CURRICULUM VITAE
(I) FULL NAME: OLUKOJU, Ayodeji Oladimeji (Professor)
(II) PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH: Oka-Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria; 9 June 1959
(III) MARITAL STATUS AND NUMBER OF CHILDREN:
Married, with four children- Oluwadamilola (F); Omolola (F); Oreoluwa (F) and Oluwaseyi (M)
(IV) ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
B.A. History and Archaeology, First Class Honours, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1980 M.A. History, University of Ibadan, 1982 Ph.D, History, University of Ibadan, 1991
(V) TEACHING, ADMINISTRATIVE AND MANAGERIAL
EXPERIENCE:
(a) TEACHING:
(a) University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria, 1987 till date:
Professor of History, 1998 till date
Senior Lecturer, 1991-98
Lecturer I, 1989-91
Lecturer II, 1987-89
(b) Ogun State University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria, 1984-87
Lecturer II, 1986/87
Assistant Lecturer, 1984-86.
Undergraduate Courses Taught:
University of Lagos: HSS 413: Transformation of Japan from the Meiji Restoration to 1945; HSS 416: Nationalism and Colonialism in India; HIS 406: Theories and Concepts of International Relations; HIS 408: History of International Relations, 1914-60; HIS 318: Political History of Nigeria, 1914-66; HIS 309: East and Central Africa in the 19thC; HSS 309: Shipping and Maritime Trade in the Age of Steam; HIS 207: Southern Africa, 1500-1800; HIS 203: East Africa, 1500-1800; HSS 202: Introduction to Maritime History; HIS 112: Introduction to Economic History. Ogun State University: HIS 302: History of Nigeria since 1800; HIS 206: History of Southern Africa, 1500-1800; HIS 202: History of West Africa, 1500-1800
Postgraduate Courses Taught: University of Lagos: HIS 801: Historiography; HIS 812: Economic History of Japan, 1868-1952; HIS 814: Economic History of West Africa in the 20thC
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(b) POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION PhD thesis Supervision: Dr. Obichere.C. Iwuagwu, “A Socio-Economic History of Food Crop Production in Igboland, 1900-1980: A Study of Yam, Cocoyam and Cassava.” (PhD thesis, 1999) Dr. Uche Igwe, “The Impact of Migrant Labour from Owerri Province on the Economy of Eastern Nigeria, 1915-1965.” (PhD thesis, 2003)
Dr. Paul Osifodunrin, “Violent Crimes in Lagos, 1861-2000: Nature, Responses and Impact.” (PhD thesis, 2008)
Dr. Ganiyu Olanrewaju Davies, “The Interconnectedness of Urbanization and Colonial Land Policies in Lagos, 1914-60”(PhD thesis, 2009)
Mr. Anthony Ali – on Inland Water Transport in the Lower Niger Region, ready for title defence.
MA Supervision:
Felix Aladetohun, “A History of the Lagos Town Council, 1917-1967” (1994)
Olabisi A. Kareem, “Agricultural Development in Egbaland, 1900-1960” (1996)
Paul A. Osifodunrin, “Agricultural and Social Changes in Obafemi-Owode, 1950-1995” (1997)
Ngozi T. Ezeigwe, “Port Development in Nigeria: A Study of Post-Independence Port Policies” (2001)
Valentine E. Madubuko, “A History of the National Maritime Authority (NMA), 1987-2002” (2002)
Wilfred F. Akemu, “A History of the Evolution and Development of Government Reservation Areas in Lagos State: Ikoyi as a Case Study” (2004)
(c) RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
(1) Postdoctoral Fellowship Research Grants (all disbursed and utilized in the respective countries):
DAAD, Germany (2005)
WARA, USA (2005)
British Academy, UK (1999)
Leventis Foundation, UK (1998)
Chapman Foundation, UK (1997)
Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo, Japan (1993/94)
Japan Foundation (1993/94)
Individual Grants (utilized in Nigeria and France):
Central Research Committee, University of Lagos (1989)
CODESRIA, Dakar (1990)
IFRA, Ibadan/Paris (2001)
PRUD, France (2003)
Guaranty Trust Bank, Lagos (2004-2005)
Group/Network Grants:
GDRI Governing Cities in Africa Project (French and South African funders)
Commodities of Empire Research Network (British Academy Grant), 2007
ISTED/GEMDEV, France for water supply and markets in Lagos, (2006)
PRUD Grant for Urban Research from French Government (2003)
(d) ADMINISTRATIVE AND MANAGERIAL EXPERIENCE:
Member, Ghana Universities Accreditation Board Panel on History and Political Studies, 2008.
Chair, Panel on Arts Disciplines, Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards (BMAS) for Postgraduate Programmes in Nigerian Universities, National Universities Commission, Abuja, 2008.
Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, August 2005-July 2009 (two terms).
Head, Department of History, University of Lagos, May 2001-July 2004.
External Examiner, University of Ibadan, Obafemi Awolowo University, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Lagos State University, Olabisi Onabanjo University (formerly Ogun State University), Redeemer’s University, Mowe, various years, 1997 till date.
Professorial Assessor, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; University of Ghana, Legon; University of Benin, Nigeria; Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos; Lagos State University, Ojo, Nigeria; Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria; Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria; Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria; Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria; University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
Member, University of Lagos Development Committee, 2005-2009.
