{"id":799,"date":"2020-01-11T19:11:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T19:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpjelly.com\/kehinde\/?page_id=799"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:05:15","slug":"meet-our-researcher","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iads.unilag.edu.ng\/amrc\/?page_id=799","title":{"rendered":"Meet Our Researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Muyiwa Falaiye, Ph.D, FNAL is a Professor of African Socio-Political Philosophy\u00a0 and an expert in African and Diaspora Studies.\u00a0 With over 60 publications in high impact local and international journals, and frontline peer-reviewed books, Falaiye has, through his research and teaching activities, demonstrated competence in Identity and African Diaspora Studies, African Philosophy and Philosophy of Development.\u00a0 His commitment to transformative research has earned him awards and commendations, including: the prestigious Fellowship at the Centre for African Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA and several African Studies Travel Grants.\u00a0 He has leadership hands-on-experiences in coordinating interdisciplinary and collaborative researches. \u00a0At different times, he has served as member of the Board of several journals and book series, including the African Social Studies Series published by E.J. Brill, Netherlands.\u00a0 He was Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos (2015 - 2019) . He is currently the Director of the collaborative research Institute between the University of Lagos and the University of the West Indies \u2013 Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS). His future research is to develop a theoretical frame for reconfiguring African Studies and to set a new agenda for African Studies scholars. Prof. Dr. Falaiye is also the Director of Lagos ACC.\n\nEmail:\u00a0\u00a0ofalaiye@unilag.edu.ng<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Ayo YUSUFF is a Research Professor of Linguistics and Language Engineering at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, University of Lagos. He studied Linguistics and Yoruba Language at the University of Lagos and University of Ibadan, Nigeria. In 2007, he was a member of the team of linguists that produced the Yoruba version of Local Language Program for Microsoft Corporation. In 2011, he participated in the production of a unified standard orthography for the Yoruba language cluster adopted for the writing of Yoruba in Nigeria, Republic of Benin and the Republic of Togo. In 2017, he was in the team that developed the English-Yoruba Glossary of HIV, AIDS and Ebola Related Terms, which was published with him as Lead Editor. He has been an active player in the advocacy for the use of African indigenous languages in all areas of human communication since 2002. He specializes in Morpho-syntax and Language Engineering. He has over 35 publications in reputable journals and books. His doctoral thesis titled \u2018Lexical Morphology in Yoruba Language Engineering\u2019, presented to the School of Postgraduate Studies, University of Lagos in 2008, has been published by VDM Germany in 2010. To reconfigure African Studies, the role of African languages scholarship, especially by African linguists is germane. Africans\u2019 mode of communication is still predominantly indigenous. Few Africans speak the colonial languages and this is not unconnected to their low literacy level. Knowing the problems of Africa and evaluating the effects of efforts at resolving them lie with scholars who are trained in the elicitation of data in African indigenous languages. The African Cluster Centre will benefit immensely from Ayo Yusuff\u2019s expertise in African languages and cultures, as African peoples are not country bound. A people may spread among two, three or more countries in Africa. Harmonization and reconciliation of African common problems require specializations in African languages and cultures. There is hardly a cluster that may function adequately without the inclusion of his expertise.\n\nEmail:\u00a0 \u00a0ayusuff@unilag.edu.ng\u00a0 ;\u00a0 yoyussuf@yahoo.co.uk<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Prof. Dr. Anthony Okeregbe<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Anthony Okeregbe, Ph.D, is a Professor in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Lagos (UNILAG), where he earned his doctorate in 2004. He earned a Certificate in Andragogy and Competency-based Adult Learning Mechanisms from MDF Training and Consultancy in The Netherlands in 2009 and Certificate in Basic Psycho-Trauma Healing skills, Nasarawa State University, Keffi (2020). His teaching and research interests are in Philosophy of Religion, Phenomenology\/Existential Philosophy and Contemporary African Philosophy. Dr. Okeregbe, who is also an affiliate of the, Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, UNILAG, is a , Catalyst Fellow of the Centre for African Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2020\/21, Fellow of the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 2022\/2023 Academic Year, and also Principal Investigator, Lagos African Multiple Cluster of Excellence of the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He is also a Fellow at the Moi University African Cluster Centre of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence for the year 2023.