Adebayo Olukoshi
Biographic Data
| ID | 87372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adebayo Olukoshi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adebayo |
| FAMILY NAME | Olukoshi |
| SIGNATURE | OLUKOSHI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Senegal |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction: Early Post-Independence Progressive Policies – Insights for our Times
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Running While Others Walked: Remembering Thandika Mkandawire
Rama Salla Dieng* interviews Adebayo Olukoshi** on the life and work of Thandika Mkandawire. Olukoshi shares memories of how Thandika helped to shape development thinking in Africa and beyond. Initially published in ROAPE: http://roape.net/2020/04/27/running-while-others-walked-remembering-thandika-mkandawire Rama Salla Dieng Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh Adebayo Olukoshi Director, IDEA (Africa and West Asia office)
The MDGs, Empowerment and Accountability in Africa: Retrospect and Prospects
Although the recognition in the historic Millennium Declaration of 2000 of the centrality of accountable governance to the quest for the advancement of the wellbeing of humankind was not translated into one of the MDGs when they were adopted in 2001, it could still have been legitimately expected that the implementation of the eight objectives that were agreed upon would bring important governance benefits in their own right, especially in the co…
The Postcolonial Turn: An Introduction
Africa: Bringing the Social Back In
From Colonialism to the New Millennium and Beyond
Réaction africaine au rapport de la Commission pour l’Afrique: Adebayo Olukoshi
African scholars and African Studies
This article focuses on the development of African Studies, principally in post-1945 Europe and North America, and its counterpart in post-independence Africa. African Studies enjoys an increasingly close connection with bilateral and multilateral development co-operation, providing research and researchers (along with their own conceptual frameworks and concerns) to assist in defining and providing direction for aid and related policies. This is…
Investing in Africa: The Political Economy of Agricultural Growth
If investments are good for growth, then a question which has always exercised the minds of economists and policy-makers historically, is just how to generate, attract, secure and sustain them. This is
A Milestone in the Study of Africa
So, the Africa Review of Books (ARB) is born! The road that has been traveled to produce this maiden edition of the Review has been a long one and the obstacles that have had to be surmounted numerous. In fact, at a point, such was the magnitude of the difficulties encountered that some were tempted either to give up on the project altogether or to postpone it indefinitely or even modify it so radically as to alter its identity as an autonomous p…
The Politics of Opposition in Contemporary Africa
New Politics in/about the Continent at Start of Twenty-First Century
The Politics of Opposition in Contemporary Africa
This book is mainly devoted to a discussion of the broad experiences of the opposition parties that have emerged as a part of the movement towards multi-party politics in Africa. The contributors to the book tackle an interesting mix of issues from a critique of opposition politics in the context of the economic decline in Africa to an assessment of the effors made by the opposition to establish an effective presence under extremely difficult cir…
Structural Adjustment
Adjustment Alternatives and Alternatives to Adjustment
The Politics of Structural Adjustment in Nigeria
From crisis to adjustment in Nigeria, A.O. Olukoshi state versus market - the privatization policy of the Nigerian state, S. Yahaya devaluation - implications for employment, inflation, growth and development, A. Fadahunsi structural adjustment and Nigerian industry, A.O. Olukoshi African workers and structural adjustment - a Nigerian case study, Y. Bangura, B. Beckman professional associations and structural adjustment, A. Jeg structural adjustm…
Economic Development and Foreign Policy in Nigeria
Structural adjustment and labour subordination in Nigeria: The dissolution of the Nigeria labour congress re‐visited
(1988). Structural adjustment and labour subordination in Nigeria: the dissolution of the Nigeria labour congress re‐visited. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 15, No. 43, pp. 99-111
The left in Nigerian politics and the struggle for socialism: 1945–1985
This paper is a brief historical overview of certain aspects of radical, Left‐wing politics in Nigeria in the 40 years between 1945 and 1985. It traces the origins, growth and nature of the radical struggle for some form of socialist transformation in the country and attempts to identify the strengths and weaknesses of some of the organisations that were established at various times since 1945 for the attainment of this goal. The myth that there …
Nigeria, crisis management under the Burhari administration
The Politics of Opposition in Contemporary Africa
The Politics of Opposition in Contemporary Africa
This book is mainly devoted to a discussion of the broad experiences of the opposition parties that have emerged as a part of the movement towards multi-party politics in Africa. The contributors to the book tackle an interesting mix of issues from a critique of opposition politics in the context of the economic decline in Africa to an assessment of the effors made by the opposition to establish an effective presence under extremely difficult cir…
African scholars and African Studies
This article focuses on the development of African Studies, principally in post-1945 Europe and North America, and its counterpart in post-independence Africa. African Studies enjoys an increasingly close connection with bilateral and multilateral development co-operation, providing research and researchers (along with their own conceptual frameworks and concerns) to assist in defining and providing direction for aid and related policies. This is…
Africa: Bringing the Social Back In
Structural adjustment and labour subordination in Nigeria: The dissolution of the Nigeria labour congress re‐visited
(1988). Structural adjustment and labour subordination in Nigeria: the dissolution of the Nigeria labour congress re‐visited. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 15, No. 43, pp. 99-111
Adjustment Alternatives and Alternatives to Adjustment
The left in Nigerian politics and the struggle for socialism: 1945–1985
This paper is a brief historical overview of certain aspects of radical, Left‐wing politics in Nigeria in the 40 years between 1945 and 1985. It traces the origins, growth and nature of the radical struggle for some form of socialist transformation in the country and attempts to identify the strengths and weaknesses of some of the organisations that were established at various times since 1945 for the attainment of this goal. The myth that there …
Introduction: Early Post-Independence Progressive Policies – Insights for our Times
...
