Christopher Bankole Ndubisi Ogbogbo,
B.A. (Hons), M.A., LLB, LLM, Ph.D., B.L., Professor of History, University of
Ibadan; Lawyer, Past National President, Historical Society of Nigeria;
Vice-President, Association of African Historians; Fellow, Historical Society
of Nigeria and Fellow, Society for Peace Studies & Practice and Fellow
Ibadan School of Government and Public Policy. He is also a senior member of
the Nigerian Bar Association. He read his History degrees at the University of
Ibadan, Law degrees at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and Nigerian Law
School, Abuja. Ogbogbo has lectured and researched African History for the past
31 years. He has successfully supervised eleven doctoral theses and about 75
Master Degree dissertations. As a scholar, Ogbogbo is widely travelled and
published. He has won several academic laurels and grants. In his kitty is the
Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA) grant 2005, MacArthur Foundation grant
2006, the University of Ibadan Senate Research grant 2007, and the Humanities
Staff Development Grant 2015. He was a Visiting Scholar to Northwestern
University Evanston, and Dartmouth College, (both in the USA), St. Augustine
University of Tanzania in Mwanza and the University of Benin in Nigeria. He was
appointed a Visiting Professor of African History in Kennesaw State University
in Atlanta Georgia in 2014. Currently, he is the Director of Research at the
Nigerian Army Resource Centre, Abuja. He has published over 60 works in
reputable academic journals and books. He is the current Editor of the Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria.
Ogbogbo has written copiously on the Niger Delta and the challenges of nation
building in Nigeria.
Professor Ogbogbo is a Consultant to several
organizations such as the Federal Ministry of Education and United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) and a member of several academic bodies prominent
amongst which are Ethnic Studies Network, Ireland; American Studies Association;
Member, African Studies Association, U.S.A.; Historical Society of Nigeria;
Nigerian Bar Association and the Society for Peace Studies & Practice. His
current passion is to instill a sense of History in Nigerian citizens through
the restoration of the teaching of History back to the school system in Nigeria.
He is married with children.
