Tosin Samuel Durodola
| Tosin Samuel Durodola | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 July 1997 Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Nigerian |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Bowen University (BA) University of Ibadan (MA) University of Edinburgh (PhD) |
| 💼 Occupation | Researcher, development practitioner, academic |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Adaeze-Tosin Durodola (m. 2022) |
| 🏅 Awards | *Global Border Criminologies Dissertation Prize (2021)[1] |
| 🌐 Website | www |
Tosin Durodola (born 1997) is a Nigerian researcher, writer and development practitioner. He is the first recipient of the Global Border Criminologies Dissertation Prize, organised by Routledge and the Border Criminologies Research Network based at the University of Oxford Centre for Criminology,[1][2] in Africa. He served as a Special Assistant (SA) to the Governor of Ekiti State and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors' forum, Dr Kayode Fayemi on Digital Communications.[3][4]
Personal life[edit]
Durodola was born in Ado Ekiti, Nigeria, in 1997. He hails from Igede-Ekiti, Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Nigeria.[2]
Career[edit]
Academia[edit]
He attended his secondary school education at Christ's School, Ado Ekiti from 2006 to 2012. He holds a bachelor's degree in History and International Studies from Bowen University, Iwo.[5] In 2021, Tosin Durodola obtained M.A African Studies (Diaspora and Transnational Studies) with the Highest Distinction from the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.[6] He was awarded the University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science (SSPS) Scholarship in 2022, to commence his PhD program at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh.[7] His thesis examines the idea of the impermanence to marginality or precarity, and lack thereof, and post-refugee status resistance and power struggle in host communities (using ‘residual’ Liberian refugees in Nigeria & Ghana as a case study).
He is the first recipient of the Global Border Criminologies Dissertation Prize, organised by Routledge and the Border Criminologies Research Network based at the University of Oxford Centre for Criminology,[1][8] in Africa.[9] In 2021, he was awarded a fully-funded German Academic Exchange Service International summer programme on migration management at Viadrina Center Borders in Motion, European University Viadrina (Oder), Germany.[5][10]
Durodola has worked and published his research with international institutions such as the University of Oxford Centre for Migration, Policy and Society;[11] the Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai; CAS ‘Journal’ African Currents;[12] Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration;[13] and others on refugees, forced migration, and development research. He is a Research Fellow of the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA-Nigeria) and Research Member of the Border Criminologies Network based at the University of Oxford Centre for Criminology.[5]
Politics[edit]
In 2021, he was appointed as a Special Assistant (SA) on Digital Communications to the Governor of Ekiti State and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors' forum, Dr Kayode Fayemi.[3][4] He continued in this role when Dr Kayode Fayemi was elected as the first President of the Forum of Regions of Africa, FORAF on September 9, 2022.[14] The media suggests that Durodola is the youngest political appointee in the history of Ekiti State.[3][4]. He later proceeded to the University of Edinburgh for his Doctoral Program in 2022.[7]
Fellows and membership[edit]
- Tosin Durodola is a Research Member of the Border Criminologies Network based at the University of Oxford Centre for Criminology.[5]
- Research Fellow of the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA-Nigeria), Ibadan, Nigeria.
Writings[edit]
Durodola has written on refugees and displacement, governance and post-conflict issues in Africa. Among his recent publications are: Narratives of The Journey to Exile and Transformative Agency of Residual Liberian Refugees in Oru, Southwestern Nigeria, [15] Deconstructing Exilic Narratives of Tibetan Refugee Community in India and Residual Liberian Refugees in Nigeria (CAS African Currents),[12] Ethnographic Reflection on Exilic Narratives Outside Closed Camps: The Case of Residual Liberian Refugees in Nigeria (Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, 2021),[13] The Fragility and Resilience of Liberian and Sierra Leonean Refugees amid COVID-19 in Southwestern Nigeria (COMPAS, 2021)[11]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Winners of the 5th Border Criminologies Dissertation Prize". UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. 2021-12-22. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "24-Year-Old Nigerian, Tosin Durodola from University of Ibadan Is 2nd World Best Thesis Writer". UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN. 2021-12-25. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Fayemi appoints 24-year-old Durodola Special Assistant on digital communications". PUNCH NEWSPAPER. 2021-08-12. Retrieved 2021-08-26.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Fayemi appoints 24-year-old scholar as aide". THE NATION. 2021-08-13. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Profile: Tosin Samuel Durodola". UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. 2021-12-25. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ↑ "Tosin Durodola wins Oxford Border Criminologies Dissertation Prize". UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN. 2021-12-28. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Profile: Tosin Durodola". UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. 2022-09-25. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ↑ "A Special Interview with the 2021 Awardee Oxford Dissertation Prize, Tosin Durodola". UI PREMIER TV. 2022-02-04. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ↑ "24-year-old Tosin Durodola named runner-up in Oxford University's border thesis prize". THE CABLE. 2021-12-25. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ↑ "Shifting Borderlines without Solution in Sight: A reflection on the location of Residual Liberian Refugees within a Space of Marginality in Nigeria". DAAD. 2021-09-03. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Swimming against the tide: The fragility and resilience of refugees amid COVID-19 in Southwestern Nigeria". UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. 2020-08-04. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Deconstructing Exilic Narratives of Tibetan Refugee Community in India and Residual Liberian Refugees in Nigeria". RESEARCHGATE. 2021-08-20. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Ethnographic Reflection on Exilic Narratives Outside Closed Camps: The Case of Residual Liberian Refugees in Nigeria". RESEARCHGATE. 2021-11-01. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ↑ "Breaking: Fayemi elected President of the Forum of Regions of Africa". VANGUARD. 2022-09-09. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
- ↑ "Narratives of The Journey to Exile and Transformative Agency of Residual Liberian Refugees in Oru, Southwestern Nigeria". UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. 2021-12-25. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
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