UNIVERSITY OF ADO-EKITI, NIGERIA

CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME   KOLAWOLE, Dipo (Professor)
DATE OF BIRTH   February 26, 1950
NATIONALITY   Nigerian
MARRIED/SINGLE   Married
FACULTY   Faculty of the Social Sciences
DEPARTMENT   Political Science
DATE AND CURRENT APPOINTMENT   October 1, 2000 - Professor
PRESENT SALARY   UASS 7 STEP 10
 

QUALIFICATION

  University Degree CLASS (If any) Institution Date of Award
i

 
B.A. Political Science

 
Recognized on the Dean’s Honours’ list for excellent academic performance University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada
 
May 1976

 
ii M.A. Political Science
 
Made the Direct Ph.D. Grade University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada May 1978
 
iii Ph.D. Political Science
 
Not Applicable
 
University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria January 1988
 
 

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

  i Member, Nigerian Political Science Association.
  ii Member, African Association of Political Science.
  iii Member, International Political Science Association.
  iv Member, Social Science Academy of Nigeria.
 

WORKING EXPERIENCE

  ii Lecturer, The Polytechnic, Ibadan - 1978 – 1983
  ii Lecturer, University of Ado-Ekiti - 1983 – Date
 

Courses Taught during the Current Academic Session:

  i

Undergraduate

  POS 101             -     Introduction to Political Science  
  POS 203             -     Nigerian Government and Politics  
  POS 402             -     Nigerian Administrative System  
  POS 409             -     Nigerian Foreign Policy  
 
  ii

Post Graduate

  POS 701               -     Statistical Methods in Political Science  
  POS 702               -     Research Methods  
  POS 710               -     Nigerian Foreign Policy  
  POS 712               -     Political Theory  
 

Graduate Study Supervision:
 

10 students (MPA, M.Sc. Political Science, M.Sc. International Relations,
 3 PhD)
 

Research

a Research in Progress (Brief Description of Research Project being undertaken);    
  I am currently working on a book tentatively titled, Nigerian Foreign Ministers and their
  Diplomacy 1960 – 2005. The aim is to identify the major actors and influencers of
  Nigerian Foreign Policy since independence situating the study within a conceptual framework of
  leader-personality.
         

b

Research completed but not yet published:

         i The Politics of Local Government Administration: A Practical Experience
         ii “Togo under Eyadema and Nigeria under Gowon: Effects of Personal Relationship on Inter-State Relations”.
 

PUBLICATIONS:

a.

Thesis/Dissertation:

  i “The Internationalization of the Nigerian Civil War, 1967 – 1970.” Unpublished M.A thesis, University of Manitoba,
 Winnipeg, Canada, 1978.
  ii
 
“Military Rule and Nigeria’s Foreign Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Selected Issues”. Unpublished PhD thesis,
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, 1988.
 
i

Authored Book:

1
 
Dipo Kolawole: (2001), Military Rule and Nigeria’s Foreign Policy, 1966 – 1979, Ibadan: Rulad Publishers, (297 pages)  
 
ii

Edited Books:

2
 
Dipo Kolawole and Ademola Adebo (eds) (1988): Local Government Council Management System. Akure: Afrografika
Publishers, (194 pages)
3 Dipo Kolawole (ed) (1997): Readings in Political Science, Ibadan: Dekaal Publishers, (230 pages)
4
 
Dipo Kolawole and N.O. Mimiko (eds) (1998): Political Democratization and Economic Deregulation in Nigeria under the
 Abacha Administration, 1993 – 1998, Ado-Ekiti: Department of Political Science OSUA, (197 pages)
5 Dipo Kolawole (ed) (1998): Issues in Nigerian Government and Politics, (Ibadan: Dekaal Publishers, (240 pages)
6
 
Dipo Kolawole (ed) (2004): Nigeria’s Foreign Policy Since Independence: Trends, Phases and Changes, Lagos: Julius &
Julius Associates (291 pages)
7
 
Dipo Kolawole (ed) (2005): Mathematical Concepts in Social Sciences, Ado-Ekiti: Faculty of the Social Sciences
(127 pages).
 
iii

Chapters in Books (already published):

8
 
“Introduction to Local Government Administration in Nigeria: An Overview”, in Dipo Kolawole and Ademola Adebo (eds)
 Local Government Council Management System, Akure: Afrografika Publishers, 1988, pp.9 – 13
9 “The Role of Local Government as the Third Tier of Government in the Nigerian Federal Structure”, in Dipo Kolawole and
Ademola Adebo (eds) Local Government Council Management System, op. cit pp.178 – 180.
10 “Prospects for the New Management Council System” in Dipo Kolawole and Ademola Adebo (eds) Local Government
Council Management System, op. cit pp. 178 – 180.
11

