Centre for Security and War Studies
Dr. Solomon Tai Okajare
Consulting Director, Centre for Security and War Studies
Dr. Solomon Tai Okajare is a Reader (Associate Professor) of History and Consulting Director of the Centre for Security and War Studies, University of Fortune, Igbotako, Nigeria. He holds a Ph.D. in History from Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, and is affiliated with the Department of History, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, where he previously served as Acting Head of Department (August 2020 – July 2022). He is a distinguished scholar in African diplomatic, socio-cultural and contemporary military history, with a research trajectory that sits at the intersection of intergroup relations, diplomacy, history of international relations, identity studies, contemporary military history, security, peacebuilding and conflict management within the Nigerian and African contexts. His publications appear in reputable local, national and international journals, as authored books, book chapters and a monograph, and he continues to lead multi-disciplinary collaborative studies with colleagues and mentees. For over two decades, Dr. Okajare has taught African and European histories, historiography, philosophy and methods of history, international relations, Nigerian peoples and cultures, and peace, security and conflict resolution at undergraduate and postgraduate levels across several Nigerian universities, as well as history of science and technology at an undergraduate level in Canada. He has supervised numerous undergraduate projects and postgraduate theses, served as internal and external examiner at Obafemi Awolowo University, the University of Ibadan, and the University of Buckingham (UK), and currently supervises a doctoral candidate in Modern War Studies at the University of Buckingham on contract. He has held administrative roles at Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko and Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and has participated in numerous local and international conferences, symposia, workshops and roundtables. Beyond academia, Dr. Okajare has served as Supervisor for Education and Community Development at the local government level and in ad hoc capacities with the National Population Commission, Independent National Electoral Commission and National Commission for Nomadic Education. He also runs a registered consultancy focused on historical research, biography writing and public policy analysis.
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