Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba
Principal Investigator
Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba is Assistant Professor, Principal Investigator of the intercontinental research project on Indigenous Knowledge and Entrepreneurship in Africa and founder of the Africa Indigenous Knowledge Research Network, at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University. He is also an Extraordinary Professor at the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs, University of South Africa, where he was previously an Associate Professor.
He obtained PhD in Political Science from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He has taught various 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), at various universities including, Carleton University, 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 and co-editor with Innocent Moyo and Lethiwe Zondo of Indigenous Knowledge and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: Recentring the voices of marginalized communities, New York, 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.
He is also a member of the Africa Knowledge Network, Office of Special Adviser on Africa UN Under Secretary-General, United Nations, New York
Extraordinary Professor, Thabo Mbeki School of Public and International Affairs, University of South Africa
Editor-in Chief: Ruta: The Journal of Africa Indigenous Knowledge Research