Bukola Oyeniyi
Assistant Professor, History | Missouri State University
Springfield, MO, UNITED STATES
Dr. Oyeniyi's research focuses on the social and cultural history of Africa.
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Biography
Dr. Bukola Oyeniyi is assistant professor of history at Missouri State University. His research expertise is on the social and cultural history of Africa, specifically internal migration and human development, social conflicts in composite societies, terrorism, and dress and identity in Yorubaland.
He is the author of Dress in the Making of African Identity: A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People and co-author of Africa in Focus: Nigeria.
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Areas of Expertise (6)
Social and Cultural History of Africa
Internal Migration and Human Development in Africa
Social Conflicts in Composite Societies
African Historiography
Terrorism in Africa
Dress and Identity in Yorubaland
Accomplishments (2)
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study (professional)
Bucharest, Romania
Samuel Nkoli Africanist Award, Integrated Regional Network (professional)
New York, NY
Education (3)
Leiden University (the Netherlands): Ph.D., History 2012
University of Ibadan (Nigeria): M.A., History 2003
University of Ibadan (Nigeria): B.A., Classics
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- English
Media Appearances (3)
Nigerian Native, MSU Professor Offers New Way of Understanding Terrorism
KSMU online
2016-08-05
When the term “terrorism” appears almost daily on TV, radio, or news updates on our phones, the stories are associated with almost-routine violent acts. An assistant history professor at Missouri State University professor asks if what we know about terrorism is the only way to perceive it.
What is dress and what does it say about culture?
Missouri State News online
2015-12-08
What is dress? Though many people think of clothing when they hear the term, dress is actually considered, at least by social historians, to be any addition or supplement to the human body. Dr. Bukola Oyeniyi, assistant professor of history, recently published a book focused on how our dress establishes our identity...
Boko Haram: A Springfield Professor Speaks on How to “Tame the Monster”
KSMU online
2015-02-19
The presence of Boko Haram in Nigeria and surrounding countries may seem fairly new to Westerners, but the group’s founding dates back to 2002. An MSU history professor will lead a discussion Thursday entitled Boko Haram: Taming the Monster.
Minds-Eye (1)
Eye to eye or eye for an eye
Dr. Oyeniyi has spent the last 10 years researching the roots of terrorism in West Africa. Looking at the Latin root “terrorem,” which means to instill great fear or dread, and “terrere,” which means to fill with fear or to frighten, he defined terrorism to include individual, group and state activities.
Articles (8)
Leave no one to tell the tales: Pains and Recollections in Post-Conflict Reconciliation in Africa
Social Science Research Council Working Papers
2015
One voice, multiple tongues: dialoguing with Boko Haram
Democracy and Security
2014 Using “official” documents from the government and Boko Haram and other fundamentalist Islamic groups in Nigeria, this study examines the prognosis of the dialogue option between the Boko Haram fundamentalist Islamist group and the federal government of Nigeria. To ...
Framing the Body, Fertility, and Sexuality in Yorubaland, Nigeria
ASA 2014 Annual Meeting Paper
2014 Policing the Naked Body, Fertility, and Sexuality in Yorubaland, Nigeria This paper interrogates how Yoruba people of western Nigeria have conceived and continue to conceive nudity, the sexual body, and patterns of deployment of sexual organs for non- ...
Negotiating and Policing Sex and Sexuality in Africa: Cases of Yan Daudu and Karuwai in Northern Nigeria
ASA 2014 Annual Meeting Paper
2014 Drawing from two generally examples-Yan Daudu (gay) and Karuwai (prostitutes), this paper examines how the boundaries of sex and sexuality were policed in Kano City, Northern Nigeria. As these examples drawn from the City of Kano showed, gays (Yan ...
Poverty Alleviation and Empowerment of Small-Scale Industries in Nigeria: The Case of Tie and Dye Makers Association
African Journal of History and Culture
2013
Radios Don't Kill, People Do: Media, Post-Election Violence, and Democracy in Nigeria
Ibadan Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies
2012
Dress in Nigeria's Nationalist Discourse
Identity, Culture and Politics: An Afro-Asian Dialogue
2011
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