Rufus Akinyele’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Nigerian historian
Is Historian
From Nigeria
Type Social science
Gender male
Birth

2 February 1959

Age 61 years
Star sign Aquarius
Education
University of Lagos

Rufus Taiwo Akinyele (born 2 February 1959 in Ido-Ekiti) is a Nigerian Professor of African History. He is the current Head, Department of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos, Nigeria. His research interests cut across the fields of African History, Inter-Group Relations and Border Studies, and he has published numerous articles in several top-tier, peer-reviewed journals in these areas. With his studies on the Oodua Peoples’ Congress among others, he has earned recognition as one of the leading authorities on ethnic militia across the world. Akinyele is the convener of the International Multidisciplinary Conference on ‘Land and Development’ at the University of Lagos.

Background

Born on 2 February 1959, Akinyele obtained his secondary (WASC) and higher secondary certificates (HSC) from the Nigerian Military School, Zaria and the Igbobi College, Lagos in 1977 and 1979 respectively. He then proceeded to the University of Lagos, where he earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in History in 1982, 1985 and 1990 respectively. Immediately afterwards, in January 1990, his alma mater engaged him as a Lecturer II in the Department of History, where he continues to serve having risen through the ranks to the point of his appointment as a full Professor on October 1, 2005.

Career

Rufus Akinyele is the incumbent Head of the Department of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos, a position previously held by Prof. Olufunke Adeboye. Akinyele had earlier held the same office from September 2010 through August 2013. He has authored several book chapters and a number of books/monographs, as well as edited several volumes. Scores of his influential articles have appeared in high-impact disciplinary or regional academic journals such as African Affairs, Asian and African Studies, African Studies Review and Africa Development. His current research explores different issues relating to land and development in Lagos. Rufus Akinyele has participated in and delivered scholarly papers in numerous academic conferences and workshops as well as at other non-academic fora within Nigeria and in several other countries including the United States, Germany, France, United Kingdom, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya and Ghana. He was a participant at the workshop on the Review of UNESCO General History of Africa in Cape Coast, Ghana in 2013.

Akinyele teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in African and European Historiography, African and European Political Thought, Colonialism, Ethnic Conflicts and Border Studies at the University of Lagos’ Department of History and Strategic Studies. He has successfully supervised over 25 graduate students including 7 doctoral students. In 2015, he was a visiting professor at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife.

In 2004, Akinyele held office as the Director of Centre for African Regional Integration and Border Studies (CARIBS) at the University of Lagos. He was a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of African Affairs (Oxford) from 2008 through 2017; and has been a Member of the Editorial Board of the Lagos Historical Review, a history journal domiciled in the Department of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos since 2001. He has been a Reviewer/Advisor of the African Humanities Programme of the American Council of Learned Societies since 2012. And since 2013, Akinyele has been the Chief Editor of UNILAG Journal of Humanities.

Rufus Akinyele is a member of the following academic professional organisations: American Studies Association of Nigeria, International Research Group (GDRI), France; National Association for Ethnic Studies, USA; African Borderlands Research Network (ABORNE); and the Congress of African Historians.

Selected publications

Akinyele, R. T., Nigeria: Contesting for Space, Identity and Security, (Ibadan: Rex Charles, 2014).[1]

Akinyele, R. T., History and Diplomacy: Essays in Honour of Ade Adefuye (Glasboro, NJ: Goldline and Jacobs Pub., 2017).[2]

Akinyele, R. T. & Ton Dietz, Crime, Law and Society in Nigeria: Essays in Honour of Stephen Ellis (Leiden: Brill, 2019).[3][4]

Akinyele, R. T. “Contesting for Space in an Urban Centre: The Omo Onile Syndrome in Lagos” in Francesca Locatelli and Paul Nugent (eds.), African Cities: Competing Claims on Urban Space (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 109-134.[5]

Akinyele, R. T., Julie Berg, et al, “Contested Social Orders: Negotiating Urban Security in Nigeria and South Africa,” in Simon Bekker and Laurent Fourchard (eds.), Governing Cities in Africa: Politics and Policies (Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2013), 169-188.[6]

Akinyele, R. T., “A Western Niger Province or Constitutional Safeguards: The Search for an Effective Remedy to the Fears of the Igbo West of the Niger 1941-54,” Immigrants and  Minorities 2 (1992): 156-170.[7]

Akinyele, R. T., “Growth Pole Theory, Marginals and Minorities:  States Creation in Nigeria in a Period of Military Transition,” Asian and African Studies 27 (1993): 293-312.[8]

Akinyele, R. T., “States Creation in Nigeria: The Willink Report in Retrospect,” African Studies Review 39, no. 21 (1996): 71-94.[9]

Akinyele, R. T., “Power Sharing and Conflict Management in Africa: Nigeria, Sudan and Rwanda,” Africa Development 25, nos. 3 & 4 (2000): 199-223.[10]

Akinyele, R. T., “Ethnic Militancy and National Stability in Nigeria: A Case Study of the Oodua Peoples Congress,” African Affairs 100 (2001): 623-640.[11]

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