Akinpẹlu Ọlanrewaju Olutayọ
Biographic Data
| ID | 672904 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Akinpẹlu Ọlanrewaju Olutayọ |
| GIVEN NAMES | Akinpẹlu Ọlanrewaju |
| FAMILY NAME | Olutayọ |
| SIGNATURE | OLUTAYỌ A Ọ |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ibadan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4011-3045 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Barriers to women’s participation in Lagos State, Nigeria, landfill waste picking
A Keynote Address: Good Governance and Social Order
Decolonizing the African University: Towards a Sociology of Developmental Re-education in Nigeria
This article focuses on the higher education system as an object of developmental analysis by examining the challenges and prospects of decolonizing the knowledge base of higher education systems across the Continent of Africa. The purpose of the article is to show that African countries’ seeming lack of progress relates to the character of her education system, which is deeply rooted in the context of coloniality and ‘metacolonialism.’ Using an …
Modernization and Development: A Historico-Contemporary Approach Through Justin Labinjoh's Narratives
Understanding development is a strategic issue in every human society. This is because central to humans is the need to develop, which is why societies over the ages have not only sought to develop, they have also attempted to understand what development is all about, how best to develop and what the outcomes of development should be. This is why scholars and nations have commonly categorized countries/societies as developed and developing/underd…
By slapping their laps, the patient will know that you truly care for her ”: A qualitative study on social norms and acceptability of the mistreatment of women during childbirth in Abuja, Nigeria
Blaming women for mistreatment parallels the intimate partner violence literature, demonstrating how traditional practices and low status of women potentiate gender inequality. These findings can be used to facilitate dialogue in Nigeria by engaging stakeholders to discuss how to challenge these norms and hold providers accountable for their actions. Until women and their families are able to freely condemn poor quality care in facilities and pro…
Verstehen', Everyday Sociology and Development: Incorporating African Indigenous Knowledge
Though language and oral tradition have long been appreciated among the indigenous people of Africa as the vehicle of knowledge and central to societal development, social scientists and even sociologists have not utilized these sufficiently in undertaking their researches. Knowledge and theories are mainstreamed and applied relative to Africa without significant appreciation of elements of knowledge that could positively impact theories and meth…
Knowledge Production and Domesticating Social Science Textbooks in Nigeria
Within the Nigerian social science community, knowledge production and reproduction appear robust. The robustness of its scholarship is exemplified by the numbers of seasoned and globally reputed scholars that it boasts (and their contributions to knowledge). However, the dimensions of knowledge production within this community appear not only dependent on the West but also disenchanted with local contexts. Indeed, the challenge with regard to do…
Ethnography of Kinship Constructions among International Returnees in Nigeria: Proverbs as the Horses of Words
It is impossible to understand African lifeways without recourse to oral traditions because behaviors, orientations, and attitudes are succinctly codified, contextualized, and only fully explainable with reference to oral traditions, especially through the use of proverbs. Unfortunately, recent studies have not sufficiently utilized proverbs as analytical frameworks to explain African kinship. Thus, in this article we explore dynamics of kinship …
Kinship construction variability among Nigerian international migrants: The context of contemporary Diaspora
Understanding the selves, situations and actions of Africans can never be comprehended outside kinship. Local and foreign worldviews are first pigeonholed into culture and defined within kinship realities in Nigeria and Africa. There have been studies on kinship in Africa. However, the findings from such studies portrayed the immutability of African kinship. Thus, as an important contribution to the on-going engagement of kinship in the twenty-fi…
Education Infrastructure and Unsustainable Development in Africa
Education Infrastructure and Unsustainable Development in AfricaRather than creating the appropriate social relations for the means of production, the perspective on development in Africa has hinged on "infrastructure for development" thus leading to underdevelopment. This is because the social relation of infrastructure for development is parasitic and thus cannot reproduce itself. What it does is to accumulate primitive capital for conspicuous …
Political clientelism and rural development in south-western Nigeria
In spite of the universality of clientelism, it is often seen as a peculiar aspect of Third World politics, one which inevitably stifles development. This study examines clientelistic relationships in south-western Nigeria and their possible impact on rural development, with a special focus on Ibadan. It finds that rural clients attract the attention of the political class to promote the exchange of goods for loyalty through associations that aff…
