Tade A. Aina

Tade Akin Aina is Governance and Civil Society Programmer for the Ford Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya, and Deputy Executive Secretary for Publications for CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa), Dakar, Senegal. Aina has published widely, including the books Globalization and Social Policy in Africa: Issues and Research Directions (1997), Quality and Relevance: African Universities in the 21st Century (1994), Child Development and Nutrition in Nigeria: a Textbook for Education, Health and Social Service Professionals (1992), Towards Industrial Pollution Abatement in Nigeria (1992), Environmental Consciousness for Nigerian National Development (1992), and Africans Look at Contemporary Africa: an Examination of some Works of African Social Scientists on African Politics and Society in the 1980’s (1985), and the essays ”Petty Landlords and Poor Tenants in a Low-Income Settlement in Metropolitan Lagos, Nigeria,” Housing Africa’s Urban Poor (ed.... Philip Amis and Peter Lloyd, 1990), ”Organized Labour and Politics in Nigeria During ‘The Second Republic’ (1979-1983)”, Zeitschrift für Afrikastudien (1990), ”Popular Settlements in Metropolitan Lagos, Nigeria: a Socio-economic and Structural Survey of the Habitat of the Urban Poor”, Third World Planning Review (1989), and ”The Commercialization of Housing Tenure in a Low Income Settlement in Metropolitan Lagos”. African Urban Quarterly (1989).