Professional Affiliation

Professor of African History, Federal University Otuoke, Nigeria

Expert Bio

Akachi Cornelius Odoemene is Professor of African History at Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. He was Dean of the Faculty of Humanities (April 2021- August 2024). He researches social, cultural and political history with a focus on peace and conflict management, democratic development, African politics, Gender, and international development in Africa. A former National Secretary, Historical Society of Nigeria (HSN) (2018-2022), he was a Hewlett Visiting Scholar, Brown University (2010), a Global Leaders Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Oxford (2013-2014), and a Neihaus Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School (WWS), Princeton University (2014-2015). He is a recipient of many academic awards and a Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria (FHSN).

Expertise

• Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding
• Security and Defense
• Democratic Development 
• Gender and Governance
• International Development
• African History and Politics
• Digital Humanities

 

Wilson Center Project

The Resurgence of Coup D’états in West Africa: Causes, Dynamics, and Implications for Democratic Development

Major Publications

Akachi Odoemene. 2024. “History of Kidnapping in Nigeria”, In: Omotola, J.S., Oyewole, S. (eds) The Political Economy of Kidnapping and Insecurity in Nigeria (Cham: Springer, Cham).

Akachi Odoemene; Nwaka, Chiamaka Jacinta and Animashaun, Bashir (eds.) 2021. Niger Delta and the Nigerian State: Discourses on Politics and Conflicts in Society (Festschrift in Honour of Professor C.B.N. Ogbogbo) (Lagos: LANUV).

Akachi Odoemene. 2020. “The ‘Global Land Grab’: Why Africa Is and May Remain a Critical Target”. In: Chukwuma C.C. Osakwe and Lemuel E. Odeh (eds.) History and The Niger Delta: Oil, Politics and Culture (Festschrift for Professor Samuel Ovuete Aghalino), (Kaduna: Nigeria Defence Academy Publishers), pp. 811-826.

Akachi Odoemene. 2018. “Dynamics of Migration in the Founding and Development of Enugu City, 1915-1953”, Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, Vol. 27, pp. 64-95.

Akachi Odoemene. 2017. “Climate Change and Land Grabbing”. In: Mary Jane Angelo and Anéldu Plessis (eds.) Research Handbook on Climate Change and Agriculture Law (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing), pp. 423-448.

Akachi Odoemene. 2016. “Patterns of Migration and Population Mobility in Sudanic West Africa: Evidence from Ancient Kano, c. 800–1800 AD”, Afrika Zamani, No. 24, pp. 11-30.

Akachi Odoemene. 2015. “Socio-political Economy and Dynamics of Government Driven Land Grabbing in Nigeria since 2000”, GEG Working Paper, No. 2015/103.

Akachi Odoemene. 2014. “Evolution and Socio-Political Economy of Ransoming in Nigeria since the Late Twentieth Century”, African Economic History, Vol. 42, pp. 185-214.

Akachi Odoemene. 2013. “Competing Rhetoric in the context of Foreign Land Acquisitions: the case of “New Nigeria”. In: Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Caroline Seagle, and Froukje Krijtenburg (eds.) Africa for Sale?: Positioning the State, Land and Society in Foreign Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Africa (Leiden: Brill), pp. 259-274.

Akachi Odoemene. 2012. “The Nigerian Armed Forces and Sexual Violence in Ogoniland of the Niger Delta Nigeria, 1990-1999”, Armed Forces & Society, Vol. 38, No. 2 (April), pp. 225-251.

Akachi Odoemene. 2011. “Social Consequences of Environmental Change in the Niger Delta of Nigeria”, Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol. 4(2),