Ato Kwamena Onoma (Senior Program Officer) joined CODESRIA in November 2013. He is the author of The politics of property rights institutions in Africa (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Anti-refugee violence and African politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013). He holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Ghana, Legon and a doctorate in Political Science from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.