Member, Committee of Provost and Deans, University of Lagos, 2005-2009.
Member-in-attendance, University of Lagos Appointments and Promotions Committee (as Dean of Arts), 2005-2009.
Member, University of Lagos Foundations (pre-Degree Diploma) Management Board, 2005-2009.
Member, University of Lagos Academic Planning Committee, 2004-06.
Member, University of Lagos Central Research Committee, 2002 till date.
Member, University of Lagos Publications Committee, 1997-99.
Member, University of Lagos COSIT/Distance Learning Institute Management Committee, 1997/98.
Member, University of Lagos Senate, 1997-99, 2001 till date.
Chair and Member, Senate Panels on Senior Staff Misconduct, 2004, 2008.
Chair, Faculty of Business Administration Examination Misconduct Panel, 2003-2004.
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Screening of Student Ex-Cult Members, 2001/2002.
Departmental Representative, Board of Postgraduate Studies, University of Lagos, 1993.
Member, University of Lagos Faculty of Arts and Department of History Committees on Research, Publications, Appointments and Promotions (Professorial and Non-Professorial) and Examinations, 1987 till date.
Member, Curriculum Committee, Anchor University (sponsored by faith-based organization), 2009-
Chair, Local Organizing Committee, IAABD Conference, Lagos 2010.
Ex-Officio Member, Parent-Teacher Association Executive Committee, International School, University of Lagos, 2009-
Rapporteur, Conferences of Deans of Social Sciences and Humanities in African Universities, Dakar, June 2007 and November 2007; Yaounde, December 2008.
Chair, Local Organizing Committee, Nigerian Academy of Letters, August 2008.
Nwafor Orizu Foundation Lecturer, 2008
Co-Rapporteur, Conference of Pro-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, University of Lagos, 2007.
Distinguished Speaker, Prize-Giving and Graduation Ceremonies, Jextoban, Good Shepherd and Bright Future Secondary Schools, Lagos, 2007-2009.
Oka Day Annual Lecturer, 2004.
Manuscript assessor, International Journal of African Historical Studies (US), International Journal of Maritime History (Canada), Journal of Contemporary African Studies (South Africa), Oye: Ogun Journal of Arts; Lagos Historical Review; Lagos Notes and Records; ITAN: Ekpoma Journal of History (Nigeria), 1996-
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of History and Diplomatic Studies, 2004-
Member (Co-Rapporteur for 2000 only), Infrastructure Work Group/Policy Commission, Nigerian Economic Summit, 2000-2003.
Member, Editorial Board, Ayebaye: Babcock Journal of History and International Studies, 2002-
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Cultural Studies, 1999-
Member, Electoral Commission, Student Union Elections, University of Lagos, 1988.
Member (representing Old Students), Board of Governors, African Church Grammar School, Oka-Akoko-1984-87.
Editor-in-Chief, Lagos Notes and Records, 2005-2009.
Editor-in-Chief, Annals of the Faculty of Arts, 2005-2007; 2007-2009.
Editor-in-Chief, Faculty Monographs Series, 2005-2009.
Editor-in-Chief, Faculty Distinguished Lectures Series, 2007-2009.
Editor-in-Chief, Faculty Valedictory Lectures Series, 2006-2009.
Editor-in-Chief, Lagos Historical Review, 2002-2004.
Consultant (Energy Policy), Nigerian Labour Congress, 2008.
Consultant, Guaranty Trust Bank PLC, Nigeria, 2004/5.
Consultant, Ministry of Justice, Lagos State (Expert Witness at Supreme Court)
Consultant, Ministry of Works and Infrastructure, Lagos State, Nigeria, 2004.
Editorial Consultant, Routledge Press, UK; Thomson Gale Publishers, US.
Consultant, WOTRO: Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research.
Pioneer Chair, Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program (IFP) Selection
Committee for Nigeria and Member of West African Selection Committee,
2000/2001; Chair, IFP Selection Committee for Nigeria, 2007/08, 2008/09,
2009/10.
Chair, Nigerian and West African IFP Selection Committees, 2001/2002.
Resource Person, SEPHIS (Amsterdam) and CODESRIA (Dakar) Workshop on Social History (Southern Hemisphere), 2002.
(VI) ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS:
(a) PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITIONS:
Member, UCL Urban Laboratory Board, University College London, 2009.
Executive Member (Treasurer), International Maritime Economic History Association (IMEHA), 2008-2012 (first-ever African member).
Member, Editorial Board, Afrika Zamani, Journal of Association of African Historians, 2000-2007.
Member, Editorial Board, African Economic History (Madison, Wisconsin), 1998-
(b) POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:
University of Lagos Best Researcher in the Arts/Humanities, 2006.
DAAD Fellow, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, 2005.
Scholar-in-Residence/West African Research Association (WARA) Travel Grant, Institute of African Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, 2005.
British Academy Visiting Research Fellow, 1999.
Leventis Research Co-operation Visiting Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1998.
Henry Charles Chapman Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies,
University of London, 1997.
Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo, 1993/94.
Japan Foundation Fellow, 1993/94.
(c) PRE-DOCTORAL AWARDS:
Federal Government of Nigeria Postgraduate Scholarship (Merit), 1983/84.
