Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome (Brooklyn College, CUNY, Brooklyn, New York)
Submitted: Sun, March 16, 2008
Dr. Mojúbàobolú Olúfúnké Okome
Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies Director
3413 James Hall
Brooklyn College
The City University of New York
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11210 USA
phone: (718) 951-5000 ext. 1742
fax: (718) 951-4833
email: mokome@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Blog: http://mojubaolu.blogspot.com/
Other websites:
(1) Co-editor: Ìrìnkerindò: a
journal of African migration
(2) Co-editor: Jenda: a journal of culture and African women studies
(3) http://www.geocities.com/ojogbon (2000)
Teaching and research specialization:
International Political Economy. Regional specialization: Africa ;
Globalization, Democracy and Development in Nigeria.
Current research: A multi-level project on African Immigration to the United
States, which will result in teaching a course, organizing a conference,
publishing a journal, writing and publishing a book. The project is
expected to culminate in the establishment of an Institute for the Study of
African Immigration to the United States.
Education:
Columbia University, New York. Ph.D. Political Science. 1996.
Long Island University, New York, M.A. 1982.
University of Ibadan, Nigeria, B.Sc. (Hons) Political Science 1979.
Yoruba interpreter/translator for New York and U.S. Federal Court Systems,
1989-1996.
Selected publications:
Book
A sapped democracy: the political economy of the Structural Adjustment
Program and the democratic transition in Nigeria, 1983-1995. Lanham,
MD: University Press of America, 1998.
Globalization, Feminism and Power: An African Perspective, Ibadan,
Nigeria: Published by John Archers for Programme on Ethnic and Federal
Studies (PEFS, 2003)
Book chapters
"African Economic Development" in John H. Moore, editor, Encyclopedia of
Race and Racism Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson/Gale (MacMillan Reference,
2008)
"African Diasporas" in Merz, Barbara, Lincoln Chen, M.D., and Peter
Geithner, eds. Diasporas and Development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, Global Equity Initiative, 2007.
"African Immigrant Churches and the New Christian Right" in J.K. Olupona &
Regina Gemignani, Eds. African Immigrant Religions in America, (N.Y: New
York University Press, 2007)
"Listening to Africa, Misinterpreting and Misunderstanding Africa: Western
Feminist Evangelism on African Women." in Gloria Emeagwali, ed.
Challenging Hegemonic Discourses on Africa. (Trenton, NJ: Africa World
Press, 2006).
"The Contradictions of Globalization: Causes of Contemporary African
Immigration to the United States of America." Chapter in Konadu-Agyemang,
K, Takyi, B.K. and Arthur, J.A eEd The New African Diaspora: Perspectives
on African immigrants in Canada and the USA. (Rowman and
Littlefield/Lexington Books, 2006).
"The Dividends of Democracy: The Nigeria Experience" in Olayiwola
Abegunrin and Olusoji Akomolafe, (eds.) Nigeria in Global Politics:
Twentieth Century and Beyond (NY: Nova Publishers, 2006)
"What Women, Whose Development? A Critical Analysis of Western Feminist
Evangelism on African Women" in Oyeronke Oyewumi, ed., African Women and
Feminism: Reflections on the Politics of Sisterhood, (Trenton, NJ: Africa
World Press)
"Bringing Government Closer to the People: Decentralization, the Structural
Adjustment Program and Nigerian Federalism" in Peter P. Ekeh, et al. eds.,
Perspectives on Nigerian Federalism.
"The Antinomies of Globalization: Causes And Consequences of Contemporary
African Immigration to the United States of America."in Olufemi Vaughan, M.
Birch, and C. Smalls, eds. Globalization and Its Discontents: Paradoxes of the
Local and the Global Ibadan, Nigeria: Sefer Academic Press, 2005.
Journal Articles
African Journal of Political Science and International Relations. Acting
Editor 2006-2007
"African Women and Power: Labor, Gender and Feminism in the Age of
Globalization." Sage Race Relations Abstracts, 30: 3-26 (2005).
"Economic and Political Liberalization Conceptualized." Globalization
Review: International Journal on Trade and Sustainable Development
(Nigeria), Volume 1:1, pp. 47-65 (2005)
"Emergent African immigrant philanthropy in New York City," Research in
urban sociology, vol. 7 (2004)
"African Women and Power: Reflections on the Perils of Unwarranted
Cosmopolitanism" Jenda: Journal of African Culture and Women Studies vol. 1:1.
(2001)
"African Women and Feminism: Reflections on Unwarranted Cosmopolitanism."
Jenda: Journal of African Culture and Women Studies. vol 1:1 (February 2001).
"Women, the State, and the Travails of Decentralizing the Nigerian
Federation". West African Review, vol. 1: 2 (August 2000).
"State and Civil Society in Nigeria in the Era of the Structural Adjustment
Program, 1986-1993" West African Review, vol. 1: 1.
"The Military Veto in Nigerian Politics: Of Failed Transitions, Political
Liberalization, and Democracy." International Journal of African Studies.
Conferences, Seminars and Symposia
"Leaving Africa 'By Any Means Necessary': The International Exploitation
of African Women and Girls in the Age of Globalization." Rutgers
University Global Initiative Panel on Trafficking and Migration: Human
Rights in Flux. March 26, 2007.
