Michael E Odijie
Biographic Data
| ID | 296678 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael E Odijie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael E |
| FAMILY NAME | Odijie |
| SIGNATURE | ODIJIE M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9012-5979 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The AfCFTA and the entrepôt economy
This article uses the case of Benin to explore the tension between the political realities of African countries and the objectives of the AfCFTA. For most of the country’s independence, Benin’s political economy has been based primarily on informal and/or illegal entrepôt trade with Nigeria. Benin’s entrepôt system creates a loophole around trade barriers for products that are stringently regulated in Nigeria by enabling their importation to Beni…
Nigeria's Sugar Master Plan
Towards an Understanding of Local African Abolitionism
The research problem discussed in this article centers on the historical role of George Ekem Ferguson, a 19th-century Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana) figure, in the abolition of slavery. Despite Ferguson’s significant contributions as a colonial civil servant, cartographer, surveyor, and other roles, his potential involvement in anti-slavery efforts has been largely ignored in academic literature. Meanwhile, there is a local perception of him as an…
Exploring African Abolitionism
This article draws on a variety of primary sources to first illustrate the rise of African abolitionism in the Fante region in the mid-nineteenth century and then situate local abolitionists in the context of colonial legal abolition in the Gold Coast. When the British abolished slavery in 1874, various Fante groups had been developing local anti-slavery views and strategies closely connected to the evolution of a Fante ethnic identity fashioned …
Francis Fearon’s Ideas and Hidden Network of African Antislavery in Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast
This article critically examines the antislavery activism of Francis P. Fearon, an African activist based in late nineteenth-century Accra. His correspondence with the Aborigines’ Protection Society (APS) provides a profound insight into the dynamics of African abolitionism. By analysing a collection of letters housed in the APS archive, this study sheds light on Fearon’s commitment to abolishing slavery, driven by his principled opposition to fa…
Colonial-Imposed Slavery and African Abolitionism
This article examines the efforts of early-twentieth-century abolitionists in Lagos, Nigeria who campaigned against the Native House Rule Ordinance/Proclamation, a colonial law perceived as perpetuating indigenous slavery in the Niger Delta region. The study enriches the corpus of African abolitionist literature by revealing how a network of Lagos elites employed a strategic top-down approach to advocate for the law's repeal, which they believed …
Tension between state-level industrial policy and regional integration in Africa
How does industrial policy currently interact with Regional Economic Communities in Africa? This article examines the tension between Regional Economic Communities and state-level industrial policy in Africa through two main problems: (1) how state industrial policies undermine Regional Economic Communities through a crisis of implementation and (2) how Regional Economic Communities undermine industrial policies through crisis of coordination. In…
Emancipation in the Gold Coast
This article deals with the abolitionist views of James Hutton Brew who argued against the British emancipation model in the Gold Coast. Brew was the proprietor and editor of the Gold Coast Times and discussed the British abolition process in its editorial pages. These articles revealed his thinking on abolition. Brew not only opposed the emancipation process set out by the British, which he felt was contradictory and disconnected from the Gold C…
Unintentional neo-colonialism? Three generations of trade and development relationship between EU and West Africa
This article argues that the limited economic transformation in West African countries is a function of the interaction between domestic elites’ quest for political survival and the EU’s international trade partnership with former colonies (Yaoundé Convention 1963–1975; Lomé Convention 1975–2000 and Cotonou Agreement 2000–present). The counterfactual argument, demonstrated clearly in a comparative study (of the Yaoundé era), is that in the absenc…
Ghana's Competitive Clientelism and Space for Long-Term Stable Policies
Given the close election results and the winner-takes-all nature of politics in Ghana, researchers have argued that the two parties are now characterized by a high degree of vulnerability, which in turn provides strong incentives for ruling elites in both parties to find strategies to ensure their political survival. This results in the distribution of state resources to political supporters and short-termism, which weakens the possibility of bui…
Political origin and persistence of industrial policy in Africa
The literature on industrial policy in Africa has generally explained its political origins in terms of ruling elites’ distribution of benefits to their supporters. However, in competitive political contexts in which policies are deeply political and designed to satisfy clients, such as policies that support party donors, the problem of policy discontinuity is bound to arise because a change in ruling party is bound to alter the direction of dist…
