Bamidele A. Ojo

Biography

Bamidele Ojo is a professor of political science and international affairs. Dr Ojo joined the faculty in the fall of 1992. His research and teaching focus on African politics, terrorism and political violence, geography and world issues, human rights, international law and globalization at the University College, Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey. He received his BSc in Political Science, MSc in International Relations and Diploma in French from the University of Ife(Now Obafemi Awolowo University), Nigeria. As a French Government Scholar, received an Mphil(DEA) in African Studies and PhD in Political Science, from the University of Bordeaux I in France. He also received an LLM in International Law with specialization in Human Rights from the University of Nottingham, England and a DIHL in International Humanitarian Law, among other degrees. Dr. Ojo was a Fulbright Senior Research and Teaching Scholar in 2001/2002 at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He was also on Fulbright Senior Specialist Roster 2005-2010. He served on the University Academic Senate Faculty Rights and Welfare Committee for many years. His other publications include: “Obama and Africa: Understanding the Framework for President Obama’s Foreign Policy in Africa” African Renaissance, Vol. 7, Number 1 (2010); “Transformative Online Education & Social Equality: The Prospects for E-Governance and Democracy in Africa” in Gulsun Kurubacak & T. Volkan Yuzer(ed) (2011) Handbook of Research on Transformative Online Education and Liberation: Models for Social Equality(Hershey, PA:IGI Global) and “ECOWAS and Democratic Consolidation in West Africa: Praetorian Resurgence as a Failure of Democratic Process.” African Renaissance,9:2 (2012). Other publications include among others; Human rights and the New World Order, Contemporary African Politics, E-Learning and Challenges facing Distance Education in Africa, The State, Democratization and the Challenges of Globalization, SWAPO and Namibia and Democracy and Democratization in Nigeria.

Research Interest

Professor Ojo was appointed by Nigerian President Obasanjo, as the Chairman of the Governing Council of the Michael Imodu National Institute For Labor Studies. A federal agency in the Ministry of Employment, Labor & Productivity, in Nigeria(2005-2006).