Dr. Akinmayowa Akin-Otiko

AKIN-OTIKO, Akinmayowa is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, (IADS) University of Lagos and has special interest in the Religions, Cultures and Traditional Medicine of the Africans. He has a BA and MA in Philosophy, from the University of Ibadan, in 1996 and 2006 respectively; and in 2013, he defended his Ph.D. in African Religion and Belief System, from the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. Over the years he has engaged in researches and discusses in the area of African Traditional Medicine. He is a member of different academic Traditional Medicine Practitioners associations. He has written books, contributed chapters in books, as well as published in different journals. His current research interest includes Bioethical issues in African Traditional Medicine and this has worn him a Fellow of the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies (BA). His interest falls within the Knowledge and Morality Research Section of the ACC.