Professor Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba

	Name	Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba
	Highest qualification	PhD (University of Lagos, Nigeria)
	Position	Extraordinary Professor
	Contact details	samuelojooloruntoba@cunet.carleton.ca
	Research interests/expertise	African political economy, regional integration, Indigenous knowledge, democracy and development, natural resources governance.
	Current projects	Indigenous knowledge and sustainable livelihood in Africa, Democracy and development.

Short biography

Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba is Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator of the intercontinental research project on Indigenous Knowledge and  Entrepreneurship  in Africa. He is also the founder and International Coordinator of Africa Indigenous Knowledge Research Network, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He was previously an Associate Professor at the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute (now Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs), University of South Africa. 

He obtained PhD in Political Science from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, where he was a  confirmed faculty member. He has taught aspects of political thoughts, political economy of development in Africa, global economic relations, migration and Africa’s diaspora and regional dynamics (with focus on Africa), in various universities including, Carleton University, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, University of South Africa, and University of Lagos.  

He was previously a Visiting Scholar at the Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston and fellow of Brown International Advanced Research Institute, Brown University, Rhode Island, United States of America. Oloruntoba is the author, editor and co-editor of several books including Regionalism and Integration in Africa: EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements and Euro-Nigeria Relations, Palgrave, 2016, Indigenous knowledge and youth entrepreneurship in Africa: Recentering the voices of marginalized communities, co-edited with Inocent Moyo and Lethiwe Zondo, Bloomsbury 2025,  among others.

His research interests are in politics of knowledge production, indigenous knowledge systems, political economy of development in Africa, global economic relations, regional Integration, migration, democracy and development, global governance of trade and finance, politics of natural resources governance, and EU-African Relations. Oloruntoba has won several awards and secured grants from local and international research institutions, as well as private foundations. He is also a member of the Africa Knowledge Network, Office of Special Adviser on Africa UN Under Secretary-General, United Nations, New York. His forthcoming co-authored book is on Indigenous knowledge systems and sustainable livelihood in Africa.

Selected publications

• Oloruntoba, S, Moyo, I, Zondo, L (eds) (2025) Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: Recentering the voices of marginalized communities, New York: Bloomsbury
• Tshimpaka, L and Oloruntoba, S (eds.) (2024) Africa-EU relations and the African Continental Free Trade Area: Redefining the Dynamics of Power and Economic Partnership in a Complex Global Order, Cham: Palgrave
• Oloruntoba, S. Nshimbi, C and Tshimpaka, L (eds.) (2023) Africa-EU Relations and the African Continental Free Trade Area, London and New York: Routledge
• Oloruntoba, S. (2022) (Ed.). The Political Economy of Colonialism and Nation-Building in Nigeria. Cham: Springer
• Oloruntoba, S. & Falola, T. (2022) (Eds.) Palgrave Handbook of Africa and the Changing Global Order. New York: Palgrave
• Oloruntoba, S. Afolayan, A. Yacob-Olajumoke, O (2021) (Eds.)  Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa. Cham: Springer
• Oloruntoba, S & Falola, T (2020). (Eds). Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
• Oloruntoba, S (2020). (Ed.) Pan Africanism, Regional Integration and Development in Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
• Oloruntoba, S, Afolayan, A & Yacob-Haliso, O (2020).  (Eds.)  Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Development in Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan