Jude T. Fokwang is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Development Practice at Regis University, Denver, USA since 2013. He holds a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Toronto (2007) and has held previous teaching positions at the University of Cape Town & Rhodes University in South Africa, Trent University and the University of Toronto in Canada. Dr. Fokwang has researched and published on many areas of sociocultural interests in Africa including gender, material culture, religion, chieftaincy politics, socioeconomic development, material culture and youth. His ethnographic film, Something New in Old Town (2016) won the best documentary film category at the Lekki International Film Festival, Lagos, Nigeria (2019). He is author of Mediating Legitimacy: Chieftaincy and Democratisation in Two African Chiefdoms (2009) and a forthcoming monograph – Engendering Moral Citizenship: An Ethnography of Young People’s Associations, Gender and Social Adulthood in an African City (2021). He serves on the advisory board of Africa: The Journal of the International Africa Institute, Anthropology Southern Africa and the Nordic Journal of African Studies. He’s also Executive Publisher at Spears Books – a publishing platform devoted to disseminating African stories on a global scale.