Falaiye Muyiwa
EMAIL: ofalaiye@unilag.edu.ng
PHONE: 08023130665
ADDRESS: Dept. Of Philosophy
University Of Lagos and Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, University of Lagos
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: Travelling and Sports
MEMBERSHIP STATUS: Member
YEAR OF INDUCTION/ADMISSION: 2016
POST HELD:
MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEE: None
INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION: University of Lagos
SPECIALTIES: African Socio-Political Philosophy, African Studies
APPOINTMENTS
Director, Confucius Institute, University of Lagos 2010-2013, Head of Philosophy Department, University of Lagos, 2013-2015, Dean of Arts, University of Lagos, 2015-2019, Director, Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, UNILAG, 2017 -to date, Director, Lagos African Cluster Centre, Africa Multiple, Center of Excellence in African Studies, 2019 to date,Chairman, UNILAG Auditoria Management Board, 2014-2017, Chairman, UNILAG Media Holdings LTD 2018 to date
PARTICIPATION IN GRANTS
- Schomburg Research Grant 1999 (collaboration with Center for African Studies, University of Florida) CRC Research Grant, 2004(University of Lagos),
- Sawyer Research Grant for study of Slavery and Reparations in America , 2006, Africa Multiple Infrastructural Grant for Re configuring African Studies 2019(collaboration with the University of Bayreuth, Germany) Africa Multiple Research Grant for The Project “Women as Sages” 2020
COMMUNITY SERVICE
- 1999, Schomburg Scholar in Slave Reparation Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.
- 2005, Best Researcher, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos
- July 2007, ECAS 2 Travel Scholarship recipient to Leiden, Holland
- August 2007, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, USA Travel
- Scholarship recipient to Ghana
- July 2009, ECAS 3 Travel Grant recipient to Leipzig, Germany
- June 2011, ECAS 4 Travel Grant recipient to Uppsala, Sweden
- June 2013, ECAS 5 Travel Grant recipient to Lisbon, Portugal
- September 2012, African Studies Association of Italy Travel Grant to Pavia, Italy
- September 2014, African Studies Association of Italy Travel Grant to Macerata, Italy
- August 2013-July 2015, Head, Department of Philosophy, University of Lagos
- Aug 2010 – July 2013, Director, Confucius Institute, University of Lagos
- 2008 – 2011, Editor, Lagos Notes and Records: Journal of the Faculty of Arts –
- Since 2010, Member, Senate of the University of Lagos, Nigeria
- 2013-2014, Chairman, Faculty of Arts Seminar/Conference committee, University of Lagos
- 2014-2018, Chairman, University of Lagos Auditoria Management Board
- 2015 – 2016, Chairman, Examination Misconduct Panel (Faculty of Science), University of Lagos
- Since August 2015, Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos
- Since Feb. 2017, Founding Executive Director, Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, UWI-UNILAG
- Since 2018, Chairman, UNILAG Media Ventures Board (UNILAG Radio and TV)
- Founder and Chairman, Study Group for the Advancement of Africans and Blacks in the Diaspora (AABID)
- Member, African Research Group of Leiden, Holland
- Member, Society of Research on African Cultures (SORAC), Montclair State University, New Jersey
- Member, Editorial Board SORAC Journal of African Studies, Montclair State University, New Jersey
- Member, Nigerian Academy of Letters
- Since 2010, Member, Scientific Board of Advisers, Polylog: Journal of Intercultural Philosophy, Vienna, Austria
Biography
Born in Lagos 1962, attended Igbobi College, Lagos 1973-1978, CMS Grammar School, Bariga, 1978-1980 and University of Lagos, 1980-1983. Obtained PhD in Philosophy at the University of Lagos 1996. Appointed full Professor of African Political Philosophy 2010. Delivered several Keynote Lectures all over the world. Supervised to conclusion 12 PhDs. Assessed several PhD theses and professorial candidates. Won grants individually and collectively worth over 1million USD. Prominent member of the African Studies community. Established a strong collaborative Research Institute at the University of Lagos with the University of the West Indies.
