
Department of History and Strategic Studies
Dr. Felix Oludare Ajiola
Lecturer I
Specialisation African history, political economy, development history, urban and cultural studies
Selected Recent Publications / Contributions to Knowledge
- “Urban Crime in the Lagos Traffic: An Ethnography at the Crossroads of Multiple Codes of Ethics.” Journal of African Cultural Studies 37 (1): (2025): 127–144
- ‘‘Orality and mythology: Reconstructing the traditions of origin of Ondo and Idanre people of southwestern Nigeria’’, Sources, Materials & Fieldwork in African Studies Vol 9. (2025). https://doi.org/10.4000/13gx9
- "Cocoa Transfer Agreements, moneylenders, public letter writers and the rise of business elites in South West Nigeria, 1986–2000" Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte, vol. 69, no. 2, (2024), 277-314. https://doi.org/10.1515/zug-2023-0035
- "Public Health and Political Governance: The Colonial State and Disease Control in Lagos, 1924–1935", Africa Review 16, 3 (2024): 233-254, doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/09744061-bja10122
- ‘‘Isakole and the transformation of agricultural land conflicts in colonial Yorubaland’’, Southern Journal for Contemporary History (2021) 46 (2):68-88
- ‘‘Early geography of the coronavirus disease outbreak in Nigeria’’. Geo-Journal. Spatially Integrated Social Sciences and Humanities, Springer, (2020),1, 23-47
Collaborations / Networks
- Prof. Saheed Aderinto, Florida State University, USA
- Dr. Adeyemi Olusola, York University Canada
- Professor Carli Coetzee, University of Oxford
- Dr.Elodie Apard, IRD, France