
Bayo Ijagbemi
- Professor of Practice
Contact
- (520) 621-0063
- Learning Services Building, Rm. 238
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- ijagbemi@arizona.edu
Degrees
- Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology
- The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States
- Land Tenure Reforms and Social Transformation in Botswana: Implications for Urbanization.
- M.A. Art History
- The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States
- O-okun Yoruba in Yoruba Art Historiography: History, Problems, and Prospects.
Awards
- Favorite Professor
- Ashlea Allred, Fall 2014
- Ardine Grandberry-Thompson, Spring 2014
- Favorite Professor Nomination
- Patricia Ogunmola, Fall 2014
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
2024-25 Courses
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AFAS Research Approaches
AFAS 302 (Spring 2025) -
Africn Am+Us Foreign Pol
AFAS 482 (Spring 2025) -
Africn Am+Us Foreign Pol
POL 482 (Spring 2025) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Spring 2025) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Winter 2024) -
AFAS Research Approaches
AFAS 302 (Fall 2024) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
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AFAS Research Approaches
AFAS 302 (Summer I 2024) -
Intro African Amer Study
AFAS 220 (Summer I 2024) -
Intro African Amer Study
SOC 220 (Summer I 2024) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Summer I 2024) -
AFAS Research Approaches
AFAS 302 (Spring 2024) -
Honors Thesis
AFAS 498H (Spring 2024) -
Senior Capstone
AFAS 498 (Spring 2024) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Spring 2024) -
Introduction- Africana Studies
AFAS 200 (Winter 2023) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Winter 2023) -
Africn Am+Us Foreign Pol
AFAS 482 (Fall 2023) -
Africn Am+Us Foreign Pol
POL 482 (Fall 2023) -
Honors Thesis
AFAS 498H (Fall 2023) -
Intro African Amer Study
AFAS 220 (Fall 2023) -
Intro African Amer Study
SOC 220 (Fall 2023) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Fall 2023)
2022-23 Courses
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AFAS Research Approaches
AFAS 302 (Summer I 2023) -
Intro African Amer Study
AFAS 220 (Summer I 2023) -
Intro African Amer Study
SOC 220 (Summer I 2023) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Summer I 2023) -
Doing Business in Africa
AFAS 463 (Spring 2023) -
Intro African Amer Study
AFAS 220 (Spring 2023) -
Intro African Amer Study
SOC 220 (Spring 2023) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Winter 2022) -
AFAS Research Approaches
AFAS 302 (Fall 2022) -
Intro African Amer Study
AFAS 220 (Fall 2022) -
Intro African Amer Study
SOC 220 (Fall 2022) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Intro African Amer Study
AFAS 220 (Summer I 2022) -
Introduction- Africana Studies
AFAS 200 (Summer I 2022) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Summer I 2022) -
AFAS Research Approaches
AFAS 302 (Spring 2022) -
Africn Am+Us Foreign Pol
AFAS 482 (Spring 2022) -
Africn Am+Us Foreign Pol
POL 482 (Spring 2022) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Spring 2022) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Winter 2021) -
AFAS Research Approaches
AFAS 302 (Fall 2021) -
Doing Business in Africa
AFAS 463 (Fall 2021) -
Doing Business in Africa
AFAS 563 (Fall 2021) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
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The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Summer I 2021) -
AFAS Research Approaches
AFAS 302 (Spring 2021) -
Doing Business in Africa
AFAS 463 (Spring 2021) -
Doing Business in Africa
AFAS 563 (Spring 2021) -
Doing Business in Africa
MGMT 463 (Spring 2021) -
Doing Business in Africa
MGMT 563 (Spring 2021) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Spring 2021) -
African Amer Politics
AFAS 255 (Winter 2020) -
Ancient African Civiliz
AFAS 365 (Winter 2020) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Winter 2020) -
AFAS Research Approaches
AFAS 302 (Fall 2020) -
African Amer Politics
AFAS 255 (Fall 2020) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Fall 2020)
2019-20 Courses
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African Amer Politics
AFAS 255 (Summer I 2020) -
Doing Business in Africa
AFAS 463 (Summer I 2020) -
Doing Business in Africa
MGMT 463 (Summer I 2020) -
Introduction- Africana Studies
