Journal articles:
2022 (with Moshood, S). Campaign promises, leadership performance and leadership consolidation in Kwara State, 1999-2015: A Federation unit in Nigeria. Humanus Discourse, 2(2):1-20.
2022 (with Tafeni, Z). Assessing the effectiveness of effectiveness and efficiency of the provincial MUNIMEC forum IGR structures in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa. Journal of Local Government Research & Innovation, 46(40).
2021. Re-examining the nexus between race and higher education in post-colonial and post-apartheid African contexts. Alternation, 37: 37-61.
2021. (with Ayub, C. and Ehiane, S.). The Nigerian conflict narrative and its impact for sub-regional security order, 1999-2019. African Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies, 10(3): 7-26.
2020. The politics of the coronavirus and its impact on International Relations. African Journal of Political Science and International Relations (AJPSIR), 14(3): 116-125.
2020. Impediments to an active African intelligentsia in championing the Africanisation Agenda. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies, 15(1): 90-104.
2019. Assessing the suitability of the Proportional Representation electoral system for Southern Africa. Journal of African Foreign Affairs, 6(2) (August): 157-171.
2019 (with Dube, M.). Lost in translation: A critical analysis of xenophobia in Africa. Journal of African Union Studies, 8(2):67-81.
2019. Revisiting the notion of ‘African solutions to African problems’: Successes and challenges. Journal of African Union Studies, 8(2): 9-23.
2019. Power dynamics in International Relations (IR) thinking and practice: An African perspective. Journal of African Foreign Affairs, 6(1) (April): 181-193.
Book chapters:
2023. ‘Reclaiming the identity of an African university in the context of globalisation: Progress and entrenched challenges’. In Ndofirepi, A.P. et al. (eds.) Decolonising African university knowledges. Vol. 2. Changing the neoliberal mantra. London/New York: Routledge.
2021. ‘A coalitions-focused analysis of KwaZulu-Natal municipalities following the 2021 Local Government Elections’. In Booysen, S. (ed.) When wedding bells ring: Coalitions without concord. Johannesburg: MISTRA.
2020. The challenges of transforming South Africa’s historically black universities. In Tella, O. and Motala, S. (eds.) From ivory towers to ebony towers: Transforming humanities curricula in South Africa, Africa and African-American studies. South Africa: Jacana.
2020. ‘The rural graduate and endemic challenges: Responses by African universities’. In Masinire, A. and Ndofirepi, A.P. (eds.) Rurality, social justice and education in Sub-Saharan Africa. Vol. II. Theory and practice in higher education. London: Palgrave & MacMillan.
2020 (with Mngomezulu, B.T.Y.). ‘The link between education and social upward mobility: Some theoretical perspectives on rurality’. In Masinire, S. and Ndofirepi, A.P. (eds.) Rurality, social justice and education in Sub-Saharan Africa. Vol. I. Theory and practice in schools. London: Palgrave & MacMillan.
2017. ‘Revisiting the politics of higher education in African universities in the 21st century’. In Gwaravanda, E.I. and Ndofirepi, A.P. (eds.) African higher education in the 21st century: Epistemological, ontological and ethical perspectives. Switzerland: Sense Publishers.
2017. ‘Internationalisation, regionalisation and Africanisation: A critical gaze’. In Knight, J. and Woldgiorgis, E.T. (eds.) Regionalisation of African higher education: progress and prospects. Rotterdam/Taipei: Sense Publishers.
2017. ‘Internationalisation and Africanisation in a globalizing world’. In Cross, M. and Ndofirepi, A.P. (eds.) Knowledge and change in Africa. Vol. 1 – Current debates. Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei: Sense Publishers.
2017 (with Maphosa, M.T.). ‘The challenges facing academic scholarship in Africa: A critical analysis’. In Cross, M. and Ndofirepi, A.P. (eds.) Knowledge and change in Africa. Vol. 2 – re-imagining the terrain. Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei: Sense Publishers.
2017. ‘Informal education as the foundation for grooming future leaders: Lessons from Nelson Mandela’s humble beginnings’. In Soudien, C. (ed.) Nelson Mandela: Perspectives of his significance for education. Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei: Sense Publishers.
2016 (with Shange, X.). ‘Financing job creation and socio-economic development through the EPWP’. In Buchanan, D. and Vaughan, A. (eds.) Our expanded Public Works Programme: Reflections on over a decade. Johannesburg: South African Cities Network.
2016 (with Shange, X.). ‘EPWP and the issue of exit strategies’. In In Buchanan, D. and Vaughan, A. (eds.) Our expanded Public Works Programme: Reflections on over a decade. Johannesburg: South African Cities network.
2014. ‘The political foundations of the development of higher education in Africa’. In Asuelime, L. and Francis, S. (eds.) Selected themes in African political studies: Political conflict and stability. Switzerland: Springer.
2013. ‘Centrifugal tendencies as impediments to the consolidation of public administration in Nigeria.’ In Adediji, B.o. (ed.) Deeper insight into Nigeria’s public administration. Bloomington: Authorhouse.
2013. ‘Economic inequalities and the Niger Delta crisis in Nigeria: Challenges and prospects’. In Kalu, K., Uzodike, U.O., Kraybill, D. and Moolakkattu, J. (eds.) Territoriality, citizenship and peacebuilding: Perspectives on challenges to peace in Africa. London: Adonis & Abbey.
2013. ‘The transformation of higher education in South Africa and its impediments’. In Pearce, B. and Stewart, G. (eds.) Transformation: Looking back in history and forward to change. Durban: DUT FAD.