User:Idhmedia316/Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome

Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome (born December 15, 1958) is a Nigerian professor of Political Science, African and Women's Studies at Brooklyn College, New York, United States of America. She is an activist, a Fulbright scholar, author and speaker. She is one of the foremost activists in the #BringBackOurGirls campaign that earned her the title, Professor of Bring Back Our Girls as well as a leading members of Nigerian Feminists Womanifesto, a body recognised for their commitments to women's rights. She has consulted for the United Nations and Commonwealth on international development issues.

She focuses on democratization and economic liberalization, democracy, human rights, nationalism and ethnicity, economic and political development, state-society relations, globalization and gender relations with a focus on Africa within the world economy, globalization, politics, and gender and power in African. These all reflect in her numerous publications.

Education
She was educated at the Anglican Girls Primary School, Surulere, Lagos (1964-1970), Reagan Memorial Baptist Girls Secondary School, Yaba, Lagos (1970-1974 and Methodist Girls' High School, Yaba, Lagos (1974-1976).

She proceeded to the University of Ibadan, Oyo State where she studied and obtained a BSc. Hons in Political Science (1976-1979) after which she proceeded to Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, the United States where she obtained a master's degree (1981-1982). She obtained a Ph.D. in Political Science with a focus in International Relations/International Political economy with Regional Specialization in Africa at Columbia University (1982-1996)

Books and publications
Transnational African and Globalisation

Contesting Nigerian State Contradictions Self-Organisation (editor)

State Fragility, State Formation, and Human Security in Nigeria

Beyond Boko Haram: The Nigerian Body Politic