AFAS 200 (Summer I 2020) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Summer I 2020) -
AFAS Research Approaches
AFAS 302 (Spring 2020) -
Doing Business in Africa
AFAS 463 (Spring 2020) -
Doing Business in Africa
AFAS 563 (Spring 2020) -
Doing Business in Africa
MGMT 463 (Spring 2020) -
Doing Business in Africa
MGMT 563 (Spring 2020) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Spring 2020) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Winter 2019) -
AFAS Research Approaches
AFAS 302 (Fall 2019) -
Africn Am+Us Foreign Pol
AFAS 482 (Fall 2019) -
Africn Am+Us Foreign Pol
POL 482 (Fall 2019) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Fall 2019)
2018-19 Courses
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Caribbean Politics
POL 345 (Summer I 2019) -
Doing Business in Africa
AFAS 463 (Summer I 2019) -
Doing Business in Africa
MGMT 563 (Summer I 2019) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Summer I 2019) -
AFAS Research Approaches
AFAS 302 (Spring 2019) -
Ancient African Civiliz
AFAS 365 (Spring 2019) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Spring 2019) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Winter 2018) -
AFAS Research Approaches
AFAS 302 (Fall 2018) -
Doing Business in Africa
AFAS 463 (Fall 2018) -
Doing Business in Africa
AFAS 563 (Fall 2018) -
Doing Business in Africa
MGMT 463 (Fall 2018) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Fall 2018)
2017-18 Courses
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Caribbean Politics
AFAS 345 (Summer I 2018) -
Caribbean Politics
POL 345 (Summer I 2018) -
Doing Business in Africa
AFAS 463 (Summer I 2018) -
Doing Business in Africa
MGMT 463 (Summer I 2018) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Summer I 2018) -
AFAS Research Approaches
AFAS 302 (Spring 2018) -
African Amer Politics
AFAS 255 (Spring 2018) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Spring 2018) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Winter 2017) -
Doing Business in Africa
AFAS 463 (Fall 2017) -
Doing Business in Africa
AFAS 563 (Fall 2017) -
Doing Business in Africa
MGMT 463 (Fall 2017) -
Doing Business in Africa
MGMT 563 (Fall 2017) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Fall 2017)
2016-17 Courses
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Caribbean Politics
AFAS 345 (Summer I 2017) -
Caribbean Politics
POL 345 (Summer I 2017) -
Doing Business in Africa
AFAS 563 (Summer I 2017) -
Doing Business in Africa
MGMT 463 (Summer I 2017) -
Doing Business in Africa
MGMT 563 (Summer I 2017) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Summer I 2017) -
AFAS Research Approaches
AFAS 302 (Spring 2017) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Spring 2017) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Winter 2016) -
Doing Business in Africa
AFAS 463 (Fall 2016) -
Doing Business in Africa
AFAS 563 (Fall 2016) -
Doing Business in Africa
MGMT 463 (Fall 2016) -
Doing Business in Africa
MGMT 563 (Fall 2016) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Fall 2016)
2015-16 Courses
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Caribbean Politics
AFAS 345 (Summer I 2016) -
Caribbean Politics
POL 345 (Summer I 2016) -
Doing Business in Africa
AFAS 563 (Summer I 2016) -
Doing Business in Africa
MGMT 463 (Summer I 2016) -
Doing Business in Africa
MGMT 563 (Summer I 2016) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Summer I 2016) -
Doing Business in Africa
AFAS 463 (Spring 2016) -
Doing Business in Africa
AFAS 563 (Spring 2016) -
Doing Business in Africa
MGMT 463 (Spring 2016) -
The Africana Experience
AFAS 160A1 (Spring 2016)
Scholarly Contributions
Journals/Publications
- Ijagbemi, B. (2016). Hustling Is Not Stealing: Stories of An African Bar Girl.John M. Chernoff. Chicago, IL, and London, UK: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. [xvi] + 480 pp. (Cloth US$87.00; Paper US$32.00; EBook US$7.00-32.00)Exchange Is Not Robbery: More Stories of An. Transforming Anthropology, 24(1), 80-82. doi:10.1111/traa.12064
