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African scholarship and visa challenges for Nigerian academics
(2013) Akanle, O.; Yusuff, O. S.; Adebayo, Q. O.; Adegboyega, K.
Twenty-first-century societies are driven by knowledge. But knowledge regimes in the world today are not balanced, which leads to dubious knowledge, poor recommendations, and vacuous conclusions in the areas of policy and practice. This is manifested in and closely related to the compromised academic mobility of African scholars, which has become topical and in need of attention across the global knowledge domains. African scholarship and scholars do not easily move across space and time to cross fertilize ideas and knowledge. African academic talents are thus at the margins of global scholarship and are poorly rated. Many find it difficult to participate in international academic activities due to difficulty in obtaining a visa to travel to the West, which is regarded as the locus of true knowledge production and dissemination. Unfortunately, primary research on dynamics, complexities, and contours of African academic mobility, particularly to the West, is scanty, fragmented, and largely anecdotal, which necessitates more robust and contemporary knowledge. This empirical article is set in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, and the country with the greatest number of universities on the continent. Primary data were collected through qualitative in-depth interviews (IDIs). Three prominent universities were selected for the study: University of Ibadan, Ahmadu Bello University, and Lagos State University. Sources of secondary data were unclassified official documents and scholarly publications.
Code of ethics and public morality in Nigeria: a development praxis
(Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, 2014-09) Akanle, O.; Olutayo, A. O.; Adebayo, K.
Nigeria today remains rooted in poverty and underdevelopment regardless of huge promises to deliver dividends of democracy to the people and jumpstart development in sustainable manners. Unfortunately, it is possible to trace the disconnections between promises and outcomes to critical governance and development contextualities of code of ethics, public morality and accountability in the country. Thus, this article explored the contours of these contextualities and x-rayed their existences, implications for development and sustainable pathways
The cultural domains of Nigerians’ work ethics
(Department of Sociology Faculty of the Social Sciences University of Ibadan Ibadan, Nigeria, 2012) Akanle, O.; Olutayo, S.; Adebayo, K.
Fuel subsidy in Nigeria: contexts of governance and social protest
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2014) Akanle, O.; Adebayo, K.; Adetayo, O.
Purpose – Fuel subsidy removal has become a recurring issue in Nigeria. Successive governments in the country have interfaced with this issue as they attempted to reform the economy and the petroleum downstream to reduce corruption and waste and make the sector more effective. Importantly however, fuel subsidy removals have always met opposition from the citizens and civil society organisations. The remit of this article is to bring original and current perspectives into the issue and trajectories of fuel subsidy, which has become a major problem in Nigeria’s development struggles. Previous works were dated and did not capture most recent popular uprising. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Purely primary, empirica and normative with primary insight. Findings – A major mechanism that must be put in place is popular and unpoliticized anti-corruption mechanisms and networks especially to sanitize the oil sector in the minimum. Also, government must demonstrate transparency and accountability across sectors and spending including at the government house. Sufficient palliatives like public transport and dedicated social services for the really poor is important before subsidy is implemented. Until these are done, government’s intention to successfully Remove Subsidy For Development (RS4D) may be a mirage! Research limitations/implications – This paper presents details of an international work with evolving issues. Originality/value – The paper argues that subsidy removal that will lead to high fuel prices appears unjustified given the wide income gap between workers in Nigeria and those in other oil-producing nations.
Fuel subsidy in Nigeria: contexts of governance and social protest
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2014) Akanle, O.; Adebayo, K.; Adetayo, O.
Purpose – Fuel subsidy removal has become a recurring issue in Nigeria. Successive governments in the country have interfaced with this issue as they attempted to reform the economy and the petroleum downstream to reduce corruption and waste and make the sector more effective. Importantly however, fuel subsidy removals have always met opposition from the citizens and civil society organisations. The remit of this article is to bring original and current perspectives into the issue and trajectories of fuel subsidy, which has become a major problem in Nigeria’s development struggles. Previous works were dated and did not capture most recent popular uprising. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Purely primary, empirica and normative with primary insight. Findings – A major mechanism that must be put in place is popular and unpoliticized anti-corruption mechanisms and networks especially to sanitize the oil sector in the minimum. Also, government must demonstrate transparency and accountability across sectors and spending including at the government house. Sufficient palliatives like public transport and dedicated social services for the really poor is important before subsidy is implemented. Until these are done, government’s intention to successfully Remove Subsidy For Development (RS4D) may be a mirage! Research limitations/implications – This paper presents details of an international work with evolving issues. Originality/value – The paper argues that subsidy removal that will lead to high fuel prices appears unjustified given the wide income gap between workers in Nigeria and those in other oil-producing nations.
Gender and Marketing of Agricultural Produce in Nigeria
(Ife Centre for Psychological Studies/Services (ICPS), 2019) Akanle, O.; Ademuson, A. O.; Adegoke, O. O.; Ukewunmi, E. O.
