Professor Tokunbo Aderemi Ayoola

Professor Tokunbo Aderemi Ayoola holds a B.A. in History and Political Science (Combined Honours) from the University of Ife (now OAU), a Ph.D. in History from the University of Manchester, a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Greenwich, London, and a Certificate in Management Consulting from the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON), Badagry.

He is currently the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Development), and teaches African History, African Diaspora History, Politics, Political Economy and International Studies. He previously taught at Elizade University, Ilara Mokin; Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Tulane University, New Orleans; Bexley College, Kent, England; and ASCON, Badagry. His specialisations include African History, African Diaspora History, Intellectual History, Railway Studies, Politics, Radical Political Economy, and International Studies.

He is co-editor of Politics, Economy, and Society in Twentieth-Century Nigeria (Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2023, with Ayodeji Olukoju) and China in Africa: Between Imperialism and Partnership in Humanitarian Development (Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2021, with Sabella O. Abidde).

His scholarly writings have appeared in local and international journals and edited volumes. These include: Tokunbo A. Ayoola and Nasir I. Agbelu, “Samuel Olusegun Osoba and the Historical Political Economy of Nigeria’s Foreign Policy,” in Akanmu G. Adebayo et al., Nigeria: History, Society and Social Change in the Twenty-First Century (London: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2026), 61 - 72; Taofeek Dalamu and Tokunbo Aderemi Ayoola “The Lingua-Historical Perspective of the Evolution of Afrobeat from Fela-Anikulapo to Portable,” Human Discourse Vol 4 No 1 2024, 1-38; Tokunbo Aderemi Ayoola and Shehu Tijjani Yusuf “Claude Ake on Depsychologising Socio-Economic Problems of Africa and Its Public Services.” International Journal of African and Asian Studies 81, 2023, 56-66; Tokunbo A. Ayoola, “Borrowed Robes: The Relevance of Post Modernism and Other Posts to the Writing of African History,” African Notes Vol. 44 Nos. 1& 2 2020, 145-166; Tokunbo A. Ayoola, “Background to the Construction of the Bornu Railway Extension in Nigeria, 1954-1964,” Historical Research Letter, Vol. 47 2018, 14-24; Tokunbo A. Ayoola, “Claude Ake and the Political Economy of Human Rights in Africa,” in Adebayo Oyebade and Gashawbeza Bekele (eds.) The Long Struggle Discourses on Human and Civil Rights in Africa and African Diaspora (Austin, Texas: Pan-African University Press, 2017). Chapter 4, 55 – 68; Tokunbo A. Ayoola, “Prelude to the Establishment of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, 1949-1955,” Journal of Retracing Africa Vol. 3 Issue 1 Fall 2016, 21 - 42; Tokunbo A. Ayoola, “‘Epitaph of Failure’? The Management of Postcolonial Rail Transport in Nigeria,” in OFO: Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Vol. 4 no 2 (2014), 43 - 65.