Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

Publications

Books:

2018: Claude E. Ake: the making of an organic intellectual. Pretoria: University of South Africa Press.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvhn0d7c.

 

Articles:

2021: Academic freedom, decolonization and the state in Africa. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 22(3):275-297.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2021.1962086.

2021: COVID-19 and political modernity in Africa: citizens' engagements and States' Responses. African Journal for the Psychological Study of Social Issues 24(1):113-122.
http://ajpssi.org/index.php/ajpssi/article/view/457.

2021: Territoriality and violent conflicts in Tivland. International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 28(3):436-465.
https://brill.com/view/journals/ijgr/28/3/article-p436_436.xml.

2020: Academics and election administration in Nigeria. Journal of International Development 32(7):1009-1032.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jid.3506.

2019: Hausa-Fulani pastoralists and resource conflicts in Yorubaland. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 21(8):1157-1187.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2019.1649182.

2017: Corruption and profligacy as governance failure in Nigeria. Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 26:122-153.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/48562082?seq=1.

2016: African scholars, African studies and knowledge production on Africa. Africa: A Journal of the International African Institute 86(2):324-338.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26158019?searchText=Jeremiah+O.+Arowosegbe&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DJeremiah%2BO.%2BArowosegbe%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2FSYC-6442%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A797fd7dc99679c20257dac2719989a00&seq=1.

2016: Citizenship and resource competition in Nigeria. Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology 26(1):54-73.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00664677.2015.1121861.

2016: Endogenous knowledge and the development question in Africa. Cambridge Review of International Affairs 29(2):611-635.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09557571.2015.1060692.

2016: Ethnic minorities and the land question in Nigeria. Review of African Political Economy 43(148):260-276.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03056244.2015.1126816.

2014: Introduction: African studies and the universities in post-colonial Africa. Social Dynamics: Journal of African Studies 40(2):243-254.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02533952.2014.946266.

2014: African studies and the bias of Eurocentricism. Social Dynamics: Journal of African Studies 40(2):308-321.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02533952.2014.942074.

2012: The making of an organic intellectual: Claude Ake, biographical and theoretical orientations. African and Asian Studies 11(1):123-143.
https://brill.com/view/journals/aas/11/1-2/article-p123_5.xml.

2011: Claude E. Ake: political integration and the challenges of nationhood in Africa. Development and Change 42(1):349-365.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2010.01681.x.

2011: State reconstruction in Africa: the relevance of Claude Ake's political thought. International Affairs 87(3):651-670.
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/87/3/651/2417112?login=true.

2009: Violence and national development in Nigeria: the political economy of youth restiveness in the Niger Delta. Review of African Political Economy 36(122):575-594.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03056240903346178.

2008: The social sciences and knowledge production in Africa: the contribution of Claude Ake. Africa Spectrum 43(3):333-351.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40175253?seq=1.

 

Chapters in Conference Proceedings: 

2005: Elections and the politics of democratic transitions in Nigeria: lessons from the 2003 exercises and the Anambra saga. In Godwin Onu and Abubakar Momoh eds. Elections and democratic consolidation in Nigeria. Lagos: Nigerian Political Science Association. pp. 248-271.

2005: Oil and the national question in Nigeria: the case of the ethnic minorities in the Niger Delta. In Warisu O. Alli ed. Political reform conference, federalism and the national question in Nigeria. Lagos: Nigerian Political Science Association. pp. 334-361.

 

Chapters in Edited Books: 

2011: Claude Ake: the political economy of Africa, an intellectual legacy. In Prabir K. Basu ed. Avenel companion to modern social theorists. Calcutta and New Delhi: Avenel Press. pp. 206-219.

 

Discussion Papers: 

2011: Reflections on the challenges of reconstructing post-conflict states in West Africa: insights from Claude Ake's political writings. Discussion Paper 54. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute.
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A440127&dswid=7173.

 

Guest Edited Journals: 

African studies and knowledge production in the universities in post-colonial Africa. Social Dynamics: Journal of African Studies 40(2):243-352. A Special Section.
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsdy20/40/2?nav=tocList.

 

Working Papers:

2017: Ethnic minorities and land conflicts in south-western Nigeria. African Peacebuilding Network. Working Paper 14. New York: Social Science Research Council.
https://www.ssrc.org/publications/ethnic-minorities-and-land-conflicts-in-southwestern-nigeria/.

 

2008: Decolonizing the social sciences in the global south: Claude Ake and the praxis of knowledge production in Africa. Working Paper 79. Leiden: African Studies Centre.
https://www.ascleiden.nl/publications/decolonising-social-sciences-global-south-claude-ake-and-praxis-knowledge-production as well as https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/13015.