College of Graduate Studies

Prof Jimi Adesina

College of Graduate Studies
Department: Deanery
Chair
Tel: 012 337 6002
E-mail: adesij@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • PhD (Sociology/Industrial Studies) (Warwick University, 1988)

NRF Rating

B1

Fields of academic interests

  • Social Policy
  • Sociology - Endogeneity
  • Political Economy of Africa’s Development

Books

  • Jimi Adesina (ed.) 2021. Social Policy in the African Context. Dakar: CODESRIA Books.
  • Olayinka Akanle & Jimi O. Adesina (eds.) 2018. The Development of Africa: Issues, Diagnoses and Prognoses. Gewebestrasse: Springer.
  • Jimi Adesina (ed.) 2007. Social Policy in sub-Saharan African Context: In Search of Inclusive Development. Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan.
  • Jimi Adesina, Yao Graham & Adebayo Olukoshi (eds.) 2006. Africa and Development Challenges in the New Millennium. London: Zed Press. (Primary Editor, solely responsible for putting the volume together and writing the Introduction, with additional inputs from Adebayo Olukoshi).
  • Isiugo-Abanihe, UC, AN Isamah, and JO Adesina (eds.) 2002. Currents and Perspectives in Sociology, Malthouse Press, Lagos.
  • Jimi O. Adesina. 1994. Labour in the Explanation of an African Crisis, Codesria Book Series, London/Dakar.

