Research · Extrafemi

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Policy work and academic research from the Extrafemi desk. Open access, footnoted, and written to be read — not just cited.

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Spotlight · 01PhD research · Peer-reviewed
A rare paper on Nigerian e-commerce

Entrepreneurial Learning Dynamics of Nigerians in E-Commerce.

Nigerian e-commerce is one of the fastest-growing digital economies in the world — and one of the least studied inside the academy. This peer-reviewed PhD study is one of the few that goes inside the sector, interviewing 53 Nigerian e-commerce founders to trace how they actually learn: not from textbooks, but from loops of experience, failure, and adaptation in a resource-constrained market.

The paper proposes a conceptual model of experiential entrepreneurial learning grounded in Kolb's framework and the resource-based view, and offers a rare on-the-ground look at how Nigerian digital founders build, adapt, and scale.

Spotlight · 02Library accession · Cited
MBA · Adopted by the chamber of commerce

The MBA thesis that made it into the North Cyprus chamber of commerce library.

The MBA study on how micro-sized businesses in North Cyprus actually use digital marketing was recognised by Cyprus International University and accessioned into the Cyprus Turkish Chamber of Commerce (CTCC) library collection — where local operators, students and researchers now use it as a working reference.

A quiet indicator that the work outlived the defence: not just archived, but adopted by the institution the research was written for.

Spotlight · 03Journalism · Legislation · Rescues
A T-VINE investigation that changed law

The Aug 2021 trafficking exposé that helped pass a bill — and rescue Nigerian girls.

A T-VINE opinion investigation into the student-agent trafficking pipeline into North Cyprus was cited inside the Turkish Cypriot parliament and contributed to the passage of anti-human-trafficking legislation. The reporting also raised the awareness that led to the rescue of several Nigerian girls trafficked to the TRNC.

The work drew a personal commendation from Prof. Fatima Waziri-Azi, PhD, then Director-General of Nigeria's National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).

Personal commendation
"Your efforts are a testament to the incredible impact that individual actions, when united, can have on the lives of others and society as a whole."
Prof. Fatima Waziri-Azi, PhDFormer Director-GeneralNational Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Nigeria
Spotlight · 04Journalism · National television
From a T-VINE feature to national TV

"Turning the TRNC into a tech hub" — the feature that landed on national television.

A 2022 T-VINE feature laying out how Northern Cyprus could turn its student population, regulatory gaps and geography into a regional tech hub. The argument travelled beyond print — into a broadcast conversation on BRT 1 HD, the TRNC's national public television.

A rare instance of a bylined opinion piece getting picked up by state broadcast and turned into a policy conversation on air.

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Bylined essays and features in the press
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Every paper here answers a question we couldn't stop asking.

Policy briefs, working papers, long-form analysis. Written in plain English, footnoted like an academic, and published where anyone can read them.

IAcademic catalogue · 7 papers
Published01 · 2025
SSRN · Methodology

Iterative Adversarial Inquiry: The Whetstone Method

Extrafemi Research Desk·SSRN·2025

A framework for generating genuine theoretical contributions through structured adversarial debate.

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OPENFREEREAD
Published02 · 2025
SSRN · AI · Access

AI, Knowledge Accessibility, and the Democratisation of High-Quality Research

Extrafemi Research Desk·SSRN·2025

What happens to the academy when a well-prompted LLM can produce a defensible literature review in an afternoon.

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Published03 · 2025
SSRN · Policy audit

Ghost Statistics and Gender

Extrafemi Research Desk·SSRN·2025

A comparative audit of the numbers most-cited by gender-policy advocates on both sides — which survive contact with the source, and which are ghosts.

SSRNPolicy
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Published04 · 2025
SSRN · Demography

Fertility Trends — The Aspiration Horizon

Extrafemi Research Desk·SSRN·2025

Why fertility falls as opportunity rises, and why the countries that succeed loudest may quietly stop replacing themselves.

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ARCHIVE· 1958–2024 ·
Published05 · 2025
SSRN · Documentary biography

Chief Micheal Soyebo Sowole of Ipara-Remo

Extrafemi Research Desk·SSRN·2025

A documentary biography of a Western Nigerian legislator, diplomat, and public servant — drawn from Hansards, family papers, and the diplomatic record.

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Published06 · 2022
Collaborative · 7 countries

Africa 80 — Challenges and solutions across the continent and diaspora

80 co-authors · 7 countries·Africa 80·2022

Co-authored with 80 Africans from seven countries, Africa 80 identifies the shared challenges facing Africans within the continent and across the diaspora — and proposes practical, on-the-ground solutions.

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Archived07 · 2012
Undergraduate thesis · Field research

Impacts of Climate Change on Water Quality of Self-Supply Wells

Supervised by Prof. Grace Oluwasanya·FUNAAB · Abeokuta·2012

An undergraduate thesis — supervised by Professor Grace Oluwasanya — investigating the impacts of climate change on the water quality of self-supply wells in Abeokuta-South LGA, Ogun State, Nigeria.

EnvironmentField researchNigeria
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Open by default

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