Tope Akinyetun

Tope Akinyetun
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  • Lagos State University of Education, Lagos, Nigeria.

Roaming the streets of knowledge in search of pragmatic abstractions hidden in plain sight.

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Introduction
Tope's research interest includes comparative politics & devt studies, conflict processes, democracy and technopolitics. He has published several articles in notable peer-reviewed international journals including African Security Review, African Identities, Insight on Africa, Africa Development and YOUNG. He has also presented papers at noteworthy conferences including MPSA, IPSA and IAPSS. He has contributed to Kujenga Amani, The Conversation, Alternate Horizon and Conflict Trends.
Current institution
Lagos State University of Education, Lagos, Nigeria.
Additional affiliations
July 2021 - July 2021
Lagos State University of Education
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Publications (67)
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Nigeria celebrated sixty years of political independence in 2020 despite sustaining an array of gains and losses, especially regarding the nation's inability to manage the several identities it houses and the potential they portend for national integration. Although, having plural identities should provide an opportunity for diversity-induced devel...
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Many African countries are made up of multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multilingual , and multi-cultural groups who have failed to exploit their diversity to further the interest of the State. Instead, these States have been characterized by conflict, violence, violent conflict, ethnic cleansing, communal clashes, ethnic militia, separatists, rebels...
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In a bid to fulfill the primary responsibility of providing for one's needs, man has found himself engaging in various forms of activities which includes but is not limited to cattle rearing. This paper assesses cattle rearing carried out by Fulani herdsmen as a form of economic activity or occupation and how such occupation has come to be harmful...
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The understanding of the political economy of a country is essential in grasping the political and economic environment in which the country operates. Nigeria, the 12th largest producer of oil and gas in the world has its political economy around oil even though this later came to be after years of dependence on agriculture. The shift in focus from...
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This paper is an analytical and diagnostic appraisal of the leadership question in Africa. The paper stresses that the search for leadership in Africa may remain a search in futility except dire attention is paid to the leadership vacuum currently experienced across Africa. Instead of leaders, Africa is littered with rulers with stayist mentality;...
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The spread of digital technologies in Africa has reshaped civic engagement, enabling citizens to mobilize and hold authorities accountable through online platforms. Social media platforms have become avenues for voter education and sensitization, political participation, and communication, as attested to by the recent spate of technology-based soci...
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The Sahel is a classic example of a region inundated by climate change and conflicts. The region is an ecological hotspot that is on the brink of collapse, as countries in the area are trapped in a vicious cycle of conflict, resource scarcity, and environmental threats, which increase the chances of political instability and civil unrest. Noting th...
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That security is a public good is an apophthegm. Insecurity in Nigeria has been exacerbated since the COVD-19 pandemic. This is connected to the proliferation of cybercrime among youths which increased exponentially during the pandemic. This study addresses a lacuna in previous studies by investigating COVID-19 and cybercrime proliferation, cybercr...
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This article presents an overview of armed conflict in the Lake Chad region of Nigeria, Chad, Niger, and Cameroon, particularly in relation to youth exclusion and grievances. The study aims to identify the drivers of youth exclusion and grievance, including marginalization, unemployment, poverty, state weakness, and relative deprivation. This study...
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The countries in the Sahel, aside from being located in the same geopolitical region, also share similar socioeconomic and sociopolitical challenges. This includes political instability, insecurity, poor governance, climate change and democratic erosion-among others. The corrosion of the democratic gains recorded since the spread of democracy in th...
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Security is a sine qua non for development. The Sahel is a troubled region and is described as the hotbed of insecurity in Africa. This state of insecurity was compounded by the outbreak of Covid-19. This article examines the regional impact of the pandemic on insecurity and development. It uses a meta-analysis and reviews secondary data to undersc...
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D. E. Agbiboa, They Eat our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria. Oxford University Press, 2022, 214 pp., $100 (hardback). ISBN 9780198861546.
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The Lake Chad region hosts a significant portion of sub-Saharan Africa’s pastoralist activities. Pastoralism in the region has become synonymous with armed conflict, thus escalating the tension in the area and making it a hotbed of insecurity. Among other things, the exacerbation of the herder-farmer crisis in this area is attributable to climate c...
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The proliferation of the Internet and social media is undoubtedly instrumental to the growth of democracy. The adoption of social media to campaign for and secure election victory by African leaders signaled the start of an era of digital democracy in Africa. Political freedom, engagement, and equality are projected to increase as a result of the d...
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There is a compelling need to address the protracted and recurring multidimensional insecurity in Nigeria. The prevalence of insecurity in the country is multipronged and caught in a cyclic web. Insecurity in Nigeria comprises insurgency, killer herdsmen, extrajudicial killings, ethnoreligious conflict, armed robbery, militancy, banditry, cybercrim...