EPA and sensitive products
To what extent has the regional exclusion list under the EPA shaped national industrial policy in countries within the ECOWAS region? The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are a series of bilateral free-trade systems between the EU and ECOWAS that, if ratified, will transform ECOWAS into a single trading bloc. Under ECOWAS’s completed EPA, the region is required to liberalise 75% of its imports from the EU, with a 25% exclusion list to prote…
Egbesu
This article presents Egbesu as both a philosophy and a practice of war. Currently, Egbesu is known as a spiritual instrument of warfare that vaccinates Ijaw fighters against bullets. Since the 1990s, Ijaw youths from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria have been engaged in inter-ethnic as well as oil-related conflict with the federal government. Reporting on data collected from participant observation and interviews with relevant authorities, we p…
Environmental change and normalization of cash crop systems in Africa
In recent years, environmental and demographic crises have often been associated with increasing hunger and poverty in agrarian societies. The potential of such crisis to play a positive role in the evolution of agriculture and agricultural societies has been overlooked. Environmental crises such as deforestation for example (in a production where forestland is a production factor) are points of resource alteration that require corresponding alte…
Is traditional industrial policy defunct? Evidence from the Nigerian cement industry
This article critically examines the thesis of GVC-oriented industrial policy and the view that traditional industrial policy is no longer relevant. This is done from the perspective of Africa. Placing Africa at the core of GVC-oriented industrial policy reveals several problems. Using the example of industrial policy in Nigeria’s cement sector, the article will argue for the relevance of traditional industrial policy, whereby a country seeks to …
The need for industrial policy coordination in the African Continental Free Trade Area
Journal Article The need for industrial policy coordination in the African Continental Free Trade Area Get access Michael E Odijie Michael E Odijie [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 118, Issue 470, January 2019, Pages 182–193, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/ady054 Published: 13 December 2018 Article history Received: 05 May 2018 Revision received: 19 July 2018 Accepted:…
The Fear of ‘Yellow Peril’ and the Emergence of European Federalist Movement
As an outcome of the dialectical narrative of European superiority in the nineteenth century (expressed in racial terms), the military and economic development of Japan and China created anxieties that have been shown to have a place in the history of Europe from the 1890s to the late 1930s. The term ‘yellow peril’ gave descriptive value to this anxiety. This essay argues that fear of the ‘yellow peril’ contributed to the emergence of the Europea…
Unintentional neo-colonialism? Three generations of trade and development relationship between EU and West Africa
This article argues that the limited economic transformation in West African countries is a function of the interaction between domestic elites’ quest for political survival and the EU’s international trade partnership with former colonies (Yaoundé Convention 1963–1975; Lomé Convention 1975–2000 and Cotonou Agreement 2000–present). The counterfactual argument, demonstrated clearly in a comparative study (of the Yaoundé era), is that in the absenc…
Is traditional industrial policy defunct? Evidence from the Nigerian cement industry
This article critically examines the thesis of GVC-oriented industrial policy and the view that traditional industrial policy is no longer relevant. This is done from the perspective of Africa. Placing Africa at the core of GVC-oriented industrial policy reveals several problems. Using the example of industrial policy in Nigeria’s cement sector, the article will argue for the relevance of traditional industrial policy, whereby a country seeks to …
Political origin and persistence of industrial policy in Africa
The literature on industrial policy in Africa has generally explained its political origins in terms of ruling elites’ distribution of benefits to their supporters. However, in competitive political contexts in which policies are deeply political and designed to satisfy clients, such as policies that support party donors, the problem of policy discontinuity is bound to arise because a change in ruling party is bound to alter the direction of dist…
The Fear of ‘Yellow Peril’ and the Emergence of European Federalist Movement
As an outcome of the dialectical narrative of European superiority in the nineteenth century (expressed in racial terms), the military and economic development of Japan and China created anxieties that have been shown to have a place in the history of Europe from the 1890s to the late 1930s. The term ‘yellow peril’ gave descriptive value to this anxiety. This essay argues that fear of the ‘yellow peril’ contributed to the emergence of the Europea…
Tension between state-level industrial policy and regional integration in Africa
