Chinemelu Okafor is a researcher and scholar originating from Umuoji, Anambra State, Nigeria. Currently, she is a doctoral student, Graduate Prize Fellow, Karl Deutsch Fellow, and 2022 Weatherhead Center Graduate Student Affiliate at Harvard University. Chinemelu’s research aims to address what drives progress towards African economic development outcomes through a normative lens. Namely, she seeks to understand how the origins and evolution of collective political and social behaviors, as well as the structure of society can help inform contemporary development outcomes in West Africa, generally, and in Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal and Benin, specifically.
Contact
cokafor@g.harvard.edu
1737 Cambridge Street
Subfields
Comparative Politics
Academic Interests
Civil Society and Social Movements | Institutions | Political Economy & Development | Political Psychology | Race & Ethnicity | State-Society Relations | State & Local Politics
Research Methods
Experiments | Historical Methods | Qualitative Methods | Quantitative Methods | Surveys
Geographic Regions of Study
Africa