Dr. Oge Samuel Okonkwo is a conflict historian and political risk analyst based in Lagos, Nigeria, and founder of Sahel Consulting Solutions. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Ghana, where his doctoral research examined the Igbo separatist movement in Nigeria from 1970 to 2015, and an MSc in Defence and Strategic Studies from the Nigerian Defence Academy. He completed a Visiting Fellowship at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) in The Hague in 2025. His work focuses on Sahelian jihadist movements and Nigerian conflict history, published across Medium, LinkedIn and Substack.