How does industrial policy currently interact with Regional Economic Communities in Africa? This article examines the tension between Regional Economic Communities and state-level industrial policy in Africa through two main problems: (1) how state industrial policies undermine Regional Economic Communities through a crisis of implementation and (2) how Regional Economic Communities undermine industrial policies through crisis of coordination. In…
Emancipation in the Gold Coast
This article deals with the abolitionist views of James Hutton Brew who argued against the British emancipation model in the Gold Coast. Brew was the proprietor and editor of the Gold Coast Times and discussed the British abolition process in its editorial pages. These articles revealed his thinking on abolition. Brew not only opposed the emancipation process set out by the British, which he felt was contradictory and disconnected from the Gold C…
Exploring African Abolitionism
This article draws on a variety of primary sources to first illustrate the rise of African abolitionism in the Fante region in the mid-nineteenth century and then situate local abolitionists in the context of colonial legal abolition in the Gold Coast. When the British abolished slavery in 1874, various Fante groups had been developing local anti-slavery views and strategies closely connected to the evolution of a Fante ethnic identity fashioned …
Colonial-Imposed Slavery and African Abolitionism
This article examines the efforts of early-twentieth-century abolitionists in Lagos, Nigeria who campaigned against the Native House Rule Ordinance/Proclamation, a colonial law perceived as perpetuating indigenous slavery in the Niger Delta region. The study enriches the corpus of African abolitionist literature by revealing how a network of Lagos elites employed a strategic top-down approach to advocate for the law's repeal, which they believed …
Ghana's Competitive Clientelism and Space for Long-Term Stable Policies
Given the close election results and the winner-takes-all nature of politics in Ghana, researchers have argued that the two parties are now characterized by a high degree of vulnerability, which in turn provides strong incentives for ruling elites in both parties to find strategies to ensure their political survival. This results in the distribution of state resources to political supporters and short-termism, which weakens the possibility of bui…
The need for industrial policy coordination in the African Continental Free Trade Area
Journal Article The need for industrial policy coordination in the African Continental Free Trade Area Get access Michael E Odijie Michael E Odijie [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 118, Issue 470, January 2019, Pages 182–193, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/ady054 Published: 13 December 2018 Article history Received: 05 May 2018 Revision received: 19 July 2018 Accepted:…
The Fear of ‘Yellow Peril’ and the Emergence of European Federalist Movement
As an outcome of the dialectical narrative of European superiority in the nineteenth century (expressed in racial terms), the military and economic development of Japan and China created anxieties that have been shown to have a place in the history of Europe from the 1890s to the late 1930s. The term ‘yellow peril’ gave descriptive value to this anxiety. This essay argues that fear of the ‘yellow peril’ contributed to the emergence of the Europea…
Environmental change and normalization of cash crop systems in Africa
In recent years, environmental and demographic crises have often been associated with increasing hunger and poverty in agrarian societies. The potential of such crisis to play a positive role in the evolution of agriculture and agricultural societies has been overlooked. Environmental crises such as deforestation for example (in a production where forestland is a production factor) are points of resource alteration that require corresponding alte…
Is traditional industrial policy defunct? Evidence from the Nigerian cement industry
This article critically examines the thesis of GVC-oriented industrial policy and the view that traditional industrial policy is no longer relevant. This is done from the perspective of Africa. Placing Africa at the core of GVC-oriented industrial policy reveals several problems. Using the example of industrial policy in Nigeria’s cement sector, the article will argue for the relevance of traditional industrial policy, whereby a country seeks to …
The need for industrial policy coordination in the African Continental Free Trade Area
Journal Article The need for industrial policy coordination in the African Continental Free Trade Area Get access Michael E Odijie Michael E Odijie [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 118, Issue 470, January 2019, Pages 182–193, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/ady054 Published: 13 December 2018 Article history Received: 05 May 2018 Revision received: 19 July 2018 Accepted:…
Political origin and persistence of industrial policy in Africa
The literature on industrial policy in Africa has generally explained its political origins in terms of ruling elites’ distribution of benefits to their supporters. However, in competitive political contexts in which policies are deeply political and designed to satisfy clients, such as policies that support party donors, the problem of policy discontinuity is bound to arise because a change in ruling party is bound to alter the direction of dist…
EPA and sensitive products
