A. Personal Data

CURRICULUM VITAE

A. PERSONAL DATA 1. Names ADESINA Oluwakemi Abiodun 2. Date of Birth 26 December 1972 3. Marital Status Married 4. Postal Address U.I.P.O. Box 14562, University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. 5. E-mail Address [email protected], [email protected] 6. Mobile Phone Number 08033565532, 08021199054 7. No. of Children and their Ages Four (4) 19yrs, 17yrs, 14yrs, and 10yrs. 8. Name and Address of Spouse Prof. ADESINA, Olutayo Charles Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State. 08023151255, 08053631836 9. Name and Address of Next of Kin Aanuoluwapo John Adesina (Son) E8, Babalola Street, Alaropo Estate, Akobo-Ojurin, Ibadan, Oyo State. [email protected] 10. Nationality Nigerian 11. State of Origin Ondo State

B. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

1. Higher Educational Institutions Attended with dates

University of Ibadan (1993-1999) (2000-2002) (2002-2010)

2. Academic and Professional Qualifications Ph.D (History), 2010, University of Ibadan M.A. (History), 2002, University of Ibadan B.A. (History), 1999, University of Ibadan

3. Other Distinctions and Awards: Best M.A. Dissertation, Department of History, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 2002.

Junior Fellow, The Institute for The Study of Islamic Thoughts in Africa (ISITA), The Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, April - June 2004

Cadbury Fellow, The Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom, March - May 2005

African Laureate, Inaugural South-South Summer Institute of CLACSO/CODESRIA/APISA on ‘International Hegemony and The South: A Tri- Continental Perspective, Havana, Cuba, 2005.

1 Fellow, Centre of African Studies (CAS) University of Edinburgh, Scotland, April 28 – May 28, 2009.

Fellow, American Council of Learned Society’s (ACLS), African Humanities Program Fellowship, 2013

C. EMPLOYMENT RECORD 1. Previous Working Experience outside the University System Research Assistant (2002) To Dr. Laray Denzer, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois On: Child Prostitution, And Girls Education in Nigeria

National Youth Service Corps (1999 - 2000) Orogun Grammar School, Ibadan, Oyo State: Teaching Assignment

2. Previous Working Experience in Other Universities Lecturer I, Department of History & International Studies, Osun State University, Ikire Campus, 2010-2015

Lecturer II, Department of History & International Studies, Osun State University, Ikire Campus, 2007-2010

Teaching Assistant, Centre for External Studies, University of Ibadan (2005-2007)

Teaching Assistant, General Studies Programme of the University of Ibadan (2005- 2007)

3. Working Experience at the Redeemer’s University Senior Lecturer (2016)

D. DEPARTMENT/ COLLEGE OF CANDIDATE

Department of History & International Studies

E. DATE OF FIRST APPOINTMENT AT THE REDEEMER’S UNIVERSITY

January 4, 2016

F. DATE OF CONFIRMATION OF APPOINTMENT AT THE REDEEMER’S UNIVERSITY

NOT APPLICABLE

G. CURRENT SALARY AND GRADE LEVEL

(RUASS) 5 Step 02

H. CURRENT POSITION AND DATE OF LAST PROMOTION/ APPOINTMENT/ REGRADING

Senior Lecturer/ January 4, 2016

I. MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

2 Member, International Federation for Research in Women's History (IFRWH), United Kingdom

Member, Women’s Research and Documentation Centre (WORDOC)

Member, Historical Society of Nigeria (HSN)

Member, The Association for Research on Civil Society in Africa (AROCSA)

Committee Member, Board of the International Federation for Research in Women's History (IFRWH), 2015-2020.

J. IMPORTANT ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS HELD AT THE REDEEMER’S UNIVERSITY

Course Level Adviser 300Level

Editor: HIRENTHA Journal of the Humanities Redeemer's University (RUN)

Member, Humanities College Research and Grants' Committee

Chairman, Sanitation Task Force Committee

K. OTHER POSITIONS WITHIN THE REDEEMER’S UNIVERSITY

Co-Conference Administrator, TOFAC / Redeemer’s Conference

L. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Book Research in Progress

Funded Research

'Runaway Wives' of Yoruba Chiefs and the Narratives of Women's Sexuality in Colonial south-western Nigeria (ACLS Funded Book Research)

