Olukayode Adesina and Abubakar Sani have been selected for the 2023 British academy global professorship
Olutayo Adesina, professor of history at the University of Ibadan, and Abubakar Sani, former head of department at the archaeology and heritage studies at the Ahmadu Bello University , have been selected for the 2023 British academy global professorshipBoth lecturers were among the eight professors selected to undertake research on a range of issues, including food system models to resolve climate issues and exploration of West African communities’ history through museum collections.
The professorship is a large investigator-led award to attract internationally recognised established scholars to work in the United Kingdom and to undertake cutting-edge research projects in diverse but relevant areas of interests.Adesina, who doubles as president of the Society of Nigerian Archivists, would focus his research on the “interplay of nationalist historiography, academic social science, and vernacular knowledge as mutually constitutive social epistemologies.
On his part, Sani, a deputy director at the ABU Zaria Institute for Development Research and Training, aims at a project that combines archaeology, museum practice and stakeholder engagement to study large and under-researched collections from key Nigerian sites.
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