Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba

Assistant Professor and founder of Africa Indigenous Knowledge Research Network, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University

Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba is an Assistant Professor and founder of the Africa Indigenous Knowledge Research Network at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is also an Extraordinary Professor at the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs, University of South Africa, where he previously served as an Associate Professor.

He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, as well as a Fellow of the Brown International Advanced Research Institute at Brown University in the United States.

Oloruntoba is the author, editor, and co-editor of several books, including Indigenous Knowledge and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: Recentering the Voices of Marginalized Communities (Bloomsbury, 2025), among others. His research interests include the politics of knowledge production, indigenous knowledge systems, the political economy of development, migration, democracy and development, global governance of trade and finance, natural resource governance, and EU–Africa relations.