Education:

Ph.D., Columbia University – 1996 (Political Science)

Areas of Expertise:

Democratization and economic liberalization, democracy, human rights, nationalism and ethnicity, economic and political development, state-society relations, globalization and gender relations with a focus on Africa within the world economy, globalization, politics, and gender and power in African diasporic religious institutions; sub-Saharan African political economy, international relations / international political economy, diaspora studies and contemporary African immigration.

Books and Publications

Shaping Democracy in Nigeria: The Presence and the Voices of Women. In Gender Audit – 2019 Election and Issues in Women’s Political Participation in Nigeria: A Publication Of Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC). Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi (PhD) and Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome (Co-Editors). (forthcoming)
(Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2021

Aláàdúrà Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History (forthcoming). (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021

Feminist Womanifesto Position Paper (Strategy Paper) on Women’s Political Participation: Agenda 2023. (Books and Publications: Other) 2021

Gender Audit – 2019 Election and Issues in Women’s Political Participation in Nigeria: A Publication Of Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC). Co-Editor with Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi (PhD). (forthcoming) (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2021

Gender Responsive Budgeting in Developing Countries: An Inclusive Development Tool in Muted Progress (An Epilogue). In Akanji, Bola, et al. (Editors) Gender Responsive Budgeting in Developing Countries: The Case of Nigeria with crosscountry lessons of experience. Lexington Books. (forthcoming). (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2021

Gender, Power and Leadership: Aládurà Church Women in Nigeria and the Diaspora (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2021

The Chibok Girls: Structural Violence, Gender, and Education in Nigeria’s Northeast. Commissioned Essay Contribution in Aisha Muhammed Oyebode, (Editor), The Daughters of Chibok. Powerhouse Books. (forthcoming). (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2021

Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration. Special Issue. December 31, 2019. https://africamigration.com/current-issue (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2019

Vitória é Certa! The Future Belongs to African Women. Kujenga Amani. March 15, 2018 http://kujenga-amani.ssrc.org/2018/03/15/vitoria-e-certa-the-future-belongs-to-african-women/ (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2018

“Fleeing Boko Haram: The Trauma of Captivity and Challenge of Freedom” Social Science Research Council Working Papers African Peacebuilding Network APN Working Papers: No. 11, April 2017. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2017

“Mugabe is Out! But Wait…” Wilson Center Africa Program – Africa: Year in Review 2017 https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/africa_year_in_review_2017_0.pdf (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2017

Breaching Fortress Europe: By Any Means Necessary–The Complications of African Migration to Europe. Issue 9, Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration. December 2017. https://africamigration.com/issue/dec2017/Okome_issue_9.pdf
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017

Editor, Issue 9, Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration December 2017 https://africamigration.com/archives/issue-9-december-2017/ (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2017

Editorial. Mixed, Perilous and Other Migrations: Do African Lives Matter? Issue 9, Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration https://africamigration.com/issue/dec2017/Editorial_issue_9.pdf (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017

Book manuscript review for Cambria Press. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2015

Editor, Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration 7, January. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2014

Manuscript review for Lexington Press. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2014

Contesting the Nigerian State: Civil Society and the Contradictions of Self-Organization. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2013

State Fragility, State Formation, and Human Security in Nigeria. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan. http://us.macmillan.com/author/mojubaoluolufunkeokome. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2013

Okome, Mojúbàolú Olufúnké and Afia Zakiya. Women’s Political and Legislative Participation in Nigeria: Perspectives From the 2007 Elections. Ibadan, Nigeria: Bookbuilders. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2013

Okome, Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké and Elisha P. Renne. “Áìní obìnrin kò seé dáké lásán, bí a dáké lásán, enu níí yo ni: women’s leadership roles in Aládŭrà churches in Nigeria and the USA.” African Traditions in the Study of Religion, Diaspora and Gendered Societies. Eds. Afe Adogame, Ezra Chitando and Bolaji Bateye. Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishers. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2013

“African Immigrant Relationship with Homeland Countries.” Africans in Global Migration: In Search of Promised Lands. Eds. John A. Arthur, Joseph Takougang and Thomas Owusu. Lexington Press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2012

Okome, Mojúbàolú Olufúnké and Olufemi Vaughan. Transnational Africa and Globalization. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. http://us.macmillan.com/author/mojubaoluolufunkeokome. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2012

Okome, Mojúbàolú Olufúnké and Olufemi Vaughan. West African Migrations: Transnational and Global Pathways in a New Century. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan Publishers. http://us.macmillan.com/author/mojubaoluolufunkeokome. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2012

Review of The Homeland Is the Arena: Religion, Transnationalism and the Integration of Senegalese Immigrants in America, by Ousmane Oumar Kane. New York: Oxford University Press. Political Science Quarterly 127.1, Spring: 166-68. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2012

“Nigerian Immigrants” in Ronald Bayor, Ed. Multicultural America: An Encyclopedia of the Newest Americans,Volume 3, pp. 1595-1655 (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, 2011). (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2011

“Immigrant Voices in Cyberspace: Spinning Continental and Diaspora Africans Into the World Wide Web.” Gendering the African Diaspora: Women, Culture, and Historical Change in the Caribbean and Nigerian Hinterland. Eds. Judith A. Byfield, LaRay Denzer and Anthea Morrison. Indiana University Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2010

Review of Gendering Global Transformations: Gender, Culture, Race and Identity. African Studies Review 53.3, December: 157-59. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2010

Review of Making Headway: The Introduction of Western Civilization in Colonial Northern Nigeria. International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Oct. 1. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2010

“African Economic Development” Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. Ed. John H. Moore. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson/Gale (MacMillan Reference). (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2008

“African Diasporas.” Diasporas and Development. Eds. Barbara Merz, Lincoln Chen and Peter Geithner. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Global Equity Initiative. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2007

“African Immigrant Churches and the New Christian Right.” African Immigrant Religions in America. Eds. J.K. Olupona and Regina Gemignani. New York: New York University Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2007

“Listening to Africa, Misinterpreting and Misunderstanding Africa: Western Feminist Evangelism on African Women.” Challenging Hegemonic Discourses on Africa. Ed. Gloria Emeagwali. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2006

