Yoruba Historical Conversation: Notions of Poverty among the Yoruba and Implications for Development
AGENDA
Meet & Greet 3:45pm
Speaker's Citation 3:55pm
Lecture 4:00pm
Contributions 4:30pm
Q&A 4:50pm
Dr. Tunde Decker is a Fellow of the Ife Institute of African Studies, Fellow of the Lagos Studies Association, an Associate Professor of History and Strategic Studies, and Ag. Dean, Faculty of Humanities, Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria.
His research has been funded by the Leventis Foundation, the Africa-Oxford Initiative, the Urban Studies Foundation in Scotland, the American Council of Learned Societies African Humanities Program, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva Switzerland and the University of Ghana, Legon.
He was at different times resident and visiting scholar at the University of Oxford, University of Birmingham, the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Cambridge University, the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and the University of Ghana, Legon.
He is the author of: A History of Aviation in Nigeria, Matrix of Inherited Identity: A Historical exploration of the underdog phenomenon in Nigeria's relationship strategies, and co-editor of For Nature and for People: The Story of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation.
He recently concluded a book manuscript with the title "Selfie: Everyday Agency in Everyday People in Colonial Lagos".
