Prof. Olufunke Asake Adeboye

I am a senior scholar with over thirty years in academic research and teaching. My research broadly covers Social and Gender History in Africa, African Historiography, Pentecostalism in West Africa and 19th and 20th century Yoruba society on which I have published extensively. My current research is on African Historiography and it explores how traditional and modern political actors continue to use history as a tool for negotiating political identity, privilege and dominance in some parts of Yorubaland. My aim is to deploy the study of history as a tool to detangle previously intractable issues in contemporary society.