“The Contradictions of Globalization: Causes of Contemporary African Immigration to the United States of America.” The New African Diaspora: Perspectives on African immigrants in Canada and the USA. Eds. K. Konadu-Agyemang, B.K. Takyi and J.A. Arthur. Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2006

“The Dividends of Democracy: The Nigeria Experience.” Nigeria in Global Politics: Twentieth Century and Beyond. Eds. Olayiwola Abegunrin and Olusoji Akomolafe. New York: Nova Publishers. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2006

“African Philosopical Responses to Globalization: Past Problems and Future Prospects.” African Philosophy at the Threshold of the New Millinium [sic]: Papers of the 7th Annual Conference of the International Society for African Philosophy and Studies. Eds. G. Bekele and D. Smith. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Addis Ababa University Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2005

“African Women and Power: Labor, Gender and Feminism in the Age of Globalization.” Sage Race Relations Abstracts 30: 3-26. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2005

“Antinomies of Globalization: Causes & Consequences of African Immigration to the USA.” Globalization and Its Discontents. Eds. Olufemi Vaughan, M. Birch and C. Smalls. Ibadan, Nigeria: Sefer Academic Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2005

“Economic and Political Liberalization Conceptualized.” Globalization Review: International Journal on Trade and Sustainable Development (Nigeria) 1.1: 47-65. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2005

“The Nature of the Nigerian State, Gender Politics and the Empowerment of Women in the 21st Century.” Nigeria in the 21st Century. Ed. Ike Udogu. Africa World Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2005

Co-editor, Jenda: Journal of Afriican Culture and Women Studies. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2005

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship at Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijegun, Ogun State, Nigeria to work closely with academic staff and graduate students to enhance their research abilities; assist different departments (Political Science/Religious Department /Centre for Human Rights and Gender Education) in creating networks and linkages particularly in the area of collaborative research, proposal writing and mentoring for postgraduate students and staff exchange programs. (Grants and Fellowships) 2021

Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship 2015 (Grants and Fellowships) 2015

Leonard & Claire Tow Professor, 2015-16. (Awards and Honors) 2015

Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute, Gottingen, Germany, 2016
Leonard and Claire Tow Professor, 2015/2016 (Grants and Fellowships) 2015

Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow. Host: Professor Adigun Agbaje, Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Project: Curriculum Co-Development, Research and Mentoring of Junior Faculty and Graduate Students in Gender, International Trade Policy and Globalization. http://oip.ui.edu.ng/carnegie-african-diaspora-fellowship-award. (Grants and Fellowships) 2014

2010 Amistad Award for contributions to international education, presented at the 7th Annual Amistad Award Ceremony, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Conn., Feb. 23. (Awards and Honors) 2010

Ford Foundation grant, to provide support for the African Studies Association’s Women Caucus in sponsoring female African scholars and activists as speakers on panel on HIV-AIDS and keynote speaker for the Women’s Caucus Luncheon at ASA 51st Annual Meeting, Chicago, Nov. 13-16. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008

Research Activities

PSC-CUNY sponsored research project on “Gender, Leadership and Power in the African Initiated Churches in Nigeria and the U.S”. The project continues work done at the Five Colleges Women’s Studies Research Center at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. It explores how women in West Africa and the United States, through African Initiated Churches, are important engines for community empowerment. It is revealing that these transnational women-centered religious institutions are both adaptive to the rapidly changing conditions of our globalized world, and are essential and resilient engines progressive social and economic transformation. 2009

Residential fellowship at the Five Colleges Women’s Studies Research Center at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., for ongoing research project on “Gender, Leadership and Power in the African Initiated Churches in Nigeria and the U.S.” The research explores how women in West Africa and the United States, through African Initiated Churches, are important engines for community empowerment. It is revealing that these transnational women-centered religious institutions are both adaptive to the rapidly changing conditions of our globalized world, and are essential and resilient engines progressive social and economic transformation. 2009

Interdisciplinary research project on transnational Africa with Olufemi Vaughan, Director, Africana Studies Program, and Geoffrey Canada Professor of Africana Studies and History, Bowdoin College, Maine. Phase I: Symposium on Transnational Africa at Bowdoin College, Dec. 5. Phase II: Edited nook with Vaughan from symposium papers on transnational Africa (ongoing).
http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/005718.shtml and http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pub/1693.htm. 2008

Acting editor, African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, 2006-07. 2007

PSC-CUNY Grant, to conduct research on gender and politics in Nigeria, Summer 2006, deferred to Summer 2007. 2007

CUNY Diversity Grant, to conduct research on African immigrants in New York City, spring. 2004

Tow Faculty Travel Fellowship, Brooklyn College, to conduct research on gender and women’s participation in Nigerian politics, summer. 2004

CUNY Diversity Grant, to conduct research on African immigration to the United States in Harlem, New York, Spring. 2002

Fordham University Summer Faculty Fellowship to conduct research in Nigeria on the subject: “Africa: Globalization, Democracy and Development.” Summer 2001. 2001

Fordham University Summer Faculty Fellowship to conduct research in New York on “African Immigration to the United States.” Summer. 1998

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

“Religion, Society, Gender, And Sexuality In Nigeria.” Presentation to Harvard University Seminar on Religion and Society in Nigeria. April 1. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021

“The Power of History in Advancing Women’s Roles in Global Development” at the online Womenifesto; A Night of Tribute in honour of Dr. Olasunbo Abolanle Odebode and Barr. Esther Uzoma. January 27. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021

“Complaint Work: On the Importance of Naming the Issues and Testimony.” Sexism,Sexual Harassment, and Academia: An Online Roundtable Discussion– organized by the Lagos Studies Association Women’s Mentoring Network. (Virtual) September 12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020

“Reflections on Affirming Women’s Rights in a Patriarchal Society” Guest Speaker at the Virtual Meeting with Margaret Ekpo Youth Fellows, Nigeria. December 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020

“Sexism and Sexual Harassment: What Can Be Done?” Sexism, Sexual Harassment, and Academia: An Online Roundtable Discussion organized by the Lagos Studies Association Women’s Mentoring Network. (Virtual) September 19

(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020

Black Philanthropy Month, 2020. The Black Giving and Beyond Summit: Towards A Just Future in a Covid World. (Virtual) Member of Planning Committee, Speaker. August 1, 4-5. 29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020

Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program Alumni Webinar & Fireside Chat (Virtual): “African Studies and Agenda 2063 in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” October 30th
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020

Contextualizing #EndSARS: A Discussion. Nigerian Studies Association. (Virtual). November 6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020

Lagos Studies Association (LSA) Zoom Event: Police Brutality, Violence, and the Crisis of Development in Nigeria. October 31.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020

Nigerian American Diaspora Perspective: A Conversation on Human Rights. New York City Commission on Human Rights. (Virtual). December 17.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020

Roundtable: African Studies and Agenda 2063 in the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) African Studies Association 63rd Annual Meeting, Thursday, November 19.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020

The 2020 Post-Mortem (Part One): Election Outcome and Analysis. NYC Political Forum (Virtual) November 12.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020

Womanifesto 2020 Summit. Nigerian Feminist Womanifesto. Member, Planning Committee. “Reflections Session: Role of diasporas in the Nigeria Women Want” Panel Chair. December 9-10. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020

“African Diaspora Families and Changing Gender Relations: A Focus on Gender Based Violence and Intimate Partner Violence.” Paper presented at “Freedom from Gender-based Violence” Conference, Africana Studies Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Saturday, June 1st, 2019. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019

“Depression and Suicide” Lagos Central Baptist Conference Seminar. Lagos Central Baptist Conference Hall, Obanikoro, Lagos, Nigeria. July 31, 2019. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019

“Emerging Issues on Human Rights and Gender Education for Sustainable Development.” CHURGE 2019 International Conference. Tai Solarin University Of Education, Ijagun, Ogun State, Nigeria. August 19-22, 2019. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019

“Global Analysis To Local Analysis: Gains And Lessons From 2019 Elections-Women’s Political Participation: International Insights.” WARDC Dialogue On Women’s Political Participation: Gender Audit Of Nigeria’s 2019 Elections. Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. August 2, 2019.

(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019

“Where are the Women? Gender and the Politics of Marginalization in Nigeria’s 2019 Elections.” WORDOC-IFRA Monthly Seminar Series, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. July 18, 2019.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019

Discussant, Panel on Gender, Power, and Expressivity, 62nd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Boston, MA., November 21-23, 2019. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2019

Enhancing the Frontier of Research Collaboration and Partnership for Sustainable Development. Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ibadan, July 22, 2019. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019

Invited Panelist, “Leveraging the private sector to increase youth employment and employability “, African Economic Conference, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, December 2-4, 2019. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019

Invited Panelist, Skills and employment creation for youth: lessons for North Africa”, African Economic Conference, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, December 2-4, 2019. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019

Organizer, Sponsor & Panelist, “Reckoning: The Visible Invisibility of Global African Women.” UN CSW63 Parallel Panel Discussion, UN Church Center, NYC. March 16, 2019 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2019

Panelist, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Nigeria side event at the UN CSW63 March 15, 2019 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2019

Panelist, International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)+25: What’s Changed? UNFPA Headquarters, NYC, March 5, 2019 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019

Discussant, Panel on Transnational Activism in Historical Perspective. 61st African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. November 30, 2018. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018

Panel Chair, “Energy Flows both ways: How the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program Sustains Networks and Collaborations in African Higher Education.” 61st African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. November 30, 2018. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018

Panelist, “She Did not die: She Multiplied” A Commemoration of the life and work of Nomzamo Winnie Mandela. 61st African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. December 1, 2018. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018

Panelist, Collaborative Learning Initiative on Governance and Development: A Brainstorming. 61st African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. November 30, 2018. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018

Panelist, Roundtable: Teaching Africa in the Age of Trump. 61st African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. November 30, 2018. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018

“Youth Unemployment and Sustainable Development: Egypt, Mauritania, and Sudan” at the Meeting of Experts on Youth Unemployment and sustainable development in North Africa, Rabat, Morocco October 3-6, 2017. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017

#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS! Gèlè ò dùn bíi k’á mòó wé. K’á mòó wé ò tó k’ó ye ni/It’s not enough to wear a headwrap, it’s important that it’s also aesthetically pleasing. Social Justice Ministry of Riverside Church. The African Fellowship. April 9, 2017. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017

Keynote Speaker: Wrap to the Future. BC Women of Color. April 2, 2015 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015

Organizer and chair, “Panel Discussion on the Nigerian Elections.” CUNY Graduate Center. Discussion on implications of the postponement of Nigeria’s 2015 general elections for the country’s democratization and future politics. The Skylight Room. The event was sponsored by the Advanced Research Collaborative. Panelists: Olufemi O. Vaughan, Geoffrey Canada Professor of Africana Studies and History, Bowdoin College, Maine; Cyril Obi, Program Director, African Peacebuilding Network, Social Science Research Council; Okey Ndibe Writer, Public Intellectual; Godwin Onuoha, PIIRS, Princeton University. http://www.mojubaolu.com/2015/03/panel-discussion-on-nigerian-elections.html. March 13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015

Speaker, Fordham University, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice Brown Bag Lunch Series. April 14, 2015 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015

“Boko Haram and Human Security in Nigeria.” Bronx Community College (CUNY). Sept. 11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014

Conference organizer, “#BringBackOurGirls: Boko Haram and Human Security in West Africa.” CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Dec. 4. http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Public-Programming/Calendar/Detail?id=26583. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014

Panel chair, “Boko Haram, Security and the Nigerian State.” 57th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. Indianapolis, Nov. 22. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014

Panel chair, “Rethinking Identity and Politics in the Diaspora.” 57th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. Indianapolis, Nov. 22. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014

Panelist, AAI Symposium on the Future of African Leadership. University of Pennsylvania. Dec. 3. http://www.aaionline.org/aai-symposium-on-the-future-of-african-leadership/ (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014

African Grantmakers Affinity Group Retreat, NYC presentation (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013

“Engendering Gains From Trade: Challenges and Opportunities for African Women in International Trade.” The ATPC, UNECA Continental Conference on Mainstreaming Gender Into Trade Policy. Accra, Ghana, Nov. 12-14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012

“Transnational Africa and Globalization” panel chair and presenter. Left Forum. Pace University. New York, March 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012

“Women in African and African Diaspora History and Culture” keynote speech. Annual Black History Month Celebration. Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization. University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Feb. 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012

