Dr. Yomi Durotoye

Visiting Associate Professor
Office: Library 826
Phone: 758-1910





Education:

        BA Hons, Ibadan, MA Georgia State, PhD, Duke

Courses Taught
  • Politics 114: Comparative Politics
  • Politics 116: International Politics
  • Politics 223: Blacks in American Politics
  • Politics 238: Comparative Ecomonic Development and Political Change
  • Politics 242: African Governments and Politics
  • Politics 252: Africa in World Politics
  • INS 250: Seminar: International Studies
  • First Year Seminar: Challenges to the Global Community
Professional/Research Focus

        Military Regimes and Democratization, Opposition Politics in Africa, Public Policy Analysis (Africa)

Selected Publications

  • Durotoye, Yomi, "The Political Context of Fela's Activism" in Trevor Schoonmaker (ed.) Black President (New York: New Museum, 2003)
  • Durotoye, Yomi, "Roforofo Fight: Fela's Resistance of Domination" in Trevor Schoonmaker (ed.) Fela: From West Africa to West Broadway (New York: Palgrave, 2003)
  • Durotoye, Yomi, "The Stable Minority: Civilian Rule in Africa, 1960-1990" American Political Science Review, vol. 94, no. 3, Sept. 2000
  • Durotoye, Yomi and Robert Griffiths, "Civilianizing Military Rule: Conditions and Processes of Political Transmutations in Nigeria and Ghana." African Studies Review, 40,3. Dec. 1997.
  • Durotoye, Yomi, "Ona Osogbo: A Neo-Traditional Yoruba Art." Kurio Africana: Journal of Art and Criticism, 2,2, May 1996.