J. Peter Pham
Director, Africa Center, Atlantic Council
Dr. J. Peter Pham is Director of the Atlantic Council's Africa Center. He also serves as the incumbent Vice President of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), an academic organization representing some 1,300 scholars of Middle Eastern and African Studies at more than 300 colleges and universities in the United States and overseas, and is Editor-in-Chief of ASMEA's peer-reviewed Journal of the Middle East and Africa.
While claims last week by a Nigerian army spokesman that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau was “fatally wounded” in an August 19 airstrike should be taken with a dose of skepticism—the military has [...] More
