Meet OSHODI ABDUL-GAFAR OLUWATOBILOBA, an Academic Staff of Lagos State University.
International Relations
Lecturer I
Political Science
At the Political Science department office
Appointment on Visitation important
Topic: International Relations, Development Studies, Comparative Politics, Migration And Conflict
Description: My overarching research interest encapsulates the development question as it relates to Africa in general and Nigeria and Ghana as cases. This has made China in Africa, the youth question, violent conflict, intra-Africa migration, the Fourth Estate, state and nation-building common themes in my research and publications. However, I am very open to researching older and emerging issues in Political Science as well as exploring multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary approaches and collaborations.
| # | Certificate | School | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Ph.D (Social Sciences) | KU Leuven | 2019 |
News media and Nigerians in Ghana: Exploring the Prospects and Challenges of Peace Journalism
This research is an aspect of a broader research agenda on Nigeria-Ghana relations. For this project, focus is placed on the media as a space for migrant discourse. Thus, news media have been linked to the deportation of Nigerians from Ghana in 1969 and Ghanaians from Nigeria in 1983. In more recent times, the media has also been identified to be playing a similar role in recent periodic tensions between Nigerians and Ghanaians, leading a former President of the Ghana Journalists Association GJA to warn in 2019 that the tenuous history between the two countries could be repeated. Yet, little or no academic study shed light on the nature of media coverage of Nigerian or Ghanaian migrants in the two countries. Hinged on Anthony Giddens Structuration Theory this research sets out to achieve two broad goals: a to concretely and comparatively document how newspapers framed migrants before, during, and after i.e. BDA the deportation in Ghana and Nigeria; and b to understand how uncovering the role s of the media in the deportations can help journalists mitigate the tensions between Nigerians and their hosts in contemporary Ghana. To achieve both goals, a qualitative method that combines archival research, digital humanities approach based on analysing newspapers websites and interviews were adopted. The Social Science Research Council SSRC provided US$15,000 funding for this research. Following the research, I am currently exploring other funding opportunities to implement the next stages of the broader research agenda which will entail artistic and human trafficking dimensions of Nigeria ns -Ghana ians relations.
OSHODI ABDUL-GAFAR is a Lecturer I at the Department of Political Science
OSHODI has a Ph.D in Social Sciences from KU Leuven
