Dr Michael Odijie

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Associate Professor of African Studies and African History

michael.odijie@sant.ox.ac.uk

Dr. Michael Ehis Odijie is an Associate Professor of African Studies and African History, holding a joint appointment between the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies and the Faculty of History. He is Nigerian, and his research focuses on a range of historical and contemporary themes in West Africa, including local networks against slavery and labour exploitation, the cocoa value chain, EU-Africa relations, and the politics of development.

His work has been published in leading academic journals, including The Journal of African History, Slavery and Abolition, Esclavages & Post-esclavages, Law and History Review, African Affairs, The Review of International Political Economy, Third World Quarterly, Competition & Change, Oxford Development Studies, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. He also writes for a popular audience, primarily through The Conversation.