Nationality Nigerian | Citizenship Nigeria | |
Born January 1, 1953 Lagos Known for Historian and Law in Africa Books Of History, Culture and the African Crisis, Legal Education in Nigeria and the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century | ||
Christopher Bankole Ndubisi Ogbogbo (born in Lagos) B.A. (Hons), M.A., LLB, is a lawyer, Professor and Head of Department of History, University of Ibadan, National President, Historical Society of Nigeria, Fellow, Historical Society of Nigeria and Fellow, Society for Peace Studies and Practice is from Delta State in Nigeria.
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Early life
CBN Ogboogbo was born in Lagos, had his teething years in Lagos and Port Harcourt. He Study History at the University of Ibadan and law degrees at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Ogbogbo has lectured African History at Ibadan for the past 28 years. He has taught, researched and supervised over 8 Ph.D. theses in African History and in Peace and Conflict Studies and about 85 Master's degree dissertations. A senior member of the Nigerian Bar Association, he has also practiced law for close to two decades. He has been Public Relations Officer and Treasurer of the NBA Ibadan branch in the early 1990s.
Academic work
Ogbogbo as a scholar, is a widely travelled and has published so many books, he has won several academic laurels and grants. In his kitty is the Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA) grant 2005, MacArthur Foundation grant 2006, the University of Ibadan Senate Research grant 2007, and the Humanities Staff Development Grant 2015. He was a Visiting Scholar to Northwestern University Evanston, and Dartmouth College, (both in the USA), St. Augustine University of Tanzania, Mwanza and the University of Benin in Nigeria. He was appointed a Visiting Professor of African History in Kennesaw State University in Atlanta Georgia in 2014. He has published over 60 works in reputable academic journals and books. He is the current Editor- in- Chief of the Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria and the Editor of Ibadan School of History Monograph Series. Ogbogbo has written copiously on the Niger Delta and the challenges of nation building in Nigeria. He has gone further to introduce the study of Niger Delta studies to the University of Ibadan History curriculum.
He is a consultant to several organizations such as the Federal Ministry of Education and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and a member of several academic bodies prominent amongst which are Ethnic Studies Network, Ireland, American Studies Association, Member, African Studies Association, U.S.A., Historical Society of Nigeria, Nigerian Bar Association and the Society for Peace Studies & Practice. His current passion is to midwife through the instrumentality of the Historical Society of Nigeria, the restoration of the teaching of History back to the school system in Nigeria.