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    AFRICA AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF HIV/AIDS: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT: WHITHER THE AFRICAN RENAISSANCE?
    (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018) Adeboye, O.
    In June 2011, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDs (UNAIDS) marked 30 years of the epidemic with the publication of a 139-page document titled “AIDs at 30: Nations at the Crossroads in which it outlined the strategies utilized to fight the epidemic, the progress made so far, and the challenges faced by the body. What comes out of every page of the document is the message that HIV/AIDs is a global challenge which requires an equally global and collaborative response.
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    Afro-European partnership for countering insurgency and counter-terrorism in Africa
    (Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), 2021) Ajiola, F.O; Lawal, O.T
    This chapter examines the partnership and other efforts of the European Union (EU) in countering terrorism and insurgency in Africa. It discusses terrorism and insurgency and identifies the driving force behind its spread. The 21st century has witnessed the proliferation of Islamic terrorism across the world. The terrorist organisations such as the Islamic State in Syria (ISIS), Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, Boko-Haram and other emerging Islamic fundamentalists across the globe are a threat to world peace and security. Terrorism as a concept is overly complicated because individuals or groups conventionally perceived as terrorists did not see themselves as such. Terrorism and insurgency can hardly be separated from one another because they both represent violent struggles; however, the central area of departure is that the insurgent groups are usually open to dialogue and are not faceless like the terrorist groups. The EU contributed tremendously to countering terrorism and insurgency effort in Africa. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351271929-15/afro-european-partnership-counterterrorism-counterinsurgency-africa-felix-oludare-ajiola-olawale-taofeeq-lawal
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    Casamancais versus Senegalatse: migration and the indigene-settler conflict in post-independence Senegal
    (2012) Osemeka, I.N.
    The distinction between indigenes and settlers is often related to their histories of migration and this has always been a part of the conflict rhetoric in Africa and elsewhere. This paper brings the discussion on migration into the indigene-settler debate in Senegal. It traces the evolution of Casamancais and Senegalese identities, identifying their distinguishing features and examines the factors and effects of migration patterns on the indigene-settler crisis in post independence Senegal. The paper argues that the presence of northern migrants in Casamance increased the consciousness of Casamancais identity but the evolution is attributable to the isolated nature of the Casamance territory as well as the discriminatory policies by the colonial and postcolonial administrations. Consequently, the search for durable peace in Casamance must include efforts that aim at the reconstruction of the Senegalese national identity to reflect local cultures and languages in Casamance.
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    Pentecostal Challenges in Africa and Latin America: A Comparative Focus on Nigeria and Brazil
    (Afrika Zamani, 2004) Adeboye, O.
    Latin America and Africa are among the continents that have experienced a Pentecostal explosion within the last half century. In fact, each of the case studies for this paper, Nigeria and Brazil, has a very vibrant and visible, though small, Pentecostal component in its population. This paper compares the contemporary challenges faced by Pentecostals in both countries, and argues that these challenges, to a large extent, are reflective of wider socio-political and economic issues faced by the nations as they grapple with the realities of nation building and related economic issues. A visible impact of this on the Pentecostal movement in both nations is a gradual reduction in the 'other-worldly' focus that had characterized earlier manifestations of Pentecostalism; and a corresponding rise in the engagement with temporal or 'this-worldly' concerns. It is in this sense that the shift from classical or traditional Pentecostalism characterized by the holiness doctrine, to what has been dubbed 'neo-Pentecostalism', characterized, among other things, by the 'prosperity gospel' becomes understandable. In these two countries, there also appears to be an unrelenting negotiation between Pentecostals, who espouse the biblical position of spiritual warfare and deliverance on the one hand, and their respective traditional cosmologies, which emphasize the role of spiritual agents on the other hand. Despite the differences in the socio-political contexts and historical backgrounds of the two countries, it is remarkable that similar processes are discernible in the transformation of the Pentecostal movement and the reaction it has engendered in the larger society
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    Reading the Diary of Akinpelu Obisesan in Colonial Africa
    (African Studies Review, 2008) Adeboye, O.
    This article considers the private diary not just as a historical source or literary text, but mainly as a symbolic cultural creation with sociological and psychological dimensions. The multiple identities of Akinpelu Obisesan, a member of the colonial intelligentsia in Ibadan, are analyzed, giving us insight into the transformations in Yoruba masculinity in the colonial period and his own attempts at self-invention. The article also emphasizes the overlap between the personal and the general: between the private and the public domains and how the diarist straddles, and is in turn affected by, sociocultural currents reverberating from these two sites.
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    Salami Agbaje: The Life and Times of an Indigenous Entrepreneur in Colonial Nigeria
    (AAU: African Studies Review, 2004) Adeboye, O.
    The significance of the colonial period and its effects on Africans has generated heat controversies among scholars. On one hand is the view that the colonial period was just an ‘episode’ in the continuous flow of African history, while on the other is the conviction that the period produced such cataclysms and fundamental dislocations that long-standing socio-political and economic structures were permanently impaired. A middle-of-the-road assessment has tended to incorporate elements from these two extremes emphasizing the complex nature of colonial enterprise. According to this last approach, Africans absorbed the attendant challenges demonstrating their resilience and ingenuity in all areas of life. At the same time, they also experienced important transformations occasioned by the colonial encounter with local variables determining the intensity or otherwise of those developments.
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    Telecommunication and National integration in Nigeria: prospects and challenges
    (2012) Osemeka, I.N.
    The quest for national integration constitutes one of the greatest concerns of many African states including, Nigeria, which has the most heterogeneous population in the continent. Numerous policies, plans and programmes have been adopted to integrate Nigeria’s ethnic nationalities but the efforts are yet to yield the desired result. However, there are high hopes that the revolution in Nigeria’s telecommunication sector will ultimately accelerate the process of national integration. While the telecoms sector is increasing the country’s integrative capacity, it is also increasing avenues for the perpetration of crime and violence which is threatening the country’s existence as a composite state. Hence, this paper examines the interface between the telecoms sector and Nigeria’s national integration efforts.
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    Toyin Falola and Yoruba Historiography
    (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2010) Adeboye, O.
    This chapter analyses Falola’s contributions to Yoruba historiography. The emphasis here is not really to review all his publications on Yoruba history (and these are quite numerous) but to identify specifically his major contributions to the wider terrain of Yoruba historiography. The term ‘Yoruba historiography’ as used here incorporates the craft (techniques and methodology) of writing Yoruba history; trends in Yoruba historical writing (which include other scholars’ interpretations of the Yoruba past); and major issues and themes of Yoruba history. It is important to add here that the canons of Yoruba historiography are not necessarily different from those of say, African historiography where philosophical issues such as objectivity, explanation and nature of knowledge are concerned. General issues that revolve round the creation of knowledge and other epistemological matters are basically the same. What varies are the particular themes and topics pursued and the methodologies and sources that are tailored to suit them.
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    TRANSNATIONAL PENTECOSTALISM IN AFRICA: THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD, NIGERIA
    (Paris: Karthala, 2005) Adeboye, O.
    In the past two decades, Nigeria has been a hotbed of Pentecostal activity in Africa. And within Nigeria, the Redeemed Christian Church of God (hereafter called RCCG) has been at the forefront of the Pentecostal campaign. Pentecostalism is a very vibrant form of Christianity with its roots in the experience of Pentecost in the Upper Room as recorded in the Bible (Acts 2:4) and re-enacted in various awakenings in the history of Christianity, which included the eighteenth and nineteenth-century revivals in the Anglo-Saxon world and the early twentieth-century Azusa revivals in Los Angeles. These experiences were later diffused to other parts of the world through an increase in missionary activity.