Sobukwe Odinga

Biography

Sobukwe Odinga is an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at UCLA. His areas of expertise are International Relations theory, African regionalism and security cooperation, and race and US foreign policy. His current research focuses on the global security relations of African states, with an emphasis on intelligence cooperation and covert operations. His book project, Arms Outstretched: Diplomacy, Intelligence, and US-Africa Security Politics, examines the bargaining and negotiations that sustain US-Africa intelligence liaisons and the implications of these liaisons for regional conflict in Africa. He is also working on a monograph that explores shifting African American conceptions of US national security in the context of contemporary US domestic and international counterterrorism policies. Dr. Odinga recently completed a Vice Provost Postdoctoral Fellowship at The University of Pennsylvania.