As Professor Charles Olutayo Adesina becomes a recipient of FNAL

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Prof. Olutayo C. Adesina (L) during his investiture as Fellow of Nigerian Academy of Letters at the University of Lagos. With him are the President, Nigerian academy of Letters, Prof. Olu Obafemi, FNAL (Right) and Prof. Dele Layiwola (Middle), FNAL.

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By Bashir Adefaka

 

As an added feather truly to his cap as said by his brother, Chief Femi Adesina, the newly investitured scholar can now be correctly addressed as Professor Charles Olutayo Adesina, B.A, M.A, Ph.D, “FNALS”.  Recall that Olutayo’s brother Olufemi Adesina is another of Adesina’s family that reached the peak of his career of journalism as managing director/editor-in-chief of the SUN Newspapers Limited and was active President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) when President Muhammadu Buhari picked him on his own merit as his reliable and trusted Special Adviser on Media and Publicity in the build up to his inauguration that later came up on May 29, 2015.  It is no wonder President Buhari upon return after his treatment abroad amidst the vocalised unpatriotic efforts of anti-Nigerian elements going on in his absence at that time (2017) officially, and publicly too, acknowledged him, Femi Adesina, for “Holding Out Against Mischief Makers”. 

Nigeria’s erudite scholar and historian of note, Professor Charles Olutayo Adesina’s contributions to scholarship was once acknowledged as he was crowned in yet another grand event as Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (FNAL) at the J.F Ade-Ajayi Auditorium of University of Lagos, on Wednesday August 9, 2018.

Olutayo, who upon his promotion to the peak of academic ranking of a professor in 2011 said in a media interview that “I’m a farmer who missed his vocation”, is a scholar of the University of Ibadan with his academic properties domiciled in the Department of History of the institution.

As an added feather truly to his cap as said by his brother, Chief Femi Adesina, the newly investitured scholar can now be correctly addressed as Professor Charles Olutayo Adesina, B.A, M.A, Ph.D, “FNAL”.

The new FNAL recipient, Prof. Olutayo C. Adesina.

Recall that Olutayo’s brother Olufemi Adesina is another of Adesina’s family that reached the peak of his career of journalism as managing director/editor-in-chief of the SUN Newspapers Limited and was active President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) when President Muhammadu Buhari picked him on his own merit as his reliable and trusted Special Adviser on Media and Publicity in the build up to his inauguration that later came up on May 29, 2015.

It is no wonder President Buhari upon return after his treatment abroad amidst the vocalised unpatriotic efforts of anti-Nigerian elements going on in his absence at that time (2017) officially, and publicly too, acknowledged him, Femi Adesina, for “Holding Out Against Mischief Makers”.

The beauty of that presidential acknowledgement was that, it came at the instance of same Adesina family from where the tree that is currently bearing sweet fruits of scolarship at University of Ibadan sprout out.  How more beautiful would it have been today should Pa J.O Adesina, Mama R.O Adesina, and Professor Foluke Ogunleye (nee Adesina), Femi and Olutayo’s elder sister who died in motor accident few years back, have been alive to witness this.   “But all the same, we give God the glory”, Femi Adesina, the Igbo chief, said in his Facebook post on Tuesday.

All the same, we salute the amiable Professor of all of us, Charles Olutayo Adesina, who in yet another glorious thing happening to the Adesinas was among four eggheads including Prof Raufu Adebiyi Adebisi, Prof Isaac Deji Ayegboyin and Professor Emeritus Godwin Sogolo, who had their investiture as Fellows of the Nigerian Academy of Letters on Thursday August 9, 2018, at the University of Lagos august event that was well was attended by academics from across different fields, as well as families, friends and well wishers of the new Fellows.
Renowned literary arts scholar and newspaper columnist, Prof Olu Obafemi, presided over the investiture, while Prof Siyan Oyeweso of Osun State University and Director, Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding, Osogbo, delivered the Convocation Lecture under the title, Plural Loyalties And Multiple Identities In Post-Independence Nigeria.

