Rogers Orock
Countries of Expertise
Specialties
- Child Protection/Child Abuse
- Citizenship/Statelessness/Nationality
- Coercive Population Control
- Corruption/Impunity
- Ethnic Discrimination/Persecution
- Gang-Related Violence/Non-State Actors
- Gender-Based Violence (GBV)/Domestic Violence/Family Violence
- Government/State Actor Persecution
- Journalist Persecution
- LGBTQ
- Nationality Assessment
- Police Persecution
- Political Persecution
- Sexual Abuse/Assault
- Torture
- Tribal Discrimination/Persecution
- Witchcraft Accusations/Ritual Violence
About Rogers Orock
Rogers Orock is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Lafayette College. He is a political anthropologist with research interests in the elites, morality, leadership, rumors, Freemasonry, homosexuality, conspiracy theories, and postcolonial political theory. His work focuses on elites, development, rumors, conspiracy theories, and political morality in West Africa. He is the co-author, with Peter Geschiere, of Conspiracy Narratives in Postcolonial Africa: Freemasonry, Homosexuality, and Illicit Enrichment (2024, University of Chicago Press) and co-editor, with Wale Adebanwi, of Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa (2021). He is currently working on a book on elites, development, and political morality in postcolonial Cameroon. His public writing has appeared in The Conversation and the South African Institute of International Affairs Briefing.