University of Ibadan Postgraduate Scholarship, 1981/82.
Best Graduating Student Prize, Faculty of Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1980.
Best Graduating Student Prize, Department of History and Archaeology, 1980.
Nnaoke Arunsi Prize for Best Graduating Student in History and Archaeology, 1980.
Nigerian Federal Merit Award, 1978-80.
(VII) MEMBERSHIP OF ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL BODIES:
Member, International Academy of African Business and Development (IAABD).
Member, Euro-African Association for the Study of the Anthropology of Social Change (APAD).
Member, Commodities of Empire Research Network.
Member, GDRI Urban Research Network on African Cities.
Executive Committee Member (Treasurer), International Maritime Economic History Association (IMEHA).
Member, Association of African Historians.
Member, African Studies Association (ASA), USA.
Member, Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA).
Member, SEPHIS (South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development)
Associate Member, Maritime Studies Research Unit, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada.
Member, Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL).
Member, New York Academy of Sciences.
Member, Historical Society of Nigeria
Member, American Studies Association of Nigeria (ASAN)
(VIII) MAJOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED (AS KEYNOTE SPEAKER OR PAPER PRESENTER):
“Fifty Years to European Decolonization in Africa,” Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, 28-29 December 2009.
GDRI Final Conference, “Governing Cities in Africa,” University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 30 November-2 December 2009.
African Union/UNESCO Workshop on the Review of the General History of Africa, CELHTO, Niamey, 2-3 November 2009.
“Revisiting Modernisation,” University of Ghana, Legon, 27-31 July 2009.
CODESRIA 12th General Assembly, Hotel Mont Phebe, Yaounde, Cameroun, 7-11 December 2008.
Third Conference of Deans of Social Sciences and Humanities in African Universities, Hotel Luxtral, Yaounde, Cameroun, 4-6 December 2008. (Also served as Conference Rapporteur).
“On the Waterfront” International Conference, Liverpool, 19-21 November 2008. (Plenary Speaker),
Ports of the Atlantic Sessions, XVIIIth Canary-American Colloquium, Casa Colon, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain, 13-18 October 2008 (Keynote Speaker).
European Association for Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) Conference, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, 24-28 June 2008.
International Maritime Economic History Association Congress, University of Greenwich, London, 23-27 June 2008.
International Academy of African Business and Development 2008 Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, 20-23 May 2008
“Flammable Cities: Fire, Urban Environment and Culture in History,” German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, 15-17 May 2008
“Ports across Empires,” Second Commodities of Empire Research Network Workshop, The British Academy, London, 27 March 2008.
“Jugurta: Territorialisation and Spatial Justice in Cities of the South,” University of Paris X, Nanterre, 17-18 March 2008.
Second Conference of Deans of Social Science and Humanities in African Universities, CODESRIA, Dakar, 28-30 November 2007. (Also served as Conference Rapporteur).
International Conference on “Belonging in Europe: The African Diaspora and Work, c. 1400-1945,” University College, London/Docklands Museum, 8-9 November 2007.
International Conference on “Afro-Japanese Relations in Historical Perspective,” Johannesburg, South Africa, 31 October - 4 November 2007
“Commodities of Empire”, Ferguson Centre for Asian and African Studies, The Open University, Camden Town, London, 13-14 July 2007.
Inaugural Conference of Deans of Social Science and Humanities in African Universities, CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal, 21-23 June 2007. (Also served as Conference Rapporteur).
“Money in Africa,” The British Museum, London, 9-11 March 2007
Inaugural Conference, International Research Group on African Cities, Institute of Political Studies, Bordeaux, France, 31 January-2 March 2007
African Studies Association (ASA), San Francisco, USA, 16-19 November 2006
Institute of Ethnology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, 13 July 2005
Twentieth International Congress of Historical Sciences, Sydney, Australia, 3-9 July 2005
Commonwealth History Seminar Series, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 20 June 2005.
US-West Africa Conference, University of Texas at Arlington, 28-30 April 2005.
Baraza Seminar Series, Centre of African Studies, University of Florida at Gainesville, 22 April 2005.
Department of Economics Seminar, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, 20 April 2005.
African and African American Studies Seminar, Arizona State University, Tempe, 13 April 2005.
Institute of African Studies and Department of History Joint Seminar, Emory University, Atlanta, 4 April 2005.
Global History Program Seminar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 24
March 2005.
ISTED/GEMDEV Programme on Urban Development (PRUD) Conference, UNESCO, Paris, 4-6 May 2004.
XIth Annual Conference, Latin American Association of African and Asian Studies, Mexico City, 12-15 November 2003 (Keynote Speaker).
Programme on Urban Development (PRUD) Workshop, Dakar, Senegal, 7-12 April 2003.
Joint Seminar, Institute of African Studies/Department of History, Emory University, Atlanta, USA, 5 April 2003.
“African Urban Spaces: History and Culture,” University of Texas, Austin, 28-30
March 2003.
“Emergent Actors in African Political Economy and Society”, Institute of Developing Economies, Makuhari (near Tokyo), Japan, February 2003.
Extended Workshop on Social History, CODESRIA, Dakar, September/October 2002.
Workshop on Urban Facilities and Infrastructure, University of Paris VII, 24 June 2002.
