Lajohis Lasu Journal of History and International Studies

• Lagos State University

In Yorubaland, southwestern Nigeria, the emergence of hometown associations dates back to the pre-colonial period. The Yoruba people have a rich communal associational life with various social organizations, generally known as egbe. This egbe cuts across the Yoruba social, economic, and political affairs. In the colonial period, these associations...

The epoch-making migration of the nascent Muslim group under the leadership of Prophet Muhammad from Makkah to Madinah in the 6th century has not only been extensively discussed but well documented by Muslim historians and scholars of Islam to denote its significance in the evolutionary process of the Islamic faith. Many of these scholarly efforts...

This paper examines religious pluralism and party politics against the influence of religion on political practice in Nigeria with specific reference to the country's fourth republic. Given its religious pluralism, Nigeria presents an interesting case of the relationship between religious diversity and party politics. Nigeria is religiously plurali...

This paper was an analysis of roles expected of the civilian population in supporting state security agencies' fight against violent conflict in Nigeria. The onus for the restoration of law and order is statutorily vested on the state security agencies, however, this does not relegate the efficacies of civilians' support, as some civilians' attitud...

Climate change is referred to as global phenomenon of climate transformation characterized by changes in the usual climate of the planet. This has caused influx of people from the desert areas to coastal areas in searching for better atmospheric condition. The mass movement of people towards the coastal areas has increased trans-border crime, farme...

The paper sheds light on the widespread security challenges in the Sahel region of Africa. Such threats and insecurity have manifested in the form of terrorism, insurgency, environmental challenges, climate change, etc. These are asymmetric in nature, with the tendency for spilling into other regions of Africa. Responding to these insecurity challe...

This paper is about critical appraisal of the challenges of development in Nigeria since the return to democracy in 1999. During the military rule, Nigerians from many walks of life (civil society organizations, the media, academia, and other professionals) fought in their respective capacities for return of democracy. All of them hinged their reas...

Nigeria, a country of over 200 million people, has been battling with various national security threats since independence in 1960. Some of these core threats include religious extremism, ethnic conflicts, poor public health facilities, porous and poorly-manned borders; and, added to these in the 21 st century are terrorism, insurgency, banditry an...

Ifá corpus is an anthology of aphorism maxims, oral poetry and riddles handed over from one generation to the other. It is a system of genealogical thought, belief ideology and philosophy of Yorùbá people. Several works on Ifá centre on its personal, thematic preoccupation, its roles in finding solution to day-today problems, and guidance and couns...

Economics and history are subjects considered by many students as the most difficult in arts and social sciences. While economics remained a teaching subject in schools and colleges, history almost went into academic oblivion. The two subjects have a lot in common aside their perceived difficult nature. There is a course in history known as economi...

Until the partitioning of the Nigeria-Bénin border by the British and French colonial masters during the infamous Berlin Conference of 1884/85, the peoples that dwelled in the borderlands had maintained a shared history spanning centuries. Unfortunately, however, the demarcation of the Nigeria-Bénin border, like other parts of Africa, left an indel...

This paper examines piracy on the East African coast which has not received enough scholarly attention. Significantly, the challenges facing East African maritime security are many, and without viable measures taken to combat growing sea-borne threats, the region is destined to remain in a state of instability and war. With the use of both primary...

This paper examines the challenges of the porous Nigeria-Benin Republic border and its impact on Nigeria’s national security. It notes that over the years, Nigeria has been experiencing an upsurge in the number of illegal, irregular or undocumented immigrants in the country. These were attributed to many factors including porous borders, corruption...

Claude Ake was one of African's finest minds and brilliant social scientists, whose intellectual oeuvres covered economics, political science, political economy, economic and political development, political theory, and democracy. But in a rare intellectual detour into academic and professional history, he gives insightful and impactful reflections...

(LAJOHIS) The role of women in pre-colonial warfare in Africa has been grossly under-researched. Extant literature on precolonial warfare tends to pay attention to the military exploits of men and therefore raises the question of gender bias in African precolonial military historiography. This paper studies the military organization of Dahomey and...

COVID-19 is a pandemic that has engaged the attention of humanity because it is a disaster that had produced unprecedented negative impact on human society all over the world. It has been declared a pandemic with a devastating effect on human lives and the economies of nations. The impact of COVID-19 on economies and societies of Africa has complic...

The paper examines Nigeria’s role in the liberation of Namibia from colonial and racial domination. The analysis commences in 1960 focusing on Nigeria’s African policy in relation to political developments in South West Africa (now Namibia). The paper explores Nigeria’s diplomatic initiatives in multilateral organizations such as the Organization o...

The paper investigated a checkered history of South Africa visa -vis the implications of white settlers on black aborigines. The Portuguese were among the first European traders that registered their presence and impact in the coastal area, followed by the discovery of the Cape as an amusement and transiting area to Asiatic countries trade by the D...

Drawing lessons from the past is one of the core values of historical inquiry. This paper tows this line by engaging an historical evaluation of Asian Indonesia with particular attention to its economic transformation process in a bid to address the lingering challenge of economic underdevelopment in Nigeria. While Nigeria's economy appears blossom...

The representation of the plights of women in literary works has always been an interestingly relevant theme that is discussed in academic and non-academic settings. This is because women have been submitted to different forms of inhumane treatments, in one way or another, which have led to physical and psychological trauma and consequently death....

Democracy has inherent mechanism for resolving conflict, the provision of court and tribunals provide an alternative means for resolving conflict in a democracy. This, in other words can be understood as democratic peace where processes and procedures for seeking redress are imbued in a democracy. With this in mind, democracy cannot work well where...

