Ayodeji Olukoju

Olukoju earned a bachelor's degree (with a First Class Honours) from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in June 1980, and master's and doctorate degrees in history from the University of Ibadan in 1982 and 1991 respectively. From 1984 to 1987, Olukoju lectured at Ogun State University (now Olabisi Onabanjo University). In September 1987, he joined the University of Lagos' department of history and strategic studies. In 1998, Olukoju was appointed a substantive professor of history, and a university distinguished professor twenty years later. He served as the head of the history department from 2001 to 2004, and then as the dean of the faculty of arts from 2005 to 2009. He was a DAAD Guest Professor of Economic History at University of Bayreuth, Germany from May to August 2022.

At different times in his career, Olukoju has held postdoctoral visiting research fellowships of the Japan Foundation, the British Academy, DAAD, Institute of Developing Economies, as well as of the Henry Charles Chapman Foundation and the A. G. Leventis Foundation at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London. He also earned a West African Research Association (WARA) residency at Emory University, Atlanta. Olukoju was University of Lagos best researcher in the arts/humanities in 2006 and 2009.{{Cite web |title=Ayodeji Olukoju |url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/ayodeji-olukoju-1018937 |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=The Conversation |date=3 April 2020 |language=en}}

Olukoju is currently a member of the editorial advisory board of Journal of Global History.{{Cite web |title=Editorial Board {{!}} Journal of Global History |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-global-history/information/about-this-journal/editorial-board |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=Cambridge Core |language=en}} At various time between 1998 and 2015, he has served on the editorial advisory boards of Journal of African History, African Economic History, Afrika Zamani: Journal of the Association of African Historians, and History in Africa. In 2008, he was elected as the first African on the executive committee of the International Maritime History Association.

Olukoju was inducted Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters in 2011. He is the incumbent pro-chancellor and chairman, governing council of Chrisland University.{{Cite web |last=Atueyi |first=Ujunwa |date=2020-02-20 |title=JAMB and the quest to end admission fraud in varsities |url=https://guardian.ng/features/jamb-and-the-quest-to-end-admission-fraud-in-varsities/ |access-date=2022-08-06 |website=The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News |language=en-US}}

Olukoju is the sole author of five scholarly monographs. They are:

• {{Cite book |last=Olukoju |first=Ayodeji |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/503299318 |title=The Fourteenth Commissar of Works: The Life and Labour of Rauf Aregbesola |date=2007 |publisher=Bluesign |isbn=978-978-34175-1-9 |oclc=503299318}}
• {{Cite book |last=Olukoju |first=Ayodeji |title=Culture and Customs of Liberia |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=2006 |isbn=9780313038457 |location=Westport, CT}}
• {{Cite book |first=Ayodeji |last=Olukoju |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/694905194 |title=The "Liverpool" of West Africa : the dynamics and impact of maritime trade in Lagos, 1900-1950 |date=2004 |publisher=Africa World Press |isbn=1-59221-291-3 |oclc=694905194}}
• Infrastructure Development and Urban Facilities in Lagos, 1861-2000 (Ibadan: IFRA-Nigeria, 2003){{Citation |last=Olukoju |first=Ayodeji |title=Infrastructure Development and Urban Facilities in Lagos, 1861-2000 |date=2003 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/books.ifra.827 |publisher=IFRA-Nigeria |doi=10.4000/books.ifra.827 |access-date=2022-08-07}} and
• {{Cite book |last=Olukoju |first=Ayodeji |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/43160623 |title=Maritime Trade, Port Development, and Administration: The Japanese experience and Lessons for Nigeria |date=1996 |publisher=Institute of Developing Economies |oclc=43160623}}

Olukoju has also edited, singly or jointly with others, six volumes, which include:

• Nigerian Peoples and Cultures (1997)Akinjide, O., & Olukoju, A. (2005). Nigerian Peoples and Cultures. Lagos: University of Lagos.
• Fundamentals of Economic History (2003)Olukoju, A., Lawal, A. A., & Faluyi, E. K. (eds.). (2003). Fundamentals of Economic History. Lagos: First Academic Publishers.
• Northeast Yorubaland: Studies in the History and Culture of a Frontier Zone (2003)Olukoju, A., Apata, Z. O., & Akinwumi, O. (Eds.). (2003). Northeast Yorubaland: Studies in the History and Culture of a Frontier Zone. Rex Charles Publication.
• Global Understanding in the Age of Terrorism (2008)Olukoju, A., & Falaiye, M. (Eds.). (2008). Global Understanding in the Age of Terrorism. Lagos: University of Lagos Press.
• Security Challenges and Management in Modern Nigeria (2018)Olukoju, A., Adesina, O., Adesoji, A. & Amusa, S. (2019, eds.). Security Challenges and Management in Modern Nigeria. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. and
• {{Cite book |date=2020 |editor-last=Olukoju |editor-first=Ayodeji |editor2-last=Castillo Hidalgo |editor2-first=Daniel |title=African Seaports and Maritime Economics in Historical Perspective |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41399-6 |series=Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics |location=Cham |publisher=Springer |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-41399-6 |isbn=978-3-030-41398-9 |s2cid=229265200 |issn=2662-6551}}