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Insecurity is a prominent phenomenon that threatens the peace and development of Africa in general and particularly, the Lake Chad Basin [LCB]. One of the factors driving the menace is the phenomenon of youth bulge. This article argues that young people with poor economic prospects are liable to be recruited for violence. Situated within the grieva...
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Promoting sustainable peace is a major concern for world regions, especially one enmeshed in recurring conflict and violence, such as in Africa. Ethnoreligious conflicts, boundary disputes, genocide, resource-based conflicts, and youth restiveness characterize many African nations. This idea has been made intricate by a surge in the youth populatio...
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Promoting sustainable peace is a major concern for world regions, especially one enmeshed in recurring conflict and violence, such as in Africa. Ethnoreligious conflicts, boundary disputes, genocide, resource-based conflicts, and youth restiveness characterize many African nations. This idea has been made intricate by a surge in the youth populatio...
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Many African states experienced democratic transition following the third wave of democratization that spread across the region in the 1990s. Such democratic states became characterized by multiparty elections, tolerance for opposition tolerance, media freedom, protection of human rights and respect for the rule of law. However, recent trends show...
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The increase in the spate of insecurity in West Africa and the Sahel has assumed colossal proportions. Insecurity in the region is largely perpetuated by non-state actors that continue to rise in numbers and evolve in operations. Indeed, armed non-state actors pervade Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad and Nigeria. The proliferation of these armed non...
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Extrajudicial killings attributed to personnel of the Nigerian Police in the conduct of their constitutional duties and responsibilities have become prevalent in recent times. They have been accused of human rights violations, torture, brutality, and unlawful killings of varying proportions. This palpable, yet injurious trend has become a strain on...
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This article seeks to address the following pertinent questions: “Why are some African countries experiencing democratic backsliding now? Do African states have weak institutions that are incapable of preventing the emergence of dictatorship, or is the trend the result of the persistence of an undemocratic political culture? Can it be the result of...
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The South East of Nigeria has been plagued with skirmishes of neo-civil war between the people of the region and the government. The “new war” in the Southeast is softly prosecuted as a “siege” which is meant to achieve two basic objectives: genocide and economic asphyxiation; typical of what was obtained in the civil war era. Rooted in the sheer p...
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The incidence of banditry in Nigeria has assumed an unprecedented mien which constitutes a major bane to the hitherto troubled security in the country. The phenomenon has created a multi-pronged security challenge that has amplified the spate of destruction of life and property and displacement. Meanwhile, inchoate and nascent erudition is still as...
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The spread of democracy in Africa in the 1990s, often dubbed the third wave of democracy, was a period of democratic optimism on the continent. This revolution, which led to an increase in democratic activities, was given impetus by the fourth industrial revolution, occasioned by the internet to engender a digital democratic space characterized by...
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The wave of the Coronavirus pandemic that hit the world coincides with Nigeria’s struggles with her newly attained position as the poverty capital of the world. This paper argues that prevalent poverty is a pandemic that the world has learnt to live with and that Nigeria is struggling to overcome. The agony of poverty in the country coupled with th...
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The incidence of armed banditry has exacerbated the security conundrum in Nigeria to create a multidimensional security quandary. Meanwhile, the extant studies on the matter offer insubstantial theoretical explanations. This study attempts an extensive approach that captures the necessitating factors for banditry from an opportunistic standpoint. T...
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The transmogrification of organized crime from a domiciliary posture to a periphery stance has in recent times become a recurring subject of discourse among security experts, intelligentsias and policymakers. This is imperative given the web of connectivity among states that necessitate the movement of people, goods and illicit activities beyond th...
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The relationship between social media use and civic participation in a Nigerian context has sparked considerable commentary. The discussion has become more intense following the #Endsars protests in late 2020 by Nigerian youths against police brutality by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad-a unit of the Nigerian police accused of extrajudicial killings...
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The role of social media in influencing political thinking, perception, and participation is becoming increasingly important, as evident in the volume of research the topic has attracted. This article presents findings on social media, political efficacy, and political participation in Nigeria. The objective is to evaluate the relationship between...
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Nigeria is a nation with plural ethnic, religious, lingual and cultural identities that are constantly exploited by the political class to promote their selfish interest. Although not a determinant forconflict, diversity in Nigeria has unjustifiably sparked identity-based conflicts which necessitateseparatism, insurgency and ethnic restiveness – am...
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As the Nigerian population continues to increase, so does the number of youth. The population of youth (18–35 years) in Nigeria is 52.2 million (i.e., about 28% of the total population), which is more than the entire population of Ghana, London and Benin Republic put together. In spite of the prospects that this number holds, young people in Nigeri...
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The number of poor people in Nigeria continues to grow at an exponential rate making Nigeria becomes the poverty capital of the world. As a result, cybercrime has become a haven for youths. The festering of cybercrime increases the chances of cyberterrorism, hate speech proliferation, and radicalization-all of which pose a danger to national securi...
