Kenneth Omeje
Biographic Data
| ID | 100775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Omeje |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Omeje |
| SIGNATURE | OMEJE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bradford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3979-6045 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ethiopia’s history and historiography in perspective
Ethiopia’s history is deeply rooted and intertwined in the country’s polarized politics, leading to a complex and contested historical landscape and interpretation. This has resulted in rival historiographical perspectives and contradictions between Ethio-nationalist and ethno nationalist schools. The positivistic meta-narrative of Ethiopian historiography held by the Ethio nationalists argues that the postmodernist approach espoused by the ethno…
Engaging Somali Youth in Peacebuilding
Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, and Regional Insecurity in the African Sahel
This article places the problem of insurgency and counterinsurgency in the African Sahel region in a regional perspective to elucidate the interplay of local and external forces that have impacted present dynamics. The paper argues that the Sahel is not a unified Regional Security Complex but a space of overlapping security complexes, a factor that clearly complicates the security situation in the region, as well as the prospect of effective thre…
The Failure and Feasibility of Capitalism in Africa
The “French–Africa Connection” and the Refusal to Decolonize
Key Governance Dimensions of Dysfunctionality
Reflections on How the Nigerian Government Has Managed the Covid-19 Crisis
This paper evaluates the efforts of government in fighting the spread of Covid-19 in Nigeria. The paper examines the government’s rapid response measures to contain the virus within the initial months of its manifestation in Nigeria, as well as the various steps taken by the government to combat the spread of the disease, and consequently redress its impact on the economy. The paper argues that the greatest challenge that Nigeria has faced in man…
Capital Mobilization among the Somali Refugee Business Community in Eastleigh, Nairobi
Capital Mobilization among the Somali Refugee Business Community in Nairobi, Kenya
This is Chapter 2 to Money at the Margins. Book description: Mobile money, e-commerce, cash cards, retail credit cards, and more—as new monetary technologies become increasingly available, the global South has cautiously embraced these mediums as a potential solution to the issue of financial inclusion. How, if at all, do new forms of dematerialized money impact people’s everyday financial lives? In what way do technologies interact with financia…
Peacebuilding in Contemporary Africa
Peacebuilding in Contemporary Africa explores the challenges and opportunities faced by countries and societies transitioning from armed conflicts to peace in contemporary Africa. It evaluates the effectiveness, outcomes and failures of existing peacebuilding initiatives implemented by stakeholders, and proposes new strategies and approaches to facilitate the transition. The book investigates both micro- and macro-level conflicts in various parts…
High Stakes and Stakeholders
Natural resource rent and stakeholder politics in Africa
Yes
The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa
The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa is an assemblage of transdisciplinary essays that offer a spirited reflection on the debate and phenomenon of postcoloniality in Africa, including the changing patterns and ramifications of problems, challenges and opportunities associated with it. A key conceptual rhythm that runs through the various chapters of the book is that, far from being demised, postcoloniality is still firmly embedded in Africa, m…
Conflict and Peacebuilding in the African Great Lakes Region
Oracular Deities as Traditional Sources of Credit Among the Igbo of Nigeria
This study focuses on the role of oracular deities as traditional sources of credit among a limited number of local communities of the Igbo of southeastern Nigeria noted for their powerful ancestral deities. The study is based on ethnographic methods of research and the fieldwork carried out in three local communities within the Nsukka cultural area of the Igbo ethnic group. The communities are Oba, Amufie, and Ugbaike. The findings of the study …
Markets or Oligopolies of Violence? The Case of Sudan
Sudan's postcolonial history has been riddled with destabilizing violence. Different intellectual metaphors have been used to help analyze the conundrum. Two of the emerging metaphors have their roots in economics, namely the discourses on “markets of violence” and “oligopolies of violence.” Is contemporary Sudan either a market of violence or an oligopoly of violence? I argue in this paper that the “markets” and “oligopolies” of violence debate …
Gulliver's Troubles
This volume is a masterful contribution to the study of Nigerian foreign policy. It is dedicated to two distinguished Nigeria specialists, Anthony Kirk-Greene and Gavin Williams, and comprises seventeen chapters structured into five thematic parts. Eight of the contributors were former students of the dedicatees. As Adebayo Adedeji (the former executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa) accurately puts it in his foreword, this v…
Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Rentier State
Oil presents a horrendous paradox in Nigeria. It provides enormous wealth and means of patronage to the rentier state and its joint venture partners, the transnational oil companies. However, to large sections of the local oil-bearing communities, the commodity is mainly a source of anxiety and misery. Dating from colonial history, the state has made systematic and sustained efforts to disfactor the local oil-bearing Niger Delta communities from …