“Globalization and Its Discontents, Revisited,” Kuala Lumpur, 14-16 June 2002
“The Governance of Daily Life in Africa”, African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands, 24-26 May 2002.
“African Universities in the 21st Century,” CODESRIA, Dakar, 25-27 April 2002.
Third Congress of the Association of African Historians, Bamako, Mali, 10-14 September 2001.
“Seascapes: Social and Economic Exchanges in Coastal Regions,” NIAS, Wassenaar, The Netherlands, January 2000
“Black Business in Africa and the United States of America,” University of Texas, Arlington, 4-6 November 1999
West Africa Seminar, University College, London, November 1998
Twelfth International Economic History Congress, Madrid, Spain, 26-28 August 1998
Africa’s Urban Past, SOAS, University of London, June 1996
(IX) RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Nigerian and West African Maritime, Urban, Business, Economic and Social History
Comparative History: Nigeria /Japan/Britain/Global
Biographies
(X) PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS:
1. AUTHORED:
(i) FOREIGN (3):
2006 - Culture and Customs of Liberia, Westport, CT (USA): Greenwood Press (xix, 154pp.)
2004 -The ‘Liverpool’ of West Africa: The Dynamics and Impact of Maritime Trade in Lagos, 1900-1950, Trenton, NJ (USA): Africa World Press (xiv, 274pp).
1996 - Maritime Trade, Port Development and Administration: The Japanese Experience and Lessons for Nigeria, Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies (No. 268; xiii, 302pp).
(ii) LOCAL (5):
2007 - The Fourteenth Commissar of Works: The Life and Labour of Rauf Aregbesola, Lagos and Winnipeg: Bluesign Publications and Canadian Centre for Global Studies (viii, 200pp).
2006 - Ports, Hinterlands and Forelands, Inaugural Lectures Series, Lagos: University
of Lagos Press (ii, 40pp).
2003a -A Plan for the ‘Re-organization’ of Nigeria, Distinguished Faculty Lectures Series, Akungba-Akoko: Faculty of Arts and Education, Adekunle Ajasin University (No.1; vi, 32pp).
2003b - Infrastructure Development and Urban Facilities in Lagos, 1861-2000, Ibadan: Institut Française de Rechèrche en Afrique (xiv, 155pp).
2002 - Positive Leadership in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa, Positive Leadership Monograph Series, No.3, Ikorodu, Nigeria: Centre for Social Science Research and Development (vi, 40pp).
2. CO-EDITED (4):
2008 - Global Understanding in the Age of Terrorism, Lagos: University of Lagos Press (xii, 268pp). (With Muyiwa Falaiye).
2003a - Fundamentals of Economic History, Lagos: First Academic Publishers (vii, 394 pp) (With Adebayo Lawal and Kehinde Faluyi)
2003b -Northeast Yorubaland: Studies in the History and Culture of a Frontier Zone, Ibadan: Rex Charles (iv, 229pp). (With Z.O. Apata and O. Akinwumi).
1997 -Nigerian Peoples and Cultures, Ibadan: Davidson Press, 1997 (ii, 365pp). (With Akinjide Osuntokun).
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
(i) FOREIGN (28):
2010a – “Local and Global Dynamics in the Transformation of the Port-City of Lagos Since the Nineteenth Century,” in Robert Lee (ed.), On the Waterfront: Culture, Heritage and Regeneration of Port Cities, Liverpool: English Heritage (in press).
2010b – “Port Development and Modernization on the West African Atlantic Coast during the Twentieth Century,” in Miguel Suarez Bosa (ed.), Ports of the Atlantic, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain: Casa de Colon (in press).
2010c – ‘Imperial Business Umpire: The Colonial Office, United Africa Company, Elder Dempster and the “Great Shipping War” of 1929-30,’ in Toyin Falola (ed.), Imperial Business: Essays in Honour of A.G. Hopkins, Durham: Carolina Academic Press.
2010d - “Toyin Falola: New Directions in African History,” in Niyi Afolabi (ed.), Toyin Falola: The Man, The Mask, The Muse, Durham: Carolina Academic Press, pp. 147-158.
2009a – “Desertion, Dereliction and Destitution: The Travails of Stranded West African Seamen in the United Kingdom, ca. 1921-1934,” in Jeremy Rich and Carina Ray (eds.), Navigating African Maritime History, Research in Maritime History Series, No.41, St. John’s, Canada: Memorial University Press, pp.139-162.
2009b - “The Adisi Case: Currency Counterfeiting in Inter-War Colonial Gold Coast,” in Catherine Eagleton and Harcourt Fuller (eds.), Money in Africa, London: The British Museum, pp.68-74.
2009c – “Liberalisation, Deregulation and Privatisation in Nigeria Since the 1980s,” in Toyin Falola (ed.), Emergent Themes and Methods in African Studies: Essays in Honor of Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, pp.457-474.
2008a – “Towards Integrated Infrastructure Development in Greater Lagos,” in Simon P. Sigue (ed.), Global and Local Dynamics in African Business and Development (Conference Proceedings), Gainesville, FL: IAABD (e-book).
2008b - “Economic Relations Between Nigeria and the United States of America in the Era of British Colonial Rule, ca.1900-1950,” in Alusine Jalloh and Toyin Falola (eds.), The United States and West Africa: Interactions and Relations, Rochester, NY: Rochester University Press, pp. 90-111.