Often times when gender is considered in relation to marketing, the attention is on the marketing of commodities especially manufactured ones. This is because attention on marketing in Africa is increasingly shifting from agricultural markets to shopping malls and virtual markets. Agricultural produce, particularly its marketing, however remains very important in sustaining many African communities and it holds important keys to understanding lingering gender trajectories of Africa. This article therefore examines the social intricacies involved in market decision making relative to agricultural produce by gender in one of the most prominent and enduring agricultural market in West Africa. Data were gathered through In-depth Interviews (IDIs) of 38 actors in the market and the theoretical framework adopted was a triangulation of Gender and Development and Feminist theories. Data analysis was done using content analysis and presented using ethnographic narratives, interpretations and summaries.
Gender Paradoxes and Agricultural monopoly in Nigeria: Implications for Policy and food (in) Security in Africa
(Ife Centre for Psychological Studies/Services (ICPS), 2017) Akanle, O.; Adesina, J. O.; Ademuson, A. O.
There is no doubt that Africa today is food challenged (insecure) and confront huge poverty despite the fact that much of African lands are arable and suitable for agriculture. This is essentially paradoxical. While policies and scholarly attempts have focused the roles of mechanization, processing, subsidies, redistribution, export and, recently, climate change, the role of gender relative to sustainability, social justice, exclusion/inclusion and agricultural optimization for food security remains largely policy and scholarly appendages. This is however not surprising given the patriarchal econo-social and power relations in most African societies only also playing out in land and agricultural space. It is impossible to have agriculture without the important roles of women, as women are responsible for about 80 percent of agricultural productions through their small farm holdings. Yet, local and global monopolies do not factor in the role of women sufficiently and often marginalize women thereby creating a gulf of sidelined critical gender mass. This gender sidelining is not only in terms of access to land, but also in terms of access to inputs, food and agricultural commodity markets that are mostly male dominated. This is more so in exchange and transactional terms as well as at policy domains. This paper thus maintains that the continued lack of real, substantial and practical appreciation of the role of women in agriculture through policies, interventions and practices contributes highly to the high level of food insecurity and policy failures in Africa and this only demonstrate the unsustainability of current lopsided agricultural monopolies in Africa. This paper brings useful Nigerian case studies that will contribute immensely to the ongoing debate on the problematic in manners that will enrich scholarship, policy and practice on the continent.
Globalization and inequality
(Ibadan University Press, Publishing House, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, 2013) Akanle, O.; Taiwo, P. A.
Globalization: An Africanist Perspective
(Faculty of Social Sciences, Lagos State University (LASU), 2018) Akanle, O.; Adejare, G. S.; Ademuson, A. O.; Adegoke, O. O.
Globalisation is certainly one of the most definitive occurrences of human history. Its impacts on humans and their existences are so widespread that it has remained about one of the most researched and discussed issues by scholars, academics and policy makers. This is not only because of its consequences but also because of its continued developments and dynamics which have made very complicated and difficult to comprehend and appropriate. While many studies exist on the issue, most of the existing ones are from Euro-American perspectives. Not many works are available on the Africanist perspectives of globalisation even though Africans are key actors in the globalisation systems. When African experiences are narrated within the prisms of globalisation, the narrations largely reflect lopsided outcomes of established political economic order of knowledge creation and consumption thereby leaving huge gaps in sustainable understanding of epistemologies and ontologies of globalisation. It is against this background that this article adopts Africanist frameworks to examine globalisation. Issues of interest in this article include; operationalisation of globalisation, local infusions (glocalisation), theories of globalisation, practical manifestations of globalisation in Africa and possible outcomes with implications for the continent.
Incubation Hubs and Development in Southwestern Nigeria
(Department of Sociology, University of Ilorin, 2019) Akanle, O.; Ademuson, A. O.; Omotayo, A.
Incubation hubs have become a global concept. There has been a continuous increase in their numbers around the world, especially in Europe and America as they have been found to be very good tools for job creation and socio-economic development. In recent times, African countries have embraced incubation hubs, with a lot of startups and small businesses undergoing incubation, especially in Nigeria. Although there has been an increase in the studies of incubation hubs globally, little has been done in understanding the prospect of incubation hub especially the private ones in Nigeria. Adopting an explorative, explanatory and descriptive research design, this study employed triangulation using qualitative and quantitative methods and Social Network Theory as the theoretical framework. The research was conducted in Lagos Metropolis and Ibadan, Oyo state. This study covers the prospect of incubation hubs as drivers of development; it considers the impact of incubation hubs on the community as well as the influence of the community on them and their ability to drive development in the nation-state. &ings from this study revealed that the incubation space has the potential to help Nigeria achieve sustainable development through job creation and support for the local community where they are located while contributing to the overall development of the nation. To enhance the growth of the sector, this paper recommends that adequate support should be provided to this space by the private and public sector through collaborations that will increase the synergy in the space and drive productivity.
