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Osita Agbu


Osita Agbu Ph.D, is Professor at the Research and Studies Department of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos. He has a Masters degree in International Relations, and a Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He has held Visiting Research Fellowship positions at the Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden; Institute of Global Dialogue, Johannesburg, South Africa; and the Institute of Developing Economies, Chiba, Japan amongst others. Agbu is multidisciplinary in his approach and has several publications to his name. His areas of specialization include Society, Technology and Development; Governance and Democratization; Post – Conflict Studies; Nigeria China/Japan Relations and Nigeria’s Foreign Policy. His latest books include: Nigeria in the Global Arena: Past, Present and Future, co-edited (2011); West Africa’s Trouble Spots and the Imperative for Peace-Building, published by CODESRIA (2006); The Iron and Steel Industry and Nigeria’s Industrialization: Exploring Cooperation with Japan, published by the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO) (2007); and Ethnic Militias and the Threat to Democracy in Post-Transition Nigeria, published by the Nordic Africa Institute (2004). Dr. Agbu has a vision of seeing African countries, and the South better organized and technologically developed.

Contact:  ossele2004@yahoo.com

 

 

 

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