Ekeminiabasi Eyita-Okon is a Lecturer at the School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a political economist whose research interest lies in the nexus between security and development in Africa. Research problems in this area include (but are not limited to) issues pertaining to energy, environment, food, and water security nexus; climate change; green and just transition; securitization; (counter) terrorism, political economy, public policy, and governance. In making sense of these issues, she believes that political economy offers a critical tool of analysis in understanding the factors that shape outcomes in the nexus.