Florence Onyiuke

Biography

Florence N. Onyiuke, Altamonte Springs, is a 1+1 student pursuing an MSc in African Studies before an MBA at Saïd Business School. At Oxford, she hopes to deepen her understanding of African economies and societies with a view to launching a social enterprise on the continent. Her dissertation, the first step in that direction, studies how people inside the Biafran enclave negotiated the competing monetary rules of Biafra and Nigeria between 1968 and 1970, during the Nigerian Civil War. Florence holds a BA in International Studies and a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Huntsman Program, where her honors thesis on West African migrants in Barcelona’s informal economy won the Rose Undergraduate Research Award, and an adaptation appeared in Case Western Reserve University’s Discussions journal.