Nigeria, Capitalism and the Question of Equity
The emergence of social problems in the modern capitalist system: child labour, tyrannical foremen, teeming slums, poverty, increasing crime and so on are reflections of impaired distributive system. This is because the quest for social equity is contradictory to the development of capitalism itself. This paper examines the incorporation of Nigeria into the world capitalist system and how this entrenched socio-economic and political inequity in t…
Privatization and the Social Value of Water in Africa
Privatization and the Social Value of Water in Africa The paper assesses the current clamor and actual privatization of water in Africa. Though this is said to be done in view of wastage and declining access of people to water, this paper submits that the transformation of the social value of water to economic, is rather a continuation of capitalist quest for profit making, which eventually is at the expense of the poor majority
Social capital and human development in Nigeria: The case of Lalupon Community, Ibadan, Oyo State
In recent times, more often than not, social capital has been presented as the virtue through which third world communities may develop. Indeed, the bonds of love, trust, friendship and kinship as social ingredients of social capital have become the salvaging grace for the third world in the face of strangulating economic decline and crisis. Through qualitative methodology, this study utilized key informant interview, in‐depth interview and focus…
Fast Food in Ibadan: An Emerging Consumption Pattern
In its modernization garb, development has come to mean the inculcation of foreign values resulting in the fundamental transformation of modernizing nations. Ironically, little attention is being drawn to the consequences of modernizing influences. This is the core of the article. Through qualitative research methodology consisting of in-depth interviews (IDIs), participant observation and informal interviews, the article examines the emergence a…
Tina', Aids, and the underdevelopment problem in Africa
The assumption that 'There Is No Alternative' (TINA) to capitalism as practiced in the United States of America and Western Europe has been the bane of aids effectiveness in assisting to solve the underdevelopment problem in Africa. This paper attempts to show that except there is a fundamental reorientation in the conceptualization of capitalism-free market and democracy-the underdevelopment problem would only be further complicated with aids
Politics, Received Knowledge and the Subordination of indigenous Creativity
All societies had their own pattern of development embedded in the means of exploitation of the environment around which certain social institutions were created to satisfy the 'needs' of the people. The colonial epoch, with its own needs, substituted the 'needs' of the colonized with its own and recommended new ways of satisfying these new needs. This process is still being recommended through the pattern of domination in 'world institutions' ma…
Capitalism, Globalisation and the Underdevelopment Process in Africa: History in Perpetuity
Since the incorporation of the Third World nations into the world capitalist system, the underdevelopment process seems to have commenced through the use of liberal economic principles. In spite of the obvious pauperisation of these nations, it seems as if there is no alternative even when indigenous governments are in control of affairs. This paper attempts to show why the underdevelopment process has persisted with capitalism entrenched in the …
Chief Lamidi Adedibu and patronage politics in Nigeria
Since the acceptance of multi-party democracy as the most viable alternative to autocracy and military rule in Africa, democratic rule has become the vogue. Nigeria's attempt at democracy was (and is) accompanied by patronage politics, whereby certain personalities exact great influence on the political process. This study spotlights Chief Lamidi Adedibu and his patronage style in Nigerian politics, and shows that Adedibu gained political 'patron…
Modernity, McDonaldisation and Family Values in Nigeria
Societies change as they come in contact with external influences and social organizations and relations become more complex. The nature of change may be dramatic or gradual and, in either case, change affects the norms, values, beliefs, attitudes, socialization process, and the general ethics that distinguish the group from every other, especially in this age of globalization. Since change can either be positive or negative and may have practica…
Systemic source of 'working children' in Africa: The case of Nigeria
The focus of this paper is that the emergence of working children can be traced to the pre-colonial epoch in African countries. We posit that this seems inevitable to the people as a method of exploiting the environment especially because of the pre-capitalist nature of these countries. In spite of the emergence of new methods of exploiting the environ ment, the persistence of 'working children' as a category is a major concern. Since the capital…
Chief Lamidi Adedibu and patronage politics in Nigeria
