Lere Amusan
Biographic Data
| ID | 238684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lere Amusan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lere |
| FAMILY NAME | Amusan |
| SIGNATURE | AMUSAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6403-5008 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Years of Ecowas existence without food sovereignty: A route not taken
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), created in 1975, aims at economic and socio-political development in West Africa with no clear mandate to ensure food sovereignty. After 18 years of existence, the organisation came up with a revised treaty that focuses on food security. Though West Africa is blessed with 167.5 million hectares of arable land, yet most of the land goes for large-scale farming that has not addressed the sub-regio…
Roles of Government on Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems in Africa: Convivial Food System
Despite huge global food production, global hunger and malnutrition are on the rise. Several attempts at improving food production geared towards combating food insecurity and malnutrition in Africa had been made, but with little success. Challenges abound in providing a healthy and sustainable food system. The United Nations (UN) has made some progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), though not much success has been registered becau…
Actors, drivers, and implications of Chinese–Nigerian sand mining nexus for food security in Ogun State, Nigeria
The Politics of Ethnicity, Regionalism and Nationalism in Nigeria
Information is Power, Technology is Apropos and Food Security is a Must in Africa in the Post Covid-19 African States
This paper examines the impact of new media information technology on food security. It specifically determines the extent to which new media technologies such as Instagram, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and many more, are agents of development and underdevelopment in food security in Africa. Drawing on systematic qualitative method, thus study assesses how new media technologies have posed positive and negative threats to food security in Afric…
Youths' violent resistance of necropolitical landscape of Covid-19 in Nigeria's vanishing foodscapes and waterscapes
This article interrogates the necropolitical landscape of COVID-19 in Nigeria. The article explores how the landscape emerges at the intersection of COVID-19 regime and structural violence and materializes in foodscapes and waterscapes of the country. It, also, analyzes ethical quandaries arising as the brutal violence of the regime is amplified by structural violence in places and spaces of residence, recreation, leisure and labor of ordinary pe…
Principle of Utis Possidetis and challenges of sitting at the frontier in Africa: The Yoruba in the Old Ilorin province and the politics of identity and belonging in post-colonial Nigeria
For communities that sit at the fringe of ethnic, cultural and linguistic divide, the twin questions of identity and belonging often remain issues of concern. The remoteness of such communities from the mainstream of sociocultural and political processes, the straddling of ethno-cultural boundaries and the dilution of cultural beliefs, values system, practices and language often reinforce the notion that they belong to the peripheries of the nati…
Women as Agents of Terror: Women Resources and Gender Discourse in Terrorism and Insurgency
In an attempt to pay attention to the growing trend of terrorism and insurgent conflicts in Africa, this article examines the involvement of women as agents of terror. The prevailing narration of armed conflicts including terrorism and insurgency in Africa and across the world are largely masculine. In this framework, women are only recognised as victims in a series of campaigns of terror engineered by men. However, the enduring involvement of wo…
Reap What You Have not Sown’, ‘Architect of Poverty’: The Political Economy of Biodiversity Patenting in Africa
This paper reviews the findings of the study carried out in Srem region, to establish whether nonpermanent population mobility is a phenomenon of social, economic, and demographic significance for the region itself and a country as a whole.This well-known immigration area in Serbia was inhabited for centuries because of its specific economic and political reasons, and recently became one of the most important regions in the country in terms of co…
The Nigerian Police Force and the Task of Policing Democratic Nigeria: Issues and Problems
This paper reviews the findings of the study carried out in Srem region, to establish whether nonpermanent population mobility is a phenomenon of social, economic, and demographic significance for the region itself and a country as a whole.This well-known immigration area in Serbia was inhabited for centuries because of its specific economic and political reasons, and recently became one of the most important regions in the country in terms of co…
An Assessment of Xenophobic/Afrophobic Attacks in South Africa (2008–2015): Whither Batho Pele and Ubuntu Principles
In 2008, more than 60 foreigners were killed during xenophobic attacks in South Africa. As if that was not enough, the same act was repeated in 2015 when seven people were killed (four foreigners from Africa and three South African nationals). These seemingly politically, socially and economically inspired attacks continue to generate arguments among students of development studies, Third World scholars and by extension, integrationists on the co…