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Social media has changed the way people interact, transact, share information and participate in political activities. Of course, the electoral process in Nigeria, as is in other parts of the world, has been remarkably impacted by the proliferation of social media. However, despite the enormous advantages it holds, social media has also proven to b...
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Local governments, the world over, in a bid to fulfil their role in delivering essential goods and services, are faced with enormous challenges and contend with allocating resources to meet up with increasing demands for public service. Adopting a multistage sampling method, the study sampled 400 respondents selected from 3 Local Council developmen...
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Poverty in Nigeria is endemic and continues to deepen even amid economic growth. We found that, beyond income, Nigeria is faced with multidimensional poverty that involves healthcare, education, and living standards, with several indicators. Recently dubbed the poverty capital of the world, Nigeria faces an enormous challenge in combating multidime...
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Few days after Nigeria attained the sexagenarian status on October 1, 2020, the country has once again become a subject of unusual discourse both home and abroad. This is due to the protests by disgruntled youths against the activities of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad; a unit of the Nigeria Police Force, which has been accused of brutality, human...
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Nigeria runs a mono-petrodollar economy, and the government has persistently ignored the calls for diversification except for when the price of oil plummets. Indeed, there has not been a tangible effort to sincerely shift the focus from being perpetually oil-dependent to developing the non-oil sectors of the economy and increase foreign exchange ea...
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Elections are an integral part of a democracy. Despite the potential it holds, elections in Nigeria are deeply shrouded in violence. The various elections are influenced by ethnoreligious conflict and mistrust. Opposition parties are also concerned that the security forces and the election umpire are controlled by the national ruling party. This qu...
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The prevalence of cybercrime in Nigeria continues to increase as the use of the internet is popularized among youths. Observably, the rate of cybercrime in Nigeria which has been a major challenge to national security before the covid-19 pandemic has increased tremendously due to the economic scourge of the virus. It is believed the pandemic increa...
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As the Nigerian population continues to increase, so does the number of youth. The population of youth (18-35 years) in Nigeria is 52.2 million (i.e. about 28% of total population) and more than the entire population of Ghana, London and Benin Republic put together. In spite of the prospects that this number holds, young people in Nigeria are large...
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It is an axiom that election is an integral part of a democratic process that enable citizens to choose freely and fairly who should periodically lead them in government, to take decisions that form the political and socioeconomic destiny of a country. In any way, security is a prerequisite for a successful electoral process, so much so that having...
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Concerns about food security in Nigeria and indeed Africa has consistently grown in the past decades and has thus become a contemporary issue requiring the urgent attention of government at all levels. This dire requisite is predicated on the proviso that food security is one of the indicators of a country's development and as such Nigeria cannot a...
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This paper is a critical exploration of the current challenges bedeviling the Nigerian state, capable of heating up the polity and disintegrating the Nigerian project. As a heterogeneous state, Nigeria operates a federal structure which accommodates a Central government and sub-national, otherwise, state governments with several other municipal adm...
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This paper investigates the impact of terrorism on national security and development in Nigeria. This is on the stance that terrorism has not only undermined national security but has unavoidably hampered meaningful development in Nigeria by violating human rights, displacing residents, discouraging trade and investment; local and foreign, threaten...
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The book is based on the thesis of decline which assesses Nigeria's descent into decline or decay located within military regimes, bogus transition, execution of activists which plunged the country into what Joseph (cited in Osaghae, 1998) termed 'the dismal tunnel' traceable to the successive military administrations. The author argues that preben...
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The international insertion of African states both in economic and political realms has redefined Africa's relations in the international system. Africa's role in international trade negotiations, military and humanitarian intervention and other forms of bilateral discussions has increased over time. Africa has been able to metamorphose from what T...
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Man by nature is inherently curious; seeking answers to questions, solutions to difficulties and constantly seeking ways to bridge the gap between the known and the unknown. Indeed, man does not believe in happenstance, after all, there should be answers to the various phenomenon encountered on daily basis. This has made man relentlessly engage in...
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The delivery of internal security is the exclusive role of the government and should be done with all urgency, seriousness and sincerity. The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) presently lacks: adequate personnel, adequate funds, adequate infrastructure, up-to-date equipment, intelligence training, specialized departments, freedom from political interferen...
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With abundant human and natural resources, Nigeria is expected to have transcended the category of underdeveloped nations. With the potential to be an African Tiger, Nigeria is yet to attain feats commensurate with its strengths. This has been blamed on underdevelopment which also happens to be the same process that fueled development in the Wester...
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It is the goal of every organization to increase its productivity whether for profit making or otherwise. It is in lieu of this that organizations strive to provide the best working conditions for their employees to make this goal a reality. In the course of doing this, it is important to note that both the employer and employees have needs which c...

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