King Sunny Ade: Liberal Sexuality, Reproductive Health and the Paramour
(Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 2016) Omobowale, M. O.; Akanle, O.; Akintunde, A. A.; Omobowale, A. O.
Migration and environmental crises in Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2018) Omobowale, A. O.; Akanle, O.; Falase, O. S.; Omobowale, M. O.
Scholarly publishing in Nigeria: the enduring effects of colonization
(Routledge, 2019) Omobowale, A. O.; Akanle, O.; Akinsete, C.
Scope and Limitation of Study in Social Research
(Ibadan University Press, 2020) Akanle, O.; Ademuson, A. O.; Shittu, O. S.
This is who we are and why: Ethnography of weddings in Ibadan, Nigeria
(The Union for African Population Studies (UAPS), 2019) Akanle, O.; Ademuson, A. O.; Adegoke, O. O.; Oguntoyinbo, K. O.
Background: Wedding ceremonies celebrate marital unions of two individuals/families in accordance with socially sanctioned arrangements. Among the Yoruba of south-western Nigeria, weddings of various forms exist. Elaborate and relatively grand weddings are common among the Yoruba people but studies are insufficient on these weddings. More attention is thus needed to understand the trajectories and ramifications of these weddings especially within the socio-economic conditions and rapidly changing social environments that have implications for population and development. This article is therefore an attempt to describe contemporary marriage ceremonies among the Yoruba in Ibadan, Southwestern Nigeria and the meanings associated with the ceremonies. The article is a detailed ethnographic narrative of Yoruba marriage processes. Data Sources and Method: Primary and secondary data were gathered. For the primary data, qualitative research method was used. Data collection methods were participant observations (10 different wedding venues) and 15 in-depth interviews. Interpretive research approach through interviews, observations and pictures were used because of their capacities to extract reliable contextual meanings and implicative elements of social realities. Secondary data were gathered from journal articles, books, newspaper clippings and reliable internet sources. Data analysis was done through content analysis of texts and pictures. Results: Findings reveal very original and dynamically creative ways of celebrating weddings and significance of such weddings among the Yoruba people with implications for better understanding of Africa’s socio-economic and cultural systems, population and development. Conclusion: Weddings are significant social realities in context. While they preceed family formation and traditionally crucial, they are both physical and cultural just as they are systematically symbolic and demonstrative of familial and sociocultural statuses and class in Africa. Weddings in the context are indication and legitimation of identity and existencies and these have strategic implications for social change, cultural systems and population.
World Views on Erectile Dysfunction: Perspectives in Knowledge Systems and Development
(Ife Centre for Psychological Studies/Services (ICPS), 2019) Akanle, O.; Oyindamola, Y.; Ademuson, A. O.; Adegoke, O. O.
In a bid to achieve sustainable development, there is a need for a connection and integration of knowledge system and western knowledge (medicine). More specifically is in the area of health care for sustainable development. In a bid to achieve sustainable development in the health care system, there is a need for deeper understanding of diseases in terms of its worldview by key actors especially in indigenous settings based on peoples’ contextual knowledge. It is against this background that erectile dysfunction, known as Idakole in Yoruba indigenous knowledge systems was examined. This article investigates the knowledge gap relative to worldviews of erectile dysfunction in Ibadan metropolis, Oyo State, Nigeria. The interpretation of Idakole in western medicine is erectile dysfunction. The research that informed this article was conducted in 2018 and it adopted quantitative methodology. Very useful findings were made with implications for policy and scholarship.
Youth Unemployment and Innovative Employment Creation (IEC) among University Undergraduates in Nigeria
(Sociology Department, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP), Universitas Wijaya Kusuma Surabaya, 2025) Akanle, O.; Ademuson A. O.; Adedayo M. P.
Youth unemployment has become a pervasive issue globally, with profound implications for individuals, communities and economies, particularly in Nigeria where a substantial portion of the youth is absorbed into informal sectors characterized by low productivity, minimal job security and limited access to social benefits. This study examined the innovative employment creation in the midst of widespread unemployment among youths in Ibadan specifically investigating the reasons youth engage in Innovative Employment Creation (IEC), the challenges faced and the coping mechanisms adopted. IECs are new and usual economic activities and business efforts youths engage in to earn income so as to escape unemployment which is widespread and a social reality in Nigeria. Descriptive research design was used. Human Capital Theory was used as theoretical framework. Structured questionnaire and in-depth interviews (IDIs) were used to gather data. Findings suggest that addressing the challenges of youth unemployment and promoting entrepreneurship requires a collaborative approach involving educational institutions, government agencies, private sectors and community stakeholders. It is therefore recommended that all the above-mentioned stakeholders should enhance access to entrepreneurship education and training programs while supports to youths are key as they continue to innovate to combat widespread youths’ unemployment in Nigeria and Africa.