Akinyinka Akinyoade
Akinyinka Akinyoade is the Chair of the Researchers' Assembly of the African Studies Centre Leiden. He is a Hydrologist turned Demographer. He obtained a Doctoral degree in Development Studies with emphasis on Population and Rural Development at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague. Akinyinka’s research activities are on population health and development, with special attention on fertility dynamics and family planning in West Africa; migration (human trafficking and forced labour in Nigeria); decentralisation (public service delivery in education and health sectors of Nigeria, Cameroon, Tanzania and Indonesia).
His work experience spans Nigeria (Population Statistician at the National Population Commission); Ghana (Lectured at the Department of Sociology, University of Cape Coast, and provided professional assistance as an Editor in the 5-year multi-round survey of the Demography Unit of the UCC); and Country Coordinator Nigeria for the Tracking Development project that compared development trajectories of Nigeria and Indonesia.
A Senior Researcher at the ASCL, Akinyinka gives lectures on Quantitative Research Methodology; his latest research activities are on migration, food and water security (scenarios for Africa 2020-2050), and agricultural value chains. He is a member of the collaborative research group Governance, entrepreneurship and inclusive development.
Keywords: Africa, demographics, population health, fertility dynamics in West Africa, migration, decentralization, food security, water security, agricultural value chains.
Dr. A. Akinyoade's profile on the Leiden University website
Governance, entrepreneurship and inclusive development
Pioneering futures of health and well-being: actors, technologies and social engineering
Afrika; hulp & handel in perspectief ; lessen uit het veld (2023)
Multinationals, capital export, and the inclusive development debate in developing countries: the Nigerian insight (2022)
La femminilizzazione della tratta di esseri umani in Nigeria: un caso studio di rimpatriati dal Libano (2021)
Nigeria at 60 (2020)
Person to person transmission of pneumonia associated with the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2): a familial cluster analysis in North Central Nigeria (2020)
Economic impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the sustenance of service providers commercial motorcycle transport operators in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria (2020)
Home ownership, social costs, and wellbeing in self residence: the case of employees of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria (2020)
Sorghum value chain in Nigeria : explorative study (2020)
Monitoring and evaluation system : towards improving agricultural development projects in Nigeria (2019)
Nigeria : education, labour market, migration. Annex A to "Dutch labour market shortages and potential labour supply from Africa and the Middle East" (SEO report no. 2019-24) (2019)
Dutch labour market shortages and potential labour supply from Africa and the Middle East: Is there a match? Excecutive summary and main report (2019)
Development built on crony capitalism? : the case of Dangote Cement (2018)
Assessment of productive employment policies in Kenya (2018)
Embassy support mission : design and implementation of a sustainable development component of the 2019-2022 MCS for Nigeria (2018)
Assessment of factors influencing acquisition and deployment of technical facilities in maternal healthcare delivery in Osun State, Nigeria (2018)
Dangote Cement: the challenges of Pan-African expansion (2017)
Development built on crony capitalism? : the case of Dangote Cement (2017)
African women large-scale entrepreneurs : cases from Angola, Nigeria and Ghana (2017)
Census-taking in Nigeria : the good, the technical, and the politics of numbers (2017)
Introduction (2017)
ASC-KDCN-VSO Kenya volunteer project : maximizing the value of the Kenyan diaspora (2016)
Dangote Cement : an African success story? (2016)
The use of local raw materials in beer brewing: Heineken in Nigeria (2016)
Coercion or volition: making sense of the experiences of female victims of trafficking from Nigeria in the Netherlands (2015)
Nigerians in transit: the trader and the religious in Jerusalem House, Ghana (2015)
African roads to prosperity : people en route to socio-cultural and economic transformations (2015)
A tale of two giants: oil and economic development in Nigeria and Indonesia (1960-1999) (2015)
Landmines, cluster bombs and food insecurity in Africa (2014)
Digging deeper: inside Africa's agricultural, food and nutrition dynamics (2014)
Africa population dynamics (2014)
