Lagos @50: Colonial Nigeria 1861-1960

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Professor Osarhieme Benson Osadolor, PhD, is Professor in the Department of History and International Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria. He taught African History with specialisation in historiography and historical research methods, military and security studies at the University of Benin.

He began his career as a University Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Ibadan, Ibadan (1988-1996).

He has published in scholarly books, monographs and journals in Africa, the United States and Europe in the area of his research interests, with a related interest in the study of the Benin Empire.

Professor Osadolor has won several laurels, prizes and grants and has distinguished himself as a scholar of international repute with academic distinctions and honours.

He was a Fulbright Scholar at Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, for the 2008/2009 academic session with engagement in the African Seminar at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

He won two awards from the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Washington DC, USA, as an Occasional Lecturer to Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan and San Diego State University, San Diego, California, for the Spring Semester 2009.

He was the African Academic Consultant to the Art History Museum, Vienna, Austria, on the Benin Exhibition (Benin Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria), held at the Museum for Voekerkunde, Vienna, Austria and subsequently in Paris, France, 2007; Berlin, German,y 2008, and at the Arts Institute of Chicago, U, SA 2008.

He was the German Academic Exchange Scholar at the University of Hamburg, Germany (1995) and a Laureate of the Governance Institute (1994) of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) based in Dakar, Senegal.

He won the UNESCO Africa grant for participation in the Pan African Colloquium on Educational Innovation in Post-colonial Africa at the University of Cape Town, South Africa (1994) and several other grants for projects and conferences in Europe and Africa.

He delivered the 2011 Foundation Day Lecture of Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State, Nigeria (the first private university in the country).

He is a member of the Senate of the University of Benin, and served as Head, Department of History and International Studies from 1st July 2010 to 30th June 2013. He is currently serving in many University committees and boards, and at present, the Chairman of the Ceremonial Committee of the University.

He served as a resource person during the 2014 National Conference in Abuja and was a member of the Committee on the Final Report of the 2014 National Conference in Abuja.

He is a member of the Historical Society of Nigeria, the African Studies Association in Germany and the United States, and the Canadian Association of African Studies.

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