A renewed human rights and pro-democracy activist, Professor Sylvester Odion Akhaine is slated to deliver the 103rd Inaugural Lecture of Lagos State University, Ojo.
A renewed human rights and pro-democracy activist, Professor Sylvester Odion Akhaine is slated to deliver the 103rd Inaugural Lecture of Lagos State University, Ojo.
Titled, “Shifting for good: The weapon of empiricism in the disorder of a third wave of democracy in Africa”, the lecture promises to explore trends in Comparative Politics across the African Continent and the world.
Scheduled to hold by 3pm on Tuesday, 25th February, 2025 at the Buba Marwa Auditorium LASU, Ojo Main Campus, Ojo Lagos, the event expected to be presided over by the institution’s Vice Chancellor, Prof Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, will draw prominent guests from the academia, civil society, media and the political class from different parts of the country.
Akhaine, a leading professor of Political Science with specialization on Comparative Politics, has over 100 published papers in renowned journals, monographs, books and other publications.
A former general secretary of Campaign for Democracy (CD), the arrowhead movement that galvanized civil action to end military rule in the 90s in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, he is also a former public relations officer of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), playing a front role in the anti-Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) campaign in the late 80s. He was also a member of the Marxist League, a radical group at the University of Lagos.
After his graduation with a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Lagos in the early 90s, Akhaine had wanted to immediately enlist for a master’s programme but he took a break to engage actively in the ensuing pro-democracy agitation arising from the Gen Ibrahim Babangida regime’s annulment of the 12 June 1993 presidential election, largely perceived to have been won by frontline business mogul, Bashorun Moshood Abiola.
