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Philip Aka, LL.M. ’08; S.J.D. ’16, has published his latest book, titled “Navigating the Tension Between Sovereignty and Self-Determination in Postcolonial Africa.” The work traces the intricacies of five self-determination struggles across key African states: Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Cameroon. It was published by Springer Link.

Previously, Aka served as a Fulbright specialist in Sierra Leone. There, he worked with the legal department at the Campaign for Human Rights and Development International in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital.

Aka served as dean of the law faculty at the International University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2018 to 2020 and then taught as a visiting professor at Southern University School of Law in Carbondale, Illinois. In addition, he has completed six books:

• Genetic Counseling and Preventive Healthcare in Post-War Bosnia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

• Bosnia as Civic State and Global Citizen: Alternative Futures Outside the EU” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)

• Healthcare and Economic Restructuring: Nigeria in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

• The Political Economy of Universal Healthcare in Africa: Evidence from Ghana” (Routledge, 2022)

• Humor in Pedagogy in Tertiary Education in the Age of COVID-19: Bosnia in Comparative Perspective” (Lexington Books, 2022)

• Improving Disability Laws under Nigeria's Fourth Republic: Ten Measured Steps in the Future” (Lexington Books, 2022)