2007 - (with Laurent Fourchard) “State and Local Governments, and the Management of Markets in Lagos and Ibadan Since the 1950s,” in Laurent Fourchard (ed.), Gouverner Les Villes d’Afrique: État, Gouvernement Local et Acteurs Privés, Paris: Karthala, pp.107-123.
2006a - “Power Relations in Ward-Level Governance in An Urban Setting: Ajegunle-Lagos (Nigeria) Since the 1950s,” in Odile Goerg (ed.), Pouvoirs Locaux et Gestion Foncière en Afrique de L’Ouest, Paris: L’Harmattan, pp. 179-208.
2006b -“Provision and Management of Water Services in Lagos, 1915-2000,” in
Petri S. Juuti, Tapio S. Katko & Heikki S. Vuorinen (eds.), Environmental History of Water: Global Views on Community Water Supply and Sanitation, London: I.W.A. Publishing, pp. 343-354.
2005a - “Lagos: Birth of a City,” in Juerg Schneider, Ute Roeschenthaler and Bernhard Gardi (eds.), Between Basel and Angola: The Travels and Explorations of the Basel Citizen Carl Passavant to West and Central Africa from 1883 to 1885 (published in German as Zwischen Basel und Angola: Die Forschungsreisen des Basler Bürgers Carl Passavant nach West- und Zentralafrika in den Jahren 1883-85), Basel: Christoph Merian Verlag, pp. 177-188.
2005b -“(Re)Reading Afigbo’s Work on Nigeria,” in Toyin Falola (ed.), Nigerian
History, Politics and Affairs: The Collected Essays of Adiele Afigbo, Trenton, NJ:
Africa World Press, pp. 15-29.
2005c -“Electricity and Water Supply in Lagos (1861-2000),” in Chantal Chanson-Jabeur, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch and Odile Goerg (eds.), Politiques d’Équipement et Services Urbains dans les Villes du Sud: Etudes Comparée, Paris: Editions Harmattan, pp. 327-361.
2004 -“The Crisis of Academic Research and Publishing in Nigerian Universities,” in Adebayo Olukoshi and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza (eds.), African Universities in the Twenty-First Century, Volume 2: Knowledge and Society, Dakar: CODESRIA, pp. 363-375.
2003a - "Emergent Business Actors in Nigeria in the Post-Structural Adjustment Era," in Katsuya Mochizuki (ed.), Emergent Actors in African Political Economy and Society, International Workshop Proceedings No. 5, Makuhari/Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies, pp. 3-28.
2003b - “Nigerian Civil Rights Organisations Since the 1980s,” in Katsuya Mochizuki (ed.), Emergent Actors in African Political Economy, African Research Series No. 9, Makuhari/Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies, pp. 73-90.
2003c - “Nigeria and the World Market, 1890-1960: Local and Global Economic Dynamics in the Colonial Context,” in Jomo, K.S. and K. J. Khoo (eds.), Globalization and Its Discontents, Revisited, Delhi: Tulika Books, pp.141-156.
2003d - “Nigerian Cities in Historical Perspective,” in Toyin Falola and Steven J. Salm (eds.), Nigerian Cities, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, pp. 11-46.
2003e - “Urban Transport in Metropolitan Lagos,” in Falola and Salm (eds.), Nigerian Cities, pp. 211-236.
2003f - ‘The Faulkner “Blueprint” and the Evolution of Agricultural Policy in Inter-War Colonial Nigeria,’ in Adebayo Oyebade (ed.), The Foundations of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, pp. 403-422.
2003g - “The Segregation of Europeans and Africans in Colonial Nigeria,” in Laurent Fourchard and Isaac Olawale Albert (eds.), Security, Crime and Segregation in West African Cities Since the 19th Century, Paris: Karthala, pp. 263-286.
2002a - “The Colonial Monetary System in Northern Nigeria, 1903-1939,” in Toyin Falola (ed.), Nigeria in the Twentieth Century, Durham: Carolina Academic Press, pp. 183-199.
2002b - “The Impact of British Colonialism on the Development of African Business in Colonial Nigeria,” in Alusine Jalloh and Toyin Falola (eds.), Black Business and Economic Power, Rochester, NY: Rochester University Press, pp. 176-198.
2000 - “The Cost of Living in Lagos, 1914-45,” in Richard Rathbone and David Anderson (eds.), Africa’s Urban Past, Oxford: James Currey, pp. 126-143.
1998 - “Economy and Politics in Nigeria During the Nineteenth Century,” in Toyin Falola and Ann O’Hear (eds.), Studies in the Nineteenth-Century Economic History of Nigeria, Madison: African Studies Program, pp.11-26.
1992 - “The Siege of Oka, ca.1878-84: A Study in the Resistance to Nupe Militarism in Northeast Yorubaland,” in Toyin Falola and Robin Law (eds.), Warfare and Diplomacy in Precolonial Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Robert Smith, Madison: African Studies Program, pp.102-110.
(ii) LOCAL (21):
2010 – “Sit-Tight Sydrome and Tenure Elongation in African Politics,” in R.A. Olaniyan (ed.), Contemporary Issues in Africa (forthcoming).