Married to Oluwakemi Abiodun Omogunwa in a matrimony now of doing-well children, Olutayo the Historian, Lecturer and Administrator started out as Assistant Lecturer, Department of History, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 1990-91; Lecturer III, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, 1991-93; Lecturer II, Department of History, University of Ibadan, 1993-97; Lecturer I, 1997-2000; Senior Lecturer, since 2000; Head, Department of History, University of Ibadan, 2001-03 and has been Coordinator, Department of History, Oral History and Documentation Project, since 2000.

From L-R: the Alapa of Apa Egun-Awori, Lagos State, HRM Oba Oyekan Adekanmi Ajoseh Possi III, Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina, Prof. Olutayo C. Adesina, FNAL, his wife, and other guest, after his investiture as Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Letters at the University of Lagos on August 9, 2018.

Olutayo Adesina, who loves doing many of his speakings or writings in his mother tongue of Yoruba, still in University of Ibadan, was Sub-Dean, Faculty Of Arts, 1999-2001; Co-ordinator, Department Examinations, 1997-98; served on Department of History Staff/Students Liaison Committee, 1994; Departmental Representative, Faculty Staff/Student Liaison Committee, 1994; Faculty Consultancy Committee, 1994; Department of History Strategic Planning Committee, 1995-96; Departmental Representative, Board of Arts Studies, 1996-98.

He also served as Departmental Representative, Board of Faculty of Education, 1995-2001 and in Faculty of Arts 50th Anniversary Committee, 1998 and as Chairman, Department of History Revenue Generation Committee, 2000-01; Editor, The Nigeria Journal of Economic History; Research Associate, African Peace Research Institute, Lagos, 1989; Research Associate, Development Policy Centre, Ibadan, 1997-98; Contributing Scholar, Encyclopedia of sub-Saharan Africa, 1998; Encyclopedia of African History, 2005; History of World Trade, since 1450; Columnist, National Concord Newspaper, Lagos, 1995-2000; Editorial Board, The Comet Newspaper; Editorial Advisory Board, Humanities Review Journal, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Advisory Board, Comparative American Studies Journal; Editorial Consultant, African Studies Review, Department of History and International Studies, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State; Deputy Co-ordinator, Training Programmes, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies.

The New Fellows of the Nigerian Academy of Letters. From Left: Prof. Raufu Adebiyi Adebisi (FNAL; Prof. Olutayo C. Adesina (FNAL); Prof. Isaac Deji Ayegboyin (FNAL); and Prof. Emeritus Godwin Sogolo (FNAL).

His foray also extends to the Historical Society of Nigeria; Business Manager, Historical Society of Nigeria; Nigerian Economic History Association; Indigenous knowledge Group, University of Ibadan; Peace and Conflict Studies Group, University of Ibadan; Deputy Co-ordinator, Training Programmes, The Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Ibadan, since 2001; Environmental Protection Society of Nigeria; African Studies Association, USA, since 2002; American Studies Association of Nigeria; Secretary, University of Ibadan branch, 1994-2000; Chairman, 2000-2004; International Committee, American Studies Association, USA 2001-2004; American Historical Society; Organization of American Historians, Economic History Association, USA, 1995-97; External Examiner Department of History Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 2005; Department of History, University of Ilorin, 2003; Fellow, Award, Postgraduate School, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 1990-91; Charles Warren Centre, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1998; Senate Research Grant, University of Ibadan, 2000; Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg, Austria, 2001; Visiting Professor, Kennesaw State University, Georgia, 2004; Fellow:Rhodes Clair of Race Relations, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, U.K., 2004/05

Prof. Olutayo C. Adesina, FNAL(middle) after his investiture as Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Letters at the University of Lagos on August 9, 2018. With him is the Alapa of Apa Egun-Awori, Lagos State, HRM Oba Oyekan Adekanmi Ajoseh Possi III, and his White cap Chiefs.

Olutayo, the Ipetumodu, Osun State-born scholar, had grown through the St. Clares Nursery & Primary School, Oshogbo, 1968-70; St. Augustine’s Primary School, Ipetumodu, 1971-75; Origbo Community High School, Ipetumodu, 1975-80 to University of Ife, 1981-85 and, after the University of Ife was renamed in honour late Premier of Western Region Chief Obafemi Awolowo, also attended same Ife now called Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 1989-94.

