She holds a PhD in Sociology from Queen’s University, Canada and has research interests in human rights, postcolonial feminisms, development theory and globalization. Within a postcolonial African feminist theoretical framework, Dr. Bawa focuses on discourses of culture, women’s rights and empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa by examining the ways in which historical forces and events shape current political, economic, cultural and social circumstances whilst highlighting the particular contradictory and paradoxical outcomes they produce at national, global and local levels. She has published works in Third World Quarterly, the International Journal of Public Administration, Development in Practice and the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.