Paris agreement (PA) on climate change and South Africa’s coal-energy complex: Issues at stake
After two decades of unduly prolonged negotiations that characterized the Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings, the international system only recently witnessed a substantive globally acceptable climate regime, the Paris Agreement (PA). The less legally binding and largely voluntary agreement establishes, amongst other things, a common framework for all Parties aimed at limiting greenhouse gas emissions (GHGEs) to not more than 2°C and more s…
Sovereign Wealth Fund and fiscal federalism in Nigeria (2011–14): An assessment of contending issues
After more than half a century as a leading oil-producing nation in Africa, Nigeria followed the footsteps of most natural resources rich countries (particularly crude-oil) by establishing the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF). SWF is a large pool of state-owned investment fund composed of diverse financial instruments, invested in whole or in part, outside home countries. Since 2004, ‘Special funds’, of which SWF is part, have become issues of serious…
The Quest for Hegemony and the Future of African Solutions to African Development Problems: Lessons from Headways in the African Security Sector
The problems of African development and integration with the world of globalisation have continued to attract concern in the policymaking cycle and the academic world, within and beyond the shores of the continent. Ever since the issues of economic development became the continent's priority, a series of propositions have been advanced and considered. Against a background of post-colonial nationalism, most African leaders have preferred African s…
Politics of Biopiracy: An Adventure Into Hoodia/Xhoba Patenting in Southern Africa
BACKGROUND: Africa is being described as the wretched of the earth, despite this, the continent is endowed with natural resources, dynamic ecosystem, and different species of plants and animals, and species derivatives. This paper area of departure is to focus on Hoodia, a plant that is being a source of food, medicine and water for the San and Khoe indigenous peoples before the advent of Europeans into southern Africa. South African Council for …
Addressing Climate Change in Southern Africa: Any Role for South Africa in the Post-Paris Agreement
Climate change is a global challenge. Its ramifying effects on both natural and human systems cut across different regions of the world. While Africa as a whole is being confirmed to be more affected by climate change due in part to a relatively low(er) mitigation and adaptive capacity, coupled with a situation where majority of its population depends mainly on natural resources, Southern Africa is singled out as a potentially vulnerable subregio…
Imposed Socially Responsible Pricing on HIV/Aids Drugs in Developing Areas: An Assessment of South Africa and Multinational Pharmaceutical Companies
The issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) of firms in their host community remains an unsettled academic debate. In developing states where multinational corporations (MNCs) are dominant actors, the issue is even more contested. Most importantly, MNCs’ profit motive, their support in their home country and the inability to hold them accountable to their host community/state’s aspirations present a direct clash with their innocent appeara…
The Plights of African Resources Patenting through the Lenses of the World Trade Organisation: An Assessment of South Africa’s Rooibos Tea’s Labyrith Journey
BACKGROUND: Just as developing states are blessed with natural resources capable of transforming their economies into a positive direction, the imposed World Trade Organisation's (WTO) mores continue to relegate them to the status of underdevelopment. The consequences of this on investment, trade and finance in Third World States (TWSs), especially Africa, are disarticulation of the economy, exploitation, disinvestment, unemployment, political in…
Women as Agents of Terror: Women Resources and Gender Discourse in Terrorism and Insurgency
In an attempt to pay attention to the growing trend of terrorism and insurgent conflicts in Africa, this article examines the involvement of women as agents of terror. The prevailing narration of armed conflicts including terrorism and insurgency in Africa and across the world are largely masculine. In this framework, women are only recognised as victims in a series of campaigns of terror engineered by men. However, the enduring involvement of wo…
The Nigerian Police Force and the Task of Policing Democratic Nigeria: Issues and Problems
This paper reviews the findings of the study carried out in Srem region, to establish whether nonpermanent population mobility is a phenomenon of social, economic, and demographic significance for the region itself and a country as a whole.This well-known immigration area in Serbia was inhabited for centuries because of its specific economic and political reasons, and recently became one of the most important regions in the country in terms of co…
Sovereign Wealth Fund and fiscal federalism in Nigeria (2011–14): An assessment of contending issues