This project is aimed at producing a book that will add to the literature on the colonial experiences of African women. The focus of this study is to establish the social and cultural practices that shaped the institution of marriage in pre-colonial Yorubaland and the colonial factors that altered the age-old practices. The findings revealed that British colonialism injected serious disequilibrium into the age-old values and practices of Yoruba marriage institution, and this ultimately had grave consequences for the indigenous ruling institution - the custodian of the sacred values of the people. Intellectually, this work is significant because it studies a specific class of Yoruba women – women of royalty, whom, hitherto had not been studied. This work, which adopts the historical/analytic approach, interrogates gender relations in the inner recesses of Yoruba traditional ruling homes and the steps taken to address the problems represented by the divorcement, elopement and sexual transgressions of wives of some Yoruba chiefs in colonial times.

This book explores how gender issues of marriage and divorce played out in the interface between tradition and modernity. While Colonialism has been blamed for the perpetuation of the subordination of women, this book illustrates how a different class of women – women of royalty – expressed agency through the exploitation of colonial structures to free themselves from unhappy marriages. It is my hope that this work will contribute immensely to existing literature on African women’s history.

3 Non-funded/Self-funded Research

Commercial Sex work in Southern Nigeria: A Historical Analysis

M. POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION

* Awoyemi Oluwatosin Kemi “TRADITIONAL RULERSHIP IN THE MODERN POLITICS OF NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF SIR ADESOJI ADEREMI (1930-1980)”

* Oyenuga, Olajumoke, M.Phil. Dissertation Defense, titled: “The Role of Women in the Socio-economic and political Development of Remoland, 1892-1960” at the Department of History, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. 08 April, 2016. (External Examiner)

Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, Guest Reviewer, Dissertation Proposal Defense of Chux Ibekwe, titled: “Corruption in Oil Revenue Distribution and Protracted Conflicts in Bayelsa State of Nigeria” at the International Conflict Management (INCM) Ph.D. Program, Kennesaw State University, Georgia, U.S.A. 16 April, 2013. (External Assessor)

N. HONOURS/ DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS

Best M.A. Dissertation, Department of History, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 2002.

Junior Fellow, The Institute for The Study of Islamic Thoughts in Africa (ISITA), The Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, April - June 2004

Cadbury Fellow, The Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom, March - May 2005

African Laureate, Inaugural South-South Summer Institute of CLACSO/CODESRIA/APISA on ‘International Hegemony and The South: A Tri- Continental Perspective, Havana, Cuba, 2005.

Fellow, Centre of African Studies (CAS) University of Edinburgh, Scotland, April 28 – May 28, 2009.

Fellow, American Council of Learned Society’s (ACLS), African Humanities Program Fellowship, 2013

O. MAJOR ACADEMIC RELATED SERVICES TO THE NATION OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM

Rapporteur: Osun State Education Summit, February 5-10, 2011

Supervisor: 2009 Universities Matriculation Examination (UME), April 4, 2009

P. IMPORTANT LEARNED CONFERENCES/ WORKSHOPS/ COURSES ATTENDED WITH DETAILS ON PAPER PRESENTATION.

4 Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, “Making Sense of Youth Subculture and Counterculture in Twenty-first Century Nigeria” Paper Presented at the Forum on Expanding Youth Learning and Opportunity Pathways in, and Linked to, West Africa; Organized by the Joseph Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies and University of Ghana Business School at the University of Ghana, Legon, 5 - 7 April, 2017.

Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, “Darkness of the Heart and a Heart of Darkness: Women, Womanhood and Evil in Yoruba Thoughts and Popular Culture” Paper Presented at the 8th Global Meeting of the Evil Project, on “Evil Women: Women and Evil” at the Mansfield College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 23-25 September, 2016.

Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, “ANKO: Strategic Inclusion, Exclusion, Show of Class and belonging among Yoruba Women of Southwestern Nigeria” Paper Presented at the International Conference of the Global Africa Development Network on “Africa Since Independence: Promise, Pugnacity, and Failure in the Post-Colonial Contexts” at the University of Ibadan, 3-5 August, 2016.

Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, Participant at the International Conference on African Pentecostalism, 2016 on Globalisation of African Pentecostalism: The Changing Face of World Christianity at the Redeemed Christian Bible College, Mowe, 19-21 July, 2016.

Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, “Post-Colonial Africa and Globalized Scholarship: How African Scholars Underdeveloped Africa?” Paper Presented at the Sixth Toyin Falola International Conference (TOFAC) 2016, Redeemers’ University, Ede, 4-6 July, 2016.

Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, Participant at the Second International Research Conference on Promoting Humanities Research for Development in Africa at the College of Humanities, University of Ghana, Legon, 15-17 June, 2016.

Workshop for The International Women's Day Conference. Theme: 'Pledge Parity: Women and Human Rights Issues in Nigeria.' at The Lady Bank-Anthony Hall, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, March 8, 2016.

Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, Review of Saheed Aderinto’s book titled: “WHEN SEX THREATENED THE STATE: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958.” Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2015 pp. xviii, 241, sponsored by IFRA and presented at Lady Bank-Anthony Hall, UI on May 20, 2015.

Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, ““Run-Away” Wives of Yoruba Chiefs: Women of Royalty and the Search for Liberty and Freedom in Colonial Nigeria.” Paper Presented at the International Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS), University of Ghana, Legon, 27 February, 2014.

5 Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, “A Narrative of ‘Run-Away Wives’ of Yoruba Chiefs in Colonial Nigeria.” Paper Presented at the AHP Manuscript Development Workshop, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 13-19 December, 2013.

Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, “Braided Dreams and Tangled Realities: Nigerian Women and the Search for Equality.” Paper Presented at the International Conference of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History/ Women’s History Network on ‘Women’s Histories: The Local and the Global’, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom, 29 August - 1 September, 2013.

Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, “Moving Frontiers: The Consequences of being a Woman Teacher in American and Nigerian Universities.” Paper Presented at the World Summit of Mayors, International Conference on Global Engagement of Local Leadership for Universal Progress, Osogbo, 25 February - 2 March, 2011.

Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, “Women, Slavery and Abuse: Rethinking African Slavery across The Sahara and The Atlantic.” Paper Presented at the International Colloquium On Slavery, Slave Trade and Their Consequences, Iloko Ijesa, 23-26 August, 2010.

Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, “Invoking Gender: The Thoughts, Mission And Theology Of Mary Slessor In Southern Nigeria.” Paper Presented at the Centre Of African Studies (Cas) Annual International Conference, ‘Africa In Scotland, Scotland In Africa’, April 29-May1, 2009.

Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, “Checking Out”: Migration, Popular Culture, And The Articulation And Formation Of Class Identity.” Paper Presented at the International Conference On African Migrations Workshop On “Understanding Migration Dynamics In The Continent”, Accra, Ghana, September 18th – 21st 2007

Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, “Islam, Masculinity And Possession: Gendering Islam And Violence”. Paper Presented at the International Conference On ‘Islam, one: no other you are Terrorism And African Development’ University of Ibadan, (8-10 February, 2006)

Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, “Structural Adjustment, Migration, Popular Culture And The Commodification Of Sex In Nigeria: A Case Study Of ‘Mid-West’ Nigeria” Inaugural South- South Summer Institute Of Clacso/Codesria/Apisa On ‘International Hegemony And The South: A Tri-Continental Perspective, Havana, Cuba (7 November-2 December 2005).

Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, “Re-Inventing The Queen Mother: Queen Idia And The Edo International Sex Trade” Cadbury Fellowship At The Centre Of West African Studies, University Of Birmingham ( 20 March – 3 June 2005).

Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, “Marriage and Divorce In Yorubaland: Between Colonial Impositions And African Reality” Postgraduate Conference At The Centre For Research In Arts, Social Sciences And Humanities (CRAASH), Cambridge University, Cambridge, (13 - 15 March 2005).

Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, "Whose Children Were They? Of Single Mothers, Divorced Women, Unclaimed Pregnancies, And Gender Politics In Nigeria's Sharia Law" Isita Junior 6 Fellows Project At The Institute For The Study Of Islamic Thoughts In Africa (ISITA), The Program Of African Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Spring 2004 (1 April - 15 June 2004).

Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, "Divorce, Private Sessions Of Court And Women's Rights In The Oyo Division Of Colonial South Western Nigeria". Paper Presented At The International Conference Of The International Federation For Research In Women's History On Women, Family, Private Life And Sexuality, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 11-14 August 2003.

