Cletus Nwankwo

Cletus taught at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) and is studying for a PhD at the University of Leicester, UK. He is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in the UK and a member of the American Association of Geographers, EIS-AFRICA and International Geographical Union Commission on Geography of Governance. Cletus has over six years of teaching, research and administrative experience in higher education. He holds the esteemed Associate Fellow (AFHEA) conferred by Advance HE, in recognition of attainment against the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education. This underscores an unwavering pursuit of excellence in higher education and active involvement in fostering an enriched learning environment for students. He is a post-human enthusiast interested in the more-than-human perspectives on conflicts. He has researched the intersection of climate change, farmer-herder conflicts and urbanisation in Nigeria. Also, his research has looked at voting patterns in the Nigerian elections of the fourth Republic. His future research interests are the intersection of conflicts, security, peace and climate finance. His PhD is in post-human geopolitics of conflict in Nigeria, funded by the Commonwealth Scholarships Commission in the UK at the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment at the University of Leicester. Cletus has a background in Environmental Politics and Climate Change as he studied for a MA in Politics and International Relations (Environmental Politics and Climate Change) funded by the Commonwealth Scholarships at the University of Keele, UK. He studied Geography at the University of Nigeria and graduated top of his class in 2014 with First Class Honours. Also, he was the best student in the Faculty of Social Sciences in 2014.

My research have explored political participation and voting patterns in Nigerian elections climate change vulnerability and critical geopolitics and political ecology of the farmer-herder conflicts in Nigeria landscape political memories of rural land struggles. My current research builds on the intersections of geography and environmental politics to explore the ways that humans and nonhuman coproduce the farmer-herder conflicts in Nigeria from geopolitics perspective. The research is supervised initially by Professor Gavin Brown and Caroline Upton but Professor Gavin Brown now acts as an external supervisor as leaving the University of Leicester. Associate Professor Margaret Byron has now joined my supervision team.

Nwankwo, C. F., Ossai, O. G., Ayadiuno, R. U., & Ikeogu, C. C. (2021). Spatial dimension of climate change vulnerability and urbanization relationship in Nigeria. International Journal of Urban Sciences, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/12265934.2021.1956365

Madu, I. A., & Nwankwo, C. F. (2021). Spatial pattern of climate change and farmer-herder conflict vulnerabilities in Nigeria. GeoJournal, 86(6), 2691-2707. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-020-10223-2

Nwankwo, C. F. (2020). Essentialising critical geopolitics of the farmers-pastoralists conflicts in West Africa. GeoJournal, 85(5), 1291-1308. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-019-10023-3

Ezeibe, C. C., Nzeadibe, T. C., Ali, A. N., Udeogu, C. U., Nwankwo, C. F., & Ogbodo, C. (2017). Work on wheels: collective organising of motorcycle taxis in Nigerian cities. International Development Planning Review, 39(3). https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2017.10

Nwankwo, C. F., & Ayadiuno, R. U. (2021). Landscape memories of land struggles in plateaus of two Nsukka villages in Nigeria. Human Geography, 19427786211039296. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F19427786211039296 

Nwankwo, C. F., & Okafor, U. P. (2021). Moral wrongs, indigeneity and the enactment of farmer-herder conflicts violence in South-Eastern Nigeria. GeoScape, 15(2), 120-133. https://doi.org/10.2478/geosc-2021-0010

Nwankwo, C. F. (2021). COVID-19 pandemic and political participation in Lagos, Nigeria. SN Social Sciences, 1(6), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-021-00161-2

Nwankwo, C. F. (2019). The spatial pattern of voter choice homogeneity in the Nigerian presidential elections in the fourth republic. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, (43), 143-165. http://doi.org/10.2478/bog-2019-0010

Nwankwo, C. F. (2019). Determinants of voter turnout in Nsukka council of Enugu state, south eastern Nigeria. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 45(45), 109-124. http://doi.org/10.2478/bog-2019-0027

Nwankwo, C. F. (2020). Rurality and party system fragmentation in the Nigerian presidential elections of the fourth republic. Statistics, Politics and Policy, 11(1), 59-85. https://doi.org/10.1515/spp-2019-0007 

Nwankwo, C. F. (2019). Religion and voter choice homogeneity in the Nigerian presidential elections of the fourth Republic. Statistics, Politics and Policy, 10(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1515/spp-2018-0010

I am not a research supervisor. So I cannot supervise students at the University of Leicester.

I have demonstrated in two modules.

1. GY2411: Critical Geographies of Environment and Development

2. GY3411 Contemporary Environmental Challenges

I am happy to speak to the press on issues of climate change vulnerability and conflicts in Nigeria and Africa; the conflicts between farmers and herders elections and political participation.