Dr. Obert Hodzi

Obert Hodzi is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Politics at the University of Liverpool, UK, with research interests in the politics of human rights and development, and non-Western emerging powers in global governance with empirical expertise in China and Africa. He is author of the book The End of a Non-Intervention Era: China in African Civil Wars (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and editor of Chinese in Africa: 'Chineseness' and the Complexities of Identities (Routledge, 2020). Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has been a visiting researcher at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Nordic Africa Institute, Renmin University of China, and the African Studies Centre at Boston University. He also worked for international and regional organizations in Zimbabwe, Kenya and Germany on democratic governance and transitional justice projects – and is admitted as a legal practitioner in the High Court of Zimbabwe.