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Ifeanyichukwu Charles Nweke is a Security Studies scholar at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University. His work bridges securitisation theory, postcolonial theory, and security politics in postcolonial Nigeria through immersive ethnographic fieldwork. His dissertation, Àmọ̀tẹ́kùn As Colonial Afterlife: How Colonial Legacies Shape Security Politics, Conflict and Governance in Southwest Nigeria, examines colonial continuities in Nigerian security politics using novel data from the Amotekun Court and interviews across Southwest Nigeria. The work combines empirical depth with theoretical innovation — most notably “internalised securitisation,” which theorises securitised groups’ pragmatic agency under structural constraints — using Miyetti Allah’s internal security practices as its empirical anchor, thereby resolving the so-called “silencing problem” in securitisation theory.

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