Sa?eed Husaini is a researcher, organizer, and educator. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Development in Abuja, where he leads a project to digitize the family-held archives of Nigerian left and prodemocracy activists from the 1940s to the 1990s. His research examines how the economic and political transition at the end of the 20th century remapped the ideological spectrum in Nigeria. His wider work is animated by an interest in examining how elite and popular political ideas about capitalism and democracy intersect to shape the practices of organizing, coercion, and governance in contemporary Africa. He holds a DPhil in International Development from the University of Oxford and was a 2023 Fellow of the African Humanities Program, supported by the American Council for Learned Societies. He has previously held research and teaching positions at the Universities of Oxford, Lagos, and Ghana.