Professor Kayode Soremekun, former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, FUOYE and a professor of International Relations at the Lagos State University, LASU has been appointed as the Chairman of the American Political Science Association’s Research Development Group in Africa. His appointment was made known by Professor Peter Lewis of the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Soremekun’s new assignment is to oversee the Research Development Group convened by the African Politics Conference Group aimed at developing and promoting Africa’s early and mid-career academics and researchers. Part of his role is also to foster academic engagement between scholars based in North America and Africa.
Each year, the Research Development Group takes six to eight Africa-based academics to APSA’s annual meeting to present the work in progress and to have discussions with their colleagues. The initiative helps to support scholarly work and to develop collaborative networks.
Soremekun will be working with other members of the committee for the Research Development Group, usually three persons to identify participants and coordinate the panels for the workshop, prior to the APSA meeting. The committee will also serve as discussants for some of the research papers that would be presented at APSA’s annual conference.
