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Luqman Muraina

Research

Title of Research:

Towards Decolonising Development Studies: Teaching Informed by Alternative Development Epistemologies in Nigerian Universities  

Brief overview of research topic:

The research problematizes Development Studies (DS) teaching & learning in Nigeria concerning the subject’s Eurocentric foundations and the establishment and development of higher education in Nigeria and Africa on Western/imperial ‘developmental’ frames. The study answers this broad question - ‘How do critical development scholars in the Nigerian academy reflect on alternative development worldviews/epistemologies in teaching and how does it inform DS decolonisation?’. The study’s methodological outlook adopts a critical qualitative research inquiry and collects multiple ethnographic data, such as ethnographic interviews, observations, field notes, and documentary information. The project would contribute to rethinking development teaching in Nigeria and globally and fill a (practical-)knowledge gap concerning DS decolonisation and the employment of alternative epistemologies including African-based perspectives. 

Qualifications

Qualifications:

  • BSc Sociology, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria

  • MSc Sociology, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Publications

Muraina, L., Toshe-Mlambo, Y., Cingo, S (2024). South African Higher Education: Transformation or/and Decolonisation?. SOTL in the South. 

Africa and the “born free generation.” In O. Akanle (Ed.), Youth Exclusion and Empowerment in the Contemporary Global Order: Contexts of Economy, Education and Governance (pp. 55-73), pp. 55–73). Emerald Publishing Limited.

Muraina, L., & Ajímátanraẹjẹ, A. J. (2022, January 21). Gender relations in Indigenous Yoruba culture: Questioning feminism action and advocacy. (Preprint version) 

Aborode A., Olofinsao O., … Muraina, L., et al. (2021). Equal access of COVID-19 vaccine distribution in Africa: Challenges and way forward. Journal of Medical Virology.

Muraina, L.O. & Bawalla, O.G. (2019). Entrepreneurial intention among Nigerian undergraduates: A sociological investigation of South-West Universities. Covenant Journal of Entrepreneurship (CJOE) 3(1): 48 – 67. 

Teaching Experience

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) 2024/25 session - Department of Politics, University of York, UK. 
  • Tutorial assistant 2021-2022, Sociology department, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Conferences

  • Oct 2023 ESSA conference on ‘Knowledge production in and about ‘development’. Presented - Decolonising development studies: Centring Afrocentric and alternative knowledges in Nigerian universities
  • Oct 2022 UCT Teaching & Learning (T&L) conference on ‘Vision 2030 and a Socially Just T&L Environment at UCT’. Presented – The #RhodesMustFall and the calls for decolonization: Institutional changes in UCT. Pre-conference recording
  • April 2023 University of Glasgow, Scotland conference on ‘Decolonising the Curriculum Community of Practice’. Presented – How to Decolonize: Decolonizing Sociology at the University of Cape Town. 

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Luqman is supervised by Sara de Jong and Eleanor Brown

Contact details

Mr Luqman Muraina

@MurainaL