Access to information and transparency: opportunities and challenges for Nigeria's FOI Act 2011 (2013)
Agricultural dynamics and food security trends in Nigeria (2013)
Riepilogo e conclusioni (2012)
Forced labour in Nigeria: the context (2012)
Population programmes and their implications for poverty reduction in Indonesia and Nigeria, 1966-1999 (2012)
Food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: an explorative study (2012)
Forced labour: the experience of victims identified by NAPTIP (2012)
Diaspora and development in Kenya: what do we know? (2012)
General summary and conclusions (2012)
Ministerial tenure stability and national development: a comparative analysis of Nigeria and Indonesia from 1966 to 1999 (2012)
Il lavoro forzato: il contesto nigeriano (2012)
Cases of severely exploited Nigerian citizens and other forms of exploitation (2012)
Lavoro forzato: l'esperienza delle vittime identificate da NAPTIP (2012)
Cittadini Nigeriani gravemente sfruttati sul lavoro e in altre attivita costrittive (2012)
The man in his house : marriage, gender relation and childbearing in Ghana (2011)
Afrika's Bevolkingsdynamiek (2011)
Commentary on "Gaddafi says Nigeria should split into several states" (2010)
Milking the sick: Medical pluralism and commoditization of healthcare in contemporary Nigeria (2010)
Nigeria: higher education and the challenge of access (2009)
Dynamics of reproductive behaviour in rural coastal communities of Southern Ghana (2007)
A Comparative Analysis of Contraceptive Use in Northwest and Southwest Nigeria (2001)
A Comparative Study of Fertility Preference in Northwest and Southwest Nigeria (1999)
Entrepreneurship in Africa
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics 15, 2017
A. Akinyoade; A.J. Dietz; C.U. Uche
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Dynamics of reproductive behaviour in rural coastal communities of Southern Ghana
Maastricht: Shaker Publishing, 2007
A. Akinyoade
'La femminilizzazione della tratta di esseri umani in Nigeria: un caso studio di rimpatriati dal Libano'
In: A. Akinyoade; F. Carcedi; M. Galati; M.R. Impala: 'Doppio sguardo: la tratta delle donne nigeriane per sfruttamento sessuale attraverso i dati dei servizi sociali dedicati della regione Calabria', Romagna: Maggioli Editore, 2021.
'Monitoring and evaluation system : towards improving agricultural development projects in Nigeria'
'Agricultural management for sustainable production and rural livelihood', Nigeria: University of Ilorin Press, 2019.
'Dangote Cement: the challenges of Pan-African expansion'
In: A. Akinyoade; A.J. Dietz; C.U. Uche: 'Entrepreneurship in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2017.
'Introduction'
In: A. Akinyoade; A.J. Dietz; C.U. Uche: 'Entrepreneurship in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2017.
'African women large-scale entrepreneurs : cases from Angola, Nigeria and Ghana'
In: A. Akinyoade; A.J. Dietz; C.U. Uche: 'Entrepreneurship in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2017.
'Nigerians in transit: the trader and the religious in Jerusalem House, Ghana'
In: J.B. Gewald; A. Akinyoade: Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2015.
'Coercion or volition: making sense of the experiences of female victims of trafficking from Nigeria in the Netherlands'
In: J.B. Gewald; A. Akinyoade: Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2015.
'Landmines, cluster bombs and food insecurity in Africa'
In: P. Collinson; H. Macbeth: 'Food in zones of conflict : cross-disciplinary perspectives', New York & Oxford: Berghahn, 2014.
'Access to information and transparency: opportunities and challenges for Nigeria's FOI Act 2011'
In: F. Diallo; R. Calland: 'Access to information in Africa: law, culture and practices', Leiden: Brill, 2013.
'Population programmes and their implications for poverty reduction in Indonesia and Nigeria, 1966-1999'
In: B. Berendsen; A.J. Dietz; H.S. Nordholt; R. van der Veen: 'Asian tigers, African lions: comparing the development performance of Southeast Asia and Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2012.
'Riepilogo e conclusioni'
In: A. Akinyoade; F. Carcedi: 'Cittadini Nigeriani gravemente sfruttati sul lavoro e in altre attivita costrittive', Rome: Ediese, 2012.
'Lavoro forzato: l'esperienza delle vittime identificate da NAPTIP'
In: A. Akinyoade; F. Carcedi: 'Cittadini Nigeriani gravemente sfruttati sul lavoro e in altre attivita costrittive', Rome: Ediese, 2012.
'Il lavoro forzato: il contesto nigeriano'
In: A. Akinyoade; F. Carcedi: 'Cittadini Nigeriani gravemente sfruttati sul lavoro e in altre attivita costrittive', Rome: Ediese, 2012.