After more than half a century as a leading oil-producing nation in Africa, Nigeria followed the footsteps of most natural resources rich countries (particularly crude-oil) by establishing the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF). SWF is a large pool of state-owned investment fund composed of diverse financial instruments, invested in whole or in part, outside home countries. Since 2004, ‘Special funds’, of which SWF is part, have become issues of serious…
The Quest for Hegemony and the Future of African Solutions to African Development Problems: Lessons from Headways in the African Security Sector
The problems of African development and integration with the world of globalisation have continued to attract concern in the policymaking cycle and the academic world, within and beyond the shores of the continent. Ever since the issues of economic development became the continent's priority, a series of propositions have been advanced and considered. Against a background of post-colonial nationalism, most African leaders have preferred African s…
Imposed Socially Responsible Pricing on HIV/Aids Drugs in Developing Areas: An Assessment of South Africa and Multinational Pharmaceutical Companies
The issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) of firms in their host community remains an unsettled academic debate. In developing states where multinational corporations (MNCs) are dominant actors, the issue is even more contested. Most importantly, MNCs’ profit motive, their support in their home country and the inability to hold them accountable to their host community/state’s aspirations present a direct clash with their innocent appeara…
The Plights of African Resources Patenting through the Lenses of the World Trade Organisation: An Assessment of South Africa’s Rooibos Tea’s Labyrith Journey
BACKGROUND: Just as developing states are blessed with natural resources capable of transforming their economies into a positive direction, the imposed World Trade Organisation's (WTO) mores continue to relegate them to the status of underdevelopment. The consequences of this on investment, trade and finance in Third World States (TWSs), especially Africa, are disarticulation of the economy, exploitation, disinvestment, unemployment, political in…
Imposed Socially Responsible Pricing on HIV/Aids Drugs in Developing Areas: An Assessment of South Africa and Multinational Pharmaceutical Companies
The issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) of firms in their host community remains an unsettled academic debate. In developing states where multinational corporations (MNCs) are dominant actors, the issue is even more contested. Most importantly, MNCs’ profit motive, their support in their home country and the inability to hold them accountable to their host community/state’s aspirations present a direct clash with their innocent appeara…
Politics of Biopiracy: An Adventure Into Hoodia/Xhoba Patenting in Southern Africa
BACKGROUND: Africa is being described as the wretched of the earth, despite this, the continent is endowed with natural resources, dynamic ecosystem, and different species of plants and animals, and species derivatives. This paper area of departure is to focus on Hoodia, a plant that is being a source of food, medicine and water for the San and Khoe indigenous peoples before the advent of Europeans into southern Africa. South African Council for …
Addressing Climate Change in Southern Africa: Any Role for South Africa in the Post-Paris Agreement
Climate change is a global challenge. Its ramifying effects on both natural and human systems cut across different regions of the world. While Africa as a whole is being confirmed to be more affected by climate change due in part to a relatively low(er) mitigation and adaptive capacity, coupled with a situation where majority of its population depends mainly on natural resources, Southern Africa is singled out as a potentially vulnerable subregio…
An Assessment of Xenophobic/Afrophobic Attacks in South Africa (2008–2015): Whither Batho Pele and Ubuntu Principles
In 2008, more than 60 foreigners were killed during xenophobic attacks in South Africa. As if that was not enough, the same act was repeated in 2015 when seven people were killed (four foreigners from Africa and three South African nationals). These seemingly politically, socially and economically inspired attacks continue to generate arguments among students of development studies, Third World scholars and by extension, integrationists on the co…
Paris agreement (PA) on climate change and South Africa’s coal-energy complex: Issues at stake
After two decades of unduly prolonged negotiations that characterized the Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings, the international system only recently witnessed a substantive globally acceptable climate regime, the Paris Agreement (PA). The less legally binding and largely voluntary agreement establishes, amongst other things, a common framework for all Parties aimed at limiting greenhouse gas emissions (GHGEs) to not more than 2°C and more s…
Sovereign Wealth Fund and fiscal federalism in Nigeria (2011–14): An assessment of contending issues
After more than half a century as a leading oil-producing nation in Africa, Nigeria followed the footsteps of most natural resources rich countries (particularly crude-oil) by establishing the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF). SWF is a large pool of state-owned investment fund composed of diverse financial instruments, invested in whole or in part, outside home countries. Since 2004, ‘Special funds’, of which SWF is part, have become issues of serious…