To the credit of Professor Tayo Adesina are research projects and activities which include the Indians in Nigerian History, Economy and Society while his Masters’ Dissertation premised on “A Historical Evaluation of the Western Nigerian Government Agricultural Policy, 1951-1966”, Department of History, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 1989 and Ph.D Thesis done on “Indigenous Participation in the Economy of Western Nigeria 1900-1970”, Department of History, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 1994.

More overwhelming of Professor Charles Olutayo Adesina’s life endeavours is in over 70 publication to HIMSELF and HIMSELF alone!  These include:

Publications

  1. Adesina, O.C.2000. Gideon Isaac Oladipo Olajide: The Making of the People’s Bishop, Ijebu-Ode: VICOO International Press, 170pp.
  2. Amali, S.O.O, Owens-Ibie, Noma, Foluke Ogunleye, Adesina, Olutayo Charles and Uji, Charles (eds) 2002. Religion in the United States of America, Ibadan: Hope Publications for American Studies Association of Nigeria (ASAN), 239pp.
  3. Amali, S.O.O, Owens-Ibie, Noma, Foluke Ogunleye, Charles Uji, and Adesina, Olutayo Charles, (eds).2002. Consolidation and Sustenance of Democracy: The United States of America  and Nigeria,Ibadan: Hope Publications for American Studies Association of Nigeria, 320pp.
  4. Amali, S.O.O, Adell Patton Jr., Foluke Ogunleye, Charles Uji, Adesina, Olutayo Charles and Zakariya Goshit (eds). 2003. Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Democracy in the United States of America,Ibadan: Humanities Publishers for ASAN, 276pp.
  5. Adesina, O.C. 2004. The World of Yemi Farounbi, Oshogbo, Sumob Publishers, 210pp.
  6. Akanmu Adebayo and O.C. Adesina (eds).2009. Globalization and Transnational Migrations: Africa and Africans in the Contemporary Global System(Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K, Cambridge Scholars Publishing). 361pp.
  7. Akanmu Adebayo, Olutayo C. Adesina and Rasheed Olaniyi (eds). 2010. Marginality and Crisis: Globalization and Identity in Contemporary Africa(Lanhan, Maryland, U.S.A. Lexington Books), 276 pp.
  8. Adesina, O.C., Prof Oladele A. Ajose: The Legend and Life of an Intellectual Icon. (Forthcoming)
  9. Akanmu G. Adebayo and O.C. Adesina, Promise and Failure in an African State(Under Publisher’s Review).
  10. Adesina, O.C. (ed), Currency, Culture and Politics in Modern Africa(Under Publisher’s Review).
  11. Adesina, O.C. Indians in Nigerian history, Economy and Society (Forthcoming)
  12. Adesina, O.C., “Ecological Deterioration and Conservation in the Third World” APRI: African Peace Research Institute Publication,Lagos, Nigeria, Vol. IV. No 3, May/June, 1989, pp. 14-19.
  13. Adesina, O.C “A Review of the Writings on the Economic History of West Africa”, New African Historian, Vol. XII, 1990, pp. 39-46.
  14. Adesina, O.C., A Review of “Critical Essays on African and Third World Economic Development”, Wilfred A. Ndongko and Vivekananda, F.(eds) ODU: A Journal of West African Studies,  37, 1990, pp. 202-205.
  15. Adesina, O.C., “Culture and Capital Formation: Conflict of Tradition and Modernity in Southwestern Nigeria” Olota: Journal of African Studies, Vol.1. No. 1 October, 1995, pp. 37-49.
  16. Adesina, O.C., “The Colonial State’s Wartime Emergency Regulations and the Development of the Nigerian Entrepreneurial Class, 1939-45”. Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies,Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, No. 7, October, 1997, pp. 67-76.
  17. Olorunfemi, A. and Adesina, O.C., ‘Politics and Nigerian Agriculture in the First Decade of the “Oil Boom”: A Preliminary Assessment”.  The Nigerian Journal of Economic History,(The Nigerian Economic History Association, c/o Department of History, University of Ibadan), 1998, No. 1, pp. 57-69.
