J. Shola Omotola, Ph.D. (Editor) holder of the 2023 Claude Ake Visiting Chair at the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) and the Department of Peace and Conflict Research (DPCR), Uppsala University, Sweden, is Professor of Political Science at the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Nigeria and Sabbatical Professor, office of the Director General, National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDs), National Assembly, Abuja, Nigeria (2024-2025). In 2017, he wasVisiting Professor at the Bayreuth Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth, Germany. He is Winner of the Tertiary Education Trust Funds (TETFUND) Institutional Based Research Grant, Nigeria’s Flagship Research Funder, to study Fake News and Nigeria’s 2019 elections (2019–2020).
His research interests are in Comparative African Governance and Politics, notably elections and democratisation studies. He has co-authored and/or co-edited six books, including The Political Economy of Kidnapping and Insecurity in Nigeria: Beyond News and Rumours (Springer Nature, 2024) and Nigeria’s 2015 General Elections: Continuity and Change in Electoral Democracy (UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).