
Kudus Oluwatoyin AdebayoUniversity of Ibadan · Institute of African Studies
Kudus Oluwatoyin Adebayo
Doctor of Philosophy
Research Fellow, Diaspora and Transnational Studies, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
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Introduction
Research Fellow with the Diaspora and Transnational Studies programme, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan.
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September 2019 - present
March 2013 - April 2019
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Publications (46)
The growing ‘Africans in China’ literature has documented the extent and extensiveness of flows from Africa to Chinese cities. However, return migration has not received much attention, and even less is known about the role of the family in return consideration. The article focuses on how married Nigerians reckon return and family in Guangzhou city...
Africa-China relations are facilitating different flows and inducing mobilities that have produced Afro-Chinese families in Guangzhou, China. This article examines how Nigerian-Chinese couples construct and embrace contradictory notions of home, as well as how their child upbringing practices manifest this paradox. The article uses data from life h...
Since the emergence of China in the geopolitical and economic spaces of Africa, academics have followed Chinese and African people moving in both directions and conducted on-the-ground, cross-border ethnographies. However, academics are not equally mobile. This autoethnography analyses the intersections of ethnography, mobility and knowledge produc...
How does shared identity between researcher and the researched influence trust-building for data generation and knowledge production? We reflect on this question based on two separate studies conducted by African-based researchers in sociology and political science in Nigeria. We advanced two interrelated positions. The first underscores the limits...
Leaving children in the care of grandparents is a fairly common practice in close knit societies such as Nigeria. This service of providing childcare by grandmothers is however taking a transnational form with the exportation of grandmothers from Nigeria to care for grandchildren whose parents, out of economic necessity, must work fulltime. This ar...
In displacement situations, cultural materials are often immobilised and separated from the people for whom they hold significant meanings. The over two-decade long territorial dispute between Nigeria and Cameroon, thought to have been settled by an ICJ judgement in 2002, engendered the forcible displacement of the Bakassi people from their ancestr...
Introduction: Informal caregivers (ICs) play a crucial role in healthcare, particularly in resource-limited settings where they help alleviate staff shortages. Despite their invaluable contributions, the literature on the challenges of ICs remains sparse. This scoping review addresses this gap by exploring the burdens and challenges faced by those...
While deportation of Africans is a commonplace practice in China, deportation and its aftermath, as experienced by deportees, remain at the margin of research. This article examined the spatial condition of deportation afterlife using data from a study on the post‐deportation experiences of Nigerian men deported from China. Specifically, it focused...
Informal caregivers support relatives in healthcare facilities globally. However, their involvement in hospitalization care while residing in and around the hospital is more prevalent in under-resourced settings. This article examined the challenges and multifaceted consequences of hospital-based informal caregiving in a Nigerian tertiary health fa...
Thousands of migrants from African countries have settled in China since the early 2000s, particularly in Guangzhou in Guangdong Province. While this population has steadily declined over time, the situation was exacerbated by the COVID-19 outbreak. Referred to as "Africans in China" by the media, they have created a vibrant context for discursive...
Purpose
Informal caregivers (ICs) in Africa perform a long list of tasks to support hospitalization care. However, available studies are weak in accounting for the experiences of everyday role-routines of hospital-based informal caregiving (HIC) in under-resourced settings. This article explored the experiences of role-routines among informal careg...
How do the manifestations of deportability in everyday life, and deportation experiences, constitute African migrants into a ‘deportspora’ in China? Despite the scholarly attention paid to the migration of Africans to China, questions of deportability and the simultaneous, reverse flows through their deportation are under-explored. In this article,...
The majority of people with cancer present in late stage (Stage III or IV) in Sub Saharan Africa, resulting in poor outcomes. In Nigeria, over three-quarters of common curable cancers present late, compared to 35% in high-income countries. Early detection, and referral to surgical and treatment centres for first line treatment could potentially imp...
The presence of Africans in Chinese cities has made their healthcare-related issues an expanding area of interest. However, previous studies have not thoroughly explored how Africans live through health problems. This article explores the taken for granted aspect using the analytical frameworks of migration as a social determinant of health and phe...
The growing trends for skilled health worker (SHW) migration in Nigeria has led to increased concerns about achieving universal health coverage in the country. While a lot is known about drivers of SHW migration, including national/sub-national government’s inability to address them, not enough is known about its governance. Underpinning good gover...
How do we unpack and make sense of anti-African/Black sentiments in the pandemic control and mitigation practices in China? This article responds to the question by drawing a parallel between the experiences of Africans in China during the Ebola virus disease and COVID-19 outbreaks. Focusing specifically on Nigerians as a subsection of the African...
Background:
Nigeria provides a good case study for researchers, activists, and governments seeking to understand how social networks can help mitigate the negative impact of skilled health worker (SHW) migration in low and middle-income countries. This study aimed to map the social networks of SHWs and explore how they influence migration intentio...
The challenges facing Africans in Chinese cities have been examined from different perspectives, including healthcare-related challenges and barriers. However, how they navigate health problems through circulation and transnational practices has received scant attention. The article explored the importance of circulation and everyday transnationali...