Journal articles

  • Tekwa, N. and Adesina, J.O. 2023. “Land, Water, and Gender Questions in South Africa: A Transformative Social Policy Perspective.” Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy 12(1): 72-97. DOI: 10.1177/22779760231151517.
  • Adesina, Jimi. 2022. “Variations in Postcolonial Imagination: Reflection on Senghor, Nyerere and Nkrumah.” Africa Development 47(1): 31-58.
  • Omotoso, K.O., Adesina, J.O. and Adewole, O.G. 2022. “Profiling gendered multidimensional poverty and inequality in post-apartheid South Africa.” African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development 14(2): 564-576. DOI: 10.1080/20421338.2020.1867363.
  • Omotoso, K.O., Adesina, J.O., Adewole, O.G & Gbadegesin, T.F. (2022). “Factors influencing healthcare-seeking behaviour of South African adolescents.” Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice 30(10): 2427-2439. DOI: 10.1007/s10389-021-01572-4.
  • Adesina, Jimi. 2020 “Policy Merchandising and Social Assistance in Africa: Don’t Call Dog Monkey for Me.” Development and Change 51(2): 561-582. DOI: 10.1111/dech.12569.
  • Jimi Adesina. 2021. “Social Policy in the African Context: An Introduction.” In Jimi Adesina (ed.) Social Policy in the African Context. Pp. 1-12. Dakar: CODESRIA Books.
  • Marion Ouma and Jimi Adesina. 2021. “Interests, Resources and Policy Networks: Understanding the Adoption of Social Protection Policies in Kenya.” In Jimi Adesina (ed.) Social Policy in the African Context. Pp. 151-167. Dakar: CODESRIA Books.
  • Kola Omomowo and Jimi Adesina. 2021. “Excavating Communal Mutual Support Praxis in two Townships in South Africa: Preliminary Notes for Social Policy Learning.” In Jimi Adesina (ed.) Social Policy in the African Context. Pp. 185-202. Dakar: CODESRIA Books.
  • Kehinde Omotoso and Jimi Adesina. 2021. “An Exploratory Study of the Association Among Household Food Securing Activities, Gender and Health in South Africa.” In O.O. Babalola (ed.) Food Security and Safety: African Perspectives. Pp. 155-168. Cham. Switzerland: Springer Nature.
  • Jimi Adesina. 2020. “Going to Sokoto to Look for Something in the Pocket of Your Sokoto: Curious case of African Sociology and Decolonisation.” In Oluwaseun Tella and Shireen Motala (eds.) From Ivory Towers to Ebony Towers: Transforming Humanities Curricula in South Africa, Africa, and African-American Studies. Johannesburg: Jacana Press (pp.174-191).
  • Omotoso, K.O., Adesina, J.O. and Gbadegesin, TF. 2020. “Children on the Edge: Estimating Children’s Vulnerability to Multidimensional Poverty in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” Child Indicators Research 13, 1155-1174. DOI: 10.1007/s12187-019-09677-9.
  • Omotoso, K.O., Adesina, J.O. and Adewole, O.G. 2020. “Exploring Gender Digital Divide and Its Effect on Women’s Labour Market Outcomes in South Africa.” African Journal of Gender, Society and Development 9(4): 85-108. DOI: 10.31920/2634-3622/2020/9n3a4.
  • Magoqwana, B. and Adesina, J. 2020. “Reconnecting African Sociology to the Mother: Towards a Woman-centred Endogenous Sociology in South Africa.” African Sociological Review 24(2): 4-24.
  • Adesina, Jimi. 2020. “The Anatomy of a Bad Science: Reflections on Nattrass’ ‘commentary.’” South African Journal of Science. 116: 5-12. DOI: 10.17159/sajs.2020/8523.
  • Adesina, Jimi. 2020. “Thandika Mkandawire, 1940-2020.” Canadian Journal of Development Studies 41(2): 342-343. DOI: 10.1080/02255189.2020.1764339.
  • Ouma, Marion Atieno and J.O. Adesina. 2019. “Solutions, exclusion and influence: Exploring power relations in the adoption of social protection policies in Kenya.” Critical Social Policy 39(3): 376-395. DOI: 10.1177/0261018318817482.
  • Tekwa, N and J.O. Adesina. 2018. “Gender, Poverty and Inequality in the aftermath of Zimbabwe's Land Reform: A Transformative Social Policy Perspective.” Journal of International Women's Studies 19(5), 45-62. ISSN: 1539-8706.
  • Akanle, O., J.O. Adesina, and U.R. Nwaobiala. 2018. “Turbulent but I must endure in silence: Female breadwinners and survival in Southwestern Nigeria.” Journal of Asian and African Studies 53(1): 98-114. DOI: 10.1177/0021909616658913.
  • Akanle, O., J.O. Adesina, and O.E. Fakolujo. 2017. “Jedijedi: Indigenous versus western knowledge of rectal haemorrhoids in Ibadan, Southwestern Nigeria.” African Studies 76(4): 530-545.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2017.1372121.
  • Alemu, A.E and J.O. Adesina. 2017. “In search of rural entrepreneurship: Non-farm household enterprises (NFEs) as instruments of rural transformation in Ethiopia.” African Development Review 29(2): 259-271. ISSN: 1467-8268.
  • Akanle, O. and Jimi Adesina. 2017. “Remittances and Kinship Networks of International Migrants in Nigeria.” Journal of Anthropological Research 73(1): 66-91. ISSN: 0091-7710.
  • Akanle, O. and J.O. Adesina. 2017. “Remittances and Household Welfare in Nigeria.” African Population Studies 31(1): 3194-3211. ISSN 0850-5780.
  • Jimi Adesina. 2016. “Robin Cohen and Nigerian Labour Studies: An Intellectual Appreciation.” In Nicholas Van Hear, Selina Molteno, and Oliver Blackwell (eds.) From New Helots to New Diasporas: A Retrospective for Robin Cohen. Oxford: Oxford Publishing Services. (pp. 102-116).
  • Jimi Adesina. 2016. “Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Domains and Drivers.” In ISSC, IDS and UNESCO. World Social Science Report 2016, Challenging Inequalities: Pathways to a Just World. Paris: UNESCO Publishing (pp. 96-100). ISBN 978-92-3-100164-2.
  • Akanle, O., J.O. Adesina, and A.O. Ogbimi. 2016. “Men at Work Keep-Off: Male Roles and Household Chores in Nigeria.” Gender & Behaviour 14(3): 7833-7854. ISSN: 117-7322.
  • Akanle, O., J.O. Adesina, and E.P. Akarah. 2016. “Towards human dignity and the internet: the cybercrime (yahoo yahoo) phenomenon in Nigeria.” Africa Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development 8(2): 213-220. ISSN: 2042-1338.
  • Akanle, O., J.O. Adesina, and U.S. Chiamaka. 2016. “Rural hometown construction among the youth in Nigeria: Agencies of significant others and media.” Africa Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development 8(3): 281-291. ISSN: 2042-1338.
  • Alemu. A.E. and Jimi Adesina. 2016. “Exploring fish demand determinants in the fish value chain: Evidence from Ethiopia.” African Journal of Business & Economic Research 11(2&3): 83-101. ISSN: 17504554.
  • Akanle, O., A.E. Alemu, and Jimi Adesina. 2016. “The existentialities of Ethiopian and Nigerian migrants in South Africa” International Journal of African Renaissance Studies 11(2) DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2016.1249134. ISSN 1818-6874.
  • Adesina, J.O. 2015. “Return to a Wider Vision of Social Policy: Re-reading Theory and History.” South African Review of Sociology 46(3): 103-123. ISSN 2152-8586.
  • Alemu, A.E. and J.O. Adesina. 2015. “Market or Hybrid? Determinants of Agribusiness Actors’ Decision Behaviour in the Agrifood Supply Chain.” The Journal of Commerce 7(1): 23-41. ISSN: 2220-6043.
  • Alemu, A.E. and J. O. Adesina. 2015. “Effects of Cooperatives and Contracts on Rural Income and Production in the Dairy Supply Chains: Evidence from Northern Ethiopia.” African Journal of Agricultural and Resources Economics 10(4): 312-327. ISSN: 1993-3738.
  • Akanle O. and J. O. Adesina. 2015. “Corruption and the Nigerian Development Quagmire: Popular Narratives and Current Interrogations.” Journal of Developing Societies 31(4): 421-446 ISSN: 0169-796X.
  • Akanle, O., J.O. Adesina, and L. Adebayo. 2015. “Marijuana Smoking Among Young Institution of Higher Learning Students in Nigeria.” Acta Criminologica  Volume 2015, Issue Special Edition 3, Jan 2015, p. 114 – 130. ISSN: 1012-8093.
  • Jimi O. Adesina. 2014. “Human Security and the Challenge of Inclusive Development: Nigeria at the Crossroads.” Zaria Journal of Sociology 3(1): 1-16. ISSN: 2360-8552.
  • Jimi Adesina. 2013. “Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane: an intellectual appreciation”, South African Review of Sociology 35(3): 83-90. ISSN 2152-8586.
  • Jimi Adesina. 2012. “Social Policy in a Mineral-Rich Economy: the case of Nigeria” in Katja Hujo (ed.) Social Policy in Mineral Rich Economies. London: Palgrave. (Ch. 10,  pp. 285-317).
  • Jimi Adesina. 2012. “Práticas da Sociologia Africana: Lições de endogeneidade a género na academica” [“Doing African Sociology: lessons in endogeneity and gender scholarship”], in T Cruz eSilva, J.P. Borges Coelho & A.N. Souto (eds). Como Fazer Ciências Sociais e Humanas em África: questões epistemológicas, metodológicas, teóricas e políticas. Dakar: CODESRIA Books. (pp.195-209).

