Eghosa Emmanuel Osaghae

Eghosa Emmanuel Osaghae (May 25, 1960) is a comparative politics professor and the Vice Chancellor of Igbinedion University Okada in Nigeria. He is married Dr. Veronica Amen Osaghae, and has four children.

Education
Between 1965 to 1969, he attended Christ Anglican Primary School in Benin City, Nigeria. Between 1970 and 1974, he attended Egbosa Anglican Grammar School, and from 1974 to 1976, he attended Edo College in Benin City. He received his Bachelor of Science in Political Science in 1979, his Master of Science in Political Science in 1981, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science in 1986, all from the University of Ibadan.

Career
Prior to his appointment at Okada, he was Leader of the Ford Foundation-supported Program on Ethnic and Federal Studies, Director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Ibadan, and the seat of the University's Senate Curriculum Committee. Between 1994 and 1998, he was Professor and Head of the Department of Political Studies at the University of Transkei, South Africa. He has additionally been a Visiting Professor/Fellow/Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Carter Center of Emory University USA (1989), University of Liberia (1989/90), Salzburg Seminar, Austria (1993), University of Cape Town South Africa (1994), the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala Sweden (1994), Ulster University, Northern Ireland (1999, 2000), Northwestern University USA (2002, 2004), University of Cambridge UK (2003), various colleges and research establishments in India (2005, 2009), Dartmouth College USA (2005) and Yale University USA (2009). He was a Rockefeller 'Reflections on Development' Fellow (1989/90) and was most as of late a MacArthur Fellow. In 1996, he won the "Best Paper Award" at the Eighth yearly gathering of the International Association for Conflict Management in Helsingor, Denmark. Teacher Osaghae likewise won the "Best Article Award for 2004" of the African Politics Conference Group - an organized gathering of the American Political Science Association, African Studies Association, and International Studies Association. A similar article additionally won the 2004 Lawrence Dunbar Reddick Memorial Scholarship Award for the best article on Africa distributed in the Journal of Third World Studies.

He has also distributed widely on ethnicity, federalism, administration and state governmental issues in books and diaries. Among his books are Federal Character [2] and Federalism in Nigeria (1989), Between State and Civil Society in Africa (1994), The Management of the National Question in Nigeria (2001), Structural Adjustment and Ethnicity in Nigeria (1995), Ethnicity, Class and State Power in Liberia (1995), Crippled Giant: Nigeria Since Independence (1998), The Nigerian Civil War and its Aftermath (2002) and Researching Conflict in Africa: Insights and Experiences (2005), a co-altered book distributed by the United Nations University Press. He has distributed well more than 100 articles in books and learned worldwide diaries.

Membership
He is a part to the accompanying bodies, South African Political Studies Association Part, Nigerian Political Science Association Part, Association of African Political Scientists Part, Ethnic Studies Network (Northern Ireland) Gathering Member, Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) Educators Program (USA) Research Associate, Institute for Security Studies (South Africa) Research Fellow, Africa Institute of South Africa.