He has also authored numerous scholarly publications in peer-reviewed academic journals such as African Affairs, African Studies Review, African Economic History, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Journal of Global History, Journal of Third World Studies, Journal of Transport History, International Journal of Maritime History, International Review of Social History, The Journal of African History, International Journal of African Historical Studies, Afrika Zamani, among others.{{Cite journal |last=Olukoju |first=A. |date=2004-01-01 |title='Never Expect Power Always': Electricity consumers' response to monopoly, corruption and inefficient services in Nigeria |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adh004 |journal=African Affairs |volume=103 |issue=410 |pages=51–71 |doi=10.1093/afraf/adh004 |issn=0001-9909}}{{Cite journal |last=Olukoju |first=Ayodeji |date=1992 |title=Elder Dempster and the Shipping Trade of Nigeria during the First World War |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700032230 |journal=The Journal of African History |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=255–271 |doi=10.1017/s0021853700032230 |s2cid=162917972 |issn=0021-8537}}{{Cite journal |last=Olukoju |first=Ayodeji |date=1992 |title=Maritime Trade in Lagos in the Aftermath of the First World War |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3601633 |journal=African Economic History |issue=20 |pages=119–135 |doi=10.2307/3601633 |jstor=3601633 |issn=0145-2258}}{{Cite journal |last=Olukoju |first=Ayodeji |date=2009 |title=The United Kingdom and the political economy of the global oils and fats business during the 1930s |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1740022809002976 |journal=Journal of Global History |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=105–125 |doi=10.1017/s1740022809002976 |s2cid=154714568 |issn=1740-0228}}{{Cite journal |last=Olukoju |first=Ayodeji |date=1995 |title=Anatomy of Business-Government Relations: Fiscal Policy and Mercantile Pressure Group Activity in Nigeria, 1916-1933 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/525472 |journal=African Studies Review |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=23–50 |doi=10.2307/525472 |jstor=525472 |s2cid=145556484 |issn=0002-0206}}{{Cite journal |last=Olukoju |first=Ayodeji |date=1996 |title=Race and access to liquor: Prohibition as colonial policy in Northern Nigeria, 1919–45 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03086539608582977 |journal=The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=218–243 |doi=10.1080/03086539608582977 |issn=0308-6534}}{{Cite journal |last=Olukoju |first=Ayodeji |date=2002 |title="Nigeria or Lever-ia?": Nationalist Reactions to Economic Depression and the "Menace of Mergers" in Colonial Nigeria |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45194016 |journal=Journal of Third World Studies |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=173–194 |jstor=45194016 |issn=8755-3449}}{{Cite journal |last=Olukoju |first=Ayodeji |date=2020 |title=African seaports and development in historical perspective |journal=International Journal of Maritime History |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=185–200 |doi=10.1177/0843871419886806 |s2cid=216226717 |issn=0843-8714|doi-access=free }}{{Cite journal |last=Olukoju |first=Ayodeji |date=2000 |title=Self-Help Criminality as Resistance?: Currency Counterfeiting in Colonial Nigeria |journal=International Review of Social History |volume=45 |issue=3 |pages=385–407 |doi=10.1017/s0020859000000225 |s2cid=146131595 |issn=0020-8590|doi-access=free }}{{Cite journal |last=Olukoju |first=Ayodeji |date=1992 |title=Background to the Establishment of the Nigerian Ports Authority: The Politics of Port Administration in Nigeria, c. 1920–1954 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/084387149200400208 |journal=International Journal of Maritime History |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=155–173 |doi=10.1177/084387149200400208 |s2cid=155614586 |issn=0843-8714}}{{Cite journal |last=Olukoju |first=Ayodeji |date=1992 |title=The Development of the Port of Lagos, c. 1892–1946 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002252669201300105 |journal=The Journal of Transport History |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=59–78 |doi=10.1177/002252669201300105 |s2cid=168506129 |issn=0022-5266}}{{Cite journal |last=Olukoju |first=Ayodeji |date=1997 |title=Nigeria's Colonial Government, Commercial Banks and the Currency Crisis of 1916-1920 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/221229 |journal=The International Journal of African Historical Studies |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=277–298 |doi=10.2307/221229 |jstor=221229 |issn=0361-7882}}{{Citation |last=Olukoju |first=Ayodeji |title=Desertion, Dereliction and Destitution |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt21kk324.11 |work=Navigating African Maritime History |pages=139–162 |publisher=Liverpool University Press |doi=10.2307/j.ctt21kk324.11 |access-date=2022-08-07}}

Olukoju also contributes opinion essays about current socio-political issues in Nigeria, especially with regards to education and the university system, in different publishing medium such as The Conversation, among others.

In 2013, in celebration of Olukoju's scholarship, Saheed Aderinto and Paul Osifodunrin published an edited festschrift titled The Third Wave of Historical Scholarship on Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Ayodeji Olukoju.{{cn|date=August 2022}}{{Cite book |title=The Third Wave of Historical Scholarship on Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Ayodeji Olukoju |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-4438-3994-5 |editor-last=Aderinto |editor-first=Saheed |editor-last2=Osifodunrin |editor-first2=Paul}}

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