2008a - “Maritime Terrorism: Dimensions, Scenarios and Countermeasures,” in Ayodeji Olukoju & Muyiwa Falaiye (eds.), Global Understanding in the Age of Terrorism, Lagos: University of Lagos Press, pp.137-150.
2008b – “Black on Black: Xenophobic Attacks and Inter-State Relations in Post-Independence Africa,” Akinsola A. Olowu (ed.), Xenophobia: A Contemporary Issue in Psychology, Lagos: Integrity Press Ltd., pp. 39-51.
2007 - “Rethinking Historical Scholarship in Africa,” in Sola Akinrinade, Dipo Fashina, David. O. Ogungbile and J.O. Famakinwa (eds.), Rethinking the Humanities in Africa, Ile-Ife: Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, pp.167-182.
2003a - “Economic History: Its Emergence, Relevance and Relationship with Cognate Disciplines,” in Ayodeji Olukoju, Adebayo Lawal and Kehinde Faluyi (eds.), Fundamentals of Economic History, Lagos: First Academic Publishers, pp.1-24.
2003b - “Oka” in G.O. Oguntomisin (ed.), Yoruba Towns and Cities, Ibadan: Bookshelf Resources Limited, pp. 77-88.
2003c - “Economic Thought in History: Mercantilism, Physiocracy and Laissez-Faire,” in Olukoju et.al (eds.), Fundamentals of Economic History, pp. 176-203.
2003d - “The Western Region Local Government Law of 1952: A Study in Its Application to Akokoland, 1952-62,” in Olukoju et al. (eds.), Northeast Yorubaland, pp. 200-222.
2003e - “Colonial Taxation and Its Socio-Economic Impact in Akokoland, 1900-1930,” in Olukoju et al. (eds.), Northeast Yorubaland, pp. 143-167.
2002 - “The Business Lobby and the Sustenance of Democratic Governance: The Nigerian and American Experiences,” in S.O.O. Amali et al. (eds.), Consolidation and Sustenance of Democracy: Nigeria and the United States, Ibadan: Hope Publications/ASAN, pp.103-115.
2001a - “The Pluralisms of Urban Waste Management: A Comparative Study of Lagos (Nigeria) and Tokyo (Japan),” in Agwonorobo Eruvbetine (ed.), The Humanistic Management of Pluralism: A Formula For Development in Nigeria, Lagos: Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, pp.508-525.
2001b - “Challenges Before the Twenty-First Century Nigerian Historian,” in O.O. Olubomehin (ed.), Issues in Historiography, Ibadan: College Press, pp.126-141.
2000 - “The American Civil Rights Movement and the Nigerian Civil Rights Organizations: Lessons in the Empowerment of Civil Society,” in Oyin Ogunba (ed.), The Empowerment of the Civil Society in a Democracy: Nigeria and the United States of America, Ile-Ife: American Studies Association of Nigeria/Anchor Prints, pp. 68-88.
1997a - “Nigeria’s Coastal Zone: Environmental Problems, Responses, and Suggested Remedies,” in Akinjide Osuntokun (ed.), Dimensions of Environmental Problems in Nigeria, Ibadan: Davidson Press, pp.69-84.
1997b - “Nigeria: A Historical Review,” in F.U. Okafor (ed.), New Strategies For Curbing Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Nigeria, Enugu: Fourth Dimension Press, pp. 12-40.
1997c - “The Dynamics of Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Nigeria,” in Osuntokun and Olukoju (eds.), Nigerian Peoples and Cultures, pp. 298-309.
1997d - “Christianity and the Development of the Nigerian State,” in Osuntokun and Olukoju (eds.), Nigerian Peoples and Cultures, pp. 136-156.
1997e - “Organized Labour, Governance and the Electoral Process: Insights From the Nigerian and American Experiences,” in O. Ogunba (ed.), Governance and the Electoral Process: Nigeria and the United States of America, Lagos: American Studies Association of Nigeria, pp. 337-366.
1996 - “Transportation in Colonial West Africa,” in G.O. Ogunremi and E.K. Faluyi (eds.), Economic History of West Africa Since 1750, Ibadan: Rex Charles, pp. 144-156.
1994 - “Ecology and Economic Underdevelopment: Agriculture, Trade and Transport in Badagry, c.1880-1950,” in G.O. Ogunremi, M. Opeloye and Siyan Oyeweso (eds.), Badagry: A Study in the History, Culture and Traditions of an Ancient City, Ibadan: Rex Charles, pp. 72-89.
1987 - “The Politics of Free Trade Between Lagos and the Hinterland, 1861-1907,” in Ade Adefuye, Babatunde Agiri and Jide Osuntokun (eds.), History of the Peoples of Lagos State, Lagos: Literamed, pp. 85-103.
(C) ARTICLES IN LEARNED JOURNALS:
(i) FOREIGN (35):
2010 – “Economic Nationalism and Decolonization: West Africa in Comparative Perspective,” Hagar: Culture, Polity and Identities, Special Issue on “Decolonization Reconsidered: Rebirths, Enclosures and Erasures,” (Beersheva, Israel), July (forthcoming).
2009 – “The United Kingdom and the Political Economy of the Global Oils and Fats Business in the 1930s,” Journal of Global History (Cambridge/London, UK), vol. 4, no. 1 (Special issue on “Commodities of Empire”), pp. 105-125.
