Faculty

Email Address

peter.sekyere@mail.utoronto.ca

Education

  • B.A., University of Ghana
  • M.Phil., University of Oslo
  • M.A., Brock University
  • Ph.D. in progress, University of Toronto

Peter Sekyere

Course Instructor

Biography

Peter’s research interests include the political economy of Africa’s development, secession movements in postcolonial Africa, diffusion theory and human rights. His dissertation studies the role of diffusion mechanisms in understanding the rise of secession movements and their choice of strategic behaviour in the struggle for independence against the parent-state in postcolonial Africa.