“Women, Water and Migration in Africa” side event panel chairwoman and presenter. Organized by the Drammeh Institute and TChad Agir pour l’Environment for the 56th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. March 3. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012

“‘Unknown Soldier’: Women’s Radicalism and Activism and State Violence in 20th Century Nigeria.” Centre for Gender and Social Policy Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University. Ile-Ife, Nigeria, Aug. 23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011

“Beyond Us and Them: A Pan-African Women’s Film Festival” panelist. Preview and Dialogue Series. Pan African Women’s Action Network Summit. Minneapolis, Aug. 10. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011

“Pan-African Women’s Giving Goes Global: The AWDF Story” moderator. Pan-African Women’s Action Summit. Aug. 11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011

“Philanthropy and Women’s Economic Empowerment in the African Diaspora” closing plenary emcee. Pan-African Women’s Action Summit. Aug. 12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011

“The Political Economy of Globalization in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities.” Inflation Targeting, Financial Crisis and New Economic Partnerships in Africa Panel. Darden African Business Organization, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. Jan. 28. http://conference.darden.virginia.edu/dabo/speakers.htm. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011

“African Americans and Latinos and the Decolonization of the U.S. Empire in the 21st Century” panel chair. Left Forum. Pace University. New York, March 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010

“African Experiences: Development Through Education” panel discussion with Matt Bigg, Atlanta bureau chief for Reuters; Ambassador John Campbell; former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria Mora Mclean; President and CEO of the Africa-America Institute Reverend Petero Sabune, Chaplain at Sing Sing Correctional Facility; and Osi Umenyiora, New York Giants footballer. Organized by Jiamini Scholarship Fund; sponsored by Thomson Reuters Black Employee Network and the New York Times African Heritage Affinity Group. New York, Feb. 16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010

“Dr. Livingstone I Presume? Globalization and the Construction of Africa in the Western Imagination.” Symposium on Images of Africa in the Age of Obama. Adelphi University. Garden City, N.Y., March 24. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010

“Girls to Women: Responses to Social & Ecological Challenges in Okrika.” For An African Movie and Dialogue and Ecologies in the Balance. Post-screening presentation for Becoming a Woman in Okrika. A collaborative film screening by the Center for African Studies, Office of Undergraduate Education, International Programs, and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University. Feb. 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010

“Human Rights of Women and Girls in Global African Communities.” African Women’s Alliance side event for the Committee on the Status of Women Beijing+15 Deliberations: A Cultural Reflection and Reception. Interchurch Centre, Riverside Church. New York, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010

“A Dream Renewed? Africans in America and the Obama Phenomenon.” Keynote speech. Black History Month, Monmouth University. West Long Branch, N.J., Feb. 2. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009

“Active Participation, Insignificant Gains: The Elusiveness of Gender Equality for African Women in the Liberal Global Economy.” 4th Women in Africa and the African Diaspora Conference: “Education, Gender & Sustainable Development in the Age of Globalization.” Abuja, Nigeria, Aug. 3-8. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009

“Active Participation, Insignificant Gains: The Elusiveness of Gender Equality for African Women in the Liberal Global Economy.” United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, African Trade Policy Centre, Inception Workshop on Mainstreaming Gender into Trade Policy. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, April 21-22. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009

“Àìní obìnrin ò seé dáké lásán, bí a dáké lásán, enu níí yo ni (Having no wife calls for positive action; To keep quiet is to invite trouble and inconveniences): Women’s Leadership Roles In Aládŭrà Churches in Nigeria and the U.S.” Resident Scholar Public Lecture at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., Feb. 26.

Thanks to Professor Rowland Abiodun’s translation. This esè/verse is from Odù Ifá (Òsétúrá) the corpus of Ifá divination literature. The entire verse:
Àìní obìnrin kò seé dáké lásán
Bí a dáké lásán, enu níí yo ni
Níní ejó, Àìní òràn
Ènìà kò 1’óbìnrin
ó tó ká káwó 1’órí sokún gba ojà lo
Kìí se òràn àsejù
Òràn àsesá kó.
Having no wife calls for positive action
To keep quiet is to invite trouble and inconveniences
Having a wife is as difficult as having none;
One without a wife
Should cry and weep publicly in the market place (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009

“Unknown Soldier”: Women’s Radicalism and Activism and State Violence in 20th-century Nigeria.” Conference on Black Women and the Radical Tradition. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, March 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009

“Feminization of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Africa” roundtable chair. 51st Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. Chicago, Nov. 13-16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008

“Governmentality and Infospace” panel. The Zicklin Conference: Governmentality and Globalization. Brooklyn College. April 26. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007

“Human Rights” panel chair. 25th Annual Meeting of the Association of Third World Studies. Lima, Peru, Nov. 18-20. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

“Leaving Africa ‘By Any Means Necessary’: The International Exploitation of African Women and Girls in the Age of Globalization.” Rutgers University Global Initiative Panel on Trafficking and Migration: Human Rights in Flux. March 26. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007

“Transnational Africa.” African Studies Association 50th Annual Meeting. New York, Oct. 17-21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

“Women’s Leadership Roles in African Initiated Churches in Nigeria and the U.S.” 4th Annual Africana Women’s Studies/Womanist Religious Studies Summit: Unfamiliar Temples: Immigration, Women and Religion. Bennett College. Greensboro, N.C., April 20-21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

“Women’s Leadership Roles in the Aladura Churches in Nigeria and the U.S.” African Studies Association 50th Annual Meeting. New York, Oct. 17-21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

“‘Wealth Is Not What You Own, But What You Give Away’: Africa’s Diasporas and Giving Back to Africa.” Paper commissioned by the Global Philanthropy Program of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative for conference and book on diaspora philanthropy and global equity. Cambridge, Mass., May 10-12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006

“Gender, Decision Making and Power in Contemporary Nigerian Politics.” Global Women’s Political Participation and Empowerment Leadership Conference-Global Women’s Political Participation, Empowerment and Leadership in Nigeria: Towards 2007 and Beyond.” Abuja, Nigeria, Sept. 8-10. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006

“Models of Women’s Leadership Training: Africa Examples.” National Democratic Institute Planning Meeting for the National Assembly Women’s Caucus’ Proposed Leadership and Political Participation Conference and NASS Women’s Caucus Political Leadership Training Institute. Abuja, Nigeria, June 29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006