  18. Adesina, O.C., “Grassroots Banking in Nigeria and the Crises of Confidence, 1977-1997”. Ife Journal of History 3. No. 1. June, 1999, pp. 30-41.
  19. Adesina, O.C., “Oil, The Economy and The Nation”. Recall: A Chronicle of Nigerian Events, Ibadan, No. 1, Hope Publications, January, 2000, pp. 69-80.
  20. Adesina, O.C., “Hamdala: Strategic Response to Exchange Rate Dynamics in Contemporary Nigeria”.  Humanities Review Journal,Department of Dramatic Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, December 2001, Vol. 1 No.2 pp. 23-30.
  21. Olorunfemi A and Adesina, O.C., “Labour Unions and the Decolonisation Process in Nigeria, 1940-1960”. Ilorin Journal of History, Vol. 1 No.1, January 2003, pp. 9-18.
  22. Adesina, O.C., “Diamonds and Constitutional Disorder in Sierra Leone”, The Nigerian Journal of Economic History, 5&6, 2003, pp.56-73.
  23. Adesina, O.C., “Sub-ethnic Identities and the Crisis of Development in Contemporary Nigeria: Perspectives from the Ife-Modakeke Conflict”, AAU: African Studies Review,3, June, 2004, pp. 1-22.
  24. Adesina O.C., “Nigerian Political Leadership and Yoruba/Hausa-Fulani Relations”, International Journal of Humanistic Studies, Vol.4, 2004, pp.17-33
  25. Adesina, O.C., “Modern Agriculture in Nigeria: A Historical Exegesis”, Benin Journal of Historical Studies,4 Nos.1 and 2, 2002-2004, pp.59-80.
  26. Adesina, O.C., “Adebisi Sanusi Giwa(?- 1938): The Life and Career of an Ibadan Entrepreneur and Community Leader”, Lagos Notes and Records, A Journal of the Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, Vol. XII, May, 2006, pp.28-42.
  27. Adesina, O.C., ‘Teaching History in Twentieth Century Nigeria: The Challenges of Change’, History in Africa: A Journal of Method, 33, 2006, pp.17-37.
  28. Adesina, O.C., “Nigerian Cities” edited by Toyin Falola and Steven J. Salm, (Review), African Affairs¸ 105/421, 2006, pp. 475-476.
  29. Adesina O.C., “Friendship with the Dragon:” Mapping Contemporary China-Nigeria Relations in the Global Market Place’, African Journal of Political Science (AJPS), Vol.12, No. 1., 2007.
  30. Adesina, O.C. “Rethinking West African Economic Integration: Francophone Gendarmes and Nigeria’s Cross-Border Trade, International Journal of Humanistic Studies (UniversityofSwaziland), Vol.6, 2007 (June), pp.38-51.
  31. Adesina, O.C. “Nigeria: peu d’action collective, beaucoup de violence”, Alternatives Sud: Etat de resistance dans le Sud-2009, Face a la crise alimentaire, Volume 15, 2008/4, pp. 59-64.
  32. Adesina, O.C., “Globalization and the Unending Frontier”, Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective, 3, No.2, 2008, pp. 107-110. (And also the Guest Editor for the Volume).
  33. Adesina, O.C. “The Nationalist Class and the Politics of Historical Production in Colonial and Post-Colonial Nigeria.” African Identities (Forthcoming)
  34. Adesina, O.C., “Structural Adjustment Programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Acquiescence to Protest’ in Albert, Isaac O., Adisa, Jimi, Agboola, T. and Herault, G., (eds) Urban Management and Urban Violence in Africa, 2: Ibadan Institute for French Research in Africa, (IFRA), 1994,  pp. 239-245.
  35. Adesina, O.C., “The Politics of Economic Liberalisation and the Electoral Process”, in Ogunba, Oyin, (ed) Governance and the Electoral Process: Nigeria and the United States of America,:Lagos: University of Lagos Press for American Studies Association of Nigeria, 1997, pp.305-318.
  36. Adesina, O.C., “The Debt Crisis and the National Question in Sub-Saharan Africa’ in Oladipo, Olusegun (eds) Remaking Africa: Challenges of the Twenty-First Century, Ibadan Hope Publications, 1998, pp. 69-93.
  37. Adesina, O.C and A. Olorunfemi, ‘The Economy of Western Nigeria, 1900-1980’, in Biodun Adediran and Deji Ogunremi(eds): Culture and Society in Yorubaland.Ibadan:Rex Charles Publishers in association with Connel Publications, 1998,  pp.127-138.