Petrobusiness and Security Threats in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
This study derives from a concern with the Nigerian oil conflict. It focuses on the paradigm shift and various methods of conflict management practised in the oil industry, especially among the more dominant transnational oil companies (TNOCs). The article is primarily based on a field study of the three largest TNOCs in Nigeria - Shell, Mobil and Chevron. The study reveals that different oil companies operating in the Niger Delta adopt different…
Oil conflict in Nigeria
No
The state, conflict & evolving politics in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
The prime concern by the Nigerian state in the management of the oil conflicts in the Niger Delta has been to maximise oil revenues. What is probably most confounding about this strategy is the evolving tendency to twist and treat every conflict in the Niger Delta, including some episodic ‘epi-oil’ conflicts abetted or orchestrated by the state itself, as oil conflicts. In other words, there is a tendency on the part of the state to wittingly ‘oi…
Sexual Exploitation of Cult Women
Harmful traditional practices are probably the most severe menace to women's rights and the optimum realization of their development potential in contemporary African history. Over time, and in recent years in particular, community activists, women's rights campaigners, church missionaries and the state have tended increasingly to confront the problem of harmful traditional practices from a doctrinalist paradigm, which mainly emphasizes the prohi…
The state, conflict & evolving politics in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
The prime concern by the Nigerian state in the management of the oil conflicts in the Niger Delta has been to maximise oil revenues. What is probably most confounding about this strategy is the evolving tendency to twist and treat every conflict in the Niger Delta, including some episodic ‘epi-oil’ conflicts abetted or orchestrated by the state itself, as oil conflicts. In other words, there is a tendency on the part of the state to wittingly ‘oi…
Oil conflict in Nigeria
No
Petrobusiness and Security Threats in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
This study derives from a concern with the Nigerian oil conflict. It focuses on the paradigm shift and various methods of conflict management practised in the oil industry, especially among the more dominant transnational oil companies (TNOCs). The article is primarily based on a field study of the three largest TNOCs in Nigeria - Shell, Mobil and Chevron. The study reveals that different oil companies operating in the Niger Delta adopt different…
The Rentier State
Oil presents a horrendous paradox in Nigeria. It provides enormous wealth and means of patronage to the rentier state and its joint venture partners, the transnational oil companies. However, to large sections of the local oil-bearing communities, the commodity is mainly a source of anxiety and misery. Dating from colonial history, the state has made systematic and sustained efforts to disfactor the local oil-bearing Niger Delta communities from …
Natural resource rent and stakeholder politics in Africa
Yes
Sexual Exploitation of Cult Women
Harmful traditional practices are probably the most severe menace to women's rights and the optimum realization of their development potential in contemporary African history. Over time, and in recent years in particular, community activists, women's rights campaigners, church missionaries and the state have tended increasingly to confront the problem of harmful traditional practices from a doctrinalist paradigm, which mainly emphasizes the prohi…
Reflections on How the Nigerian Government Has Managed the Covid-19 Crisis
This paper evaluates the efforts of government in fighting the spread of Covid-19 in Nigeria. The paper examines the government’s rapid response measures to contain the virus within the initial months of its manifestation in Nigeria, as well as the various steps taken by the government to combat the spread of the disease, and consequently redress its impact on the economy. The paper argues that the greatest challenge that Nigeria has faced in man…
Sexual Exploitation of Cult Women
Harmful traditional practices are probably the most severe menace to women's rights and the optimum realization of their development potential in contemporary African history. Over time, and in recent years in particular, community activists, women's rights campaigners, church missionaries and the state have tended increasingly to confront the problem of harmful traditional practices from a doctrinalist paradigm, which mainly emphasizes the prohi…
The state, conflict & evolving politics in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
The prime concern by the Nigerian state in the management of the oil conflicts in the Niger Delta has been to maximise oil revenues. What is probably most confounding about this strategy is the evolving tendency to twist and treat every conflict in the Niger Delta, including some episodic ‘epi-oil’ conflicts abetted or orchestrated by the state itself, as oil conflicts. In other words, there is a tendency on the part of the state to wittingly ‘oi…
Oil conflict in Nigeria
No
The Rentier State
Oil presents a horrendous paradox in Nigeria. It provides enormous wealth and means of patronage to the rentier state and its joint venture partners, the transnational oil companies. However, to large sections of the local oil-bearing communities, the commodity is mainly a source of anxiety and misery. Dating from colonial history, the state has made systematic and sustained efforts to disfactor the local oil-bearing Niger Delta communities from …
Petrobusiness and Security Threats in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
