TAIWO, Olatunde Olaseni
Phone Number: 08060873881
Social Media Address: @taiwo_olatunde1taiwohds.wordpress.com; www.researchgate.net/profile/Olatunde_Taiwo
Designation: AcademicBiography:
Taiwo Olatunde is a Lecturer at the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Nigeria, where he has been teaching for over 9 years. In April, 2016, Taiwo’s paper on“ Transnational Insurgency and Counterinsurgency around the Chad Basin:RethinkingBoko Haram” was presented at the International Graduate Historical Studies Conference, Central Michigan University, USA. His latest publication(s) are the: “ Knights of a Global Countryside: The Balogun Institution of Ijebuland, Nigeria” Nsukka Journal of History. Vol 3, 2016.1-22; “George Washington Carver National Monument” and “Silicon Valley” both in Newton-Matza, Mitchell.Ed. 2016. Historic Sites and Landmarks that Shaped America: From Acoma Peublo to Ground Zero (California: ABC-CLIO, LLC), 222-224, 478-480; as well as “The Fourth World” and the “G-8 Africa Action Plan,” both in the Encyclopaedia of World Poverty (Sage, 2015). Olatunde received his undergraduate degree at the OOU and his Master degree at the University of Ibadan, both in Nigeria. He is currently working on his MPHL/PHD program at the University of Ibadan, around a thesis titled: Deportations in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1960.
Department: History and Diplomatic Studies
Academic Rank: Assistant Lecturer
Current Position: Assistant Lecturer/Departmental Examination Officer
Research Interest: International History, International Relations, History, Migration Studies, Humour Studies,
Nigerian History, Social History, Deportation Studies.
Institutions Attended:
• University of Ibadan,
• OlabisiOnabanjo University.
Membership of Professional Bodies:
• Member, Organisation for Historical Research of Nigeria( OHRN)
• Member, Global-Africa Network
. Member, International Literacy Organisation.
Awards Received:
Tertiary Education Fund Grant to Attend a Conference at
The Central Michigan University, United States of America, 2015Courses Taught:
HDS 209-American Diplomacy in the 19th and 20th Centuries 3 units
HDS 209 – Outline History of Latin America Since 1492 3 units
HDS 317 – Evolution of International Organisations 3 units
HDS 214 – Foreign Policy Analysis 3 units
HDS 106 – History of International Relations and Diplomacy 3 units
HDS 499- Long Essay 6 units
Research Conducted:
My MPHL/PHD thesis is presently at the heart of my research effort. Its title is: Deportation in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1960. Its context of specialization is social history. The research represents a composite examination of deportations in colonial Nigeria. Composite, firstly, in terms of deportations within, out of, and in to colonial Nigeria.Composite, secondly, to the extent that the deportations include both Nigeria indigenes and foreigners. The work aspires to explain how the nexus between colonial laws, policies, and actual deportations in colonial Nigeria provide alternative understanding and direction to the historical trajectory of post-colonial deportations in the country. Did, and in what forms did, citizenship and deportation collide in colonial Nigeria? Of what nature and impact on colonial Nigeria was deportation diplomacy? To what extent did crime, security and deportation overlap in colonial Nigeria? What were the agencies-human and structural- behind deportations in colonial Nigeria? How and why did deportation enforcement fail in colonial Nigeria? What is the nexus between deportations on the one hand and forced migration, expulsion, banishment, and exile on the other, in colonial Nigeria? These are a few of the questions by which the work is being guided. Presently, the thesis is emerging to be at the intersection of immigration control, expulsions, repatriation, forcible removal, forced migration, unauthorized immigration, irregular migration,immigration studies, coercive social regulations and extradition in Nigeria’s past, present and future.