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Item Africans in China: Guangdong and beyond(Routledge, 2019) Adebayo, K. O.Item Cohabiting commerce in a transport hub: peoples as infrastructure in Lagos, Nigeria(Sage, 2019) Xiao, A. H.; Adebayo, K. O.Based on a case study of Iyana Ipaja, one of the largest transport hubs with a spacious motor park and the most vibrant markets in North Lagos, we elaborate on the nuances of interactions between commercial actors and various forms of infrastructure in the spatial and temporal senses. In terms of materiality and mobility of their businesses, commercial actors are categorised into three types, shopkeepers, stallholders and hawkers. They have extensive interactions with the objects with which they are attached (shops, stalls and goods), the physical infrastructures (vehicles, roads, bus stations and motor parks), and ‘people as infrastructure’ – a term coined by Simone – including drivers, passengers, passers-by and government agencies. We suggest that a modification to the concept of ‘peoples as infrastructure’ should help to articulate interactions among differently positioned actors. We argue that the localities and mobilities of commercial practices manifest spatial conviviality among peoples as infrastructure. The temporality of their commercial practices is embedded in the urban rhythm of Lagos and remediates the flows of people and vehicles through the spaces of Iyana Ipaja. The focus of commercial actors provides a new perspective to rethink grassroots spatial politics of motor parks in Nigeria. Moreover, this case study critically engages the theory of relationality of ‘people as infrastructure’ in urban Africa.Item Here, we are all equal!’: soccer viewing centres and the transformation of age social relations among fans in South-Western Nigeria(Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-05) Adebayo, K. O.; Falase, O. S.; Akintunde, A.The spread of soccer viewing centres (SVCs) in Nigeria is one of the unfolding legacies of global sporting media in Africa. While, providing access to live broadcast of European soccer competitions, SVCs have developed into supplementary social spaces where culturally defined rules of social relations are contested. Using Goffman’s notion of performance and Agbalagba in Yoruba normative system, in conjunction with sociological perspective on space, the study explores the context and processes in the transformation of age social relations in Ibadan, South-Western Nigeria. Data were obtained through participant observation, and 23 in-depth interviews with viewing centre owners and soccer fans. Findings depict the SVC as a constructed space, with conflicting meanings, attitudes and practices, which inadvertently fracture and render fluid, the expectations of norms of age social relations. In conclusion, European soccer drives the spread of supplementary social spaces which impact local social structures in critical ways.Item Moving east: explaining aspects of Nigerian trade to China(2018-05) Adebayo, K. O.; Omololu, F. O.This paper highlights the shortcoming in explanations offered for the movement of African transnational trade to China, drawing from secondary multidisciplinary scholarship on the history, settlement, and cross-border trade migration in Africa, with an emphasis on Nigeria suggesting that the eastward migration of African transnational traders is part of a larger socio-historical continuity and social change process in Africa. The work also posits that the move to China is an experientially cultivated industry that is increasingly changing from a local space to a global space.Item Occupy Nigeria movement, organised labour unions, and oil-subsidy struggle: an analysis of processes in media(ted) ‘revolution’ and its demise(Lexington Books, 2016) Adebayo, K. O.Item Re-examining Nigeria’s social security in the aspect of government pension(Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2019) Adebayo, K. O.; Akinyemi, A. E.; Adedeji, I. A.Item The public sphere and practice of democracy in Nigeria: the context and contribution of the Nigerian diaspora(Routledge, 2016) Adebayo, K. O.; Njoku, E. T.Item Ethics and the culture of corruption in Africa(2015) Adebayo, K. O.