Luqman Muraina

Luqman Muraina is a PhD researcher and Researcher at the University of York, UK, affiliated with the Department of Politics. He is a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the 2024/25 session and has previously served as a Tutorial assistant at the Sociology Department of the University of Cape Town, South Africa (2021-2022). His work focuses on decolonizing academic disciplines, particularly Development Studies and Sociology, through alternative epistemologies rooted in African contexts.

• Education: BSc in Sociology from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria
• Education: MSc in Sociology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa

His research interests center on rethinking development paradigms in Nigeria and globally, with a critical lens on Eurocentrism, colonial legacies, and knowledge production in African higher education. His methodological approach includes qualitative and ethnographic inquiry, focusing on institutional change and pedagogical practices.

His publications span themes such as educational transformation in postcolonial Africa, gender dynamics in Indigenous cultures, health equity during pandemics, and youth entrepreneurship. He has presented at international conferences, including the ESSA conference (2023) on decolonizing development and the University of Glasgow (2023) on curriculum decolonization.

He is supervised by Sara de Jong and Eleanor Brown and can be contacted at llm529@york.ac.uk. His work aligns with global discourses on social justice, particularly in academic and development contexts.