The Quest for Hegemony and the Future of African Solutions to African Development Problems: Lessons from Headways in the African Security Sector
The problems of African development and integration with the world of globalisation have continued to attract concern in the policymaking cycle and the academic world, within and beyond the shores of the continent. Ever since the issues of economic development became the continent's priority, a series of propositions have been advanced and considered. Against a background of post-colonial nationalism, most African leaders have preferred African s…
Reap What You Have not Sown’, ‘Architect of Poverty’: The Political Economy of Biodiversity Patenting in Africa
This paper reviews the findings of the study carried out in Srem region, to establish whether nonpermanent population mobility is a phenomenon of social, economic, and demographic significance for the region itself and a country as a whole.This well-known immigration area in Serbia was inhabited for centuries because of its specific economic and political reasons, and recently became one of the most important regions in the country in terms of co…
The Nigerian Police Force and the Task of Policing Democratic Nigeria: Issues and Problems
This paper reviews the findings of the study carried out in Srem region, to establish whether nonpermanent population mobility is a phenomenon of social, economic, and demographic significance for the region itself and a country as a whole.This well-known immigration area in Serbia was inhabited for centuries because of its specific economic and political reasons, and recently became one of the most important regions in the country in terms of co…
Principle of Utis Possidetis and challenges of sitting at the frontier in Africa: The Yoruba in the Old Ilorin province and the politics of identity and belonging in post-colonial Nigeria
For communities that sit at the fringe of ethnic, cultural and linguistic divide, the twin questions of identity and belonging often remain issues of concern. The remoteness of such communities from the mainstream of sociocultural and political processes, the straddling of ethno-cultural boundaries and the dilution of cultural beliefs, values system, practices and language often reinforce the notion that they belong to the peripheries of the nati…
Women as Agents of Terror: Women Resources and Gender Discourse in Terrorism and Insurgency
In an attempt to pay attention to the growing trend of terrorism and insurgent conflicts in Africa, this article examines the involvement of women as agents of terror. The prevailing narration of armed conflicts including terrorism and insurgency in Africa and across the world are largely masculine. In this framework, women are only recognised as victims in a series of campaigns of terror engineered by men. However, the enduring involvement of wo…
Youths' violent resistance of necropolitical landscape of Covid-19 in Nigeria's vanishing foodscapes and waterscapes
This article interrogates the necropolitical landscape of COVID-19 in Nigeria. The article explores how the landscape emerges at the intersection of COVID-19 regime and structural violence and materializes in foodscapes and waterscapes of the country. It, also, analyzes ethical quandaries arising as the brutal violence of the regime is amplified by structural violence in places and spaces of residence, recreation, leisure and labor of ordinary pe…
Information is Power, Technology is Apropos and Food Security is a Must in Africa in the Post Covid-19 African States
This paper examines the impact of new media information technology on food security. It specifically determines the extent to which new media technologies such as Instagram, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and many more, are agents of development and underdevelopment in food security in Africa. Drawing on systematic qualitative method, thus study assesses how new media technologies have posed positive and negative threats to food security in Afric…
Roles of Government on Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems in Africa: Convivial Food System
Despite huge global food production, global hunger and malnutrition are on the rise. Several attempts at improving food production geared towards combating food insecurity and malnutrition in Africa had been made, but with little success. Challenges abound in providing a healthy and sustainable food system. The United Nations (UN) has made some progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), though not much success has been registered becau…
Actors, drivers, and implications of Chinese–Nigerian sand mining nexus for food security in Ogun State, Nigeria
The Politics of Ethnicity, Regionalism and Nationalism in Nigeria
Years of Ecowas existence without food sovereignty: A route not taken
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), created in 1975, aims at economic and socio-political development in West Africa with no clear mandate to ensure food sovereignty. After 18 years of existence, the organisation came up with a revised treaty that focuses on food security. Though West Africa is blessed with 167.5 million hectares of arable land, yet most of the land goes for large-scale farming that has not addressed the sub-regio…
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