Dr Clement Sefa-Nyarko is a Lecturer in Security, Development and Leadership in Africa, at the African Leadership Centre at King's. Clement is both an academic and international development practitioner with over a decade’s experience in designing, managing and leading several projects in Africa and the Asia Pacific.

His expertise includes design thinking and application of methodological innovations to research and evaluation of programmes in almost all social and political contexts in Africa, especially Ghana, Kenya, South Sudan and Nigeria.

Clement’s areas of interest include natural resource governance, political theories of the state, social protection, security, and leadership. He has produced several knowledge products in the form of policy briefs, reports, public presentations, book chapters, and peer reviewed papers in high impact international journals.

Clement obtained his doctoral degree from La Trobe University in Australia, where he focussed on a critical appraisal of the natural resource curse discourse using political theory analyses. Clement has completed two MA degrees, on Population Studies and Conflict, and Security and Development obtained from King's and the University of Ghana. He completed his BA in Sociology with Study of Religions.

Research

• Natural Resource Governance
• Political Theories of the State
• Leadership in Peace and Security
• Institutional Design
• Decolonisation and Decolonial Theories
• Methodological Approaches to Research and Evaluation

Clement’s research contributes to interdisciplinary debates in four broad areas namely: peace and security, critical development studies and politics, natural resource governance, and leadership in the contexts of transitions from war to peace and in democratic contexts in Africa.

He specialises in both qualitative and quantitative research. His methodological approach is based on decolonized theories and thinking that involves an interrogation of the theory and practice of institutional design, leadership, and nation building in Africa. His background in demography also means that he reflects on the interaction between peace, security and population distributions.

Teaching

• 7YYFN037 Leadership and Society
• 7YYFSGA5 Research Methods in Global Leadership
• Natural Resource Governance

PhD supervision

Clement invites PhD students interested in the following themes:

• Natural Resource Governance
• Political Theories of the State Leadership in Peace and Security
• Institutional Design
• Decolonisation and Decolonial Theories
• Methodological Approaches to Research and Evaluation
• State-Society engagements (Open governance)
• Social Identities

Further details

See Clement's research profile