Zainab Usman Editor & Author

Zainab Usman is Director of the Africa Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has previously worked at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the International Crisis Group, and the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. She has also consulted for the World Economic Forum on Africa, the Department for International Development (DfID), and the Office of the Nigerian National Security Adviser (ONSA). She has written for CNN, Aljazeera English, The Washington Post, The Conversation, and other international media.