Since the acceptance of multi-party democracy as the most viable alternative to autocracy and military rule in Africa, democratic rule has become the vogue. Nigeria's attempt at democracy was (and is) accompanied by patronage politics, whereby certain personalities exact great influence on the political process. This study spotlights Chief Lamidi Adedibu and his patronage style in Nigerian politics, and shows that Adedibu gained political 'patron…
Ethnography of Kinship Constructions among International Returnees in Nigeria: Proverbs as the Horses of Words
It is impossible to understand African lifeways without recourse to oral traditions because behaviors, orientations, and attitudes are succinctly codified, contextualized, and only fully explainable with reference to oral traditions, especially through the use of proverbs. Unfortunately, recent studies have not sufficiently utilized proverbs as analytical frameworks to explain African kinship. Thus, in this article we explore dynamics of kinship …
Fast Food in Ibadan: An Emerging Consumption Pattern
In its modernization garb, development has come to mean the inculcation of foreign values resulting in the fundamental transformation of modernizing nations. Ironically, little attention is being drawn to the consequences of modernizing influences. This is the core of the article. Through qualitative research methodology consisting of in-depth interviews (IDIs), participant observation and informal interviews, the article examines the emergence a…
Political clientelism and rural development in south-western Nigeria
In spite of the universality of clientelism, it is often seen as a peculiar aspect of Third World politics, one which inevitably stifles development. This study examines clientelistic relationships in south-western Nigeria and their possible impact on rural development, with a special focus on Ibadan. It finds that rural clients attract the attention of the political class to promote the exchange of goods for loyalty through associations that aff…
Kinship construction variability among Nigerian international migrants: The context of contemporary Diaspora
Understanding the selves, situations and actions of Africans can never be comprehended outside kinship. Local and foreign worldviews are first pigeonholed into culture and defined within kinship realities in Nigeria and Africa. There have been studies on kinship in Africa. However, the findings from such studies portrayed the immutability of African kinship. Thus, as an important contribution to the on-going engagement of kinship in the twenty-fi…
Knowledge Production and Domesticating Social Science Textbooks in Nigeria
Within the Nigerian social science community, knowledge production and reproduction appear robust. The robustness of its scholarship is exemplified by the numbers of seasoned and globally reputed scholars that it boasts (and their contributions to knowledge). However, the dimensions of knowledge production within this community appear not only dependent on the West but also disenchanted with local contexts. Indeed, the challenge with regard to do…
Tina', Aids, and the underdevelopment problem in Africa
The assumption that 'There Is No Alternative' (TINA) to capitalism as practiced in the United States of America and Western Europe has been the bane of aids effectiveness in assisting to solve the underdevelopment problem in Africa. This paper attempts to show that except there is a fundamental reorientation in the conceptualization of capitalism-free market and democracy-the underdevelopment problem would only be further complicated with aids
Verstehen', Everyday Sociology and Development: Incorporating African Indigenous Knowledge
Though language and oral tradition have long been appreciated among the indigenous people of Africa as the vehicle of knowledge and central to societal development, social scientists and even sociologists have not utilized these sufficiently in undertaking their researches. Knowledge and theories are mainstreamed and applied relative to Africa without significant appreciation of elements of knowledge that could positively impact theories and meth…
Politics, Received Knowledge and the Subordination of indigenous Creativity
All societies had their own pattern of development embedded in the means of exploitation of the environment around which certain social institutions were created to satisfy the 'needs' of the people. The colonial epoch, with its own needs, substituted the 'needs' of the colonized with its own and recommended new ways of satisfying these new needs. This process is still being recommended through the pattern of domination in 'world institutions' ma…
Modernity, McDonaldisation and Family Values in Nigeria
Societies change as they come in contact with external influences and social organizations and relations become more complex. The nature of change may be dramatic or gradual and, in either case, change affects the norms, values, beliefs, attitudes, socialization process, and the general ethics that distinguish the group from every other, especially in this age of globalization. Since change can either be positive or negative and may have practica…
Systemic source of 'working children' in Africa: The case of Nigeria
