ALIMI Ismail Shina
ALIMI Ismail Shina
Associate Professor, Acting Head of Department
Email address(es): alimis@oauife.edu.ng
Office Address: Room 302B, Humanities Block II, Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6940-3620
Academic Qualifications:
PhD, African History, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (2016).
M.Phil., History, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (2011).
B.A. (Combined Honours) History and Economics (2006).
Areas of Specialization:
African History with Emphasis on Social and Political History of Africa; Colonial History; Decolonization Process; Labour Agitations; Print Media; History of Death and Dying; Violent Youth Gangs; Urban Studies; Space and Material Culture.
Title of M.Phil. Thesis:
Nigerian Tribune and Human Rights Agitations, 1949-1999.
Title of Ph.D. Thesis:
A Historical Analysis of Nationalism, Labour Agitation and Newspaper Press in Nigeria, 1938-1960.
Fellowships:
2022 Lagos Africa Cluster Centre Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Lagos.
Non-Residential Catalyst Fellowship, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK, since 11th June 2019.
Research Grants:
2025 IFRA Research Grants
2022 Lagos Africa Cluster Centre Small Research Grant.
University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh Catalyst Individual Research Grant, March 2019.
University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh Catalyst Regional Workshop Grant to organize workshop on “(Re)imagining „our‟ ways of knowing: Decolonization and the Human Sciences” at the Obafemi Awolowo University, June 2021.
Non-Residential Catalyst Fellowship, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK, since 11th June 2019.
University of Edinburgh Catalyst Grant to attend European Conference on African Studies, June 11th-14th, 2019.
European Research Council (ERC) Small Grant for participation in the Ph.D. Thesis Writing Workshop, University of Ibadan, June 24-25, 2014.
Obafemi Awolowo University Institute of Entrepreneurship and Development Studies Travel Grant for Participation in the Entrepreneurship Seminar, Organized by the Entrepreneurship Training Institute, Accra, Ghana, May 28-30, 2013.
Alexander Von Humboldt 2010
Small Research Grant to attend the First International Symposium on Nigeria @ 50: The State, Nationalism and Politics: Challenges of Nation Building in Nigeria (1960-2009), Conference at University of Ibadan, 2010.
Ongoing Current Research:
Pharmaceutical Imperialism and (Re)definition of Disease, Pain and Healing in Colonial Nigeria
Equilateral Reciprocity: Agency and Contingency in the Narratives of Protests and Nationalist Movements in Colonial Africa
Cemetery Heterotopia: Social Stereotypes and Boundaries of “Other Spaces” in Lagos
History Entombed: Henry Johnson’s Gravestone and the “Matters” of History
The Matters of Relevance: Gravestones and the African Historiography Violent Youth Gangs in Nigeria
Publications:
Edited Book (co-edited with: Felix Ayoh’ Omidire and Akin Adejuwon)
Yoruba Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Tourism in the Age of Globalisation and Uncertainty (Institute of Cultural Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 2020).
Edited Journal (co-edited with Abimbola A. Adesoji)
Journal of Black Culture and International Understanding, Volume 4, Number 1 (2018).
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
“African History and the Thingly Past: A Yoruba Example”, History in Africa, Vol. 52. (2025).
“Between Economic Exploitation and Economic Nationalism: European Exporting Firms and African Merchants in the Cocoa Pool Crisis of 1937–1938 in Nigeria”, African Historical Review”, Vol. 56, Issue 1, (2025).
“Labour agitation, newspaper press and radical nationalism in Nigeria: analysis of the Enugu Colliery Shootings,” Labour History, Vol. 65, 1 (2024).
‘“A Tale of Two Cities”: Cemetery Heterotopia and Spatial Relation in Lagos City”, Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 2022. doi: org/10.1177/00302228221135306
(with Abimbola Adesoji), “State Legitimacy and Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria”, African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review, No. 10 (2) (Fall 2020), 196-210* doi: 10.2979/africonfpeacrevi.10.2.10 (with Biodun Adediran)
„The Politics of Nation Building and Burden of Constitutional Developments in Nigeria, 1945-1951‟ Ibadan Journal of History. (2019)
“Manufacturing Images: Nigerian Tribune and the Making of Political Heroes and Villains in Nigeria, 1960-1965‟ Africa e Mediterraneo, Cultural e Societa, Vol. 87 (2017). (with Olusegun Fajuyigbe),
“A Thematic and Contextual Analysis of Boko Haram in Selected Editorial Cartoons”, Africa e Meditteraneo, 85 (2016)
“Human Rights Activism and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: The Roles of the Nigerian Tribune, 1949-1960” ODU: A Journal of West African Studies, New Series, No. 46 (2015). ( with A.O. Adesoji),
“Newspaper Cartoons as a Mirror of Anti- Corruption War in the Nigerian Fourth Republic” Africa e Mediterraneo, Cultural e Societa, Vol. 78, No.1 (2013). (with Iroju Opeyemi Anthony),
“No Agreement Today, No Agreement Tomorrow: Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Human Rights Activism in Nigeria,” The Journal of Pan African Studies, Vol. 6, No.4 (2013). (with A. O. Adesoji),
“The Nigerian press and Challenges of Private Newspaper Ownership: A study of the Nigerian Tribune” Journal of African Media Studies, Vol.4, No. 3 (2012).
“Under the Jackboot: The Nigerian Tribune and Human Rights Agitation, 1984-1998”, African Study Monograph, Vol. 32 No. 2, pp. (2011). (with Akin Adejuwon),
“Cartoons as Illustration: The Nigerian Political Process”, The Journal of Pan African Studies, Vol. 4. No.3, (2011).
Chapters in Books
“Community Policing, Crime Controls and Security Development in South-West Nigeria: A Comparative Study of Vigilante Groups in Ile-Ife and Igboora Communities” in Ayodeji Olukoju, Olutayo Adesina, Abimbola Adesoji and Saheed Amusa (eds) Security Challenges and Management in Modern Nigeria (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019), (with Nurudeen Arogundade),
“Foreign Influences on Yoruba Traditional Architecture: A Study of Artistic Details of Okesa and Oke Eso Quarters in Ilesa” in Patrick I. Ukase, Emmanuel O. Akubor and Augustine I. Onoja, Urbanization, Security and Development Issues in Nigeria 1914-2014, Festschrift in Honour of Professor Enoch Oyedele (Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press Limited, 2016), (with Akin Adejuwon),
“Revolution, New Media and Contemporary Political Changes in North Africa” in Olutayo Adesina, Olukoya Ogen and Noah Attah (eds) Critical Perspectives on Peace, Conflict and Warfare in Africa: Festschrift in Honour of Siyan Oyeweso, (Ile-Ife: Obafemi Awolowo University Press, 2012), (with Opeyemi Adewumi),
“The Nigerian Tribune and Human Rights Agitation during the First and the Second Republics” in Aderemi Suleiman Ajala (ed.) Nationalism and Politics in the Post-Colonial Nigeria (Germany: Rudiger Koppe Verlag. Koln, 2011).
Encyclopedia Entry “Dahomey” in Saheed Aderinto, ed., African Kingdoms: An Encyclopedia of Empires and Civilizations (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, August 2017).
Book Reviews Review of Tim Livsey: „Nigeria‟s University Age: Reframing Decolonisation and Development‟, Africa Spectrum, Vol. 53, No 3. (2019).
Review of Paul A. Rahe: “The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy,‟ Revisita Universitaria de Historia Militar, Vol. 7, No. 14 (2018).