This study derives from a concern with the Nigerian oil conflict. It focuses on the paradigm shift and various methods of conflict management practised in the oil industry, especially among the more dominant transnational oil companies (TNOCs). The article is primarily based on a field study of the three largest TNOCs in Nigeria - Shell, Mobil and Chevron. The study reveals that different oil companies operating in the Niger Delta adopt different…
Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Markets or Oligopolies of Violence? The Case of Sudan
Sudan's postcolonial history has been riddled with destabilizing violence. Different intellectual metaphors have been used to help analyze the conundrum. Two of the emerging metaphors have their roots in economics, namely the discourses on “markets of violence” and “oligopolies of violence.” Is contemporary Sudan either a market of violence or an oligopoly of violence? I argue in this paper that the “markets” and “oligopolies” of violence debate …
Gulliver's Troubles
This volume is a masterful contribution to the study of Nigerian foreign policy. It is dedicated to two distinguished Nigeria specialists, Anthony Kirk-Greene and Gavin Williams, and comprises seventeen chapters structured into five thematic parts. Eight of the contributors were former students of the dedicatees. As Adebayo Adedeji (the former executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa) accurately puts it in his foreword, this v…
Conflict and Peacebuilding in the African Great Lakes Region
Oracular Deities as Traditional Sources of Credit Among the Igbo of Nigeria
This study focuses on the role of oracular deities as traditional sources of credit among a limited number of local communities of the Igbo of southeastern Nigeria noted for their powerful ancestral deities. The study is based on ethnographic methods of research and the fieldwork carried out in three local communities within the Nsukka cultural area of the Igbo ethnic group. The communities are Oba, Amufie, and Ugbaike. The findings of the study …
The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa
The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa is an assemblage of transdisciplinary essays that offer a spirited reflection on the debate and phenomenon of postcoloniality in Africa, including the changing patterns and ramifications of problems, challenges and opportunities associated with it. A key conceptual rhythm that runs through the various chapters of the book is that, far from being demised, postcoloniality is still firmly embedded in Africa, m…
Natural resource rent and stakeholder politics in Africa
Yes
High Stakes and Stakeholders
Capital Mobilization among the Somali Refugee Business Community in Nairobi, Kenya
This is Chapter 2 to Money at the Margins. Book description: Mobile money, e-commerce, cash cards, retail credit cards, and more—as new monetary technologies become increasingly available, the global South has cautiously embraced these mediums as a potential solution to the issue of financial inclusion. How, if at all, do new forms of dematerialized money impact people’s everyday financial lives? In what way do technologies interact with financia…
Peacebuilding in Contemporary Africa
Peacebuilding in Contemporary Africa explores the challenges and opportunities faced by countries and societies transitioning from armed conflicts to peace in contemporary Africa. It evaluates the effectiveness, outcomes and failures of existing peacebuilding initiatives implemented by stakeholders, and proposes new strategies and approaches to facilitate the transition. The book investigates both micro- and macro-level conflicts in various parts…
Capital Mobilization among the Somali Refugee Business Community in Eastleigh, Nairobi
The Failure and Feasibility of Capitalism in Africa
The “French–Africa Connection” and the Refusal to Decolonize
Key Governance Dimensions of Dysfunctionality
Reflections on How the Nigerian Government Has Managed the Covid-19 Crisis
This paper evaluates the efforts of government in fighting the spread of Covid-19 in Nigeria. The paper examines the government’s rapid response measures to contain the virus within the initial months of its manifestation in Nigeria, as well as the various steps taken by the government to combat the spread of the disease, and consequently redress its impact on the economy. The paper argues that the greatest challenge that Nigeria has faced in man…
Ethiopia’s history and historiography in perspective
Ethiopia’s history is deeply rooted and intertwined in the country’s polarized politics, leading to a complex and contested historical landscape and interpretation. This has resulted in rival historiographical perspectives and contradictions between Ethio-nationalist and ethno nationalist schools. The positivistic meta-narrative of Ethiopian historiography held by the Ethio nationalists argues that the postmodernist approach espoused by the ethno…
Engaging Somali Youth in Peacebuilding
Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, and Regional Insecurity in the African Sahel
This article places the problem of insurgency and counterinsurgency in the African Sahel region in a regional perspective to elucidate the interplay of local and external forces that have impacted present dynamics. The paper argues that the Sahel is not a unified Regional Security Complex but a space of overlapping security complexes, a factor that clearly complicates the security situation in the region, as well as the prospect of effective thre…
Political science (19 works) · Law (14 works) · Economics (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Political economy (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Development economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Natural Resources and Economic Development (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works)