Ayodeji Olukoju

Region of Interest

Africa

Primary Country of Residence

Nigeria

Title

Professor and Chair

Affiliation

University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Email

aolukoju2002@yahoo.com

Mailing Address

Department of History
University of Lagos
Akoka-Yaba
Lagos
Nigeria

Phone/Fax Number(s)

234-8023015007

Countries of Specialization

Nigeria ; Japan ; India

Research Interests

Maritime, Transport and Urban History (Nigerian and Comparative)

Teaching Interests

African and Asian (Japanese and Indian) History; Economic History

Publications

- '"Nigeria or Lever-ia?" Nationalist Reactions to Economic Depression
and the "Menace of Mergers" in Colonial Nigeria,' Journal of Third World
Studies, 19,1 (2002).

- "The Impact of British Colonialism on the Development of African
Business in Colonial Nigeria," in Alusine Jalloh and Toyin Falola (eds.),
Black Business and Economic Power (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester
Press, 2002).

- '"Buy British, Sell Foreign:" External Trade Control Policies in
Nigeria During World War II and Its Aftermath,1939-50,' International
Journal of African Historical Studies, 35, 2 (2002).

- "Self-Help Criminality as Resistance?: Currency Counterfeiting in
Colonial Nigeria," International Review of Social History, 45, 3 (2000)

- 'Confronting the Combines: Producers' and Traders' Militancy in Western
Nigeria, 1934-1939,' Nordic Journal of African Studies, 9,1 (2000).

- "Fishing, Migrations and Inter-Group Relations in the Gulf of Guines
(Atlantic Coast of West Africa) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries," Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History, 24, 2
(2000).

Keywords

maritime history ; economic history ; colonialism ; economic empowerment ; ...