Dr. Eghosa E. Osaghae, is Professor of Comparative Politics and Vice Chancellor of Igbinedion University, Okada, Nigeria. Before taking up appointment at Okada, he was Leader of the Ford Foundation-funded Programme on Ethnic and Federal Studies, Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Ibadan, and chair of the University's Senate Curriculum Committee. Between 1994 and 1998, he was Professor and Head of the Department of Political Studies at the University of Transkei, South Africa. He has also been a Visiting Professor/Fellow/Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Carter Centre of Emory University USA (1989), University of Liberia (1989/90), Salzburg Seminar, Austria (1993), University of Cape Town South Africa (1994), the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala Sweden (1994), University of Ulster, Northern Ireland (1999, 2000), Northwestern University USA (2002, 2004), University of Cambridge UK (2003), a number of universities and research institutes in India (2005, 2009), Dartmouth College USA (2005) and Yale University USA (2009). He was a Rockefeller 'Reflections on Development' Fellow (1989/90), and was most recently a MacArthur Fellow. In 1996, he won the "Best Paper Award" at the Eighth annual conference of the International Association for Conflict Management in Helsignor, Denmark. Professor Osaghae also won the "Best Article Award for 2004" of the African Politics Conference Group - a coordinate group of the American Political Science Association, African Studies Association and International Studies Association. The same article also won the 2004 Lawrence Dunbar Reddick Memorial Scholarship Award for the best article on Africa published in the Journal of Third World Studies.

Professor Osaghae has published extensively on ethnicity, federalism, governance and state politics in books and journals. Amongst his books are Federal Character and Federalism in Nigeria (1989), Between State and Civil Society in Africa (1994), The Management of the National Question in Nigeria (2001), Structural Adjustment and Ethnicity in Nigeria (1995), Ethnicity, Class and State Power in Liberia (1995), Crippled Giant: Nigeria Since Independence (1998), The Nigerian Civil War and its Aftermath (2002) and Researching Conflict in Africa: Insights and Experiences (2005), a co-edited book published by the United Nations University Press. He has published well over 100 articles in books and learned international journals.

 

Publications

  • Managing multiple minority problems in a divided society: The Nigerian experience Journal of Modern African Studies Osaghae Eghosa E. 1998
  • A reassessment of Federalism as a degree of decentralization Publius Osaghae Eghosa E. 1990
  • The complexity of Nigeria's federal character and the inadequacies of the federal character principle Journal of Ethnic Studies Osaghae 1988
  • The strengthening of local governments and the operation of federalism in Nigeria Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics Osaghae 1989
  • Redeeming the utility of the ethnic perspective in African studies: towards a new agenda Journal of Ethnic Studies Osaghae 1990
  • Ethnic minorities and federalism in Nigeria African Affairs Osaghae Eghosa E. 1991
  • The study of political transitions in Africa Review of African Political Economy Osaghae 1995
  • The fire behind the smoke: external sources of ethnic conflicts in Africa Forum for Development Studies Osaghae 1995
  • The ogoni uprising: Oil politics, minority agitation and the future of the Nigerian state African Affairs Osaghae Eghosa E. 1995
  • Human rights and ethnic conflict management: The case of Nigeria Journal of Peace Research Osaghae Eghosa E. 1996
  • Democracy and national cohesion in multiethnic African states: South Africa and Nigeria compared Nations and Nationalism Osaghae Eghosa E. 1999
  • Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Faltering prospects, new hopes Journal of Contemporary African Studies Osaghae 1999
  • The status of state governments in Nigeria's Federalism Publius Osaghae Eghosa E. 1992
  • Interstate relations in Nigeria Publius Osaghae Eghosa E. 1994
  • From accommodation to self-determination: Minority nationalism and the Restructuring of the Nigerian State Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Osaghae 2001
  • What democratisation does to minorities displaced from power: The case of White Afrikaners in South Africa Forum for Development Studies Osaghae Eghosa E. 2002
  • The state and ethnic autonomy in Nigeria Regional and Federal Studies Osaghae Eghosa E. 2003
  • Explaining the changing patterns of ethnic politics in Nigeria Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Osaghae Eghosa E. 2003
  • Political transitions and ethnic conflict in Africa Journal of Third World Studies Osaghae Eghosa E. 2004
  • State, constitutionalism, and the management of ethnicity in Africa African and Asian Studies Osaghae Eghosa E. 2005
  • Colonialism and civil society in Africa: The perspective of Ekeh's two publics Voluntas Osaghae Eghosa E. 2006
  • Ethnic mobilisation and the reconstruction of the public sphere in West Africa Forum for Development Studies Osaghae Eghosa E. 2006
  • Fragile states Development in Practice Osaghae Eghosa E. 2007
  • The private university sector in Nigeria: A developmentalist perspective Forum for Development Studies Osaghae Eghosa E. 2007
  • Social movements and rights claims: The case of action groups in the Niger delta of Nigeria Voluntas Osaghae Eghosa E. 2008
  • The limits of charismatic authority and the challenges of leadership in Nigeria Journal of Contemporary African Studies Osaghae Eghosa E. 2010
  • Rethinking democratic governance and accountability in Africa Forum for Development Studies Osaghae Eghosa E. Osaghae Veronica A. 2013