“Nationalism, Displacement and Development: Africa in the Age of Globalization” Symposium in Honor of the Memory of Professor Don Ohadike: Power and Nationalism in Modern Africa. Organized by the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. Ithaca, N.Y., Sept. 22-23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006

“Spinning an African Academy Into the World Wide Web: The Liberatory and Democratic Potential of African Scholarship in Cyberspace.” CODESRIA-ASC Conference Series 2006: Electronic Publishing and Dissemination on Bridging the North-South Divide in Scholarly Communication on Africa. Threats and Opportunities in the Digital Era. University of Leiden, the Netherlands, Sept. 6-8. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006

“The Case of Nigeria.” Symposium on Multicultural Democracies in Africa. Department of African and African American Studies, University of Pennsylvania. College Park, Pa., April 29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006

Moderator, Symposium on Africans panel discussion. Co-sponsored by the Institute of African Studies, Columbia University, and the Museum for African Art. New York, April 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006

“Emerging Trends in African Immigrant Philanthropy” workshop. Building a Future Worthy of Our Past: Fifth National Conference on Black Philanthropy. June 8-11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005

“Gendered States: Politics and Women’s Power in 21st Century Nigeria.” Uncivil Society: State Failure and the Contradictions of Self-Organization in Nigeria Conference. May 6-7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005

“Africa, Labor, and Globalization: The Elusiveness of ‘Partnerships for Progress.'” Partnerships for a New Africa Conference–Academic and Activist, Continent and Diaspora. Manhattanville College. Purchase, N.Y., March 26-27. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004

“African Immigrant Churches and the Religious Right.” African Immigrants, Religion and Cultural Pluralism in the United States. University of California – Davis. Dec. 2-5. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004

“African Women and Power: Labor, Gender and Feminism in the Age of Globalization.” Institute of African Studies, Columbia University. New York, April 6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004

“African Women and Power: Labor, Gender and Feminism in the Age of Globalization.” Yari Yari Pamberi: Black Women Writers Dissecting Globalization Conference. New York University. New York, Oct. 12-16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004

“Community Without Propinquity? The African Diaspora in Cyberspace.” Imagining Diasporas: Space, Identity and Social Change. University of Windsor. Windsor, Ontario, Canada, May 14-16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004

“Gender, Political Violence and Mass Resistance in Africa.” 47th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. New Orleans, Nov. 11-14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004

“African Voices in Cyberspace: Spinning Continental and Diasporan Africans Into the World Wide Web.” Commemoration of Black History Month. Central Connecticut State University. New Britain, Conn., Jan. 31. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2003

“Black Hole: The U.S. Press and Africa” panel discussion, moderated by Nixon Kariithi, Pearson Professor of Economics and Journalism, Rhodes University, South Africa, and Visiting Professor of Journalism, Baruch College (CUNY). March 31. http://faculty.baruch.cuny.edu/journalism/msbaruch/blackhole_trans1.html. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2003

“Documenting and Interpreting Information Technology Adoption in Africa” panel discussion. 46th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. Boston, Oct. 30-Nov. 2. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003

“Globalization, Feminism and Power: African Immigrant Women in the U.S. Labor Market.” Race and Labor Matters Conference. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Dec. 4-5. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003

“Globalization, Feminism and Power: An African Perspective.” African Seminar. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, May 27. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2003

“Women’s Participation in Nigeria’s 2003 Elections.” 46th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. Boston, Oct. 30-Nov. 2. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003

“African Women and Power: Possibilities and Challenges in the Age of Globalization.” Socialist Scholars Conference. Cooper Union. New York, March 14-16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2002

“Gender and Political Violence in Nigeria.” Conference on The New Security State: Zero Tolerance, Race Biased Policing and ‘Dangerous’ Communities in Comparative Perspective. Columbia University Reid Hall. Paris, June 6-7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2002

“Globalization and the Political Economy of Higher Education in Nigeria.” African Studies Association Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., Dec. 5-8. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2002

“Globalization, Feminism and Power: An African Perspective.” Programme on Ethnicity and Federalism Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Aug. 27. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2002

“Immigrant Voices in Cyberspace: Spinning Continental and Diasporan Africans Into the World Wide Web.” Conference on Gendering the Diaspora: Women, Culture and Historical Change in the Caribbean and the Nigerian Hinterland. Dartmouth University. Hanover, N.H., Nov. 21-24. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2002

“Immigrant Voices: Weaving Contemporary African immigrants Iinto American Social Fabric.” African Studies Association Annual Meeting. Houston, Nov. 15-18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2002

“Political Violence and Democratization in Nigeria.” 6th Biennial Conference: Modernizing Criminal Justice–New World Challenges. London, June 16-20. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2002

“The Dividends of Democracy: The Excitement and Enigma of Nigerian Democracy at the Beginning of the 21st Century.” Keynote speech, Nigerian Community in Oregon and South West Washington’s Annual Dinner in Observance of Nigeria’s 42nd Independence Celebration. Portland, Ore., Oct. 6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2002

“African Philanthropic Traditions: A Focus on New York City African Immigrant Communities.” Annual meeting of the National Association of Black Philanthropy. Detroit, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2001

“Emergent African Immigrant Philanthropy in the United States of America.” Institute of African Studies, Columbia University. New York, Oct. 3. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2001

“The Antinomies of Globalization.” 7th Annual Meeting of the International Society for African Philosophy and Studies. Univeristy of Ethiopia. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 9-11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2001

“Let Ethiopia Quickly Stretch Her Hand to God: A Brief History of Christianity in Africa.” Brooklyn Observance of African American History Month. Kenilworth Baptist Church. February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2000

“Reconceptualizing the Study of Africa: Globalization and Development on the Cusp of the New Millennium.” Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa. May 23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2000

Moderator, “African Immigrants in America: Profile, Prospects and Influence” roundtable discussion. Sponsored by Africa America Institute. Dec. 13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2000

“Eniyan L’asoo mi (People Are My Clothing): Weaving Community, Family and Religious Belief Into the Social, Political and Economic Fabric Among the Yoruba, the Offspring of Oduduwa.” Wolfe Center Lecture Series. Brooklyn College. Oct. 6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1999

