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Mailing Address 3413 James Hall Brooklyn College The City University of New York 2900 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11210 USA

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Education Columbia University, New York. Ph.D. Political Science. 1996. Long Island University, New York, M.A. 1982. University of Ibadan, Nigeria, B.Sc. (Hons) Political Science 1979.

Research Interests A multi-level project on African Immigration to the United States, which will result in teaching a course, organizing a conference, publishing a journal, writing and publishing a book. The project is expected to culminate in the establishment of an Institute for the Study of African Immigration to the United States.

Teaching Interests International Political Economy. Regional specialization: Africa ; Globalization, Democracy and Development in Nigeria.

Publications * Book chapters "African Economic Development" in John H. Moore, editor, Encyclopedia of Race and Racism Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson/Gale (MacMillan Reference, 2008) "African Diasporas" in Merz, Barbara, Lincoln Chen, M.D., and Peter Geithner, eds. Diasporas and Development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Global Equity Initiative, 2007. "African Immigrant Churches and the New Christian Right" in J.K. Olupona & Regina Gemignani, Eds. African Immigrant Religions in America, (N.Y: New York University Press, 2007) "Listening to Africa, Misinterpreting and Misunderstanding Africa: Western Feminist Evangelism on African Women." in Gloria Emeagwali, ed. Challenging Hegemonic Discourses on Africa. (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2006). "The Contradictions of Globalization: Causes of Contemporary African Immigration to the United States of America." Chapter in Konadu-Agyemang, K, Takyi, B.K. and Arthur, J.A eEd The New African Diaspora: Perspectives on African immigrants in Canada and the USA. (Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books, 2006). "The Dividends of Democracy: The Nigeria Experience" in Olayiwola Abegunrin and Olusoji Akomolafe, (eds.) Nigeria in Global Politics: Twentieth Century and Beyond (NY: Nova Publishers, 2006) "What Women, Whose Development? A Critical Analysis of Western Feminist Evangelism on African Women" in Oyeronke Oyewumi, ed., African Women and Feminism: Reflections on the Politics of Sisterhood, (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press) "Bringing Government Closer to the People: Decentralization, the Structural Adjustment Program and Nigerian Federalism" in Peter P. Ekeh, et al. eds., Perspectives on Nigerian Federalism. "The Antinomies of Globalization: Causes And Consequences of Contemporary African Immigration to the United States of America."in Olufemi Vaughan, M. Birch, and C. Smalls, eds. Globalization and Its Discontents: Paradoxes of the Local and the Global Ibadan, Nigeria: Sefer Academic Press, 2005. Journal Articles African Journal of Political Science and International Relations. Acting Editor 2006-2007 "African Women and Power: Labor, Gender and Feminism in the Age of Globalization." Sage Race Relations Abstracts, 30: 3-26 (2005). "Economic and Political Liberalization Conceptualized." Globalization Review: International Journal on Trade and Sustainable Development (Nigeria), Volume 1:1, pp. 47-65 (2005) "Emergent African immigrant philanthropy in New York City," Research in urban sociology, vol. 7 (2004) "African Women and Power: Reflections on the Perils of Unwarranted Cosmopolitanism" Jenda: Journal of African Culture and Women Studies vol. 1:1. (2001) "African Women and Feminism: Reflections on Unwarranted Cosmopolitanism." Jenda: Journal of African Culture and Women Studies. vol 1:1 (February 2001). "Women, the State, and the Travails of Decentralizing the Nigerian Federation". West African Review, vol. 1: 2 (August 2000). "State and Civil Society in Nigeria in the Era of the Structural Adjustment Program, 1986-1993" West African Review, vol. 1: 1. "The Military Veto in Nigerian Politics: Of Failed Transitions, Political Liberalization, and Democracy." International Journal of African Studies. Conferences, Seminars and Symposia "Leaving Africa 'By Any Means Necessary': The International Exploitation of African Women and Girls in the Age of Globalization." Rutgers University Global Initiative Panel on Trafficking and Migration: Human Rights in Flux. March 26, 2007. "Transnational Africa" African Studies Association 50th Annual Meeting, New York October 17-21, 2007 "Women's Leadership Roles in African Initiated Churches in Nigeria and the US" 4th Annual Africana Women's Studies/Womanist Religious Studies Summit, "Unfamiliar Temples: Im/migration, Women, and Religion" Bennett College, NC, April 20-21, 2007. "Women's Leadership Roles in the Aladura Churches in Nigeria and the US" African Studies Association 50th Annual Meeting, New York October 17-21, 2007. Chair, Human Rights Panel. 25th Annual Meeting of the Association of Third World Studies, Lima, Peru, November 18-20, 2007. The Zicklin Conference: Governmentality and Globalization. Discussant for Panel on Governmentality and Infospace ,Brooklyn College, Thursday, April 26, 2007. "Gender, Decision Making, and Power in Contemporary Nigerian Politics" Global Women's Political Participation and Empowerment Leadership Conference-Global Women's Political Participation, Empowerment, and Leadership in Nigeria: Towards 2007 and Beyond." Chelsea Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria. September 8-10, 2006. "Models of Women's Leadership Training: Africa Examples" at the National Democratic Institute Planning Meeting for the National Assembly Women's Caucus' Proposed Leadership and Political Participation Conference and NASS Women's Caucus Political Leadership Training Institute on Thursday, June 29, 2006 in Abuja, Nigeria. "Nationalism, Displacement and Development: Africa in the Age of Globalization" at the Symposium in honor of the memory of Professor Don Ohadike: Power and Nationalism in Modern Africa, Organized by the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, September 22-23, 2006 at Ithaca, New York. "Spinning an African Academy into the World Wide Web: the Liberatory and Democratic Potential of African Scholarship in Cyberspace," paper presented at the CODESRIA-ASC Conference Series 2006: Electronic Publishing and Dissemination on Bridging the North-South Divide in Scholarly Communication on Africa. Threats and Opportunities in the Digital Era, September 6-8, 2006 at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. "The Case of Nigeria," Symposium on Multicultural Democracies in Africa, Department of African and African American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, College Park, Pennsylvania. April 29, 2006. "Wealth is not what you own, but what you give away": Africa's Diasporas and Giving Back to Africa." A paper commissioned by The Global Philanthropy Program of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative (GEI) for conference and book on Diaspora Philanthropy and Global Equity, May 10-12, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Moderator for panel discussion at Symposium On Africans In New York Co-sponsored by the Institute of African Studies, Columbia University and the Museum for African Art Friday, April 21, 2006 "Emerging Trends in African Immigrant Philanthropy" A Workshop at the Fifth National Conference on Black Philanthropy "Building a Future Worthy of Our Past" June 8-11, 2005. May 2005 "Gendered States: Politics and Women's Power in 21st Century Nigeria." Uncivil Society: State Failure and the Contradictions of Self-Organisation in Nigeria Conference. May 6-7, 2005. "American Slavery and the Argument for Reparations" Kenilworth Baptist Church, Brooklyn, February 23, 2003. 2003 "Introduction to Contemporary Africa II: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade." Kenilworth Baptist Church, Brooklyn, February 2, 2003. "Introduction to Contemporary Africa" Kenilworth Baptist Church, Brooklyn. January 25, 2003.

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