 
“Violence in Nigeria Politics: A Case Study of Ondo State” in Victor Ayeni and Kayode Soremekun, Nigeria’s Second
Republic: Presidentialism, Politics and Administration in a Developing State,(Lagos: Daily Publications, 1988)
pp. 135 – 143.
12
 
“Problems of Democratization at Local Government Level: a Personal Experience” in N.O. Mimiko (ed) Crises and
Contradictions in Nigeria’s Democratization Programme, 1986 – 1993, Akure: Stebak Printers, 1995) pp. 170 – 178.
13
 
“Social Effects of the Creation of Ondo State” in A. Popoola et al (eds) Ondo State in Perspective (Akure: Government
Printers, 1996), pp. 95 – 98.
14
 
“Concepts of Politics” in Dipo Kolawole (ed) Readings in Political Science, (Ibadan: Dekaal Publishers, 1997) Chapter
One, pp. 1 – 15.
15 “Political Theory” Chapter Four, pp. 45 – 68.
16 “Constitutions” Chapter Six, pp. 85 – 100
17 “Ideologies”, Chapter Twelve, pp. 166 – 186
18 “Military in Politics”, Chapter Fourteen, pp. 205 – 217
19 “International Relations”, Chapter Seventeen, pp 262 – 289
20
 
“Apathy, Cynicism and the Abacha Transition Programme” in Dipo Kolawole and N.O. Mimiko (eds), Chapter One,
 pp. 1 – 9
21 “The Nigerian Press and the Abacha Transition Programme”, Chapter Ten, pp. 106 – 115
22 “Nigeria’s Foreign Policy under the Abacha Regime”, Chapter Seventeen, pp. 184 – 197
23
 
“Nigeria Foreign Policy after Abacha and the Prospects for Democracy in Nigeria” in Dipo Kolawole (ed) (1998): Issues
 in Nigerian Government and Politics, Ibadan: Dekaal Publishers, Pages (178 – 183).
24
 
Dipo Kolawole (2001) “Labour Unions and Management of Industrial Disputes in the University System: in
Femi Omotoso (ed) Contemporary Issues in Public Administration: Lagos: Bolabay Publishers
25 “Development on Nigerian Foreign Policy”, in Dipo Kolawole (ed) Nigeria’s Foreign Policy Since Independence
 (Lagos: Julius & Julius Associates, 2004), Chapter One, pp. 1 – 9
26 “Years of Alertness: Foreign Policy under Muhammed/Obasanjo, Chapter Five, pp. 49 – 100
27 “Continental Economic Integration: Nigerian and NEPAD”, Chapter Sixteen, pp. 242 – 253
28 Dipo Kolawole (2001), “Labour Unions and Management of Industrial disputes in the University System” in
Femi Omotoso (ed) Contemporary Issues in Public Administration, Lagos: Bolabay Publications, 14 – 20
29 Dipo Kolawole (2003) “Local Government and problems of service Delivery” in Kunle Ajayi Theory and Practice of
Local Government, Ado-Ekiti: Political Science Department.
30
 
Dipo Kolawole (2004), “Nigeria: The Struggle for Democratic Consolidation in a Post-colonial State” R.F. Ola and
A.A. Agagu (eds) Development Agenda of the Nigerian State, Ibadan: FIAG Publishers.
   
iv

Articles in Conference Proceedings

31
 
Dipo Kolawole, “The 1989 Nigerian Constitution and the Legislature” in Jinmi Adisa (ed), The 1989 Constitution, Navy Seminar, July 25-26, 1989  
 
v

Articles that have Already Appeared in Learned Journals

32
 
Dipo Kolawole and Ademola Adebo: “Imperialism, Social Forms and the Nigerian Political Behaviour, O.I.J.S.S.S. Vol. 1.
 No. 1 pp. 1 – 12
33
 
Dipo Kolawole, (1991) “Two Party System and the Future of electoral Politics in Nigeria” Journal of Issues in Social
Science, Vol. 1, No. 1 (January 1991) pp. 12 – 20
34
 
Dipo Kolawole, (1991) “The First Decades of Military Rule and Electoral Politics in Ondo State 1976 – 1986”, Annals of
the Social Science Council of Nigeria, No. 3 (January – December 1991), pp. 108 – 122
35
 
Dipo Kolawole, (1997) “The Politics of Health Care Delivery System in Nigeria” Journal of Health and Social Issues, Vol. 1,
 No. 1, (April – June 1997) pp. 1 – 7
36
 
Dipo Kolawole, (1997) “Political Mobilization: A Theoretical Perspective”, Journal of Political Behaviour, Vol. 1, No. 1
(April – June 1997) pp. 1 – 7
37
 