The focus of this paper is that the emergence of working children can be traced to the pre-colonial epoch in African countries. We posit that this seems inevitable to the people as a method of exploiting the environment especially because of the pre-capitalist nature of these countries. In spite of the emergence of new methods of exploiting the environ ment, the persistence of 'working children' as a category is a major concern. Since the capital…
Systemic source of 'working children' in Africa: The case of Nigeria
The focus of this paper is that the emergence of working children can be traced to the pre-colonial epoch in African countries. We posit that this seems inevitable to the people as a method of exploiting the environment especially because of the pre-capitalist nature of these countries. In spite of the emergence of new methods of exploiting the environ ment, the persistence of 'working children' as a category is a major concern. Since the capital…
Capitalism, Globalisation and the Underdevelopment Process in Africa: History in Perpetuity
Since the incorporation of the Third World nations into the world capitalist system, the underdevelopment process seems to have commenced through the use of liberal economic principles. In spite of the obvious pauperisation of these nations, it seems as if there is no alternative even when indigenous governments are in control of affairs. This paper attempts to show why the underdevelopment process has persisted with capitalism entrenched in the …
Chief Lamidi Adedibu and patronage politics in Nigeria
Since the acceptance of multi-party democracy as the most viable alternative to autocracy and military rule in Africa, democratic rule has become the vogue. Nigeria's attempt at democracy was (and is) accompanied by patronage politics, whereby certain personalities exact great influence on the political process. This study spotlights Chief Lamidi Adedibu and his patronage style in Nigerian politics, and shows that Adedibu gained political 'patron…
Modernity, McDonaldisation and Family Values in Nigeria
Societies change as they come in contact with external influences and social organizations and relations become more complex. The nature of change may be dramatic or gradual and, in either case, change affects the norms, values, beliefs, attitudes, socialization process, and the general ethics that distinguish the group from every other, especially in this age of globalization. Since change can either be positive or negative and may have practica…
Tina', Aids, and the underdevelopment problem in Africa
The assumption that 'There Is No Alternative' (TINA) to capitalism as practiced in the United States of America and Western Europe has been the bane of aids effectiveness in assisting to solve the underdevelopment problem in Africa. This paper attempts to show that except there is a fundamental reorientation in the conceptualization of capitalism-free market and democracy-the underdevelopment problem would only be further complicated with aids
Politics, Received Knowledge and the Subordination of indigenous Creativity
All societies had their own pattern of development embedded in the means of exploitation of the environment around which certain social institutions were created to satisfy the 'needs' of the people. The colonial epoch, with its own needs, substituted the 'needs' of the colonized with its own and recommended new ways of satisfying these new needs. This process is still being recommended through the pattern of domination in 'world institutions' ma…
Nigeria, Capitalism and the Question of Equity
The emergence of social problems in the modern capitalist system: child labour, tyrannical foremen, teeming slums, poverty, increasing crime and so on are reflections of impaired distributive system. This is because the quest for social equity is contradictory to the development of capitalism itself. This paper examines the incorporation of Nigeria into the world capitalist system and how this entrenched socio-economic and political inequity in t…
Privatization and the Social Value of Water in Africa
Privatization and the Social Value of Water in Africa The paper assesses the current clamor and actual privatization of water in Africa. Though this is said to be done in view of wastage and declining access of people to water, this paper submits that the transformation of the social value of water to economic, is rather a continuation of capitalist quest for profit making, which eventually is at the expense of the poor majority
Social capital and human development in Nigeria: The case of Lalupon Community, Ibadan, Oyo State
In recent times, more often than not, social capital has been presented as the virtue through which third world communities may develop. Indeed, the bonds of love, trust, friendship and kinship as social ingredients of social capital have become the salvaging grace for the third world in the face of strangulating economic decline and crisis. Through qualitative methodology, this study utilized key informant interview, in‐depth interview and focus…
Fast Food in Ibadan: An Emerging Consumption Pattern
In its modernization garb, development has come to mean the inculcation of foreign values resulting in the fundamental transformation of modernizing nations. Ironically, little attention is being drawn to the consequences of modernizing influences. This is the core of the article. Through qualitative research methodology consisting of in-depth interviews (IDIs), participant observation and informal interviews, the article examines the emergence a…