"Transnational Africa" African Studies Association 50th Annual Meeting,
New York October 17-21, 2007
"Women's Leadership Roles in African Initiated Churches in Nigeria and the
US" 4th Annual Africana Women's Studies/Womanist Religious Studies Summit,
"Unfamiliar Temples: Im/migration, Women, and Religion" Bennett College,
NC, April 20-21, 2007.
"Women's Leadership Roles in the Aladura Churches in Nigeria and the US"
African Studies Association 50th Annual Meeting, New York October 17-21,
2007.
Chair, Human Rights Panel. 25th Annual Meeting of the Association of Third
World Studies, Lima, Peru, November 18-20, 2007.
The Zicklin Conference: Governmentality and Globalization. Discussant for
Panel on Governmentality and Infospace ,Brooklyn College, Thursday, April
26, 2007.
"Gender, Decision Making, and Power in Contemporary Nigerian Politics"
Global Women's Political Participation and Empowerment Leadership
Conference-Global Women's Political Participation, Empowerment, and
Leadership in Nigeria: Towards 2007 and Beyond." Chelsea Hotel, Abuja,
Nigeria. September 8-10, 2006.
"Models of Women's Leadership Training: Africa Examples" at the National
Democratic Institute Planning Meeting for the National Assembly Women's
Caucus' Proposed Leadership and Political Participation Conference and
NASS Women's Caucus Political Leadership Training Institute on Thursday,
June 29, 2006 in Abuja, Nigeria.
"Nationalism, Displacement and Development: Africa in the Age of
Globalization" at the Symposium in honor of the memory of Professor Don
Ohadike: Power and Nationalism in Modern Africa, Organized by the Africana
Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, September 22-23, 2006 at
Ithaca, New York.
"Spinning an African Academy into the World Wide Web: the Liberatory and
Democratic Potential of African Scholarship in Cyberspace," paper
presented at the CODESRIA-ASC Conference Series 2006: Electronic
Publishing and Dissemination on Bridging the North-South Divide in
Scholarly Communication on Africa. Threats and Opportunities in the
Digital Era, September 6-8, 2006 at the University of Leiden, The
Netherlands.
"The Case of Nigeria," Symposium on Multicultural Democracies in Africa,
Department of African and African American Studies, University of
Pennsylvania, College Park, Pennsylvania. April 29, 2006.
"Wealth is not what you own, but what you give away": Africa's Diasporas
and Giving Back to Africa." A paper commissioned by The Global
Philanthropy Program of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative (GEI) for
conference and book on Diaspora Philanthropy and Global Equity, May 10-12,
2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Moderator for panel discussion at Symposium On Africans In New York
Co-sponsored by the Institute of African Studies, Columbia University and
the Museum for African Art Friday, April 21, 2006
"Emerging Trends in African Immigrant Philanthropy" A Workshop at the
Fifth National Conference on Black Philanthropy "Building a Future Worthy
of Our Past" June 8-11, 2005.
May 2005 "Gendered States: Politics and Women's Power in 21st Century
Nigeria." Uncivil Society: State Failure and the Contradictions of
Self-Organisation in Nigeria Conference. May 6-7, 2005.
Community Activities
Interview on Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf "Africa Meets Africa." Host: Angelique
Shofar. Pacifica Radio, WPFW 89.3 FM, Washington, D.C., 9-10 pm., January
29, 2006.
Organized Conference and full-day event: African Immigrant Women in NYC:
Challenges and Possibilities with Sauti Yetu Center for African Women, New
York, The Women's Studies Program, Department of Political Science,
Africana Studies Department, Women's Center, Graduate Students'
Organization, Graduate Political Science Students' Society, West African
Students' Association, and Black Graduate Political Science Organization
at Brooklyn College. Tuesday, March 28th, 2006.
Interview for Panel Discussion on the State of Black America in
commemoration of Martin Luther King Day, 2005. WKCR 89.9FM New York. Host:
Jason Frazer. Program aired on Martin Luther King Day, January 17, 2005 at
9p.m. 2005
Interview: "Some of Us Are Brave" KPFK 90.7 FM., L.A.; 98.7FM Santa
Barbara; http://www.kpfk.org
Host: Kaia Niambi Shivers; January 3, 2005.
"A Conversation with Dr. Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome" Interview by Traci
Mayette, graduate student at Central Connecticut State University, 15
October 2002 Africa Update Volume X, Issue 2 (Spring 2003) Africa Update
is the Quarterly Newsletter of the Central Connecticut State University
African Studies Program.
http://www.ccsu.edu/Afstudy/upd10-2.htm#A%20Conversation%20with%20Dr.%20Mojubaolu%20Olufunke%20Okome
"American Slavery and the Argument for Reparations" Kenilworth Baptist
Church, Brooklyn, February 23, 2003. 2003
"Introduction to Contemporary Africa II: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade."
Kenilworth Baptist Church, Brooklyn, February 2, 2003.
"Introduction to Contemporary Africa" Kenilworth Baptist Church, Brooklyn.
January 25, 2003.
Interviewed for the Women's History Month edition of the Program:
Educating Society Qualitatively, a one-hour news program produced in New
Jersey, and broadcast on Raypower Radio in Nigeria every Saturday at 9am.
Producer: Bukola Adetula, Esq. Hosts: Kole Ade Odutola & Ajibola Alli.
Episode 71, March 30, 2002.