Isa Egiri is a PhD student in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He won a Government of Uganda Scholarship to pursue his undergraduate studies at Gulu University, gaining a first-class degree in Bachelor of Arts Education (History and Economics). Isa is also a graduate of the University of Cambridge, where he studied for an MPhil in African Studies as a Commonwealth Scholar.
Isa’s PhD project, which builds on his MPhil research at Cambridge, focuses on the role of youth in driving armed rebellions in the Rwenzori borderland of Uganda, a region with a history of near constant guerrilla violence over the last 60 years. Prior to joining ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, he worked as an Assistant Lecturer in history at Gulu University in northern Uganda.
Provisional Thesis Title: "Rebels without a Pause: Youth, Generation, and Cycles of Guerrilla Violence in the Rwenzori Borderland of Uganda and Congo, 1960s to Present Day."
Supervision: Professor Joanna Lewis and Professor Tim Allen