The notion of mafan or troublemakers is one of the main organising frames with which the identification of Nigerians subsists in Guangzhou, China. This chapter situates this identification in the processes of the constitution of Nigerian community and highlights how interracial interactions of Nigerians with Chinese people have been shaped by three...
The attack on academic freedom has worsened in different parts of the world regardless of political context. Universities, academics and students have come under increasing attack and are subjected to censorship and violence, while academic programmes that have been categorised as 'politically sensitive' are cancelled or banished from the curriculu...
How do African migrants become stuck-in-place and experience stuckedness in China? This article interrogates the concepts of stuckedness and social navigation to examine what it means to be ‘stuck-in-place’ using the stories of four Nigerians—a woman and three men—in
Guangzhou City. Two modes of stuckedness were observed: ‘truncational stuckedness’...
As a Nigerian researcher based in an African university, how do I research and critique African experiences of racial discrimination in China while paying attention to the influences of my positionality? This question is at the centre of my reflection in this roundtable contribution.
This case study explored the motivations and strategies of Nigerian medicine traders in responding to the health-care demands of co-migrants in China using observations and interview data from two Nigerian medicine traders in Guangzhou. The medicine traders initially responded to a 'divine call' but they shared similar economic motivations to survi...
Mentoring is important for improving capacity development in population and public health research in sub-Saharan Africa. A variety of experiences have been documented since Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) admitted the first cohort in 2011. However, the experience of mentoring opportunities in CARTA has not been studied....
Based on a case study of Iyana Ipaja, one of the largest transport hubs with a spacious motor park and the most vibrant markets in North Lagos, we elaborate on the nuances of interactions between commercial actors and various forms of infrastructure in the spatial and temporal senses. In terms of materiality and mobility of their businesses, commer...
Wheelbarrows are a common sight in Nigerian cities where they function as an instrument of work among the urban poor. This paper explores how the wheelbarrow is increasingly deployed as a ‘mobile shop’, and describes the livelihoods of urban subjects who use it for street trade and space appropriation in Ibadan, Nigeria. Using 30 in-depth interview...
Is early sexual debut a key determinant of union formation among young adults in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)? Using a life-course perspective, this article analysed data from Demographic and Health Surveys of selected countries to examine the relationship between sexual behaviour measured by age at first sex and the likelihood of cohabitation or marri...
This paper highlights the shortcoming in explanations offered for the movement of African transnational trade to China, drawing from secondary multidisciplinary scholarship on the history, settlement, and cross-border trade migration in Africa, with an emphasis on Nigeria suggesting that the eastward migration of African transnational traders is pa...
The increasing vulnerability of children and experiences of childhood violence in many parts of the world have gained traction in academic and policy discourses. In Nigeria, many orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) live in households where they are exploited, violated and potentially dehumanised. Although responses aimed at improving their condit...
The spread of soccer viewing centres (SVCs) in Nigeria is one of the unfolding legacies of global sporting media in Africa. While, providing access to live broadcast of European soccer competitions, SVCs have developed into supplementary social spaces where culturally defined rules of social relations are contested. Using Goffman's notion of perfor...
As encounters and interactions of Nigeria with Western and Asian economic powers intensify and deepen, the Nigerian economy continues to undergo transformations. This paper explores and compares "Tokunbo" and "Chinco" economies in this transformation process. As products of processes and patterns of incorporation of Nigeria into the world-economy,...
This study utilised a context-based analysis of field observations and fifteen in-depth interviews to examine how begging is practiced by the elderly in a city in South-western Nigeria. As both sub-categories of beggars in the population and the larger elderly persons in the society, elderly beggars are a distinct demographic group whose needs diff...
In recent decades, public perceptions of old people in most African countries have been shifting towards negativity. Stereotypes of aging may shape behaviours towards the aged, and may complicate the social, nutritional, psychological and health conditions of the elderly. The perception and attitude of people toward the aged cannot be separated fro...
Since the start of the current century, the development literature on Africa has increasingly positioned China as the most potent force shaping the economic, social and political spheres of the continent. The migratory component of this process is particularly considered significant by scholars who perceive the flows of African transnational trader...
Nigeria today remains rooted in poverty and underdevelopment regardless of huge promise to deliver dividends of democracy to the people and jumpstart development in sustainable manners. Unfortunately, it is possible to trace the disconnections between promises and outcomes to critical governance and development contextualities of code of ethics, pu...
Purpose
– Fuel subsidy removal has become a recurring issue in Nigeria. Successive governments in the country have interfaced with this issue as they attempted to reform the economy and the petroleum downstream to reduce corruption and waste and make the sector more effective. Importantly however, fuel subsidy removals have always met opposition fr...
Twenty-first-century societies are driven by knowledge. But knowledge regimes in the world today are not balanced, which leads to dubious knowledge, poor recommendations, and vacuous conclusions in the areas of policy and practice. This is manifested in and closely related to the compromised academic mobility of African scholars, which has become t...