From Colonialism to the New Millennium and Beyond
Nigeria, crisis management under the Burhari administration
Nigeria, crisis management under the Burhari administration
The left in Nigerian politics and the struggle for socialism: 1945–1985
This paper is a brief historical overview of certain aspects of radical, Left‐wing politics in Nigeria in the 40 years between 1945 and 1985. It traces the origins, growth and nature of the radical struggle for some form of socialist transformation in the country and attempts to identify the strengths and weaknesses of some of the organisations that were established at various times since 1945 for the attainment of this goal. The myth that there …
Structural adjustment and labour subordination in Nigeria: The dissolution of the Nigeria labour congress re‐visited
(1988). Structural adjustment and labour subordination in Nigeria: the dissolution of the Nigeria labour congress re‐visited. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 15, No. 43, pp. 99-111
Economic Development and Foreign Policy in Nigeria
The Politics of Structural Adjustment in Nigeria
From crisis to adjustment in Nigeria, A.O. Olukoshi state versus market - the privatization policy of the Nigerian state, S. Yahaya devaluation - implications for employment, inflation, growth and development, A. Fadahunsi structural adjustment and Nigerian industry, A.O. Olukoshi African workers and structural adjustment - a Nigerian case study, Y. Bangura, B. Beckman professional associations and structural adjustment, A. Jeg structural adjustm…
Adjustment Alternatives and Alternatives to Adjustment
The Politics of Opposition in Contemporary Africa
This book is mainly devoted to a discussion of the broad experiences of the opposition parties that have emerged as a part of the movement towards multi-party politics in Africa. The contributors to the book tackle an interesting mix of issues from a critique of opposition politics in the context of the economic decline in Africa to an assessment of the effors made by the opposition to establish an effective presence under extremely difficult cir…
Structural Adjustment
The Politics of Opposition in Contemporary Africa
New Politics in/about the Continent at Start of Twenty-First Century
A Milestone in the Study of Africa
So, the Africa Review of Books (ARB) is born! The road that has been traveled to produce this maiden edition of the Review has been a long one and the obstacles that have had to be surmounted numerous. In fact, at a point, such was the magnitude of the difficulties encountered that some were tempted either to give up on the project altogether or to postpone it indefinitely or even modify it so radically as to alter its identity as an autonomous p…
Investing in Africa: The Political Economy of Agricultural Growth
If investments are good for growth, then a question which has always exercised the minds of economists and policy-makers historically, is just how to generate, attract, secure and sustain them. This is
Réaction africaine au rapport de la Commission pour l’Afrique: Adebayo Olukoshi
African scholars and African Studies
This article focuses on the development of African Studies, principally in post-1945 Europe and North America, and its counterpart in post-independence Africa. African Studies enjoys an increasingly close connection with bilateral and multilateral development co-operation, providing research and researchers (along with their own conceptual frameworks and concerns) to assist in defining and providing direction for aid and related policies. This is…
Africa: Bringing the Social Back In
From Colonialism to the New Millennium and Beyond
The Postcolonial Turn: An Introduction
The MDGs, Empowerment and Accountability in Africa: Retrospect and Prospects
Although the recognition in the historic Millennium Declaration of 2000 of the centrality of accountable governance to the quest for the advancement of the wellbeing of humankind was not translated into one of the MDGs when they were adopted in 2001, it could still have been legitimately expected that the implementation of the eight objectives that were agreed upon would bring important governance benefits in their own right, especially in the co…
Running While Others Walked: Remembering Thandika Mkandawire
Rama Salla Dieng* interviews Adebayo Olukoshi** on the life and work of Thandika Mkandawire. Olukoshi shares memories of how Thandika helped to shape development thinking in Africa and beyond. Initially published in ROAPE: http://roape.net/2020/04/27/running-while-others-walked-remembering-thandika-mkandawire Rama Salla Dieng Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh Adebayo Olukoshi Director, IDEA (Africa and West Asia office)
Introduction: Early Post-Independence Progressive Policies – Insights for our Times
...
Political science (17 works) · Economics (9 works) · Development economics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works)