  38. Adesina, O.C., (Contributing scholar): “Abuja”; “Adama Modibbo”; “Cameroon-Gabon Region, History”; “Du Bois, W.E.B »; « Ekoi »; « Hausa”; “Ibadan”; “Ilorin”; “Lagos”; “Macaulay, Herbert”; “Nigerian Peoples and Culture: Northwestern Nigeria”, in John Middleton (ed) Encyclopedia of sub-Saharan Africa, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1998.
  39. Adesina, O.C., “Revenue Allocation Commissions and the Contradictions in Nigeria’s Federalism” in Amuwo, Kunle, Agbaje, Adigun, Suberu, Rotimi and Herault, Georges  (eds), Federalism and Political Restructuring in Nigeria:
  40. Ibadan Spectrum/IFRA Publication, 1998, pp. 232-246.
  41. Adesina, O.C., “The Underground Foreign Exchange Market in Ibadan During Devaluation” in Guyer, Jane, Denzer, LaRay and Agbaje, Adigun (eds), Money Struggles and City Life: Devaluation in Ibadan and Other Urban Centres in Southern Nigeria, 1986-96: Portsmouth, NH, Heinemann, 2002, pp. 77-91.
  42. Adesina, O.C., “Central Banking, Economic Empowerment and Sustainable Democracy in the United States and Nigeria”, in Amali, S.O.O, Owens-Ibie, Noma, Ogunleye Foluke, Uji, Charles, Adesina, Olutayo (eds.), Consolidation and Sustenance of Democracy: The United States of America and Nigeria: Ibadan Hope Publications for American Studies Association of Nigeria, 2002, pp.94-102
  43. Adesina, O.C., “Ethnic Profiling and Yoruba Irredentism: A Political Economy”, in Carabine, Deirdre and Ssemusu, Lawrence L. (eds), Ethnicity in an Age of Globalization: Kampala, Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2002, pp. 70-83.
  44. Contributing Scholar, Encyclopedia of African History, Kevin Shillington (ed), New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005: (a)“Benin, Republic of (Dahomey): Democratization, National Conference and, 1990s”, pp.142-143.; (b)“Benin, Republic of (Dahomey): Kerekou, Mathieu” pp.141-142.; (c)“Carthage,” pp.219-220; (d)“Mali Empire: Economy,” pp.920-921; (e)“Mauritania: ethnicity, conflict, development, 1980s and 1990s,” pp.962-962. (f)“Tripoli,” pp.1584-1585.
  45. Adesina, O. C., “KENYA: Overview of major elements of long-distance trade involving the area of present-day Kenya from 1450 to the present” in John J. McCusker(ed), History of World Trade Since 1450, Michigan, Macmillan Reference, USA, The Gale Group, 2006, PP.437-438.
  46. Adesina, O.C “Sharpeville Massacre Focuses Global Awareness on Apartheid”, in Robert F. Gorman (ed), Great Events from History: The 20thCentury, 1941-1970, California, Salem Press, 2006, pp.2034-2036.
  47. Adesina, O.C., “Guinea Gains Independence from France”, in Robert F.   Gorman (ed), Great Events from History: The 20thCentury, 1941-1970,California, Salem Press, 2006,  pp.1859-1860.
  48. Adesina, O.C. “Jean-Bedel Bokassa”, in Carl L. Blankson III(ed),
  49. Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives, California, Salem Press, 2007, pp113-114.
  50. Adesina, O.C., “Mobutu Sese Seko”, in Carl L. Blankson III(ed), Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives, California, Salem Press, 2007, pp740-741.
  51. Adesina, O.C., “Winnie Mandela”, in Carl L. Blankson III(ed), Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives, California, Salem Press, 2007,  pp. 686-688.
  52. Adesina, O.C., “Islam, Violence and the Politics of Stereotypes: A Critical Discourse”, in Afis Oladosu, (ed) Islam in Contemporary Africa. On Violence, Terrorism and Development,Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, pp.29-41.
  53. Adesina, O.C., “Kimathi, Dedan, 1920-1957”, in William A. Darity (ed), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Detroit: Macmillan Reference, USA, 2008,  p.266.