- Ijagbemi, B. (2006). LAND TENURE REFORMS AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN BOTSWANA: IMPLICATIONS FOR URBANIZATION. Dissertation, 381.More infoLand reforms, with the majority bordering on full scale revision of tenure rules have become a recurrent theme in the agenda of most African states since attaining political independence. For southern Africa, and a number of former colonies where the white settler populations acting in concert with the colonial administrations dispossessed the majority of the native populations of their land, the reforms have taken the form of restitution and redistribution of land. Unlike these types of reforms in southern African and because the Bechuanaland Protectorate was not a settler colony, Botswana has framed its land tenure and land use reforms with an eye on the problems associated with common property management. My dissertation evaluates the effects of Botswana’s land reforms on social transformations in Kweneng District by carefully investigating their impacts on households’ livelihood strategies, kinship ties, and social balance of power on one hand, and the implications of these transformations for urbanization on the other. While acknowledging the good intentions of the government as encapsulated in the objectives of the reform policies, it is my contention that several areas which were never taken into account during the formulation of these policies have been adversely impacted. Unfortunately, the unintended consequences have overshadowed the targeted ends of the reforms. These results are visible in the contemporary family and kinship structure, the chieftaincy institution, livelihood systems in livestock and arable agriculture, administration of justice, and the phenomenon of urbanization.
- Ijagbemi, B. (2003). Perspectives On African Urbanism: "New Methodologies" Beyond a baseline survey: development of a sampling technique for an urbanization study in Africa. Journal of Political Ecology, Vol 10(No 1).More infoUrbanizationencompassesbothphysicalandsocialdimensions.Theformerincludesthe attributesofsize,layout,landusepattern,andthepatternandrateofgrowthorexpansion.The socialdimensionontheotherhand,embodiesapanoplyofsubjectsthatinclude,butarenot limitedto,thecompositionanddistributionofthepopulation,housing,theavailabilityand accessibilitytoservices,andthelivelihoodstrategiesoftheurbandwellers.Whiledataonmostof thesevariablesmaybecollectedusingscientificsamplingtechniquessuchasthoseusedforthe NationalScienceFoundationsponsoredproject,CreationofaGISforsixCitiesinArid Environments:inMorocco,Senegal,Mali,Niger,TanzaniaandBotswana,whichaimfor representativesampling,researchonsomeoftheseandotherurbanissuesmayalsorequire complementarytechniques.Thispaperseekstoexaminetheadequacyoftheremotesensing imagery-basedrandomsamplingtechniqueincollectinginformationonthesocialdimensionsof urbanizationsuchastheurbanmigrantandtodemonstratetheneedforcomplementarytechniques suchasmigrants’networkanalysisatbothendsoftheruralandurbancontinuum.Thispaperis partofanon-goingdissertationresearchonlandtenurereformsandsocialtransformationin Botswana: implications for urbanization and development. Theprojectattempts“todocumentandassessthelinkagesbetweenlandcoverchange,urban structurechangeandthework/livelihoodhistoryoftheurbanpoorinsixAfricancitieslocatedin aridenvironments.”Toaccomplishthisobjective,theprojectprocessedandanalyzedremote sensingimagerytoascertainlanduse/landcoverchangesaswellastheframeworkforselectinga randomsampleofhouseholdsforinterview.Thefirstpartentailstheanalysisoftheremote sensingimagerytoidentifythevariouscategoriesofurbanlanduseateachtimeandoverthe studyperiod.Thismethodologyalsoallowsforthequantificationoftheobservedlandusechanges throughthecomputationofpixelsintheimagery.Thesecondcomponentoftheprojectentailsthe conductofhouseholdinterviewtoreconstructthelivelihoodhistoryoftheurbanresidents especially,thepoor.Theprocessedimagerywithagridoverlayisalsousedforthespatial stratificationofthecities(basedontheperceivedlanduseclasses)fromwhicharandomsampleof householdsareselectedforinterview.Thisprocessstartswitharandomselectionofcellsbya computersoftware,withabiasforpoorresidentialsectionsaswellasadjustmentsforstagesof growthinthedifferentsectionsofthecities.Alistofhouseholdsclosesttothecenterofeachcell arethendrawnupfromwhichtenarerandomlyselectedforinterview.Theclaimthatismadefor thissamplingmethodisthatitallowsforastratificationoftherandomsamplebasedontheland usepatternsperceivedfromtheremotesensingimagery.Inshort,thesamplingapproachaimsfor a scientific research that could be replicated. Whilethissamplingmethodmaybeappropriateintacklingabroadarrayofurbanissuesthat theNSFprojectisconcernedwith,itmaynotbeadequateininvestigatingquiteanumberthat relatetotheurbanmigrantandrural-urbanmigrationinwhichtheprojectisalsointerested.This paperwilluseurbanizationinBotswana,oneofthesixcountriescoveredbytheNSFproject,asa case study.
