A University of Ibadan scholar, Dr Kudus Oluwatoyin Adebayo, was Monday announced as the winner of the 2020 Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS) Rahamon Bello Award for best PhD thesis in African and Diaspora studies.
Director, Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS), University of Lagos Professor Muyiwa Falaiye, announced the award on Monday in a Zoom meeting.
According to the IADS Director, the selection committee was impressed by the quality of the thesis submitted which made it difficult for them to prune down to the best three.
Professor Falaiye maintained that the awardees are expected at the University of Lagos for award presentations on December 8, 2020 stated that all contestants are winners.
Speaking on the award, Dr Adebayo declared that he was appreciative of the granting Institute for putting together the award and encouraging quality researches and excellent scholarship.
Commending other contenders in the competition, Dr Adebayo said, “We are all winners in our own rights.”
Dr Adebayo’s award-winning thesis explored and described “the processes, social relations and practices with which Nigerians increasingly establish themselves as a migrant community as well as their everyday experiences in Guangzhou city, China”
A total of 29 applications for the award were received across the continent before the last three were selected.
Dr Kudus Oluwatoyin Adebayo graduated from the Department of Sociology and is a Research Fellow at Diaspora and Transnational Studies Unit of the Institute of African Studies (IAS) University of Ibadan.