'General summary and conclusions'
In: A. Akinyoade; F. Carcedi: Rome: Ediese, 2012.
'Forced labour: the experience of victims identified by NAPTIP'
In: A. Akinyoade; F. Carcedi: 'Cases of severely exploited Nigerian citizens and other forms of exploitation', Rome: Ediese, 2012.
'Forced labour in Nigeria: the context'
In: A. Akinyoade; F. Carcedi: 'Cases of severely exploited Nigerian citizens and other forms of exploitation', Rome: Ediese, 2012.
'Ministerial tenure stability and national development: a comparative analysis of Nigeria and Indonesia from 1966 to 1999'
In: A.O. Agwuele: 'Overcoming African leadership challenges', Berlin: Mediateam IT Education Centre Publishers, 2012.
'Milking the sick: Medical pluralism and commoditization of healthcare in contemporary Nigeria'
In: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk: 'Markets of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2010.
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'Nigeria: higher education and the challenge of access'
In: T.A. Volkman: 'Origins, journeys and returns: social justice in international higher education', New York: Social Science Research Council, 2009.
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African roads to prosperity : people en route to socio-cultural and economic transformations
A. Akinyoade; J.B. Gewald (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics 14, 2015.
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Digging deeper: inside Africa's agricultural, food and nutrition dynamics
A. Akinyoade; W. Klaver; S. Soeters; D.W.J. Foeken (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics 13, 2014.
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Cittadini Nigeriani gravemente sfruttati sul lavoro e in altre attivita costrittive
A. Akinyoade; F. Carcedi (editors)
Rome: Ediesse, 2012.
Cases of severely exploited Nigerian citizens and other forms of exploitation
A. Akinyoade; F. Carcedi (editors)
Rome: Ediesse, 2012.
'Multinationals, capital export, and the inclusive development debate in developing countries: the Nigerian insight'
in: European journal of development research, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 2224-2250, 2022.
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'Home ownership, social costs, and wellbeing in self residence: the case of employees of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria'
in: European journal of business and management, vol. 12, no. 17, pp. 41-51, 2020.
'Economic impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the sustenance of service providers commercial motorcycle transport operators in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria'
in: International journal of humanities and social studies, vol. VIII, no. 6, 2020.
'Person to person transmission of pneumonia associated with the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2): a familial cluster analysis in North Central Nigeria'
in: Pan African medical journal, vol. 27, no. 99, 2020.
'Assessment of factors influencing acquisition and deployment of technical facilities in maternal healthcare delivery in Osun State, Nigeria'
in: Ife research publications in geography, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 111 - 122, 2018.
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'Development built on crony capitalism? : the case of Dangote Cement'
in: Business history, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 833 - 858, 2018.
'Development built on crony capitalism? : the case of Dangote Cement'
in: Business history, pp. 1 - 27, 2017.
'Census-taking in Nigeria : the good, the technical, and the politics of numbers'
in: African population studies, vol. 31, no. 1 (suppl.), pp. 3383 - 3394, 2017.
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'The use of local raw materials in beer brewing: Heineken in Nigeria'
in: Journal of the Institute of Brewing, vol. 122, no. 4, pp. 682 - 692, 2016.
'A tale of two giants: oil and economic development in Nigeria and Indonesia (1960-1999)'
in: Global development studies, vol. 7 (Winter-Spring 2014-2015), no. 3-4, pp. 161 - 195, 2015.
'Diaspora and development in Kenya: what do we know?'
in: Migration policy practice, vol. II, no. 2 (April-May), pp. 16 - 20, 2012.
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'The man in his house : marriage, gender relation and childbearing in Ghana'
in: African affairs, vol. 30, no. 8, pp. 133 - 152, 2011.
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'In the last group match against Mozambique'
in: Nigeriaworld, no. January 22, 2010.
'Commentary on "Gaddafi says Nigeria should split into several states"'
in: BBC online, no. March 29, 2010.
'A Comparative Analysis of Contraceptive Use in Northwest and Southwest Nigeria'
in: Ife PsychologIA, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 148 - 172, 2001.
'A Comparative Study of Fertility Preference in Northwest and Southwest Nigeria'
in: Ife PsychologIA, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 96 - 122, 1999.