Intergroup conflicts, arising from hostile relationships between groups with parallel goals and interests, are ubiquitous. Intergroup conflicts derive from the fact that humans live in group formations because of their nature as social animals. Due to the conflictual nature of humans, intergroup relations are sometimes tempered by tensile and antag...

Africa, in the 21st century and for decades to come, is faced with a formidable adversary, climate change. As the global temperature rises, Africa is faced with a non-tangible enemy that threatens its continental security, development and interests in the global arena. Will Africa be able to stand the tests of time against global warming? Can anyth...

Banditry has become a major security issue in Nigeria. In the northwestern region-the nucleus of the phenomenon of banditry in the country, devastating attacks by bandits on rural communities has taken many forms; such that a specific and concise categorization of the phenomenon has been rather elusive. This paper examines the nature and patterns o...

This work is a search for afro-optimism in recognition of the fact that the first human civilization occurred on the continent of Africa. It should be digested as an attempt to animate and interrogate Eurocentric accounts of Africa. The five horsemen of the apocalypse are the triangular slavery, colonialism, imperialism, flag-independence and debt...

Nigeria, a country of over 200 million people, has been battling with various national security threats since independence in 1960. Some of these core threats include religious extremism, ethnic conflicts, poor public health facilities, porous and poorly-manned borders; and, added to these in the 21 st century are terrorism, insurgency, banditry an...

History has virtually become a minority subject in Nigerian universities. Worse still, it is held with so much contempt in the employment market. At the intermediate school level, it is a third alternative to government, or geography. My daughter only recently confessed to me that of the 834 students who sat for the West African Schools Certificate...

This paper provides an overview on the meaning and nexus between social security and domestic terrorism, and efforts of government in providing social security in Nigeria. The findings point out the glaring absence of social security in Nigeria, and advances the need to institutionalize and build on appropriate accountability and transparency mecha...

Africa is arguably the most battered and the most misrepresented continent in the world; slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism and continuous stereotyping its people. African civilization is dynamic-language, socio-political structure, architecture, religion, art, philosophy and ethics, technology and economy etc.-and has been part of the human...

Many Nigerian migrants who attempt to enter Europe end in Libya in a causeless twist to their migration story. Libya is not in any way prepared for the accommodation of strangers-a well-spelt out policy in its law. Migrants and asylum-seekers to Libya enjoy no protection from international protection law because Libya is not a party to its tenets a...

State is a social unit created for not profit realisation but to deliver necessary social goods to the general public. It is currently of note that globalisation has continued to question the principal responsibility of state within the economy. The state in Africa became restructured as a result of globalisation. The assertive and pervasive nature...

Several studies on corruption in Nigeria identify the leadership as the bane of society. The media in its various manifestations often focus on the degree of corruption among the elite, paying little or no attention to the followership. It is the position in this paper, however, that corrupt leadership is the consequence of corrupt followership and...

The transformation of Lagos to an industrial and cosmopolitan society is a combination of many factors. Its geostrategic location, for example, played a prominent role in its emergence as the economic nervecenter of Nigeria. This status influenced the exponential migration of people of diverse cultural, sociopolitical and economic backgrounds into...

One of the greatest challenges facing African countries is the continuous escalation of violent conflicts. The paramilitary and military have been used in rather coercive manners to suspend several violent conflicts in different parts of the continent, but these have not in any way suppressed the conflicts. What this failure suggests is the total e...

The reconsideration of the relevance of proposal for the practice of diarchy in Nigeria is the thrust of this paper. This becomes necessary due to the recurring features of militarization and crisis of democratization which have plagued past democratic projects in the country and evidently constraining efforts at sustaining the democratic process o...

With the successful completion of the first string of Nord Stream 2, June 2021, the long-delayed pipeline project finally comes on stream. Nord Stream 2 pipeline sucks in diverse interests, generates controversies, provokes criticisms, and creates uncertainties among its many stakeholders. From Russia to the Baltic region to the EU, the US and Afri...

Lunacy management in colonial Lagos was largely situated within the contexts of crime and disease. This was in spite of the enactment of the Lunacy Ordinance of 1916 which stipulated the processes and legal framework for the management of lunacy, whether in the aspect of crime or as a disease. However, a major challenge during the period, which app...

To the Third World countries, Japan is a model in many respects. For one thing, Japan is a latecomer as an industrialized nation when compared with European or even North American countries. For another, it is a country that nature did not endow with raw materials forthe purpose ofindustrialization and economic development. Yet, it has become a gia...

Organized crime has traditionally been seen as a domestic problem bedeviling a relatively small number of state such as Italy, United States, and Japan. In the last few years, however, there, has been a recognition that the problem is no longer limited to a few states and can no longer be treated as something that fall within a single jurisdiction....

The African Union was inaugurated on July 9, 2002, in Durban, South Africa. This event marked not only the demise of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) but also ushered in anew formidable Organization well suited to face the 21st century challenges confronting the African continent. That the OAU was no longer unprogressive and inefficient to a...

Nuclear arms have great killing capacity but are hard to get; chemical weapons are easy to get but lack such killing capacity; biological agents have both qualities.

The man Alli Balogun played a significant role in the economic, political and social life ofLagos between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He remains a fascinating figure even ifcontroversial character in the Lagos society of his days. Undoubtedly, a scholarly evaluation ofhis contribution wouldhelp illuminate the history oftherec...