Isa Egiri is a PhD student in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He won a Government of Uganda Scholarship to pursue his undergraduate studies at Gulu University, gaining a first-class degree in Bachelor of Arts Education (History and Economics). Isa is also a graduate of the University of Cambridge, where he studied for an MPhil in African Studies as a Commonwealth Scholar.

Isa’s PhD project, which builds on his MPhil research at Cambridge, focuses on the role of youth in driving armed rebellions in the Rwenzori borderland of Uganda, a region with a history of near constant guerrilla violence over the last 60 years. Prior to joining LSE, he worked as an Assistant Lecturer in history at Gulu University in northern Uganda.

Provisional Thesis Title: "Rebels without a Pause: Youth, Generation, and Cycles of Guerrilla Violence in the Rwenzori Borderland of Uganda and Congo, 1960s to Present Day."

Supervision: Professor Joanna Lewis and Professor Tim Allen