JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
- Durodola, T. (TBP 2025) Waithood and Creativity in the Absence of Resettlement: Evidence from “Residual” Liberian Refugees in Nigeria. Special Issue “Refugee Resettlement as an Institution” in Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
- Durodola, T. (2023) Where is Home without Legal Status? Understanding the Choice to Stay Among Post- Cessation Liberians in Nigeria. Refugee Survey Quarterly 42(4): 429–452.
- Durodola, T. (2021) Ethnographic Reflection on Exilic Narratives Outside Closed Camps: The Case of Residual Liberian Refugees in Nigeria. Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, United Kingdom: Oxford. Vol 10, No 1 Pp 78-93.
- Durodola, T. (2021) Deconstructing Exilic Narratives of Tibetan Refugee Community in India and Residual Liberian Refugees in Nigeria. African Currents, the Journal of the Center for African Studies, University of Mumbai. Vol. 39, No 2 Pp 41-58. ISSN: 2394-4358
BOOK CHAPTERS
- Durodola, T. ‘Transcending the Space of Marginality’:The Audacious Search for Power and The Transformative Agency of Liberian Residuals in Oru, Southwestern Nigeria. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-87624-1_149-1
INTERNAL REVIEWED ARTICLES
- Durodola, Tosin. The Fragility and Resilience of Liberian and Sierra Leonean Refugees amid COVID-19 in Southwestern Nigeria, Coronavirus and Mobility Forum, University of Oxford's Centre of Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), United Kingdom. (August 4, 2020)
- Durodola, Tosin. 'Swimming Against the Tide': The Fragility and Resilience of Residual Liberian and Sierra Leonean Refugees to COVID-19 Disruption in Oru, Southwestern Nigeria, Epidemics, labour and mobility, Issue 10, Routed Magazine. (June 20, 2020)
- Durodola, Tosin. 'Making Bricks Without Straws':The Transformative Agency of Liberian Residuals and The Making of a Liberian Settlement in Oru, Southwestern Nigeria. Oxford Migration Studies Society Conference on ‘Reimagining Migrant Narratives,’ Routed Magazine. (May 29, 2020)
- Durodola, Tosin. Shifting Borderlines without Solution in Sight: A reflection on the location of Residual Liberian Refugees within a Space of Marginality in Nigeria, Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). (Sept 3, 2021)
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2023 Out of the Shadows: The Politics of Precarity, Agency and Power amongst Post-Refugee Liberians in Nigeria. Presentation at the Panel: Reconstructing migration governance theory in the Global South: from hegemonic ideals to empirical realities. 20th IMISCOE Annual Conference, at the University of Warsaw. 3-6th July 2023.
2022 Contestation of Space and Power Struggle of Residual Liberian Refugees amidst Exclusion and Pandemic in Nigeria. Presented at the 4th Conference of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies, convened at TU Chemnitz by the Chair of Human Geography with a focus on European Migration Research, led by Professor Dr Birgit Glorius, and was organized in cooperation with the German Network for Forced Migration Studies and the project ‘Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer’ (FFVT), sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. 28-30th September 2022.
2021 Unpacking the Actual Exilic Process: Narratives of the Journey to Exile and Remaking of a Liberian Residuals Settlement in Oru, Southwestern Nigeria. Presented at the 11th Annual African, African American, and Diaspora Studies (AAAD) Interdisciplinary Conference, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, 17-20th February 2021.
2021 From the Margin to the Centre: The Audacity of Liberian Residuals to Enact Sociocultural and Economic Agency in Oru, Southwestern Nigeria.†Presented at the 20th Nordic Migration Research conference & 17th Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration (ETMU) Conference, University of Helsinki, Finland, 11-14th January 2021.
2020 Mobility in the Space of Marginality: The Transformation of Liberian Residuals to a Position of Influence in the Socio-political and Economic Settings of Oru, Southwestern Nigeria. Presented at the Borders, Categories, and Mobilities: 1 Day Virtual Symposium organised by La Trobe University Higher Degree Research (HDR) Migration Reading Group and Funded by the La Trobe University Research Education and Development (RED) Intellectual Climate Fund, Australia. 27th November 2020.
2020 Making Bricks Without Straws: The Transformative Agency of Liberian Residuals and The Making of a Liberian Settlement in Oru, Southwestern Nigeria. Presented at the Oxford Migration Studies Society Conference on Reimagining Migrant Narratives [Online], Oxford, United Kingdom, June 2, 2020.
2016 Delegate, The Domestic Environment & Nigeria's Influence in Global Affairs. Nigerian Society of International Affairs. The Conference Centre, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. April 11-12, 2016.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
2020 "The Salient Issues in the Distinction between the Old and New African Diaspora"/ afribary.com.
2017 1945: The Beginning Of Modern African Political Thought? Tuck Magazine. (March 23, 2017)
2017 Time to review Nigeria's foreign policy The Nation Newspaper, Published March 2017.
2016 "Early African Historians' Writings before 1945: Precursors of Modern African Historiography", Academia.edu. (July 25, 2016)
2016 Terrorism: A New Dimension of War, Academia.edu. (June 30, 2016)
2016 The Ethnic Setting in the Nigeria Area Before 1800, Academia.edu. (May 24, 2016)
2016 Nigeria's Leadership roles in Africa, Tuck Magazine. (April 7, 2016)
2016 Neo-Colonialism: A Major obstacle to the process of nation-building in Africa, Academia.edu. (February 18, 2016)
POLICY BRIEF
- Durodola, T. (2023). Forecasting The Future Of Democracy, Conflict, And Displacement In Africa: An Analysis of 2023. Reformers' Initiative for Development in Africa, Nigeria: Ibadan.