2024 LSA Best Graduate Student Paper Presented at LSA 2023.

Ayodeji Ibiyemi (Marquette University)

Paper Presented: “Animism in Postcolonial Poetry: Harry Garuba’s Animist Chants and Memorials”

  • 2023 LSA Best Graduate Student Paper Presented at LSA 2022. Olatunde Olaniyi Winner (Nigerian Army College of Education). Paper Presented: “Neighbourhood Security, Porous Borders and the Challenge of Nigeria’s National Security.”

  • 2021 LSA Best Graduate Student Paper Presented at LSA Conference Ayomide Adebayo Winner (University of Ibadan). Paper Presented: “From Iya Ijebu Shop to Igbo Market: Ethnicity and the Transformation of Mushin Leather Market in Lagos.”

  • 2019 LSA Best Graduate Student Paper Presented at LSA Conference Helen Ufuoma Ugah (Obafemi Awolowo University) Co-Winner. Paper Presented: “Stance and Evaluation in the Inaugural Speeches of Lagos State Governors."

  • 2019 LSA Best Graduate Student Paper Presented at LSA Conference Olubukola Aina Olunloyo (Yaba College of Technology) Co-Winner. Paper Presented “The Ikorodu-Mile 12 Road Upgrade and Displaced Women.”

  • 2018 LSA Best Graduate Student Paper Presented at LSA Conference Sara Katz (University of Michigan). Co-Winner. Paper Presented: "Translating Islam in the Lagosian Anglophone and Vernacular Press, 1920s-40s."

  • 2018 LSA Best Graduate Student Paper Presented at LSA Conference Damilola Fagite (Obafemi Awolowo University). Co-Winner. Paper Presented: "The Rockefeller Brothers Fund in Nigeria and the Establishment of Modern Pharmaceutical Industry in Lagos, 1957-1967."