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    Labour in a deregulated economy: The Nigerian case
    (Alabi-Eyo & Co Ltd, 2010) Robert, Gooduck O.
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    The Emergence of Political Parties in Southern Nigeria
    (Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) Nigeria, 2024-12) Alabi, Ayodeji Ladipo
    This chapter is concerned with two subjects: the emergence of political parties in southern Nigeria and party politics in southern Nigeria. To make the treatise meaningful, the discourse here explores the formation of all the political parties under Nigeria's scattered democratic dispensations and draws on the consequential behaviours of the prominent political actors in party politics and the far-reaching features of the various political groups to explain the performances of the political parties in southern Nigeria. Logically, therefore, the trajectory of this concern spans from 1922, the period in the colonial era when political party formation commenced in the territory colonially described as Nigeria, through independence in i960 and the early years of the post-colonial nation state, up to the present day 2023 of sovereign Nigeria.
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    Africa’s postcolonial states, universities and situated ideologies
    (The International African Institute, 2024-12) Alabi, Ayodeji Ladipo
    Arowosegbe’s (2023) treatise on the crisis of higher education across the African continent raises many issues about the failures of Africa’s postcolonial states and the situations of the continent’s public universities. His courage in bringing to the fore the predicaments of Africa’s public universities is commendable. Two issues in particular attract my attention. First, while he underscores the strained relations between the state and the academy and recognizes the existence of some divergent ideological underpinnings therein, his account neglects the impacts of ideological contradictions on society’s political stability and socio-economic development. Second, his account omits the quandaries of private universities in Africa, an aspect of higher education across the continent that should not be overlooked if one is to holistically appreciate the predicaments of Africa’s universities within the context of the role of the postcolonial state.
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    Discrimination and Social Identity: interrogating the impact of local lingua francas on inclusion politics in public institutions in Nigeria
    (Cambridge University Press, 2024-02) Alabi, Ayodeji Ladipo
    This study is concerned with addressing discrimination in public spaces and interrogates the extent to which the social identity function of a local lingua franca impacted inclusion politics in leadership selections for public institutions in Africa. Guided by social identity and ethnolinguistic identity theories, selecting Ahmadu Bello University in Northern Nigeria as a case study, and using the qualitative research technique, this study found a three-level ethno-religious discriminatory categorization – Core Northerners, Peripheral Northerners and Non-Northerners – accommodated within the institution’s power hierarchy. Fluency in Hausa, the local lingua franca in Northern Nigeria, was the common factor. Although the language was not a requirement for appointment, it turned out to be the marker of social identity that positively impacted inclusion politics. With extensive linguistic acculturation, African nation states are better off investing in the propagation of the local lingua franca to address negative discrimination in public spaces.
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    Identity Overlap and Context-dependent Instrumentation of Territorial Belonging: an interrogation of multiple levels of indigeneship mobilisation in Nigeria
    (Routledge, 2023-08-29) Alabi, Ayodeji Ladipo
    The subject of territorial belonging remains one of the regular flashpoints of conflicts in contemporary politics. With identity overlap and context-dependent instrumentation of belongingness, the question of how one identity classification attains preponderance over others in the overlap and the character of the associated conflicts compel studying every instance as a unique case. This paper interrogates the instrumentation of multiple levels of indigeneship mobilisation in inclusion politics in tertiary education institutions in Nigeria. Qualitatively drawing from vice-chancellor’s selection politics in University of Nigeria, this paper found that four incentives drove the preponderance of ethno-territorial indigeneship mobilisation over other levels of indigeneship mobilisation in the institution. First, politically, the collective interests of the dominant Igbo ethnic group were held paramount in the ethnic territory. Second, the rationales for the collective interest of the ethnic group were widely acknowledged by all communal settlements on the ethnic territory. Third, democratically, the phenomenon ensured the rule of the majority in vice-chancellors’ selection politics. Fourth, the merit prerogative of the academy, breached in interethnic struggle, remained sacrosanct in intra-ethnic competition for the choice position. These exemplify the situation of many federal tertiary education institutions in Nigeria and become their prominent trademarks.