\n\nHis new interest in African Studies has drawn him into research projects on African knowledge production, African sonic pedagogies, sexualities, amongst others. In the same vein his exposure to Psycho-Spiritual therapies and mental health has informed his current research endeavour into African existential predicament and methodologies of wellness. He is a member of the African Studies Association of Italy (ASAI), an Associate Member of the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (CRVP), Washington DC, USA, Pan African Society for Musical Arts Education - International Society for Music Education (PASMAE-ISME), and a resource person for Lux Terra Leadership Foundation, Abuja, Nigeria. Prior to his academic career, Okeregbe was Features Editor (Sunday) of The Guardian, Lagos, Nigeria, where he is presently a Visiting Member of the Editorial Board. Widely published in books and journals, Dr. Okeregbe is author with Muyiwa Falaiye of \u201cWomen Sages in Male Epistemic Spaces: An Analysis of Patriarchal Forces in Female Knowledge Production\u201c (Brill, in press),co-editor of Between Faith and Social Activism: Essays in Honour of Fr. George Ehusani (2021) and A Study in African Socio-Political Philosophy (2012), and author of \u201cDe-globalizing African \u2018Truths\u2019: Some Insights from Frantz Fanon et al\u201d (2018), amongst others.\n\nEmail:\u00a0\u00a0 tonyokeregbe@yahoo.co.uk\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ;\u00a0\u00a0 aokeregbe@unilag.edu.ng\n\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Peju Layiwola had a Ph.D in Art History from the University of Ibadan. In her teaching, writing, and art, there is continuous engagement with themes of artifact pillage, repatriation and restitution, history, memory and gender Her work moves from the emotive space of art pillage in Africa captured in previous exhibitions: Benin 1897.com: Art and the Restitution Question (2010), Whose Centenary ? (2014) and Return (2018) into a gentler engagement with cloth and its multiple significations (Indigo Reimagined 2019). Some of her publications include Transcultural Conversations: American Art and Nigerian Art in Dialogue, NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, (2017); \u2018Lace Culture and the Art of Dressing Well in Nigeria\u2019, African Lace: A History of Trade, Creativity and Fashion in Nigeria and \u2018Benin Massacre; Memories and Experiences\u2019, Benin Kings and Rituals, Court Arts from Nigeria, Museum of Ethnology, Vienna, 2007. Layiwola is actively involved in the campaign to return expropriated Benin Art\n\nShe has received several awards: Distinguished Researcher\u2019s Award, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, 2007; Two Central Research Grants of the University of Lagos; Tyson Scholar at the Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas, USA (2019); Terra Foundation grant for American Art in 2018; three CAA-Getty Alumni grant (2021\/2018\/2013), Nominated US International Leadership Programme (IVLP) 2011: US Lagos State Consulate Grant 2017 and the US Alumni Exchange Award 2018. Layiwola was also a recipient of the Goethe Resident Artist grant, (KNW), Dusseldorf 2017. She currently has a British Council grant for Sub Saharan Africa, 2021.\n\nLayiwola is President of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA). She has an active studio practice and recently curated the Resist: The art of Resistance exhibition at the Rautenstrauch Joest Musuem, Koln Germany (Decemebr 2020-January 9, 2022). She has served as artist in residence, in the Arts of Africa and the Global South Research Programme, (RAW) of Rhodes University, Grahamstown in South Africa, 2018; Artist-in \u2013Residence, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2017; and the Triangle Workshop, Alakuko, Lagos, Nigeria, 2010 organised by The British Museum in collaboration with the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Lagos.\n\nEmail:\u00a0 \u00a0pejulayiwola1967@gmail.com;\u00a0\u00a0alayiwola@unilag.edu.ng<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Taibat Lawanson is a Professor of Urban Management and Governance at the University of Lagos, Nigeria where she leads the Pro-Poor Development Research Cluster and serves as Co-Director at the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development. She is an urban development expert and holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria\n\nHer research focuses on the interface of social complexities, urban realities and the pursuit of spatial justice in Africa. She is well known for her inter-sectoral work which engages students, policy makers, local communities and civil society actors. She is well published with over seventy articles in both academic and popular platforms.