Education Infrastructure and Unsustainable Development in Africa
Education Infrastructure and Unsustainable Development in AfricaRather than creating the appropriate social relations for the means of production, the perspective on development in Africa has hinged on "infrastructure for development" thus leading to underdevelopment. This is because the social relation of infrastructure for development is parasitic and thus cannot reproduce itself. What it does is to accumulate primitive capital for conspicuous …
Political clientelism and rural development in south-western Nigeria
In spite of the universality of clientelism, it is often seen as a peculiar aspect of Third World politics, one which inevitably stifles development. This study examines clientelistic relationships in south-western Nigeria and their possible impact on rural development, with a special focus on Ibadan. It finds that rural clients attract the attention of the political class to promote the exchange of goods for loyalty through associations that aff…
Kinship construction variability among Nigerian international migrants: The context of contemporary Diaspora
Understanding the selves, situations and actions of Africans can never be comprehended outside kinship. Local and foreign worldviews are first pigeonholed into culture and defined within kinship realities in Nigeria and Africa. There have been studies on kinship in Africa. However, the findings from such studies portrayed the immutability of African kinship. Thus, as an important contribution to the on-going engagement of kinship in the twenty-fi…
Ethnography of Kinship Constructions among International Returnees in Nigeria: Proverbs as the Horses of Words
It is impossible to understand African lifeways without recourse to oral traditions because behaviors, orientations, and attitudes are succinctly codified, contextualized, and only fully explainable with reference to oral traditions, especially through the use of proverbs. Unfortunately, recent studies have not sufficiently utilized proverbs as analytical frameworks to explain African kinship. Thus, in this article we explore dynamics of kinship …
Knowledge Production and Domesticating Social Science Textbooks in Nigeria
Within the Nigerian social science community, knowledge production and reproduction appear robust. The robustness of its scholarship is exemplified by the numbers of seasoned and globally reputed scholars that it boasts (and their contributions to knowledge). However, the dimensions of knowledge production within this community appear not only dependent on the West but also disenchanted with local contexts. Indeed, the challenge with regard to do…
Verstehen', Everyday Sociology and Development: Incorporating African Indigenous Knowledge
Though language and oral tradition have long been appreciated among the indigenous people of Africa as the vehicle of knowledge and central to societal development, social scientists and even sociologists have not utilized these sufficiently in undertaking their researches. Knowledge and theories are mainstreamed and applied relative to Africa without significant appreciation of elements of knowledge that could positively impact theories and meth…
By slapping their laps, the patient will know that you truly care for her ”: A qualitative study on social norms and acceptability of the mistreatment of women during childbirth in Abuja, Nigeria
Blaming women for mistreatment parallels the intimate partner violence literature, demonstrating how traditional practices and low status of women potentiate gender inequality. These findings can be used to facilitate dialogue in Nigeria by engaging stakeholders to discuss how to challenge these norms and hold providers accountable for their actions. Until women and their families are able to freely condemn poor quality care in facilities and pro…
Modernization and Development: A Historico-Contemporary Approach Through Justin Labinjoh's Narratives
Understanding development is a strategic issue in every human society. This is because central to humans is the need to develop, which is why societies over the ages have not only sought to develop, they have also attempted to understand what development is all about, how best to develop and what the outcomes of development should be. This is why scholars and nations have commonly categorized countries/societies as developed and developing/underd…
Decolonizing the African University: Towards a Sociology of Developmental Re-education in Nigeria
This article focuses on the higher education system as an object of developmental analysis by examining the challenges and prospects of decolonizing the knowledge base of higher education systems across the Continent of Africa. The purpose of the article is to show that African countries’ seeming lack of progress relates to the character of her education system, which is deeply rooted in the context of coloniality and ‘metacolonialism.’ Using an …
A Keynote Address: Good Governance and Social Order
Barriers to women’s participation in Lagos State, Nigeria, landfill waste picking
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