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Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso is an associate professor of Political Science at Babcock University in Nigeria. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Olajumoke's research over the years has explored the positions of women in conflict and postconflict situations in Africa, with a particular focus on refugee and displacement concerns. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Liberia, and some in Nigeria and Geneva. Olajumoke has also researched broader issues in relation to the comparative politics of African states. She has co-edited four books and is also an editor and co-editor of two journals. Dr. Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso currently serves as the acting Dean of the Veronica Adeleke School of Social Sciences at Babcock University, where she also teaches courses in international relations, peace and conflict studies and comparative politics. In fall 2018, Dr. Yacob-Haliso took part in the Visiting Professor/Practitioner Program, hosted by the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. ; How do international structure and African agency constrain or propel the search for truly "durable solutions" to the African refugee situation? This is the central question that I seek to answer in this paper. I would argue that existing approaches to resolving refugee issues in Africa are problematic, and key to addressing this dilemma is a clear and keen understanding and apprehension of the phenomenon as grounded in history, states' self-interested actions, international politics, and humanitarian practice. I suggest that these cardinal features of the African and international political system are the key obstacles to progress in the search for alternatives to African refugee trajectories, and that durable solutions have no chance of being truly durable if the current configuration of international and regional politics, actors, and policies persist. ; Law

"African Refugees is a comprehensive overview of the context, causes, and consequences of refugee's lives, discussing issues, policies, and solutions for African refugees around the world. It covers overarching topics such as human rights, policy frameworks, refugee protection, and durable solutions, as well as less-studied topics such as refugee youths, refugee camps, LGBTQ refugees, urban refugees, and refugee women. It also takes on rare but emergent topics such as citizenship and the creativity of African refugees. Toyin Falola and Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso showcase the voices and experiences of individual refugees through the sweep of history to tell the African refugee story from the long ago past through current developments, covering the full range of experience from the causes of flight to living in exile, all while maintaining a persistent focus on the complicated search for solutions. African Refugees recognizes African agency and contributions in pursuit of solutions for African refugees over time but avoids the pitfalls of the colonial gaze-where refugees are perpetually pathologized and Africa is always the sole cause of its own problems-seeking to complicate these narratives by recognizing African refugee issues within exploitative global, colonial, and neo-colonial systems of power"--

This definitive handbook is the first reference of its kind bringing together knowledge, scholarship, and debates on themes and issues concerning African women everywhere. It reviews and evaluates African women's historical, cultural, social, political, economic, religious, private, local, and global lives and activities. Contributors offer a consistent emphasis on debunking erroneous and misleading myths about African women's roles and positions, bringing their previously marginalized stories to relief, and ultimately re-writing their histories. This reference work includes, to the greatest extent possible, the voices of African women themselves as writers of their own stories. The detailed, rigorous and up-to-date analyses in the work represent a variety of theoretical, methodological, and transdisciplinary approaches. This reference work will prove vital in charting new directions for the study of African women, and will reverberate in future studies, generating new debates and engendering further interest

Introduction: Gendering knowledge in Africa and the African diaspora / Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and Toyin Falola -- The Bantu matrilineal belt : reframing African women's history / Rhonda M. Gonzales, Christine Said, and C. Cymone Fourshey -- Remapping the African diaspora : place, gender, and negotiation in Arabian slavery / Alaine Hutson -- Communicating feminist ethics in the age of new media in Africa / Sharon Adetutu Omotoso -- Transnational feminist solidarity, black German women, and the politics of belonging / Tiffany N. Florvil -- Beyond disability : trans-Atlantic slave trade and female heroism in Manu Herbstein's Ama / Senayon Olaoluwa -- Reverse migration of Africans in the diaspora : foregrounding a woman's quest for her roots in Tess Onwueme's Legacies / Methuselah Samuel Jeremiah -- Queens in flight : Fela Kuti's Afrobeat queens and the performance of "black" feminist diasporas / Dotun Ayobade -- Women and Tfu in Wimbum Community, Cameroon / Elias K. Bongmba -- Contesting the notions of "thugs and welfare queens" : combating black derision and death / Leamon Bazil -- Emasculation, social humiliation, and psychological castration in Irene's More than dancing / Mobolanle E. Sotunsa and Francis O. Jegede.