Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi

Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi lectures in the Department of Political Science, Lagos State University and holds a PhD in Social Sciences from KU Leuven. His research straddles international relations, comparative politics and development studies – with strong bias for Africa-China relations, the ‘youth question’ and nation-building, knowledge (re)production, research ethics, and (recently) environmental politics. He was a Fellow of the Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC) ‘Next Generation of Social Science in Africa’ (2013-2014), Doctoral Fellow at the Leuven Centre for Research on Peace and Development (2013-2017), University of Edinburgh's Centre of African Studies Catalyst Fellow and Non-residential Catalyst Fellow (in 2019 and 2020 respectively), American Council of Learned Societies African Humanities Program (ACLS-AHP) Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2021), Fellow of the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), University of Ghana (2022-2023), Coimbra Visiting Scholar at the Centre for East Asian Studies (CEAS), University of Turku in 2023, Fellow of the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) programme (2023-2024), and a MEGA Fellow at the Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku in 2024. He is a co-founder of the Conflict Research Network West Africa (CORN - West Africa) and the Nigeria Africa-China Research Group (NiACReG), a local network chapter of the Chinese in Africa/Africans in China (CA/AC) Research Network. He has published several articles in his areas of interest and presented his research findings at major conferences in Africa, Europe and North America. He recently co-edited a book (with Abdul-Wasi Babatunde Moshood) entitled 'The National Question: Critical Reflections on the State and Society in Nigeria' published by the Lagos State University Press.