Barbara Elaine Harrell-Bond (née Moir) OBE (7 November 1932[1] – 11 July 2018) was an American-born British social anthropologist in the field of refugee studies.
On retirement in 1996, she conducted research on the extent to which refugees enjoy their rights in exile in Kenya and Uganda.
In September 2008, she returned to Oxford where she worked on establishing a website, www.refugeelegalaidinformation.org, an information platform for legal aid practitioners in the global south as director of the Refugee Programme of Fahamu Trust, an international NGO working on social justice issues.
On his return to America in 1969, they divorced, and she took the children with her whilst conducting research in Sierra Leone for her dissertation.
[10] She married secondly, in 1972, Dr Samuel Nwafor Okeke, a Nigerian engineer she met in Sierra Leone; they subsequently divorced.