2021 Rahamon Bello Award Winners
Dr. Felix Oludare Ajiola has emerged the winner of the 2021 Rahamon Bello Award for the best PhD Thesis in African Studies.
The Award-winning thesis is titled “Cocoa Production and Rural Development in Idanre, Southwestern Nigeria, 1900-1996”. It was written under the supervision of Professor Olutayo Adesina in fulfilment of Dr. Felix Ajiola’s doctorate degree in History at the University of Ibadan.
Dr. Ajiola is currently a lecturer in the University of Lagos, History Department. He was unanimously selected as the over-all winner among twenty four (24) applicants. This selection process was independently carried out by three (3) renowned academicians from the United Kingdom, Kenya and Nigeria.
Dr. Joseph Kunnuji, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, came second with a PhD Thesis in Ethnomusicology, titled, “A Chronicle of Cultural Transformation: Ethnography of Badagry Ogu Musical Practices”, supervised by Prof. Sylvia Brainders, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Louis Kusi Frimpong, a lecturer at the University of Environment and Sustainable Development, Somanya, Ghana, came third with PhD Thesis in Geography and Resource Development, titled, “Fear of Crime in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis Exploring the role of the built Environment and Community Social Organisation”, supervised by Prof. Martin Oteng-Ababio, Prof. Charles Wrangley-Asante & Prof. George Owusu at the University of Ghana, Legon.
Also given special recognition for his work was Dr. Mark Nartey of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, whose PhD thesis was on “Discourse and Political myth-making: A critical Discourse study of Nkrumaism.”