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

  • July 2022: Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the South African Sociological Association.
  • Member, Board of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (Geneva, Switzerland) by the UN Commission for Social Development: 2013-2019.
  • Deliver the Keynote Address to the 48th Session of the United Nations Commission for Social Development, UN Headquarters, New York. February 2010.
  • Inaugural Professorial Research Associate of the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden (the only non-Scandinavian among the first six appointed, 2009).
  • President of the South African Sociological Association (2004-2006)
    • Secretary of the South African Sociological Association (2001-2002)
    • Deputy President of the South African Sociological Association (2002-2004)
  • Member of the Executive Committee of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) (2012-2018)
    • Chair of the Programme Sub-Committee of the Executive Committee (2015-2018)
  • Member, Board of Research Committee 19 (Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy) of the International Sociological Association (2010-2018).
  • Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (MASSAf). Elected in 2005.
    • Member of ASSAf Committee on Scholarly Publishing in South Africa (CSPiSA): 2006-2011.
    • Member of the ASSAf Standing Committee on Science for the Reduction of Poverty and Inequality (2015--).
  • 2008 Amnesty International Award for Social Change (Research Section), Rhodes University.
  • 2004: Golden Key Fellow (Rhodes University).

Projects

  • Social Policy Dimensions of Land and Agrarian Reform.
  • The Precarious Non-Poor in Africa.
  • Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Business Model Meets Social Protection.
  • Social Policy in the post-Covid-19 Pandemic Era.

Other

  • Jimi Adesina (ed.). 2021. Reflections on Social Policy in Africa. (Special Issue). CODESRIA Bulletin No. 6, 2021. Dakar: CODESRIA.
  • Jimi Adesina. 2021. “Reflections on Social Policy in the African Context: An Introduction.” CODESRIA Bulletin No. 6, 2021, pp.7-10.
  • Kola Omomowo and Jimi Adesina. 2021. “Excavating communal mutual support praxis in two townships in South Africa: Preliminary notes for Social Policy Learning.” CODESRIA Bulletin No. 6, 2021, pp. 36-39.
  • Jimi Adesina, Andrew Fischer and Nimi Hoffmann. 2021. “Reflections on Aid and Regime Change in Ethiopia: A Response to Cheeseman.” CODESRIA Bulletin No.1 (2021), pp.47-51.
  • Jimi Adesina. 2021. “Why Development and Transformative Social Policy Matter: Lessons of COVID-19 in Africa (A lecture in honour of Thandika Mkandawire).” CODESRIA Bulletin Online No.10, (May 2021), pp. 1-9.
  • Jimi Adesina. 2020. “Foreword.” In Selina Molteno and Robin Cohen. An Expatriate Family in the Nigerian Civil War. Oxford Publishing Services: Oxford, pp. ix-xii. (ISBN: 978 0 9955278 5 0).
  • Jimi Adesina. 2020. “Is the Messenger the Message? Notes on Nicoli Nattrass’ ‘Commentary.” CODESRIA Bulletin Online. No.1, June 2020, pp.1-8.
  • Jimi Adesina. 2020. “Structural Change, Inequality and Inclusive Development: Case of Sub-Saharan Africa.” CODESRIA Bulletin. No.4, July 2020, pp.29-36.
  • Jimi Adesina. 2020. “Thandika Mkandawire: Tribute to a Mentor and Game-Changer.” CODESRIA Bulletin Nos 2 & 3, pp.27-35.
  • Jimi Adesina. 2020. “Academic freedom is sacrosanct. But so is ethical responsibility.” The Conversation-Africa. June 2020. https://theconversation.com/academic-freedom-is-sacrosanct-but-so-is-ethical-responsibility-141616.
  • Jimi Adesina. 2020. “Dismantling and transcending colonialism’s legacy.” AfricaIsACountry October 2020. (https://africasacountry.com/2020/10/the-need-to-dismantle-and-transcend-colonialisms-legacy).