Dipo Kolawole & Kunle Ajayi, (1997) “Nigeria and Sierra Leone: A Paradoxical Demand for Democratization” Journal of
Political Science Behaviour, Vol. 1, No. 1. April – June 1997, Pp16 –25.
38
 
Dipo Kolawole, (1998) “Nigerian and the Commonwealth: A Descent from Amity to Enmity”, The Nigerian Journal of the
Social Sciences, Vol. II, No. I 1998 pp. 47 – 63
39
 
Dipo Kolawole, (1998) “The ‘New’ Foreign Policy under the Abubakar Administration and the Prospects of Democracy in
Nigeria”, Ife Social Sciences Review, 1998 pp 41 – 47.
40
 
Dipo Kolawole, (2001) “Terrorism and World Peace: Some Tentative Conclusions From the Terrorist Attack on the U.S.A.”,
 Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 10, No. 3 (June – September, 2001) pp. 44 – 52.
41
 
Dipo Kolawole, (2005) “Colonial and Military Rules in Nigeria: A symmetrical Relationship” Pakistan Journal of Social
Sciences, Vol. 3 Number 6, 2005 (863 – 867)
42
 
Dipo Kolawole, “From Isolation to Globalization: The Transformation of Nigerian Foreign Policy under the Obasanjo
Administration” Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 6 2005 (873 – 879)
 

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

a

Service Within the University:

      i. Member, Ondo State University Governing Council. November 1988-January 1992
      ii Member, Finance and General Purposes Committee of the Council, November 1988 – January 1992
     iii Member, Petty Contracts Committee, November 1988 - January 1992
     iv Member, Junior Staff, Appointments and Promotions November 1988 – January 1992.
      v Member, Junior Staff, Appointment and Promotions November 1988 January 1992
     vi Member, Land Allocation and Farm Committee, November 1988 – January 1992
    vii Staff Adviser, National Association of Political Science Students, OSUA Chapter
    viii
 
Coordinator, Department of Political Science, May 1990 to September 30, 1991 member, Task Force on the
location of the Faculty of Engineering, November 1988 – January 1992
    ix. Member, Project Advisory and Implementation Committee, November 1998 – January 1992
    x. Member, Task force on Tenth Anniversary of OSUA
    xi Chairman, Committee on the Fifteenth Anniversary of OSUA
    xii Chairman, Entertainment Committee for the Burial of the late Vice-Chancellor, Prof. P.O. Bodunrin
   xiii Member, University Law Review
   xiv (Ag) Head of Department of Political Science, May 1996 – September 1998
    xv Head of Department of Political Science, September 1, 2001 – 2002
   xvi Editor, The Nigerian Journal of the Social Sciences
  xvii Member, Council-Senate Committee for the selection of a new Vice-Chancellor, 2004
  xviii Member, Interview Panel on the Appointment of a new Registrar, 2004.
  xix Chairman, Governing Council’s Panel on the Issues of Fraud in the Bursary of the University, 2005
   xx
 
Chairman, Governing Council’s Technical Committee on the Government’s White Paper on the 2002 Visitation
Report, 2005.
  xxi Member, University of Ado-Ekiti Governing Council, April 2004 to date
  xxii Dean, Faculty of the Social Sciences, August 1, 2002 – July 31, 2005
xxiii Deputy Vice-Chancellor, August 1, 2005 to date
 
b

Services Outside the University:

  i Member, Board of Governors, C.A.C Grammar School, Efon-Alaaye, 1984 – 1987
  ii Member, Resource Panel, Directorate for Social Mobilization, Headquarters, Abuja, 1990 – 1992
  iii Sole Administrator, Ifedore Local Government Igbara-Oke, January 9, 1992 – June 4, 1993
  iv Executive Chairman, Ondo State Board of Tourism, October – December 1993
  v
 
Chairman, Editorial Board (Ondo State Government owned Newspaper), The Hope, July 1995 – April 1997 and
August 2003 – To Date
  vi Special Assistant to the Honourable Minister of Education, August 1, 1999 to January 30, 2001
  vii Chairman, Federal Government’s Panel on the University of Lagos – Korea Distance Learning Agreement, 2000.
  viii Chairman, Federal Government’s Panel on the Yaba College of Technology, 2000
  ix Post-Graduate External Examiner to the Department of Political Science, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 1997 to date.
  x Post-Graduate External Examiner to the Department of Public Administration, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife 2005 to date
  xi Post-Graduate (Doctoral) External Examiner to the Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, 2004 to date.
  xii
 
Member, 18-member Technical Committee appointed by the Six Governors of the SouthWest on the Yoruba Agenda for the 2005 National Dialogue.
 
 

May 30, 2006

PROFESSOR DIPO KOLAWOLE.