Dauda Abubakar

Dr. Dauda Abubakar is an Associate Professor of Political Science and African Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, where he also serves as Chair of the Africana Studies Department. His research focuses on identity politics, citizenship, and neoliberal interventions in the Global South, with a regional emphasis on Africa.

He holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) and has held prior academic positions including Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria, and Visiting Professor at Ohio University, Athens (USA). In 2001, he participated as a Senior Fellow in a Ford Foundation-sponsored research program on comparative federalism at the Center for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi, India.

His scholarly work includes peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on postcolonial political economy, humanitarian intervention paradoxes, and violent non-state actors in Africa. He has co-edited a book on Violent Non-State Actors in Africa (2017) and contributed to volumes such as The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa (2015).

Dr. Abubakar teaches courses in Comparative Politics, International Relations, and African Studies, blending theoretical frameworks with empirical analyses of contemporary global challenges.