Sylvanus Barnabas
Sylvanus Gbendazhi Barnabas has a Bachelor of Laws degree from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, a Master of Law degree with distinction from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, and a Ph.D. in international human rights law from Northumbria University at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, in 2017. His research focuses mainly on the land rights of indigenous peoples through comparative law approaches based on two theoretical outlooks: legal pluralism and post-colonialism. However, his research was also multi-disciplinary by heuristically touching on anthropology, sociology and history. He is a qualified barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Dr. Sylvanus Gbendazhi Barnabas is currently a senior academic in the Faculty of Law at Nile University of Nigeria, where he teaches various modules in law.