T. I.)Taipei, Taiwan
The legislature within a web of pandemics: Evaluating roles, actions, and missteps under a protest climate.
Southern Political Science Association (SPSA) ConferenceFlorida, USA
Read abstract2022
Political power versus the politics of regulation: Nigeria’s Twittersphere and tussles from the #EndSARS protests. Conference on the Regulation of old and new media forms in Africa.
University Centre for Media and Cultural Research.Birmingham, UK
Read abstract2021
Contemporary social movements and Violence: Situating digital technologies and discursive exchanges between.
Political Studies Association Early Career Network (PSA-ECN) ConferenceUK
Read abstractDigital technologies, for or against local NGOs? Exploring shifting norms in mobilizing assistance during COVID-19 in Nigeria.
Development Studies Association Annual ConferenceUK
Read abstractWidening education access to disadvantaged populations through adaptive e-learning features: An exploration of COVID-19 opportunities (Rajkotwalla, M)
London School of Economics (LSE) Student Research ConferenceUK
Read abstractThe quest for development: When social media-brokered political power encounters political ‘flak jackets’
International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) 9.4 Conference.UK
Read abstract2020
Satirical contents, public opinion, and decision making during COVID-19: Critical insights on Nigeria
Political Studies Association Early Career Network (PSA-ECN) ConferenceUK