2006a - “The ‘Liverpool’ of West Africa: A Roundtable Response,” International Journal of Maritime History (St. John’s, Canada), vol. XVIII, no. 2 (December), pp.473-478.
2006b - ‘“King of West Africa”? Bernard Bourdillon and the Politics of the West African Governors’ Conference, 1940-42,’ ITINERARIO: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction (Leiden, Holland), vol. 30, no.1, pp.17-38.
2005-2006 – “Actors and Institutions in Urban Politics in Nigeria: Agege (Lagos) Since the 1950s,” Afrika Zamani: Journal of the Association of African Historians (Dakar, Senegal), nos. 13 & 14, pp. 153-178.
2004a - “Ports as Growth Poles: The Japanese ‘Developer Port’ Concept in Comparative Perspective,” International Journal of Maritime History, vol. XVI, no. 1 (June), pp.43-57.
2004b - ‘“Never Expect Power Always:” Electricity Consumers’ Response to Monopoly, Corruption and Inefficient Services in Nigeria,’ African Affairs (London), vol. 103, no. 410 (Jan.), pp.51-71.
2003-2004 -“Maritime Policy and Economic Development: A Comparison of Nigerian and Japanese Experiences Since the Second World War,” Afrika Zamani: Journal of the Association of African Historians, special issue on “African History in Comparative Perspective,” nos. 11 and 12, pp.160-182.
2003 - “A ‘Truly Nigerian Project’?: The Politics of the Establishment of the Nigerian National Shipping Line (NNSL), 1957-59,” International Journal of Maritime History, vol. XV, no.1 (June), pp. 69-90.
2002a - ‘“Buy British, Sell Foreign:” External Trade Control Policies in Nigeria During the Second World War and Its Aftermath, 1939-50,’ International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston, USA), vol. 35, nos. 2 & 3, pp.363-384.
2002b - ‘“Nigeria or Lever-ia?”: Nationalist Reactions to Economic Depression and the “Menace of Mergers” in Colonial Nigeria,’ Journal of Third World Studies (Americus, GA, USA), vol. 19, No. 1 (Spring), pp.173-194.
2001-2002 - ‘“Getting Too Great A Grip:” European Shipping Lines and British West African Lighterage Services in the 1930s,’ Afrika Zamani: Journal of the Association of African Historians, nos. 9 & 10, pp. 19-40.
2000a - “Self-Help Criminality as Resistance?: Currency Counterfeiting in Colonial Nigeria,” International Review of Social History (Cambridge/Amsterdam), vol. 45, Part 3, pp. 385-407.
2000b - “Fishing, Migrations and Inter-Group Relations in the Gulf of Guinea (Atlantic Coast of West Africa) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” ITINERARIO: European Journal of Overseas History, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 69-85.
2000c - “Confronting the Combines: Producers’ and Traders’ Militancy in Western Nigeria, 1934-1939,” Nordic Journal of African Studies (Helsinki, Finland), vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 49-69.
1999a - “‘Subsidizing the Merchants at the Expense of the Administration:’ Railway Tariffs and Nigerian Maritime Trade in the 1920s,” Indian Journal of African Studies (New Delhi), vol. X, nos.1 & 2 (April-Oct.), pp. 61-77. [reprinted in Oyebade (ed.), The Foundations of Nigeria…, pp. 373-388]
1999b - ‘Slamming the “Open Door”: British Protectionist Fiscal Policy in Inter-War Nigeria,’ ITINERARIO: European Journal of Overseas History, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 13-28.
1999c - ‘“Helping Our Own Shipping”: Official Passages to Nigeria, 1914-45,’ The Journal of Transport History (Manchester), vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 30-45.
1998 - “Government, the Business Community and Quality Control Schemes in the Agricultural Export Trade of Nigeria, 1889-1929,” African Economic History (Madison, Wisconsin, USA), vol. 26, pp. 99-118.
1997a -“Nigeria’s Colonial Government, Commercial Banks and the Currency Crisis of 1916-1920,” International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 277-298.
1997b - “Government and Port Administration in Japan in the Aftermath of the Port and Harbour Law of 1950,” The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord (St. John’s, Canada), vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 65-80.
1997c - “Rotgut and Revenue: Fiscal Aspects of the Liquor Trade in Southern Nigeria, 1890-1919,” ITINERARIO: European Journal of Overseas History, vol. 21, no.2, pp. 66-81.
1996a - “Playing the Second Fiddle: The Development of Port Harcourt and Its Role in the Nigerian Economy, 1917-1950,” International Journal of Maritime History, vol. VIII, no.1, pp.105-131.
1996b - “The Travails of Migrant and Wage Labour in the Lagos Metropolitan Area in the Inter-War Years,” Labour History Review (Edinburgh), vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 49-70.
1996c - “Race and Access to Liquor: Prohibition as Colonial Policy in Northern Nigeria, 1919-45,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (London), vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 218-243.
1996d - “Spatial Analysis and Interport Competition: Lagos, the Niger and the ‘Capture’ of the Kano-Tripoli Trade, 1890-1914,” The Great Circle: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History (Melbourne), vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 30-47.