“Eniyan L’asoo mi (People Are My Clothing): Weaving Political, Social and Economic Structures Into the Community Among the Yoruba, the Offspring of Oduduwa.” Wolfe Institute Lecture Series. Brooklyn College. Oct. 6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1999

“Listening to Africa, Misinterpreting and Misunderstanding Africa: Western Feminist Evangelism on African Women.” African Studies Association Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, Nov. 11-14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1999

“The Antinomies of Globalization: Contemporary African Immigration to the United States–A Focus on the NYC Metropolitan Area.” “Centennial Views” New York Metropolitan American Studies Association Conference. New York University. New York, Feb. 27. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1999

“African Immigration to the United States: Causes and Consequences.” CUNY Seminar on Contemporary Africa. May 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1998

“African Immigration to the United States: Dimensions of Migration, Immigration and Exile.” WBAI Public Forum. P.S. 92. New York, May 23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1998

“African Women, Gender and Feminism.” Invited by the group Women on the Move, New York City Transit Authority. May 18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1998

“African Women: Reflections on Their Social, Economic and Political Power.” Women’s Studies Department, Lehman College (CUNY). May 12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1998

“Bringing Government Closer to the People: Women, the State and the Travails of Decentralizing the Nigerian Federation.” African Studies Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1998

“Bringing Government Closer to the People: Women, the State and the Travails of Decentralizing the Nigerian Federation.” International Conference on Women and Human Rights, Social Justice and Citizenship. Melbourne, Australia, June 30-July 2. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1998

“Gender, Feminism and Grassroots Activism in Africa: The Perils of Unwarranted Cosmopolitanism.” Australian Historical Association Conference. Sydney, July 6-10. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1998

“Nigerian Democracy Reconsidered” Patrice Lumumba Foundation Symposium. Harriet Tubman School. New York, June 12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1998

“State Collapse and State Creation: The Nigerian Experience.” CUNY Roundtable on State Collapse and State Creation. City College (CUNY). New York, April 29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1998

“The Military in Nigerian Politics.” Keynote speaker, Inauguration of Nigeria Conference USA. Brooklyn College. April 18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1998

“What Women, Whose Development? A Critical Analysis of Western Feminist Evangelism on African Women.” Africa Awareness Week. Morehouse College. Atlanta, April 2. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1998

“What Women, Whose Development? A Critical Analysis of Western Feminist Evangelism on African Women.” Columbia University Seminar on Africa. April 8. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1998

“What Women, Whose Development? A Critical Analysis of Western Feminist Evangelism on African Women.” In Their Own Words: African Perspectives on Women’s Health–Focus on Female Circumcision. Lehman College (CUNY). New York, April 29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1998

1998 Africa Liberation Month presentation at Mary McLeod Bethune School, New York. http://www.endarkenment.com/africa/culture/alm.htm. May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1998

“Bringing Government Closer to the People: Decentralization, SAP and Nigerian Federalism.” Conference on Nigerian Federalism. Central State University. Wilberforce, Ohio, May 23-25. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1997

“Seize the Moment: How to Be a Leader Under Difficult Circumstances.” Higher Education Opportunities Program’s celebration of Black History Month. Fordham University. Feb. 10. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1997

“The Military Veto in Nigerian Politics: Of Failed Transitions, Political Liberalization, and Democracy.” Fordham University. April 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1997

“What Women, Whose Development? A Critical Analysis of Western Feminist Evangelism on African Women.” Why Africa? Speaker Series. Fordham University. New York, Oct. 22. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1997

“A Sapped Dual Transition: Structural Adjustment and Democratization in Nigeria, 1983-1993.” African Studies Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, Nov. 23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1996

“Hegemonic Attempts, Social Forces’ Resistance and the Possibility of Social, Economic and Political Transformation: The Case of Nigeria, 1983-1995.” 20th Annual New York African Studies Association Conference. Mercy College (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.) and Rockefeller Archive Center (North Tarrytown, N.Y.), April 12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1996

“Is Capitalist Development Compatible with Democracy? The Case of Nigeria.” The John LaFarge S.J. Lecture Series. Fordham University. Bronx, N.Y., April 2. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1996

“Nigeria’s Structural Adjustment and Democratic Transition.” North Eastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Boston, Nov. 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1996

“Structural Adjustment and Democratization: The Case of Nigeria.” Institute of African Studies, Columbia University. New York, April 9. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1996

“The Political Economy of Structural Adjustment and Democratization in Nigeria: A Sapped Dual Transition.” New York State Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Ithaca College. Ithaca, N.Y., March 29-30. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1996

“Women Under Siege: Immigration, Refugee, Denial of Equity and Access–The Case of West African Immigrants to the United States.” Womenspeak: Human Rights; Southern Women’s Perspective Symposium. Institute for African American Studies, New York University. New York, April 26-27. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1996

“Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: Interrogating the Gap Between Theory and Reality in Existing International, Regional and Domestic Legal Protection of Nigerian Women.” International Symposium on the Health and Rights of Women. Centre for Advanced Social Science. Lagos, Nigeria, March 21-22. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1995

“What Women, Whose Development? A Critical Discourse on Reformist Feminist Evangelism on African Women.” Conference on Black Women in the Academy: Defending Our Name, 1894-1994. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 13-15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1994

“State Versus Market in Economic and Political Development: The Political Economy of Structural Adjustment in Nigeria.” City University of New York (CUNY) Seminar on Contemporary Africa. Ralph Bunche Institute on the United Nations, CUNY Graduate Center. New York, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1993

Professional Leadership

CUNY University Faculty Senate (UFS) representative on the New York City Council Committee on Higher Education. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2021

Elected At-Large Member of the Executive Committee of the CUNY University Faculty Senate. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2021

Invited participant, Strategic Planning Meeting on Nigerian National Women’s Summit. Organized by WARDC, DFID, PERL. Bolton White Hotel, Garki, Abuja, Nigeria. July 8, 2019. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2019

Member, Brooklyn College Faculty Council. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2014

Member, Brooklyn College Faculty Council. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2014

Member, University Faculty Senate, CUNY. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2014

Mentor, CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2014

Member, University Faculty Senate, CUNY. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2013

Mentor, CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2013

At-large member, Executive Committee of the University Faculty Senate, City University of New York, fall 2012 – spring 2013. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2012

Board member, Brooklyn College Association. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2012