Q. PUBLICATIONS

1. Books / Chapters in books

Chapters in Books

Adesina, O. A.: “European Penetration and Its Influence on African Culture and Civilization” In S. A. Ajayi (Ed.) African Culture and Civilization (Ibadan: Atlantis Books, 2005) Pp. 394 – 410.

Adesina, O.A. “Democratization and Post-Election Conflicts in Nigeria since Independence: A Historical Reconsideration,” in Adebayo, A.G.(Ed.) Managing Conflicts in Africa’s Democratic Transitions (Maryland: Lexington Books, 2012) Pp. 53-70.

Adesina, O.A. “The Northern Nigerian Muslim woman: Between Economic Crisis and Religious Puritanism,” African Traditions in the Study of Religion, Diaspora, and Gendered Societies, Afe Adogame, Ezra Chitando, and Bolaji Bateye (Eds.) (Oxford, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing House, 2013) Pp. 175-188.

Adesina, O. A. & Elijah, O. “Invoking Gender: The Thoughts, Mission and Theology Of Mary Slessor In Southern Nigeria” in Afe Adogame and Andrew Lawrence (Eds.) Africa In Scotland, Scotland In Africa: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Hybridities, (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2014). Pp. 201-227.

Adesina, O.A. “The Violence of Silence and the Limits of Community: The Ikale Woman in Twenty-First Century Nigeria” in Chinyere Ukpokolo (Ed.) Being and Becoming: Gender, Culture and Shifting Identity in Sub-Saharan Africa, (Cameroon: Spears Media Press, 2016). Pp.71-94.

2. Monographs 7 3. Online Publications

Adesina, O.A. “Checking Out”: Migration, Popular Culture, and the Articulation and Formation of Class Identity. Available at:

http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/pdfs/projects/african-migrations-workshops-pdfs/ghana- workshop-2007/ADESINA%20v1%20full%20paper%2013%20aug.pdf

4. Published conference proceedings

5. Articles Published in Learned Journals

Adesina, O. A. “Putting Africa on the Map: Contemporary Migrations, Livelihoods and the Socio-Economic Landscape” The Nigerian Journal of Economic History (NJEH) Nos. 7 & 8, 2005, Pp. 69-78.

Adesina, O. A. “Between Culture and Poverty: The Queen Mother Phenomenon and the Edo International Sex Trade” Jenda: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies, Issue 8, 2006, Pp. 1-31.

Adesina, O.A. “Marriage and Divorce in Yorubaland: Between Colonial Impositions and African Reality.” Ife Journal of History, Vol.4, No.3 August, 2008, Pp. 154 – 172.

Adesina, O.A. “Women, Shari’ah, and Zina in Northern Nigeria” African Nebula, Vol. 1 No. 2, September 2010, Pp. 43-56.

Adesina, O.A. “Modernity, Women Empowerment and Social Change in Ikaleland,” in African Notes Vol.35 Nos. 1&2, 2011, Pp. 12-25.

Adesina, O.A. “The Ikale Woman and the Global Search for Gender Equity” in Journal of Environment and Culture Vol. 9 No. 2, 2012, Pp. 1-19.

* Adesina, O.A. “Teaching International Studies in Nigerian Universities” in IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Volume 21, Issue 9, Ver. 7 (Sep. 2016). Pp. 12- 21.

* Adesina, O.A. “History and Methodology in a Nigerian University” in African Research Review. Accepted for Publication.

6. Patents

7. Production of original Technological Tools

8. Technical Reports

8 9. Short notes to the editor and Book Reviews

Book Review

* Adesina, O. A. Book Review of Saheed Aderinto’s “When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958.” Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, Vol.9 no.9, December 2016. Pp. 66-69.

Adesina, O. A. Book Review of John Paden’s “Faith and Politics in Nigeria: Nigeria as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World” Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective. Vol. 4, 2009, No. 2. Pp.301-303.

Encyclopaedia Entries

Adesina, O.A. “Bob Marley” pp. 105-106

“Meroe” pp. 119-121

In F. Abiola Irele and Biodun Jeyifo (eds.) in The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, Vols. 1 &2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Adesina, O.A. “Africa, Fulbe Migrations” in The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2013, Online ISBN: 9781444351071, DOI: 10.1002/9781444351071

Signature Date 4 th May 2017