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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