Senator, University Faculty Senate, City University of New York. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2012

Alternate, City University of New York Faculty Senate. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2011

Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Brooklyn College. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2011

Member, Women’s Caucus of the African Studies Association Steering Committee, November 1997-May 2009. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2008

President, African Studies & Research Forum. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2008

Member of advisory board, African Immigrant Religious Communities Project (sponsored by Ford Foundation), University of California – Davis, 2006-07. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2007

Member, African Studies Association, Local Arrangements Committee for 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting in New York. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2007

Member, Tow Travel Fellowship for Undergraduate Students, Brooklyn College, 2005-07. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2007

President, African Studies Research and Forum. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2007

Member, Search Committee for the Director of the Learning Center, Brooklyn College, 2005-06. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2006

Department of Political Science representative, Academic and Computing Committee, Brooklyn College, 2002-05. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2005

Department of Political Science representative, Teaching and Learning Technology Roundtable, Brooklyn College, until spring. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2005

Department of Political Science technology representative, Brooklyn College. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2005

Member, College Wide Election Review Committee, Brooklyn College, Fall 2005-present. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2005

Section chair, African Studies Association Program Committee for the 2005 Annual Meeting, “Health, Knowledge and the Body/Politic in Africa and the African Diaspora.” (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2005

Member, Course and Standing Committee, Brooklyn College, Fall 2001-Fall 2002. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2002

Member, Merit Committee, Department of African and African American Studies, Fordham University. January 1998-August 2001. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2001

Co-convener, Women’s Caucus of the African Studies Association, November 1997-November 1999. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 1999

Pedagogical Achievements

“African Women.” U.S. Foreign Service Institute, Virginia, March 9. 2012

Community Activities

2021 Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, 22-23 March 2021
(Virtual) 2021

Honoring Our Sheroes: Women of Distinction Award Ceremony. Co-Sponsor with Assembly Member Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn. March 25.
2021

Virtual Interfaith Vigil to Commemorate 7th year of captivity for 112 Chibok Girls. NY Riverside Church and Bring Back Our Girls, NYC. April 18. Planned and coordinated event.
2021

Member, Planning Committee, NYC Riverside Church African Fellowship “Covid-19 Across Africa and Its Diaspora.” (Virtual).
October 18: “Covid-19 and Public Health.”
October 25: “The Gendered Effects of Covid-19 in Africa and her Diaspora,” Moderator
November 1: “The Politics of Covid-19.”
November 8: “Covid-19 and the Survival and Vitality of the Black Church.”
2020

Virtual Focus Group Discussion on the Revision of the Nigeria National Gender Policy ( Diaspora Group). November 25. 2020

Background briefing and interview on #BringBackOurGirls Boko Haram and Nigerian elections
Sahara Reporters TV
CUNY TV
Arise TV
PBS Newshour 2015

Reader, Washington Fellowship for President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) (2014-2015) 2015

#BringBackOurGirlsNYC advocacy. Founder since 2014 2014

Background briefing and interview by PBS Newshour
Arise TV (1. on BringBackOurGirls, 2. On Nelson Mandela’s legacy)
Semana
Radio
Washington Intelligencer
AfroBeat Radio
VOA 2014

Who are the African Immigrants? Willingsboro Library, NJ
2013

“Life After 9-11: Ten Years After — Effects on US, World, Africa and Africans.” Upfront Africa, Voice of America interview by Jackson Mvunganyi, Sept. 9. 2011

Pan African Women’s Philanthropy Network Interview by Shannon Gibney for CRISIS, a publication of the NAACP, Sept. 9. 2011

Member, Kenilworth Baptist Church Board of Trustees, 2000-present. 2008

Adviser, Graduate Journal and Graduate Political Science Society, Brooklyn College, Spring 2006-present. 2006

Interview on Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Africa Meets Africa, hosted by Angelique Shofar, Pacifica Radio, WPFW 89.3 FM radio, Washington, D.C., Jan. 29. 2006

Organized African Immigrant Women in NYC: Challenges and Possibilities conference and full-day event with Sauti Yetu Center for African Women, New York; and the Women’s Studies Program, Department of Political Science, Department of Africana Studies, Women’s Center, Graduate Students’ Organization, Graduate Political Science Students’ Society, West African Students’ Association, and Black Graduate Political Science Organization, Brooklyn College. March 28. 2006

Interview for panel discussion on the state of black America in commemoration of Martin Luther King Day, hosted by Jason Frazer, WKCR 89.9 FM radio station, New York. Program aired on Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 17. 2005

Interview, “Some of Us Are Brave,” hosted by Kaia Niambi Shivers, KPFK 90.7 FM radio, Los Angeles, and 98.7 FM radio, Santa Barbara, Calif., http://www.kpfk.org, Jan. 3. 2005

Parents Association legislative vice president, Andreis J. Hudde Junior High School (I.S. 240), Brooklyn, N.Y., September-present. 2005

“A Conversation with Dr. Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome” interview by Traci Mayette, graduate student at Central Connecticut State University, Oct. 15, 2002, appearing in Africa Update X.2, Spring 2003. Africa Update is the quarterly newsletter of the Central Connecticut State University African Studies Program. http://www.ccsu.edu/Afstudy/upd10-2.htm#A%20Conversation%20with%20Dr.%20Mojubaolu%20Olufunke%20Okome. 2003

“American Slavery and the Argument for Reparations.” Kenilworth Baptist Church. Brooklyn, N.Y., Feb. 23. 2003

“Introduction to Contemporary Africa II: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.” Kenilworth Baptist Church. Brooklyn, N.Y., Feb. 2. 2003

“Introduction to Contemporary Africa.” Kenilworth Baptist Church. Brooklyn, N.Y., Jan. 25. 2003

Interviewed for the Women’s History Month edition of Program: Educating Society Qualitatively, a one-hour news program produced in New Jersey, hosted by Kole Ade Odutola and Ajibola Alli, and broadcast on Raypower Radio in Nigeria every Saturday at 9 a.m. Episode 71, March 30. 2002

“Faith and Liberation in the Context of African American History.” Brooklyn Observance of African American History Month. Kenilworth Baptist Church. Feb. 25. 2001

