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Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome received her P.h.D. of Philosophy at Columbia University. Professor Okome’s areas of expertise are D emocratization and Economic Liberalization, Democracy, Human Rights, Nationalism and Ethnicity, Economic and Political Development, State - Society Relations, Globalization and Gender Relations with a focus on Africa within the world economy, Globalization, Politics, Gender and Power in African Diasporic Religious Institutions; Sub-Saharan African Political Economy, International Relations/International Political Economy, Diaspora Studies and Contemporary African Immigration.
Books and Publications:
"Immigrant Voices in Cyberspace: Spinning Continental and Diaspora
Africans into the World-Wide Web" in Judith A. Byfield, LaRay Denzer, and
Anthea Morrison, Eds. Gendering the African Diaspora: Women, Culture, and
Historical Change in the Caribbean and
Nigerian Hinterland (in press, Indiana University Press, 2009). (Books and
Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2009
"African Economic Development" in John H. Moore, editor, Encyclopedia
of Race and Racism Farmington Hills,
MI: Thomson/Gale (MacMillan Reference, 2008).
"African Diasporas" in Merz, Barbara, Lincoln Chen, M.D., and Peter
Geithner, eds. Diasporas and Development. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard
University Press, Global
Equity Initiative, 2007.
"African Immigrant
Churches and the New Christian
Right." in J.K. Olupona & Regina
Gemignani, Eds. African Immigrant Religions in America,
(N.Y: New York University Press, 2007).
"Listening to Africa, Misinterpreting and Misunderstanding Africa: Western
Feminist Evangelism on African Women." in Gloria Emeagwali, ed.
Challenging Hegemonic Discourses on Africa. (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2006).
"The Contradictions of Globalization: Causes of Contemporary African
Immigration to the United
States of America." Chapter in
Konadu-Agyemang, K, Takyi, B.K. and Arthur, J.A eds., The New African Diaspora:
Perspectives on African immigrants in Canada
and the USA.
(Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books, 2006). (Books and Publications:
Chapter) 2006
"The Dividends of Democracy: The Nigeria
Experience." in Olayiwola Abegunrin and Olusoji Akomolafe, (eds.) Nigeria in
Global Politics: Twentieth Century and Beyond (NY: Nova Publishers, 2006). (Books
and Publications: Chapter) 2006
Awards, Honors and Fellowships:
Ford Foundation grant to provide support for the African Studies Association's
Women Caucus in sponsoring female African scholars and activists as speakers on
panel on HIV-AIDS and keynote speaker for the Women's Caucus Luncheon at ASA
51st Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. Nov. 13-16, 2008. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008
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