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Komlan Agbedahin

Research associate, Department of Sociology, Rhodes University

Komlan Agbedahin is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at Rhodes University (South Africa). He holds an MSc. in Sociology from the University of Lomé (Togo), an MHRS/Peace and Conflicts Studies from the University of Ibadan (Nigeria), and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Rhodes University. He taught social research methods, general sociology and industrial and economic sociology courses at Rhodes University, and worked with the United Nations in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Haiti. He is an African Humanities Program (AHP) Adviser.

Recent publications:

1. Agbedahin, K. (2021). ‘Covid-preneurship’ and the Imperative Return to Ubuntu. Peace Review, 33(1), 80-87.

2. Agbedahin, K., & Akalu, B.T. (2021). Migrant as Architect of his own Comfort. In J. Kurzwelly, & L. Escobedo, Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, South Africa (pp.217-237). Cape Town: HSRC Press.

3. Escobedo, L., Kurzwelly, J., & Agbedahin, K. (2021). Transcending social categories: Reflections on research concerning migrant lives, lived experiences and life stories. In J. Kurzwelly, & L. Escobedo, Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, South Africa (pp.19-32). Cape Town: HSRC Press.

4. Agbedahin, K. (2020). Beyond Livelihoods. Peace Review, 32(2), 204-211.

5. Agbedahin, AV. & Agbedahin, K. (2020). Prospect of military educational roles during public health crises: Lessons from the covid-19 pandemic in South Africa. Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 36(3), 1-15.

6. Agbedahin, A. V., & Agbedahin, K. (2020). Food Waste in University Spaces. Peace Review, 31(4), 532-538.

7. Agbedahin, K. (2020). Crisis of human dignity and mega sporting events tragedies. In J. Kocián, J. Mlynár, & P. Hoffmannová (Eds.), Malach Center for Visual History on its 10th Anniversary: Compendium of Papers of the Prague Visual History and Digital Humanities Conference 2020 (pp. 119-132). Prague: MatfyzPress.

8. Escobedo, L., & Agbedahin, K. (2020). 'Contigo Perú' as Trickle-Up Grassroots Diplomatics. Peace Review, 31(3), 312-321.

9. Agbedahin, K. (2019). The Haiti Cholera outbreak and Peacekeeping Paradoxes. Peace Review, 31(2), 190-198.

10. Agbedahin, K. (2019, April 28). The old ways of reintegrating young veterans need to be abandoned. Retrieved from The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/the-old-ways-of-reintegrating-young-veterans-need-to-be-abandoned-115243

11. Agbedahin, K. (2019). Boys and Girls in the Bush, Bosses in Post-Conflict Society: Liberian Young Veterans Rising to Power. In D.-V. N. Botchway, A. Sarpong, & C. Quist-Adade, New Perspectives on African Childhood: Constructions, Histories, Representations and Understandings (pp. 109-132). Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press.

12. Agbedahin, K., & Agbedahin, A. V. (2019). South African University History: Challenges and the Danger of a Masquerade of Transformation. In K. G. Fomunyam, Decolonising Higher Education in the Era of Globalisation and Internationalisation (pp. 207-230). Cape Town: SUN MeDIA.

13. Agbedahin, K. (2018). Un destin foudroyé : Un footballeur dans l'enfer du terrorisme by Kodjovi Obilalé. Acta Academica. 50(2), 152-154.

14. Agbedahin, K. (2018). Drawing paradise from hell: War retentions and post-conflict reintegration of young veterans in Africa. African Security Review,
27(3-4), 212-225.

15. Agbedahin, K. (2014). From control to parasitism: Interrogating the roles of border control agencies of the Ghana-Togo border. African Security Review, 23(4), 370-380.

16. Agbedahin, K. (2014). Interrogating the Togolese historical sex strike. International Journal on World Peace, 31(1), 7-25.

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Research Associate, Rhodes University

Education

  • 2012 
    Rhodes University, PhD, Sociology

Honours

African Studies Association Presidential Fellow