Interviewed for Africana.com article by Hisham Aidi, titled: “Women: The Unsung Heroes of the African Economy,” on the effects of Globalization on African Women. Jan. 31. Available at http://www.africana.com/index_20010208.htm. Published on Feb. 8. 2001

“Clinton’s Visit to Nigeria: Call for Action on NDDC Act.” From Onwuka Nzeshi, Warri http://cometnews.com.ng/17082000/nn41431.htm (quoted in article). Sept. 17. 2000

Coalition of African American Parents, Hunter College High School, New York. Vice president, New York State Delegation to the National Summit on Africa. Co-chairperson (one of three). August 1999-August 2000. 2000

Faculty adviser, International Black Students Union, Fordham University, Fall 1999-Fall 2000. 2000

Interviewed for Africana.com article by Hisham Aidi, titled: “The First Black Superpower?” On President Clinton’s trip to Nigeria. www.africana.com/index_200000926_2.htm Published on Sept. 26.
2000

President elect, African Women’s Alliance, August 1999-May 2000. 2000

“Africans and African Americans in the Age of Globalization: Strategies Toward Reaching the PanAfricanist ideal.” Young NAACP of Manhattan. New York, Feb. 27. 1999

Interview on Inside New Jersey on “African and African American Women: Similarities, Differences and Possibilities for Cooperation.” WLIB 1190 AM radio station. New York. 1999

Interview on the Morning Show by Mike Riley on the New York delegate selection meeting for the National Summit on Africa. WLIB 1190 AM radio station. New York, Oct. 30. 1999

“Military Rule, Authoritarianism and Structural Adjustment in Nigeria: The Prospects of Democratization.” Live interview on “Behind the News.” WBAI 99.5 FM radio station. New York, June 10. 1998

Taped interview for AfriKaleidoscope on the death of General Abacha, military dictator in Nigeria (1993-98), and the implications for Nigeria’s political and economic development. Aired on June 11. 1998

Organized first speakers series sponsored by the Department of African and African American Studies, Fordham University, to generate interest in the study of Africa and to engender an awareness of the relevance of the study of Africa to the understanding of world history and political economy. Fall. 1997

Other Professional Activities

Fulbright Specialist Scholar, 2017-2020 2017

Resource Person, African Peacebuilding Network of the Social Science Research Council, New York. 2017

Senior Consultant, Youth Unemployment and Sustainable Development Project, UN Economic Commission for Africa, Rabat, Morocco. 2017

Manuscript reviewer, Citizenship Studies. 2012

Manuscript reviewer, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.
2012

Reviewer for National Council for Undergraduate Research (NCUR), (2012) 2012

Reviewer, Proceedings of the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research. 2012

Manuscript reviewer, Africa Today. 2011

Manuscript reviewer, Canadian Journal of African Studies. 2011

Manuscript reviewer, Ethnicity and Race in Changing World: A Review Journal. 2011

Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Church and State. 2011

Interviewed by Nico Colombant for “African Experts Expected More From Obama Administration,” Voice of America, Jan. 19, http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/africa/African-Experts-Expected-More-from-Obama-Administration-82110147.html. 2010

Interviewed by Nico Colombant for “Threats, Violence Compound Nigeria’s Leadership Crisis,” Voice of America, Feb. 1, http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Threats-Violence-Compound-Nigerias-Leadership-Crisis-83288852.html. 2010

Interviewed by Nico Colombant for “U.S. Scholars Dissect Nigerian Threat?” Voice of America, Jan. 7, http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/africa/west/US-Scholars-Dissect-Nigerian-Threat-80963482.html. 2010

Manuscript reviewer, Africa Today, 2009-present. 2010

“African Experience Worldwide Interview on Africa and the World Economic Meltdown, Africa and G-20, Africa and China.” African Experience Worldwide program, The African Experience Worldwide, hosted by Sharifa Saa and Mfon Ufot. Sept. 26. 2009

Worldfocus interview on World Economic Forum on Africa Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, June 10-12. http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/06/10/african-nations-meet-to-tackle-economic-hurdles/5736/ 2009

Book manuscript reviewer, Congressional Quarterly Press, 2008-present. 2008

Co-editor, Jenda: Journal of African Culture and Women Studies. Available at: http://www.jendajournal.com. Recognized by Internet Scout Report, Internet Scout Project of the University of Wisconsin, as holding great promise. Winner, 2002 International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication Award. 2008

Governance and gender consultant, The Joint Basket Donor Fund (JDBF) UNDP, EU, UK Department for International Development (DFID) and CIDA, on a joint analysis mission on deepening democracy in Nigeria, summer. 2008

Governance and gender consultant, UNDP and EC in Nigeria, for a mission on election process support, summer. 2008

Governance and gender consultant, UNDP, DFID and CIDA in Nigeria, for a project formulation mission on deepening democracy, summer. 2008

Manuscript reviewer, African Studies Review, Journal of the African Studies Association, February 1999-present. 2008

Member, editorial board, Globalization Review: International Journal on Trade and Sustainable Development (Nigeria), 2005-present. 2008

Member, editorial board, International Journal of Nigerian Studies and Development (formerly Journal of Nigerian Affairs), 2006-present. 2008

Member, editorial board, Review of Leadership in Africa (RoLA), 2006-present. 2008

Book manuscript reviewer, Lexington Books, 2007-present. 2007

Consultant, South African Embassy, Washington, D.C., to write a report on the Consultative Planning Meeting of the North American African Diaspora (U.S. and Canada) in the effort to institutionalize the Diaspora as the 6th Region of the AU. 2007

Leadership training, technical assistance and ancillary support, National Democratic Institute (NDI) Gender Program, that enabled the members of the women’s caucus of the Nigerian National Assembly to enhance their capacity for legislative oversight. 2007

Manuscript reviewer, Sociology of Education, 2007-present. 2007

Manuscript reviewer, Ashgate Publishing, 2007-present. 2007

Book manuscript reviewer, Palgrave Publishers, 2005-present. 2005

Consultant, Heinrich Boll Foundation, on the project “(Un)civil Society? State Failure and the Contradictions of Self-Organisation in Nigeria.” 2005

Consultant, USAID, to develop a gender policy for the African Bureau in Washington, D.C. 2005

Book manuscript reviewer, University of Wisconsin Press, 2004-present. 2004

Co-editor, Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration. Available at http://www.africamigration.com. 2004