Dr. Jackson A. Aluede is a lecturer at the Department of History & International Studies, Anchor University, Lagos (Nigeria). His research areas cover border and borderlands studies, African history, foreign policy, and global governance, as well as regional integration and regionalism. He is a recipient of the prestigious REGIONS2050 Fellowship of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Aluede has published extensively in local and foreign journals and books.