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, sexuality, conspiracy theories,  and political imagination in postcolonial 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).