Bonny Ibhawoh
Nigerian of history)
Bonny Ibhawoh is the Senator William McMaster Chair in Global Human Rights, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Expert-Rapporteur, United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development, UN-OHCHR and Founding Director, Centre for Human Rights and Restorative Justice
Education
Bonny Ibhawoh earned his MA in History from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria and a Ph.D. in History Dalhousie University Halifax, Canada. Ibhawoh was on the Killam Scholarship, one of the most prestigious scholarships given to doctoral students in Canada. His doctoral dissertation explored the tensions in imperial and anti-colonial discourses of human rights in Africa.
Career
Bonny Ibhawoh began his academic career as a lecturer at Bendel State University, Nigeria (now, Ambrose Alli University). He has held faculty appointments at the University of Lagos and Covenant University in Nigeria, Brock University, Canada, and the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He was a Human Rights Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, New York, Research Fellow at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen and Associate Member of the Centre for African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Bonny Ibhawoh is currently the Vice Provost (International Affairs) and professor of Global Human Rights and African Studies at McMaster University. He also teaches in the McMaster Arts & Science Program and the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition. His scholarship includes studies in the history of human rights, the cultural relativism of human rights, the right to development and peace/conflict studies. He is also the author of several books on African History, Human Rights and Peace & Conflict studies including Imperialism and Human Rights , and Imperial Justice: Africans in Empire's Court, and Human Rights in Africa (Cambridge University Press).
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