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Philip Ademola Olayoku
Philip Ademola Olayoku

Philip Ademola Olayoku is the author of 3 books, including Historical Landscape of Shrinking Civic Space in West Africa and Women and Resilience Building in Nigeria's Conflict Contexts. he has a doctorate in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Ibadan where he teaches as an adjunct. He is the founder and coordinator of the West African Transitional Justice Centre (WATJCentre) and also the Chair of Marcel Advisory. His research interests include Philosophy of Technology, transitional Justice, security studies, ethnicity, digital power dynamics and transnational relations on which he has several publications. . You can sign up to get updates about their writing here.

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Historical Landscape of Shrinking Civic Space in West Africa

From Anti-Colonial Activism to Activism 2.0

This book details the historical context of social justice advocacy
in West Africa, with spotlight on Nigeria, in an attempt to
foreground the challenges to socio-politics within the corridor
from colonial times to digital activism. It adopts a holistic approach
of citing case studies covering Anglophone, Francophone
and Lusophone contexts; so as to...

Women and Resilience Building in Nigeria's Conflict Contexts

This book explores the gender dynamics of the structures of resilience within conflict and post conflict contexts in Nigeria divided along three sections. It details a regional analysis to understand present contexts including regional trends of conflicts, government responses and communal structures of managing the shocks and stresses...

The Legal Gimmicks of Nigeria's Transitional Justice Experiment

The Atyap and Nigeria's Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission (HRVIC)

This book entails a concise elaboration of the historical dynamics of the 1992 Zangon Kataf Crises through the documentation of different narratives by key stakeholders. It interrogates the emergence and spread of the crises, as well as different judicial interventions leading up to the truth commission. It also situates the commission's...