East Lansing, MI 48825-1205
Rita Kiki Edozie (Political Science, the New School, New York City)
Associate Professor of International Relations
Rita Kiki Edozie's teaching and research interests include African affairs, comparative politics, democratization; transnationalism, and international political economy with a focus on development. She is the author of People Power and Democracy: the popular movement against military despotism in Nigeria, 1989-1999 (2002), Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy: Comparative African Democratic Politics (2008) and with Peyi Soyinika-Airwele, Reframing Contemporary Africa: Politics, Economics and Culture in the Global Era (2009). Additionally, Edozie has contributed scholarly articles and book chapters to several edited volumes and academic journals. Professor Edozie is a Lilly Teaching Fellow (2007-2008) and her Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) project focused on interdisciplinary learning and teaching in international relations. Before joining MSU, Dr. Edozie earned her PhD in Political Science from the New School for Social Research in New York City. She was also the Deputy Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).Edozie's current research will apply new international political economy themes - global inequality , neoliberalism, cultural political-economy- on contemporary development trajectories in Nigeria and Africa.
Professor Rita Kiki Edozie’s book, "Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy: Comparative African Democratic Politics" (University Press of America, 2008), was released on December 18th, 2008.
Rita Kiki Edozie published the following in 2008: "New Trends in Democracy and Development: Democratic Capitalism in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya"in Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, (Volume 35 Issue 1: 2008); "Rwanda-Burundi’s ‘National-Ethnic’ Dilemma: Democracy, Deep Divisions and Conflict Re-represented"inSantosh Saha eds. Ethnicity and Socio-political Change in Africa and Other Developing Countries: A Constructive Discourse in State Building (Lexington Books, 2008); "Nigeria’s 2007 Election in Comparative Perspective: Democratic Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy in Africa"in Victor Okafor eds. Nigeria’s Stumbling Democracy and its Implications for the Democratic Movement in Africa (Praeger, 2008); and a book review of Tridivesh Singh Maini’s "Reviewing South Asian Cooperation and the Role of the Punjabs" in Journal of Religion, Conflict and Peace (Volume 2: Spring, 2008)
In February 2008, Rita Kiki Edozie was part of the Michigan State University delegation to Nigeria, visiting the cities of Abuja and Jos to conduct a series of site visits and present a day long seminar on local government and NGO (nonprofit) best practices. Professor Edozie gave a lecture in Abuja, Nigeria entitled, "US-Nigeria- Comparisons in Federalism and Democracy."
Madison Professor Rita Kiki Edozie is the recipient of an MSU Lilly Teaching Fellowship for 2007-2008. Her fellowship project is titled: "Politics & Prose: Reading Across the Curriculum and Teaching in the Public and International Affairs Classroom." The MSU Lilly Teaching Fellows Program is intended to advance MSU’s continuing efforts to support excellence in teaching and learning through a series of activities designed to focus attention on the art and skills of teaching both generally and in the particular disciplines of a diverse group of faculty.
Professor Rita Kiki Edozie has published People Power and Democracy: The Popular Movement Against Military Despotism in Nigeria, 1989-1999
Rita “Kiki” Edozie has been elected as African Studies Center Advisory Council Assistant Professor faculty representative, 2006-2008.
Rita "Kiki" Edozie will publish "Beauty Troubles: Gender and Difference in Nigeria’s Developing Democracy" in Women of the World: Volume II by Joyce Gelb and Marian Lief Palley, (forthcoming January 2007); "Deliberating Deep Divisions, Conflict, & Prospects for Democracy: Rwanda and Burundi Compared" in Santosh Saha eds. Ethnicity and Socio-political Change in the Contemporary World: Politics of Identity (Macmillan/Palgrave, January 2007); and "Emerging Studies in (Southern) African Politics: A Review Essay" in Journal of African and Asian Studies (forthcoming Fall 2006).
During summer 2006, Rita "Kiki" Edozie attended the Leon Sullivan African Summit VII in Abuja, Nigeria from July 17-21. The summit, entitled "Africa: A Continent of Opportunities -- Building Partnership for Success," was jointly hosted by the Nigerian Presidency and the Leon Sullivan Foundation. The summit brought together a number of international dignitaries including, President Bill Clinton, Paul Wolfowitz (World Bank President) and several African presidents such as President Kikwete of Tanzania, President Kagame of Rwanda, and President Wade of Senegal. U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson led the U.S. delegation representing President Bush.
Rita "Kiki" Edozie will act as panel discussant and chair at the Association of Third World Studies: 24th Annual Meeting at Winston-Salem, North Carolina from November 2-4, 2006. The meeting is entitled Transnational Challenges, Environment, Integration and Security in the Third World.
Rita "Kiki" Edozie will attend the African Studies Association: 29th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, (Re) Thinking Africa and the World: Internal Reflections, External Responses. She will deliver a paper entitled, "Africa's 'Second Wave' Westphalian Republics: The Historical Dimensions of Democratic Development in Africa."
Rita “Kiki” Edozie will be publishing a number of papers, articles and books between January 1 and July 31, 2006. Her publications include a journal article,"Third World Democracies: Learning from Each Other" in Exploring Conflicts and Conflict Resolution in the Contemporary Third World, Association of Third World Studies Inc.2005; a book chapter "Sudan's Identity Wars in a Global Era" in Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict: Primal Violence or the Politics of Conviction?. Lexington Books, 2006; and a book review article "Review of Trade, Development, Cooperation: What Future for Africa?" Africa Today, Spring 2006.
Rita “Kiki” Edozie will be delivering papers at the following conferences and meetings this spring: March 22-26, International Studies Association Annual (ISA), San Diego, California, paper entitled "Evaluating Freedom in an Emergent Global Democracy: the regional case of Africa;" and April 23-26, Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, Illinois, paper entitled "Cooperating Against Global Marginalization: the AU, Caricom and the US' Black Caucus on Haiti 2004