1995 - “Anatomy of Business-Government Relations: Fiscal Policy and Mercantile Pressure Group Activity in Nigeria, 1916-1933,” African Studies Review (Atlanta, US), vol. 38, no.1, pp. 23-50.
1994 - ‘The Making of an “Expensive Port”: Shipping Lines, Government and Port Tariffs in Lagos, 1917-1949,’ International Journal of Maritime History, vol. VI, no.1, pp. 141-159.
1993a - “Oral Traditions and the Political History of Oka-Akoko,” History in Africa: A Journal of Method (Madison, Wisconsin, USA), vol. 20, pp.249-262.
1993b - “Population Pressure, Housing and Sanitation in West Africa’s Premier Port-City: Lagos, 1900-1939,” The Great Circle: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History, vol. 15, no.2, pp.91-106.
1992a - “Background to the Establishment of the Nigerian Ports Authority: The Politics of Port Administration in Nigeria, c.1920-1954,” International Journal of Maritime History, vol. IV, no.2, pp. 155-173.
1992b - “Maritime Trade in Lagos in the Aftermath of the First World War,” African Economic History, vol. 20, pp.119-135.
1992c - “Elder Dempster and the Shipping Trade of Nigeria During the First World War,” Journal of African History (Cambridge, UK), vol. 33, no.2, pp. 255-271.
1992d - “The Development of the Port of Lagos, c.1892-1946,” The Journal of Transport History, vol. 13, no.1, pp. 59-78. [Reprinted in David Williams (ed.), The World of Shipping, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997, pp. 133-152].
1991 - “Prohibition and Paternalism: The State and the Clandestine Liquor Traffic in Northern Nigeria, c.1898-1918,” International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 24, no.2, pp. 349-368.
(ii) LOCAL (6):
2004 - “Economic History at the University of Lagos Since the 1970s,” Lagos Historical Review (Lagos), vol. 4, pp. 77-94. (Abstracted on www.ajol.info)
2001 - “Tropical Terminus: The Distress and Disposal of the American Schooner, Allanwilde, in Lagos, 1920-22,” Lagos Historical Review, vol. 1, pp.114-126. (Abstracted on www.ajol.info)
1996 - “The Maritime Trade of Lagos During the First World War,” Lagos Notes and Records (Lagos), vol. 7, no. 1, pp.167-184.
1995 - “Local Government and Inter-Communal Relations in Akokoland, 1900-52,” Nigerian Journal of Inter-Group Relations (Lagos/Ilorin), vol. 1, pp. 11-21.
1989 - (With Adesola Afolabi) “Women in the Agricultural Economy of Ogun State: Case Study of the Remo Kolanut Industry, c.1920-1987,” OYE: Ogun Journal of Arts (Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria), vol. 2, pp. 71-85.
1988 - ‘The Lugardian Concept of “Class Taxation” in Nigeria, c.1900-1916,’ OYE: Ogun Journal of Arts, vol.1, pp. 111-123.
(D) OTHER PUBLICATIONS (4):
2007 - “Lagos: Collapsing Infrastructure,” in Linda Starke (ed.), State of the World
2007, New York: W.W. Norton & Company/Worldwatch Institute, pp.46-47.
2004 - “Growth of Infrastructure in Lagos: Challenges and Prospects,” (published in
German as “Zum Thema Infrastruktur”), Stadtbauwelt (Berlin), no.164 (special
issue on Lagos, December), pp.54-59.
2003 - “Prioritising Infrastructure Development in Nigeria: Challenges, Constraints and
Prospects,” NESG Economic Indicators (Lagos), vol. 9, no. 3 (July-September),
pp.18-23.
2001 -“Nigerian Ports: The Imperatives of Radical Reforms,” NESG Economic
Indicators, vol. 7, no. 3 (July –September), pp.11-15.
(E) ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES:
- “Transportation: Shipping and Ports,” and “Labour-Transport,” in J.C. Miller (ed.), New Encyclopedia of Africa, Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribners’s Sons/Thomson Gale.
- “Lagos,” in SAGE Encyclopedia of Urban Studies
- “Railroads: Africa,” in Peter N. Stearns (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Modern World, New York: Oxford University Press.
- “Sani Abacha;” “Robert Mugabe;” and “Charles Taylor;” in Carl L. Blankston III (ed.), Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2007, pp. 1-2; 761-762; and 1021-1022.
-“Shipping and Shipbuilding: Government Policy on,” and “Coastal Urban Development,” in Encyclopedia of Seas and Waterways of the World, ABC-CLIO.
- “Expansion of Oyo;” “Emergence of the Guinea Coast States; and “Decline of Benin,” in Larissa Juliet Taylor (ed.), Great Events From History: The Seventeenth Century, 1601-1700, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2005, pp. 41-43; 472-74; 705-707
- “Boycott;” and “Cargoes, Passengers,” in John J. McCusker et al. (eds.), History of
World Trade since 1450, Farmington, MI: Macmillan Reference USA.
- “Ports – Port Investment;” and “Lagos,” in John Hattendorf (ed.), Encyclopedia of Maritime History, New York: Oxford University Press.
- “Christianity and Islam in Colonial Nigeria;” and “Currencies and Banking in the Colonial Era (West Africa),” in Kevin Shillington (ed.), Encyclopedia of African History, London: Fitzroy Dearborn, pp.329-331.
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