TITLE: MR.

NAME: EBENEZER ISHOLA

POSITION: ASSISTANT LECTURER SPECIALISATION: COMPARATIVE
POLITICS, POLITICAL ECONOMY

EDUCATIONAL TRAINING: B.SC. POLITICAL SCIENCE (LAGOS), 2014;

    M.SC. POLITICAL SCIENCE (LAGOS), 2017

PERSONAL STATEMENT:

I am a budding academic, with research interests in thematic areas of Comparative Politics and Political Economy, notably Development Studies.

POSITIONS, SCIENTIFIC APPOINTMENTS AND HONOURS:

  • Recipient, Emerging Scholar Initiative (ESI) Scholarship, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 2021.
  • Journal Reviewer, The African Review
  • Journal Reviewer, Politeia
  • Member, Africa Indigenous Knowledge Research Network
  • Member, University of Lagos Global Engagement Committee

SELECTED MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS/CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE

  1. Odubajo, T. and Ishola, E. (2024). ECOWAS protocol on Democracy and good governance: An analysis of response to the 2021 Guinean Coup D’état. Southern Journal for Contemporary History49 (1), 46-67. https://journals.co.za/doi/full/10.38140/sjch.v49i1.6874
  2. Odukoya, A. and Ishola, E. (2024). The political economy of Nigeria’s democratic experience: An analysis of the 2023 General Elections. In Alli, W. and Odukoya, A. (eds.), Federalism, Elections and Challenges of Democratic Governance in Nigeria: Essays in Honour of Professor Liasu Adele Jinadu, pp. 191-220. Academic Publishing Centre (Southwest Zone), University of Lagos.
  3. Attoh, F. and Ishola, E. (2021). Migration and regional cooperation for development: ECOWAS in perspective. Africa Review, 13 (2), pp. 139-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/09744053.2021.1943146
  4. Ishola, E. (2021). ‘Not Too Young to Run’ Law and Political Participation among Youths in Nigeria”. In Etieyibo, E., Katsaura, O. and Musemwa, M. (eds.), Africa’s Radicalisms and Conservatisms Volume I: Politics, Poverty, Marginalization and Education, pp. 70-87. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004445079_005
  5. McKay, K., Burure, D., Chiwele, K., Fernando, K., Ishola, E., Okang’a, N., Shanmugam, A. and Tizeba, C. (2021). How governments positioned, activated and supported public institutions in multi-pronged efforts to contain COVID-19. In Osman, A. and Keevy, J. (eds.), The Impact of COVID-19 on Education Systems in the Commonwealth, pp. 25-52. Commonwealth Secretariat. https://doi.org/10.14217/ComSec.950

COLLABORATORS/NETWORKS

  1. Africa Indigenous Knowledge Research Network
  2. Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA)

iii. Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), U.S.A.

  1. African Association of Political Science (AAPS)
  2. Ideas in African Politics Network