  54. Adesina, O.C. “The Indigene-Settler Question in the Federation of Nigeria”, in Dele Layiwola, Olawale Albert and Bernard Muller (eds), The contexts of Non-Linear History: Essays in Honour of Tekena Tamuno, Ibadan,Sefer, 2008,356-377.
  55. Adesina, O.C. “Oral History and Historiography in U.I”, in Femi Osofisan, Bode Lucas and Michael Aken’Ova, University of Ibadan: Sixty Landmarks,(Ibadan, Postgraduate School, 2008, pp. 57-60
  56. Adesina, O.C. “Professor Jacob Festus Ade-Ajayi and the Ibadan School of History”, in Femi Osofisan, Bode Lucas and Michael Aken’Ova, University of Ibadan: Sixty Landmarks,(Ibadan, Postgraduate School, 2008), pp.139-142.
  57. Adesina, O.C. “Professor Tekena N. Tamuno”, in Femi Osofisan, Bode Lucas and Michael Aken’Ova, University of Ibadan: Sixty Landmarks,(Ibadan, Postgraduate School, 2008), pp.187-189.
  58. Adesina, O.C. “Why do they Hate us so Much?” Of Gendarmes, Economic Integration and the Civil Society”, in Adekunle Amuwo, Hippolyt Pul and Irene O. Adadevoh, Civil Society, Governance and Regional Integration in Africa,Nairobi, Development Policy Management Forum (DPMF), 2009, pp.127-138.
  59. Adesina, O.C. “Overseas Development and Integration in West Africa: the Nigerian Experience.” In Yomi Akinyeye (ed), Nation-States and the Challenges of Regional Integration in West Africa: the case of Nigeria,Paris, Editions Karthala, 2010,  pp. 229-244.
  60. Adesina, O.C.  “Baule” pp:140-143:“Herbert Macaulay”pp: 83-85; “Shango” pp: 332-334
  61. In F. Abiola Irele and Biodun Jeyifo (eds), The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought,  1 &2, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010.
  62. Adesina, O.C. “Outward Bound, Tangled Nightmares: Rereading Globalization in Contemporary Nigeria.” In Boike Rehbein, Globalization and Inequality in Emerging Societies,(Hammond, U.K., Palgrave Publishers), 2011, pp. 136-147.
  63. Adesina, O. C. ‘From Structural Adjustment to the Adjustment of Structures: The New Nigerian Houses’, in Bayo Amole (ed) The House in Nigeria: History, Environment, Place and Development. Proceedings of a National Symposium on the House in Nigeria.Ile-Ife, Department of Architecture, Obafemi Awolowo University, 2007, pp. 67-70.
  64. Adesina, O.C. ‘The “Sabo Corridor” and the Underground Foreign Exchange Market in Ibadan’. Occasional Publication, 98-01, Center for International Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1998, 14pp.
  65. Adesina, O.C. ‘The Culture of Entrepreneurship, Cross-Cultural Visions, and the Construction of the African-American Standards of Inheritance’, Working Paper 98-18, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University, USA, 1998, 19pp.
  66. Adesina, O.C. ‘From “Aginju” to Forest Reserves: Crisis and Conflict in Forestry Legislations in Colonial Southwestern Nigeria’, The International Conference on “The Forest and Environmental History of The “British Empire And Commonwealth”, University of Sussex, U.K, 2003, 16pp.
  67. Adesina, O.C. “Faith, Spiritualism and Materialism: Understanding the Interfaces of Religion and Economy in Nigeria.” In Afe Adogame, Ezra Chitando & Bolaji Bateye (eds) African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa. Festschrift in Honor of Prof. J.K. Olupona.(U.K: Ashgate) (Forthcoming).
  68. Adesina, O.C. “Feeding the Millions: Africa’s Food Security.” In R.A. Olaniyan (ed), Contemporary Issues in Africa.(Forthcoming).
  69. Adesina, O.C. “Between Colonialism and Cultural Authenticity: Isaac Ladipo Oluwole, Oladele Adebayo Ajose, Public Health Services in Nigeria, and the Glasgow Connection.” in Afe Adogame and Andrew Lawrence (eds) Africa in Scotland, Scotland in Africa(Brill: Forthcoming).
  70. Adesina, O.C. “Lord Frederick Lugard and the Politics of Amalgamation” in Danmole H.O. (ed) Building a Nation: Politics, Religion and Culture in Modern Nigeria, (Forthcoming).


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