Youth, Security and Community Development in Nigerian Conflict and Post-Conflict Eras

Abimbola Adesoji is a Professor of History in the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He is a George Forster Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. His research interests are Traditional and Contemporary Yoruba History and Socio-Political History of Nigeria. He co-edited The Chieftaincy Institution in Nigeria (2010) and Security Challenges and Management in Modern Nigeria (2018). He has published over 60 articles in highly rated local and international outlets. His latest publications are “Aso Ebi: Appraising the Changing Nature of the Culture and Practice of Uniform Social Clothing for Celebrations among the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria” in Rajendra Baikady et al. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change (co-authored); “Historical Scholarship and Training at Ife: Contemporary Progress, Historical Legacies, and Positive Future, 1962–2022”; and History in Africa: A Journal of Debates, Methods and Source Analysis (First View 2023) (co-authored).