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Rachel Sittoni

Rachel Sittoni

Rachel Sittoni is a PhD candidate in Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Cambridge. She holds an MSc in Security, Leadership and Society from King’s College London. Her PhD research concerns youth politics as mediated by Police violence in...
Diekara Oloruntoba-Oju

Diekara Oloruntoba-Oju

Diekara is from Nigeria and completed her MPhil with distinction in 2020, with her dissertation on the recent history of representations of the queer self in Nigerian youth texts. She is now a secondyear PhD student at Harvard University in African and African...
Daisy Vuyanzi

Daisy Vuyanzi

Daisy is from Kenya and completed her MPhil with a thesis on the women’s grassroots economic organizations in political campaigns. She is now completing an MA in Development Studies at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and is applying to PhD...
Olerato Mogomotsi

Olerato Mogomotsi

I decided to study an MPhil in African Studies because I wanted to engage more rigorously with the varying contexts, conversations, ideas and concepts that are born from the African continent. Primarily being a philosopher, specialising in the areas of ontological...
Daniel Whyte

Daniel Whyte

Daniel is from Nigeria and is writing his MPhil dissertation on diasporic literature between West Africa and the UK. He has applied to PhD programmes, including at Cambridge.