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Two Nigerian Professors Selected for British Academy’s Global Award
Cursory:Professors Olutayo Adesina and Abubakar Sani have been awarded the prestigious 2023 British Academy Global Professorship along with six other scholars. They will conduct research on topics like climate challenges and West African history, receiving £900,000 over four years for their projects.
Two esteemed academics, Olutayo Adesina, a professor of history at the University of Ibadan, and Abubakar Sani, a former head of department at the archaeology and heritage studies at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), have been honored with the prestigious 2023 British Academy Global Professorship.
Adesina and Sani are part of a select group of eight professors chosen for this esteemed position. Their research will cover a wide range of topics, including developing food system models to address climate challenges and delving into the history of West African communities through museum collections.
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Joining Adesina and Sani are scholars Tetyana Antsupova, Paul Behrens, Sandrine Berges, Karine Chemla, Saloumeh Gholami, and Ayelet Landau.
The British Academy Global Professorship is a significant investigator-led award aimed at attracting internationally recognized scholars to work in the United Kingdom. These scholars will undertake cutting-edge research projects in various but relevant areas of interest.
Professor Adesina, also serving as the president of the Society of Nigerian Archivists, has outlined his research focus for the prestigious British Academy Global Professorship.
He intends to delve into the interplay of nationalist historiography, academic social science, and vernacular knowledge as mutually constitutive social epistemologies.
Additionally, he plans to investigate the influence of indigenous, vernacular epistemologies on the work of academic historians and social scientists at the University of Ibadan.
On the other hand, Professor Sani, a deputy director at the ABU Zaria Institute for Development Research and Training, has set his sights on a project combining archaeology, museum practice, and stakeholder engagement.
His aim is to study large and under-researched collections from key Nigerian sites, promising significant insights into the country’s rich history and cultural heritage.
The professor, expressing his aspirations, mentioned that the research would utilize archaeological, ethnographic, and archival data from museums in Britain and Nigeria.
He hopes this approach will lead to “new understandings of African history, and of UK/Nigerian research histories, through academic outputs, online resources, exhibitions and outreach in the UK and Nigeria.” The British Academy disclosed that the awards will span four years, with each recipient receiving £900,000 to carry out their projects.
