My Profile

Allwell Akhigbe is a graduate student at the Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His Master’s thesis is centred on the challenges and prospects moving across West Africa without visas under the ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement poses for cross-border policing. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Diplomacy from the University of Benin, Nigeria.
He is fascinated by African borders and the dynamics of interactions they engender including border security, migrations, as well as transnational organised crimes which has inspired his recent researches. He is a member of the Association for Borderlands Studies and has presented papers in Europe and Africa at several conferences including the Association for Borderlands Studies and the Border Region in Transition world conferences. Allwell has been the guest of several television and radio media houses in Nigeria sharing knowledge on how to build a much more peaceful society.