\n\nA recipient of numerous academic awards, she has received research funding from DFID, DAAD, Norweigan Research Council, Heinrich Boell Stiftung, British Academy and the Royal Academy of Engineering, UKRI, Africa Multiple of the University of Beyreuth and Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Fund among others. She led the technical support team for the drafting of the Lagos Resilience Strategy and has participated in the development of various policy documents leading to the New Urban Agenda, the Nigeiran National Economic Development Plan (2021-2025), Lagos Urban Renewal Guidelines, Niger State Development Policy, Ikorodu Sub-regional Masterplan and the Lagos Island North Action Plan.\n\nTaibat currently serves on the international advisory committee of UNHABITAT\u2019s flagship \u2018State of the World\u2019s Cities\u2019. She is also a member of the editorial\/advisory committees of major urban studies journals including Urban Studies, Urban Forum and Area Development and Policy. She is a member of the board of directors of the Lagos Studies Association, a pioneer World Social Science Fellow of the International (Social) Science Council, Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners and a proud alumna of the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre.\n\n\u00a0\n\nEmail:\u00a0\u00a0 tlawanson@unilag.edu.ng ; \u00a0tolawanson@gmail.com<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Research Professor of Social Sciences in African Studies,\u00a0\u2018Kayode\u00a0Eesuola, is\u00a0a Nigerian scholar- activist and\u00a0public intellectual\u00a0with notable interventions in local and international political affairs. This is evident through\u00a0his many academic\u00a0publications, research endeavors and engagements with the mainstream media, many universities as well as research institutes in Africa and beyond. Eesuola holds a University of Lagos PhD. in Political Science, and he is an alumnus\u00a0of the Study of United States Institutes (SUSI) as well as the\u00a0Institute of American Politics and Political Thoughts (IAPPT), both of the University of Massachusetts,\u00a0Amherst, USA. Eesuola's academic passion is theorising and re-theorising\u00a0politics and political behavior from African epistemological axioms- a journey that\u00a0started with his 2012 doctoral thesis which explains how all published and unpublished\u00a0songs of Fela Anikulapo Kuti\u00a0represent different political behavior at different historical periods\u00a0in Nigeria between 1970 and 1997. His\u00a0current research is the socio-political thoughts in the\u00a0Ifa System, funded by the German Research Foundation through the University of Bayreuth African Multiple, and led together with Professor Muyiwa Falaiye, Director of the University of Lagos African Cluster Centre and Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos. Eesuola currently heads the Governance and Financial Integrity Unit at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, University of Lagos, he is a Principal Investigator (PI) in the University of Lagos ACC, and he is an Extraordinary International Professor with the North West University, South Africa.\n\nEmail:\u00a0\u00a0 oeesuola@unilag.edu.ng\u00a0 ;\u00a0 foomoterribly@yahoo.com<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Dr. Ademola K. FAYEMI is a Principal Investigator at the African Cluster Centre of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Lagos. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Johannesburg in 2017, and a Research Fellow at the Moi University African Cluster Centre of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, Kenya in 2022. His research interests include African ethics, environmental ethics, research ethics, social epistemology and global health.\u00a0 Dr. Fayemi\u2019s current research is on critically integrating normative ideas from African ethical landscape and exploring what they plausibly entail for global health research justice.\n\nEmail: kcaristotle@yahoo.com\u00a0 ; ademolaf@uj.ac.za<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Dr Feyi Ademola-Adeoye is a linguist whose research engages with language, gender, politics, and spatial justice in African and diasporic contexts. She earned her PhD in Linguistics from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, following an MA in English from the University of Lagos and a BA (Ed.) in English from the University of Ilorin, Kwara state.\n\nShe is currently the Early Career Coordinator at the African Cluster Centre, Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS), University of Lagos. From 2019 to 2023, she served as Deputy Director of IADS, with responsibility for postgraduate coordination, and has also held other leadership roles within the Faculty of Arts and the Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Lagos.