Boniface Dulani

Biography

Boniface Dulani is an associate professor of Political Science in the Department of Politics and Government at the University of Malawi. He joined Afrobarometer in 2008 as a graduate research assistant while earning his doctorate in political science at Michigan State University (MSU). In 2011, he became fieldwork operations manager for southern and francophone Africa. In 2020, he assumed the position of director of surveys at Afrobarometer.

Boni works closely with a survey team that includes a deputy director of surveys, senior progamme manager, network data manager-fieldwork and Afrobarometer’s program managers based at the Core Partners in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa to plan and manage all survey and fieldwork activities.

Boni has published and consulted widely on African politics, focusing mostly on Democracy and Governance; Political Economy Analysis, local development; education; public health; youth; participation of women in politics, to give but a few examples. His work on presidential term limits, executive succession, democracy, elections, Social movements, legislature and executive relations, tolerance, elections, Covid-19, among several topics,  has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.

He is based in Zomba, Malawi, where he heads the Afrobarometer Survey Support Unit at the University of Malawi.