Research Focus:

Africa's social history and everyday life.

Biosketch:

Tunde Decker is a Social Historian interested in the cognitive processes (thoughts, emotions, self-apprehensions, and memory) of everyday people in colonial and postcolonial periods and how these people engage society in their consciousnesses. He uses phenomenological and textual approach to investigate everyday human experiences and to explain how life on the streets serves as fundamental documentation in the understanding of self-consciousness in colonial and post-colonial urban culture. He is also interested in the non-monetary, monetary and post monetary aspects of poverty in colonial and postcolonial periods as well as the techniques that 'street practitioners' use to partake in the social integration processes of cities. He just completed writing his fourth book entitled SELFIE: EVERYDAY AGENCY IN EVERYDAY PEOPLE IN COLONIAL LAGOS. The research was funded by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) African Humanities Program (AHP). He is currently the Principal Investigator of a TETFund Institution Based Research Grant on Assessing value preferences of adolescents in South West Nigeria. He is currently the Acting Dean, Faculty  of Humanities, Ikire campus of Osun State University.

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