\n\nHer research explores themes such as gendered discourse in African proverbs, urban multilingualism, language policy and learning poverty, and digital discourse in democratic spaces. She has led or collaborated on several funded projects, including studies on women\u2019s political participation in Sub-Saharan Africa, diaspora tourism development in Lagos, and the politics of urban infrastructure.\n\nDr Ademola-Adeoye has participated in high-level workshops and dialogues on urban development and socio-spatial justice, including the Governance, Urban Development, and Socio-Spatial Justice workshop and the Political Transformation of African Cities (PACE) Stakeholder Workshop supported by the Research Council of Norway. She has held visiting fellowships at the Moi University, Africa Cluster Centre, Eldoret, Kenya and the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, Germany. She remains active in international scholarly networks, presenting her work widely across Africa, Europe, and North America.\n\nEmail:\u00a0 fademolaadeoye@gmail.com ; fademola-adeoye@unilag.edu.ng<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Oluwatoyin Olokodana-James is a three time awardee (2008 \u2013 2011) of the Lagos State University scholarship program and has a Ph.D in Theatre Arts from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She is an academic, researcher, and theatre practitioner in pure African premise. She is presently a Senior lecturer at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Oluwatoyin is an alumna of the Harvard Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research USA, a Fellow of the Ife Institute of Advanced Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and a Fellow of Theatre Arts - National Association of Nigerian Theatre and Allied Arts Practitioners. She is currently a Principal Investigator in the University Lagos African Cluster Centre, a centre of the African Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth, Germany. As an academic as well as a researcher, her interests are in African Dance, Theatre, Film, and Gender Studies, interrogating ethnocentric identities and the Trans-sociological hybridization of concepts and forms in African studies. Aside from developing and incorporating theories into performance arts, she also engages perspectives on Nigeria's creative industry and cultural policy. As a theatre practitioner, Oluwatoyin has credits in many film and theatre productions.\u00a0\n\nEmail:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0oolokodanajames@unilag.edu.ng ;\u00a0olokodanajames@yahoo.com\u00a0 ; olokodanajames@gmail.com<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Patrick Oloko is a Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies in the Department of English, University of Lagos. His main research interest is Gender in African Postcolonial literature, with emphasis on understanding how the corrective goals of feminist writings are expressed using the ascetic infrastructure of the novel.\n\nAs a literary critic Prof. Dr. Oloko is positioned to bring a measure of eclectic and interdisciplinary approach to his engagement of cultural materials in other genres and media. The ways that the oral, written, performance and screen arts dovetail into one another within the spectrum of the narrative is only becoming clearer as artists and writers reshape their techniques to meet new tastes and thirst. His research in this direction is geared towards understanding the complementarities of forms and the intrinsic and extrinsic exchanges and undercurrents shaping their dynamic frames.\n\nProf. Dr. Oloko is the editor of The Fiction of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo: Issues & Perspectives (2008) and In Theory and In Practice: Engaging the Writings of Hope Eghagha (2015), among other essays published as book chapters and journal articles. He served as Regional Coordinator (RC), heading the Lagos team on the European Research Council (ERC) funded research project, The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa:1880-Present, from 2013-2016 under the FP7 grant period. He was co-recipient (with Ute Roeschenthaler of the University of Frankfurt, Alessandro Jedlowski of University of Rome and Ibrahima Wane, of Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal) of the Point Sud\/German Research Council Award to conduct a workshop in Burkina Faso.\n\nEmail: \u00a0p_oloko@yahoo.com ;\u00a0poloko@unilag.edu.ng<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Yakubu Moses Joseph is a Research Associate Professor at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, Nigeria. He holds a Ph.D. in History and Strategic Studies, a Certificate of Completion of Course on the Implementation of the UN Security Council Resolutions on the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Africa, jointly awarded by Peace Operations Training Institute and UN Women, and also, a Certificate of Completion of Course on Conflict Analysis from the United States Institute of Peace. His research interest includes African studies, development, peace and conflict studies, and gender\/women studies. He has attended and presented papers at both national and international conferences. In 2017, he presented a paper entitled: \u201cAfrica\u2019s Children in Armed Conflict: Fundamental Human Rights Implications, at the Department of African Studies, University of Texas, at Austin, America. In 2010, he won the \u201cSexuality in Africa Prize Award\u201d from the Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Centre, Lagos, Nigeria, sponsored by the FORD FOUNDATION.