To what extent has the regional exclusion list under the EPA shaped national industrial policy in countries within the ECOWAS region? The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are a series of bilateral free-trade systems between the EU and ECOWAS that, if ratified, will transform ECOWAS into a single trading bloc. Under ECOWAS’s completed EPA, the region is required to liberalise 75% of its imports from the EU, with a 25% exclusion list to prote…
Egbesu
This article presents Egbesu as both a philosophy and a practice of war. Currently, Egbesu is known as a spiritual instrument of warfare that vaccinates Ijaw fighters against bullets. Since the 1990s, Ijaw youths from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria have been engaged in inter-ethnic as well as oil-related conflict with the federal government. Reporting on data collected from participant observation and interviews with relevant authorities, we p…
Unintentional neo-colonialism? Three generations of trade and development relationship between EU and West Africa
This article argues that the limited economic transformation in West African countries is a function of the interaction between domestic elites’ quest for political survival and the EU’s international trade partnership with former colonies (Yaoundé Convention 1963–1975; Lomé Convention 1975–2000 and Cotonou Agreement 2000–present). The counterfactual argument, demonstrated clearly in a comparative study (of the Yaoundé era), is that in the absenc…
Ghana's Competitive Clientelism and Space for Long-Term Stable Policies
Given the close election results and the winner-takes-all nature of politics in Ghana, researchers have argued that the two parties are now characterized by a high degree of vulnerability, which in turn provides strong incentives for ruling elites in both parties to find strategies to ensure their political survival. This results in the distribution of state resources to political supporters and short-termism, which weakens the possibility of bui…
Emancipation in the Gold Coast
This article deals with the abolitionist views of James Hutton Brew who argued against the British emancipation model in the Gold Coast. Brew was the proprietor and editor of the Gold Coast Times and discussed the British abolition process in its editorial pages. These articles revealed his thinking on abolition. Brew not only opposed the emancipation process set out by the British, which he felt was contradictory and disconnected from the Gold C…
Tension between state-level industrial policy and regional integration in Africa
How does industrial policy currently interact with Regional Economic Communities in Africa? This article examines the tension between Regional Economic Communities and state-level industrial policy in Africa through two main problems: (1) how state industrial policies undermine Regional Economic Communities through a crisis of implementation and (2) how Regional Economic Communities undermine industrial policies through crisis of coordination. In…
The AfCFTA and the entrepôt economy
This article uses the case of Benin to explore the tension between the political realities of African countries and the objectives of the AfCFTA. For most of the country’s independence, Benin’s political economy has been based primarily on informal and/or illegal entrepôt trade with Nigeria. Benin’s entrepôt system creates a loophole around trade barriers for products that are stringently regulated in Nigeria by enabling their importation to Beni…
Nigeria's Sugar Master Plan
Towards an Understanding of Local African Abolitionism
The research problem discussed in this article centers on the historical role of George Ekem Ferguson, a 19th-century Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana) figure, in the abolition of slavery. Despite Ferguson’s significant contributions as a colonial civil servant, cartographer, surveyor, and other roles, his potential involvement in anti-slavery efforts has been largely ignored in academic literature. Meanwhile, there is a local perception of him as an…
Exploring African Abolitionism
This article draws on a variety of primary sources to first illustrate the rise of African abolitionism in the Fante region in the mid-nineteenth century and then situate local abolitionists in the context of colonial legal abolition in the Gold Coast. When the British abolished slavery in 1874, various Fante groups had been developing local anti-slavery views and strategies closely connected to the evolution of a Fante ethnic identity fashioned …
Francis Fearon’s Ideas and Hidden Network of African Antislavery in Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast
This article critically examines the antislavery activism of Francis P. Fearon, an African activist based in late nineteenth-century Accra. His correspondence with the Aborigines’ Protection Society (APS) provides a profound insight into the dynamics of African abolitionism. By analysing a collection of letters housed in the APS archive, this study sheds light on Fearon’s commitment to abolishing slavery, driven by his principled opposition to fa…
Colonial-Imposed Slavery and African Abolitionism
This article examines the efforts of early-twentieth-century abolitionists in Lagos, Nigeria who campaigned against the Native House Rule Ordinance/Proclamation, a colonial law perceived as perpetuating indigenous slavery in the Niger Delta region. The study enriches the corpus of African abolitionist literature by revealing how a network of Lagos elites employed a strategic top-down approach to advocate for the law's repeal, which they believed …
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