Kiki is Professor of Urban Studies at CUNY-SLU. She is an accomplished scholar and author of eight books and numerous scholarly articles on issues in global development, comparative democratization, African affairs, urban studies and policy, and race and identity. She has spent a career of teaching and research in global public policy focused on the collective actions and policy solutions developed by multi-level governance and collaborative networks —including governments, international organizations, civil society, and businesses—to address complex, transnational challenges focused on democracy and economic development.

 

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Degrees

  • PhD, Politics, The New School for Social Research, NY
  • MA, Politics, The New School for Social Research, NY
  • MA, Communication Arts, Brooklyn College, CUNY, NY
  • BA, English and Dramatic Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife (Nigeria)

Areas of Experience

  • Global urban affairs
  • African affairs and politics
  • Global development
  • Comparative democratization
  • International relations
  • International political economy
  • Race and identity

Professional Publications & Contributions

Books

Journal Articles

  • “Promoting Owned and Operated Development: Reflections of the New Partnership for African Development (Nepad)” African and Asian Studies, Volume 3, no.2. (2004)
  • “Third World Democracies: South-South Learning from Each Other” in Exploring Conflicts and Conflict Resolution in the Contemporary Third World Third World Studies Peer-Reviewed Proceedings Harold Isaacs (Association of Third World Studies, Inc. 2005)
  • “Emerging Studies in (Southern) African Politics: A Review Essay” in Journal of Asian and African Studies (Volume 42 (3/4): 353-358, 2007)
  • “New Trends in Democracy and Development: Democratic Capitalism in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya” in Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, (Volume 35 Issue 1: 2008)
  • “Cooperating Against Small State Marginalization: A Post Colonial Perspective on UNSC 1529 in Haiti 2004” Dubois Review of Social Science Research on Race (Volume 5, Spring, 2008)
  • “Global Citizens and Sudanese Subjects: Reading Mahmood Mamdani’s Saviors and Survivors” African Affairs (Volume 108, No 433, 2009)
  • “Socially Constructing Democracy and Peace: Nigeria’s National Dialogue on the Niger Delta Conflict” Journal of Peacebuilding and Development (Volume 6, Number 2, 2011)
  • “The Sixth Zone: the African Diaspora and the African Union (AU)’s Global Era Pan Africanism” Journal of African American Studies (Volume 16, Number 2, Pages 268-299, 2012)
  • “The Emerging Black Studies Africanist: A Case Study of MSU’s Triple Heritage AAAS PhD Program” in Journal of Pan African Studies (Volume 5, No. 4, October 2012)
  • “Africans Perspectives on Race in the U.S: Reading Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah” Africana Studies: A Review of Social Science Research (Volume 6, Spring, 2015)
  • “Pan African Security and Pax Africana: Navigating Global Hierarchies” in African Conflict and Peace-building Review, (Vol 4, No.2, Fall 2014, pp 38-59)
  • “African Americans in Greater Boston: Challenges, Identities, Legacies, and Movements” with Barbara Lewis in Changing Faces of Greater Boston (A Report from Boston Indicators, the Boston Foundation, UMass Boston and the UMass Donahue Institute, April 2019)
  • “Changing Demographics and Policy Reflections: The Case for Historic and Foreign Blacks in Greater Boston” with Barbara Lewis in Elsie Scott’s Africa-America 2021: Re-Envisioning Liberation for the Global Black Diaspora, Journal of the Center for Policy Analysis and Research, (Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, March 2021)

Book Chapters

  • “Sudan’s Identity Wars and Democratic Route to Peace” in Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict: Primal Violence the Politics of Conviction, Santosh Saha (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006)
  • “Centralization in Nigeria’s PDP: Addressing Pluralism in Africa’s Democracies” in Santosh Saha eds. The Politics of Ethnicity and National Identity (Peter Lang, 2007)
  • “Democratization in Multi-religious Contexts in Africa: Amina vs the (Dis-United) States of Nigeria” in Kamari Clarke’s Local Institutions, Global Controversies: Islam in Sub Saharan African Contexts, MacMillan Working Paper Series, (Yale University-CT, 2007)
  • “Rwanda-Burundi’s ‘National-Ethnic’ Dilemma: Democracy, Deep Divisions and Conflict Re-represented” in Santosh Saha eds. Ethnicity and Socio-political Change in Africa and Other Developing Countries: A Constructive Discourse in State Building (Lexington Books, 2008)
  • “Nigeria’s 2007 Election in Comparative Perspective: Democratic Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy in Africa” in Victor Okafor eds. Nigeria’s Stumbling Democracy and its Implications for the Democratic Movement in Africa (Praeger, 2008)
  • “Beauty Troubles: Gender and Difference in Nigeria’s Developing Democracy” in Joyce Gelb and Marian Lief Palley eds. Women of the World: Volume II, (ABC-CLIO 2009)
  • “New Encounters in US-Africa Democracy Relations” in Jack Mangala eds. Africa in Contemporary International Relations (Palgrave, 2010)
  • “African Solutions for (Malian) Problems: Pan Africanist vs. Pan-Sahelian Global Play in Contemporary Africa” in The Sahel: Focus of Hope, Focus of Fear in Marcel Kissitou and Pauline Ginsberg (Adonis &Abbey, 2014)
  • “Rethinking US-Africa Democracy Relations in Obama’s First Term” in Cassandra Rachel Veney, US-Africa Relations: From Clinton to Obama. (Lexington Books: Rowman & Littlefield), 2014
  • “Pan Africanism is Africa’s Third Way” in Toyin Falola and Samuel Oloruntuba eds. Handbook on African Politics, Palgrave MacMillan eds. (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2017).
  • “New (Pan)-Africanism or Neoliberal Globalization? Introducing Nigeria’s Afri-capitalism and South Africa’s Ubuntu Business” in James Conyers eds., Africana Social Stratification Africana Studies, Transaction Publishers (Transaction Publishers, 2017)
  • “Nigeria’s Non-Western Democracy: A Postcolonial Aspiration and Struggle with Opportunity, Conflict and Transformation”, in Carl Le Van and Patrick Ukata eds. The Oxford Handbook in Nigerian Politics, (Oxford University Press, 2018)
  • “African Economic Humanism: Africapitalism and Ubuntu Business” in Jean Ouderago, Mamadou Diawara, and Elisio Macamo eds., Translation: disputing the sense of African social realities Cambridge Scholars Press (Cambridge University Press,2019)
  • Neoliberal Democracy vs. Neoliberal Authoritarianism: Capitalism and Democracy’s Global Contest in the 21st Century” in Gordon Crawford and Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai’s Research Handbook in Democracy and Development (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021)
  • “From the First Black President to the First White President: Obama, Trump, and Race-craft in US-Africa Policy” in Ebenezer Obadare eds. Connections and Disconnections: Africa and the United States in the Age of Obama (forthcoming)