English: The Asante Distinguished Research awardee, The University of Georgia, Athens, USA, and the Director, Strategic Partnerships, Linkages and Recruitment (sub-Saharan Africa), Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a member of the Nigeria Academy of Letters. Prof. Tijani’s teaching and research interests are: African and African Diaspora, cultural, economic and political history, digital humanities, labour and peace studies. Currently a professor and director in NOUN, he was formerly a tenured professor at Morgan State University where he also served as the Special Assistant on African Relations and Partnerships. In addition, he has worked in Nigeria as a professor and director of National Open University of Nigeria, Special Study Centre, Abuja, the pioneer deputy vice chancellor, dean of the faculty of arts and education, and the director of research, grants and linkages at Adeleke University, Nigeria. He has published sixty articles in referred journals and authored and co-edited eight books.

Notable among his scholarly works are: Britain, leftist nationalists and the transfer of power in Nigeria, 1945-1965 (Routledge: London, 2005); Union Education in Nigeria: Labor, Empire and Decolonization since 1945 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); The Rot in Nigerian Public Universities (Abuja: Committee of Vice Chancellors, 2014); etc. His academic awards includes: Lagos State Scholarship, 1984-1988; The World Assembly of Muslim Youth postgraduate award, 1989; the Commonwealth Scholarship, 1994-1998; the Harry S. Truman Research award, 1996; the Rockefeller Archive research award, 1997; the American Historical Society Bernadette Schmidt award, 2004; etc. A scholar with niche for service immersion, mentoring, and pedagogy, Professor Tijani is currently serving on the editorial of peer referred journals in Britain, Canada, Nigeria, and the United States of America. He was the first General Secretary of the Nigeria Studies Association, USA where he serve as the Book Review Editor of the Journal of Nigerian Studies housed at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire. He is the only scholar from sub-Saharan African heritage to serve on the Scientific Committee of the

International Labour Organization Board on the 100 Years of ILO and the research on Labour History of Africa in partnership with UNESCO. He is a mentor at large at institutions in Nigeria, Canada, England and the United States of America.