\n\nHe has published in several edited books and journals within Nigeria and beyond. Some of his recent works are: \u201cThe Commodification and Objectification of Women in Hip Hop Music in Nigeria: Implications for Gender Equality;\u201d \u201cWomen and the Liberian Civil War, 1989-2003;\u201d\u201dChild Insurgents and Boko Haram Insurgency: Case Studies from Nigerian, Cameroon and Chad,\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe Pitfalls of Unilateralism: The United States in Syria;\u201d \u201cBoko Haram Insurgency and Sustainable Development in Nigeria;\u201d \u201cWomen Peacemaking Initiatives and Sustainable Development: The Role of Women in Peacemaking Process during the Liberian Civil War, 1989 \u2013 2003; and \u201cEconomic Terrorism in Nigeria: An Analysis of the Impact of Boko Haram Insurgency and Niger Delta Militancy on National Development.\u201d Presently, besides his research activities, he teaches Introduction to African and Diaspora Studies, and Problems of Nation Building in West and Central Africa.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nEmail:\u00a0\u00a0 yakubumosesjo@gmail.com<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Bilqis Alayaki is a digital transformation specialist and researcher in the Digitalities Research Section of the Africa Multiple Research Centre (AMRC), University of Lagos (UNILAG). She currently serves as Head of Information Technology and Data Curator at the AMRC where she leads initiatives in digital research environments and research data management.\nWith academic training spanning the University of Ibadan, University of Lagos, and Atlantic International University, Honolulu, she holds a BSc. in Physics, an MSc. in Information Technology, an MSc. in Physics, and a Ph.D. in Information Systems. Her multidisciplinary background underpins her research on the future of work and Society 5.0, with a focus on artificial intelligence, technology adoption, sustainability, and human-centric innovation across Africa.\nDr. Alayaki has held key industry roles, including leadership positions at WEBLagos Nigeria, Mainstreet Bank Ltd, Afribank Plc, and Landover Company Ltd. A recipient of several distinctions, she won first prize in the NASA Robotics Explorer Competition and the World Robot Olympiad (National Category), and was recognized as the best graduating female physics student at the University of Ibadan.\nHer ongoing scholarly work explores digital solutions in African universities and the intersection of social media, culture, and societal development.\n\nEmail: balayaki@iads.unilag.edu.ng<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Meet Our Research Team Prof. Dr. Muyiwa Falaiye Deputy Vice Chancellor, Management Services. Muyiwa Falaiye, Ph.D, FNAL is a Professor of African Socio-Political Philosophy\u00a0 and an expert in African and Diaspora Studies.\u00a0 With over 60 publications in high impact local and international journals, and frontline peer-reviewed books, Falaiye has, through his research and teaching activities, demonstrated competence in Identity and African Diaspora Studies, African Philosophy and Philosophy of Development.\u00a0 His commitment to transformative research has earned him awards and commendations, including: the prestigious Fellowship at the Centre for African Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA and several African Studies Travel Grants.\u00a0 He has leadership hands-on-experiences in coordinating interdisciplinary and collaborative researches. \u00a0At different times, he has served as member of the Board of several journals and book series, including the African Social Studies Series published by E.J. Brill, Netherlands.\u00a0 He was Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos (2015 – 2019) . He is currently the Director of the collaborative research Institute between the University of Lagos and the University of the West Indies \u2013 Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS). His future research is to develop a theoretical frame for reconfiguring African Studies and to set a new agenda for African Studies scholars. Prof. Dr. Falaiye is also the Director of Lagos ACC. Email:\u00a0\u00a0ofalaiye@unilag.edu.ng Prof. Dr. Ayo Yusuff Director IADS & AMRC Ayo YUSUFF is a Research Professor of Linguistics and Language Engineering at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, University of Lagos. He studied Linguistics and Yoruba Language at the University of Lagos and University of Ibadan, Nigeria. In 2007, he was a member of the team of