- Ijagbemi, B., Shmelev, S., & Ijagbemi, B. (2003). Perspectives On African Urbanism: “New Methodologies”. Journal of Political Ecology, 10(1), 57-61. doi:10.2458/v10i1.21652More infoThis article raises questions about sample size and representativity of the remote sensing based urban sampling methodology. It argues that for many purposes a larger sample, than that of the initial study, would be better and complementary sampling procedures such as network analysis and snowball sampling may be indispensable to capture the variation needed to study some specific research topics. It uses the case of recent immigration to Gaborone, Botswana, to illustrate these points. Key words: Gaborone, Botswana, rural-urban migration, sampling techniques, urbanization, remote sensing.
- Ijagbemi, B. (1996). O-okun Yoruba in Yoruba art historiography: History, problems and prospects. MA Thesis.
Proceedings Publications
- Ijagbemi, B. (2015, July 2 - 4). From the Kgotla to the Customary Courts: Changes and Continuity in the influence of the diKgosi in land matters in Botswana.. In Toyin Falola Conference 2015, Pretoria, South Africa.
Presentations
- Ijagbemi, B. (2016, December). Liberalism, Land Reforms, and Public Good in Botswana: A Reassessment. 59th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Washington, DC.. Washington, DC..
- Ijagbemi, B. (2017, November). DiKgosi and Governance: Changes and Continuity in the Role of the Bogosi in Botswana Politics.. 60th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. Chicago, IL. Chicago Marriot Downtown Magnificent Mile: African Studies Association.
- Ijagbemi, B. (2018, Nov 28 - Dec 1). Land Tenure Reform and Women in Botswana: A Social Justice Conveyance and More.. 61st Annual Meeting of African Studies Association, Atlanta, GA.. Atlanta, GA: African Studies Association.
- Ijagbemi, B. (2019, June). Culture in Business and Management Studies Research: An Anthropological Perspective. ECRM 2019, the 18th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business Management Studies, Johannesburg, South Africa.. Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa: ACPI, UK.
- Ijagbemi, B. (2019, November). It is Boaka (adultery) and Not "Spouse Sharing": Defining Extra-Marital Relations Among the BaKwena of Botswana.. 62nd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Boston, MA.. Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA: African Studies Association.
- Ijagbemi, B. (2015, July 2 - 4). From the Kgotla to the Customary Courts: Changes and Continuity in the influence of the diKgosi in land matters in Botswana.. Toyin Falola Annual Conference 2015, Pretoria, South Africa. University of South Africa, Pretoria: The Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute; Archie Mafeje Research Institute; Institute of Global Dialogue;.
- Ijagbemi, B. (2013, January). "Beyond The "Commons" Debate: The Tragedies of the Land Tenure Reforms in Botswana". Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Honolulu, Hawaii.
Reviews
- Ijagbemi, B. (2016. Toward a New Ethnography of Africa: Is Giving Natives Voice Enough?(pp 80-82). Volume 24, Issue 1, April 2016.More infoChernoff, John M. Hustling is Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003.480 pp. Exchange is Not Robbery: More Stories of an African Bar Girl. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. 425 pp.