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Institutional leadership
2022 – 2025: Member of the Advisory Board of the Global Environmental Law Centre (GELC), UWC.
2022 – ongoing: Member of Advisory Board, Pan-African Strategic and Policy Research Group (PANAFSTRAG).
2021 – ongoing: Member of the Advisory Committee on Matrimonial Property (Project 100E) of the South African Law Reform Commission.
2021 – ongoing: Member of the Research Advisory Board on Indigeneity, Displacement, and Patriarchy at the Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Athabasca University, Canada.
2020 – ongoing: Member of the Research Quality Plus College of Reviewers of Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), a 16-member group of independent global experts who evaluate the quality of development-oriented research funded by the Canadian government across the world [Link].
08/2019 – ongoing: Member, College of Senior Mentors, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), a body of established African diaspora academics in the social sciences and humanities who improve “student completion rates by augmenting doctoral supervision capacity in African universities” [Link].
2019 – ongoing: Member of the UWC Senate, Faculty of Law Board, Faculty of Law Management Committee, Higher Degrees Committee, Deputy Dean Selection Committee, and Graduate Lecturing Assistants’ Committee.
01/2018 – ongoing: Workshop Leader and Reviewer, Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa programme of the Social Science Research Council of New York, a programme that strengthens tertiary education in Africa with three categories of PhD and post-doctoral fellowships for African academics [Link].
09/2018 – ongoing: Member, African Studies Association (ASA) Task Force on Academic Freedom, a group that “works to defend and advance scholars’ ability to freely pursue, distribute, and discuss their research in academia and in public life” by monitoring infringements on the academic freedom of African scholars worldwide [Link].
12/2016 – 12/2019: Secretary, Nigerian Studies Association, the union of Nigerian scholars in the diaspora [Link].
04/2017 – 06/2018: Chair, University of Cape Town Postdoctoral Research Fellows’ Association.
2014 – 2016: Chair, Postgraduate Law Students’ Council, University of Cape Town.
2014 – 2016: Member, Executive Committee of the School of Advanced Legal Studies, University of Cape Town.
2011 – 2013: Head of Department, Jurisprudence and International Law, Madonna University, Nigeria.
2011 – 2012: Co-manager, Madonna University Law Clinic.
2011 – 2013: Member of Senate and various committees, Madonna University.
Professional leadership experience and networks
03/2022 – ongoing: Associate Editor, Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis [Link].
2016 – ongoing: Editorial Board Member: (1) Journal of Comparative Law in Africa (2) Africa Journal of Comparative Constitutional Law, Kenya School of Law; (3) Benin Journal of Public Law, University of Benin.
02/2017 – 12/2018: Managing Editor, Journal of Comparative Law in Africa, accredited by the Department of Higher Education and Training and published by JUTA & Co. for the Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town.
2011 – 2012: Editorial Adviser of the Madonna University Students’ Law Journal.
2005 – 2007: Founding Columnist (Living the Law), Catholic Echo Newspaper, Ekiti State, Nigeria.
Member, International Research Group on Gender in Customary and Indigenous Law and Proceedings.
Member, International Expert Working Group on Customary and Informal Justice and SDG16+
Member, African Humanities Program of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Member, Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Member, Scientific Network on Eviction and Housing Rights, University of Groningen, Netherlands.
Member of the International Commission on Legal Pluralism.
Member of Juris Diversitas.
Member of the African Studies Association.
Community engagements
1. (2023) Radio interview on 13 June with Relebogile Mabotja of 702 Afternoons on customary marriages [Link].
2. (2023) Radio interview on 6 January with SAFM’s ‘Living redefined’ on the Traditional Courts Bill [Link].
3. (2022) Television interview on 24 September with Newzroom Afrika on the Traditional Courts Bill [Link].
4. (2022) Consultation with the World Bank Business Enabling Environment (BEE) Project pp. 644-645 (Link)
5. (2022) Television interview on 24 September with eNCA on the Traditional Courts Bill [Link].
6. (2022) Television interview on 21 August with the South African Broadcasting Corporation on ‘Legal challenge to King Misuzulu's Kingship’ [Link].
7. (2022) ‘South Africa has a new traditional courts bill. But it doesn’t protect indigenous practices’ The Conversation 22 September 2022 (Link).
8. (2022) ‘What the Zulu kingship judgment tells us about the future of South African customary law’ The Conversation 9 March 2022 (Link).
9. (2021) ‘Reflections from a Next Gen facilitator on working with doctoral students in Africa’ Items: Insights from the Social Sciences, The Social Science Research Council of New York 14 December 2021 [Link].
10. (2021) ‘Why reform of matrimonial property laws is important’ Signals, University of the Western Cape Research Magazine Edition IV November 2021 pp. 34-35 [Link]
11. (2021) Television interview on 3 May 2021 with E.TV on inheritance and succession laws in South Africa.
12. (2021) Live radio interview on 27 January with Power 98.7 on the status of South African customary laws.
13. (2020) Live radio interview with the South African Broadcasting Corporation on 14 December 2020, discussing the contemporary relevance of African customary laws.
14. (2020) ‘Understanding the relevance of African customary law in modern times’ The Conversation 1 December 2020 (Link).
15. (2020) ‘Are Africans ready for integrated state and indigenous laws?’ AllAfrica 11 November 2020 (Link).
16. (2017) ‘Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: A story of transformation’ Items: Insights from the Social Sciences, The Social Science Research Council of New York 7 September 2017 [Link].
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