Selected Recent Publications / Contributions to Knowledge
Adeboye, O. and Awe, B. (eds.) Nigerian Women in Politics: Essays in Honour of Nina Emma Mba (Lagos: Ben and Nina Mba Foundation, 2022). [This publication appraises the current practice of women’s studies and gender history and highlights continuities and changes. It showcases new actors/agents, stable and mutating political systems, challenges faced by women and how they are surmounted, and calls for a reordering of the status quo.]
Adeboye, O. “Where is History Going in Africa/”, Storia della Storiografia, (Turin, Italy) 82:2(2022), 11-27. [This article traces the journey of African history through its popular and academic trajectories, unearthing the roots of modern African historiography. It discusses the multiple dimensions of the crisis faced by the discipline in the last quarter of the twentieth century and also addresses the contemporary state of history in selected parts of the continent. It concludes by identifying what the future holds for the discipline in Africa].
Adogame, A., Adeboye, O. and Williams, C. (eds.) Fighting in God’s Name: Religion and Conflict in Local-Global Perspectives (Lanham MD: Lexington Books,2020). [This edited collection provides a critical, interdisciplinary examination of the relationship between religion, conflict, violence, and tolerance from a local-global perspective. It reflects and advances interest in the empirical and theoretical development of religion, conflict and peace studies].
Adeboye, O. “A Starving Man Cannot Shout Halleluyah: African Pentecostal Churches and the Challenge if Promoting Sustainable Development”, in Philipp Ohlmann, Wilhelm Grab and Marie-Luise Frost (eds.), African Initiated Christianity and the Decolonization of Development: Sustainable Development in Pentecostal and Independent Churches (New York: Routledge, 2020), 115-135. [This chapter examines the contribution of African Pentecostal churches to the promotion of sustainable development, using the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), an indigenous Nigerian church, as case study. It underscores the significance of viable structures and policies and adoption of global best practices as the bedrock of sustainable development].
Adeboye, O. “Framing Female Leadership on Stage and Screen in Yorubaland: Efunsetan Aniwura Revisited”, Gender & History, Vol. 30, No. 3, (October 2018), 666-681 (Wiley-Blackwell). [This article explores the subject of character framing in a Yoruba historical film, Efunsetan Aniwura. It argues that the version of the past disseminated by the film was that of local, educated patriarchal authorities who had a deep-seated distrust of female leadership. Hence, the heroine was represented in a very negative manner, which subsequently affected her posterity negatively. The intervention of feminist scholars challenging emerging gender misrepresentations is also underscored in the publication].
Collaborations / Networks
Prof. Afe Adogame, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA.
Dr. Philipp Ohlmann, Humboldt University, Germany.
Dr. Krzysztof Nawratek, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Dr. Sara Panata, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Bourdeaux, France.
Dr. Sharon Omotosho, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan.
