President

Saheed Aderinto is Professor of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at Florida International University. He is the author of Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria (Ohio University Press/New African Histories Series, 2022), Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria: Firearms, Culture, and Public Order (Indiana University Press, January 2018), and When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 (University of Illinois Press, 2015), which won the 2016 Nigerian Studies Association's Book Award Prize for the “most important scholarly book/work on Nigeria published in English language."

Aderinto has edited and co-edited a number of books, and his work has appeared in leading Africanist and specialist journals including, the Canadian Journal of African Studies; Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History; Journal of the History of Sexuality; Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History; History in Africa: A Journal of Method; Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies; Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute; the Journal of Social History; and the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, among others.

Currently, Aderinto is writing a book and making a documentary about the history of Fuji, an African music and popular culture.

Personal Website: saheedaderinto.com

Vice President

Akeem Ayofe Akinwale is Professor and former Head of Department of Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, and former Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration, University of Lagos. He earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology from Lagos State University and doctorate from the University of Ibadan. Between 2002 and 2012, he held full-time and visiting teaching positions at the University of Ibadan, Covenant University, Landmark University, Bowen University, Lagos State University, and Olabisi Onabanjo University—all in Nigeria. He has attended notable conferences and workshops in Africa, Europe, South America, and North America. Akinwale is a peer reviewer and member of the editorial board of several journals, and editor of the Unilag Journal of Employment Relations.

He has published journal articles in the fields of Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management, and Development Studies. Akinwale is also the Nigeria consultant for a research consortium comprising Wageningen University of Research (WUR), International Fertilizer Development Centre (IFDC), International Centre for Development-Oriented Research in Agriculture (ICRA), Base of the Pyramid Innovation Centre (BoP), and Association of African Business Schools (AABS).

In addition, Akinwale is a fellow of the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC) based in Paris, France. He is a Laureate of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Senior Research Fellow of the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA), an Officer of the Nigerian Young Academy, a member of the International Sociological Association (ISA), and Acting Secretary of the Nigerian Industrial and Employment Relations Association.

Secretary

Yetunde Abosede Zaid is Professor and University Librarian at the University of Lagos Library, Nigeria. She was a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the James S. Coleman Africa Studies Center, University of California-Los Angeles (2016/2017). Zaid earned her bachelor’s degree from Olabisi Onabanjo University and doctorate in library science from the University of Ibadan. Her research interests include information resource management, information service delivery, and gender studies. She is at work on a research project aimed at developing an inclusive tertiary educational and library services delivery policy to visually impaired students in Lagos and Nigeria as a whole. Zaid has over 14 years of professional practice of managing information services to both students and faculty at the University of Lagos. Her works have appeared in leading journals of library and information studies. Zaid is also a member of the Nigerian Library Association, American Library Association, African Librarians Council, and African Studies Association Women’s Caucus.

Treasurer

Susan Rosenfeld holds a PhD in African History from the University of California-Los Angeles, where she currently teaches. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the on-the-ground interactions between Afro-Brazilian retornados and the local Yoruba community in Lagos, Nigeria. It examines how these interactions altered the landscape of Lagos as an urban hub on the Atlantic circuit.