linguists that produced the Yoruba version of Local Language Program for Microsoft Corporation. In 2011, he participated in the production of a unified standard orthography for the Yoruba language cluster adopted for the writing of Yoruba in Nigeria, Republic of Benin and the Republic of Togo. In 2017, he was in the team that developed the English-Yoruba Glossary of HIV, AIDS and Ebola Related Terms, which was published with him as Lead Editor. He has been an active player in the advocacy for the use of African indigenous languages in all areas of human communication since 2002. He specializes in Morpho-syntax and Language Engineering. He has over 35 publications in reputable journals and books. His doctoral thesis titled \u2018Lexical Morphology in Yoruba Language Engineering\u2019, presented to the School of Postgraduate Studies, University of Lagos in 2008, has been published by VDM Germany in 2010. To reconfigure African Studies, the role of African languages scholarship, especially by African linguists is germane. Africans\u2019 mode of communication is still predominantly indigenous. Few Africans speak the colonial languages and this is not unconnected to their low literacy level. Knowing the problems of Africa and evaluating the effects of efforts at resolving them lie with scholars who are trained in the elicitation of data in African indigenous languages. The African Cluster Centre will benefit immensely from Ayo Yusuff\u2019s expertise in African languages and cultures, as African peoples are not country bound. A people may spread among two, three or more countries in Africa. Harmonization and reconciliation of African common problems require specializations in African languages and cultures. There is hardly a cluster that may function adequately without the inclusion of his expertise. Email:\u00a0 \u00a0ayusuff@unilag.edu.ng\u00a0 ;\u00a0 yoyussuf@yahoo.co.uk Prof. Dr. Anthony Okeregbe Academic Coordinator Anthony Okeregbe, Ph.D, is a Professor in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Lagos (UNILAG), where he earned his doctorate in 2004. He earned a Certificate in Andragogy and Competency-based Adult Learning Mechanisms from MDF Training and Consultancy in The Netherlands in 2009 and Certificate in Basic Psycho-Trauma Healing skills, Nasarawa State University, Keffi (2020). His teaching and research interests are in Philosophy of Religion, Phenomenology\/Existential Philosophy and Contemporary African Philosophy. Dr. Okeregbe, who is also an affiliate of the, Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, UNILAG, is a , Catalyst Fellow of the Centre for African Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2020\/21, Fellow of the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 2022\/2023 Academic Year, and also Principal Investigator, Lagos African Multiple Cluster of Excellence of the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He is also a Fellow at the Moi University African Cluster Centre of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence for the year 2023. His new interest in African Studies has drawn him into research projects on African knowledge production, African sonic pedagogies, sexualities, amongst others. In the same vein his exposure to Psycho-Spiritual therapies and mental health has informed his current research endeavour into African existential predicament and methodologies of wellness. He is a member of the African Studies Association of Italy (ASAI), an Associate Member of the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (CRVP), Washington DC, USA, Pan African Society for Musical Arts Education – International Society for Music Education (PASMAE-ISME), and a resource person for Lux Terra Leadership Foundation, Abuja, Nigeria. Prior to his academic career, Okeregbe was Features Editor (Sunday) of The Guardian, Lagos, Nigeria, where he is presently a Visiting Member of the Editorial Board. Widely published in books and journals, Dr. Okeregbe is author with Muyiwa Falaiye of \u201cWomen Sages in Male Epistemic Spaces: An Analysis of Patriarchal Forces in Female Knowledge Production\u201c (Brill, in press),co-editor of Between Faith and Social Activism: Essays in Honour of Fr. George Ehusani (2021) and A Study in African Socio-Political Philosophy (2012), and author of \u201cDe-globalizing African \u2018Truths\u2019: Some Insights from Frantz Fanon et al\u201d (2018), amongst others. Email:\u00a0\u00a0 tonyokeregbe@yahoo.co.uk\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ;\u00a0\u00a0 aokeregbe@unilag.edu.ng Prof. Dr. Peju Layiwola Professor of Art History Peju Layiwola had a Ph.D in Art History from the University of Ibadan. In her teaching, writing, and art, there is continuous engagement with themes of artifact pillage, repatriation and restitution, history, memory and gender Her work moves from the emotive space of art pillage in Africa captured in previous exhibitions: Benin 1897.com: Art and the Restitution Question (2010), Whose Centenary ? 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