Coloniality | The Harriet Tubman Institute /research/tubman The Harriet Tubman Institute at 快播视频 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:14:39 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Damola Adediji /research/tubman/profile/damola-adediji/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:39:14 +0000 /research/tubman/?post_type=profile&p=8947 Damola holds a master鈥檚 degree in Intellectual Property and Competition Law from the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center in Germany, a specialized LL.M program jointly administered by the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Law, George Washington University, Technical University of Munich, and the University of Augsburg.

Currently, Damola is pursuing his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, under the supervision of Professors Jeremy de Beer and Chidi Oguamanam of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and the Open African Innovation Research Network. His doctoral project examines, through a TWAIL lens, the essential facility doctrine within the framework of antitrust competition law, with the goal of addressing global copyright issues related to the availability and access to both text-based and digital educational materials published in Indigenous African languages of Nigeria and South Africa.

Since September 2020, Damola has been a research assistant and student fellow at the Open African Innovation Research Network. From 2023 to March 2025, he served as Deputy Lead of the Open AIR network鈥檚 New and Emerging Researchers Group. Since December 2023, he has been a visiting scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School, 快播视频, where he is affiliated with IP Osgoode, an independent voice that explores legal governance issues at the intersection of intellectual property and technology.

Keywords: Linguistic rights, Third World Approaches to International Law, African Agency, Copyright Law, Cultural Expressions, coloniality, and decoloniality

]]> Ify Okadigbo /research/tubman/profile/ify-okadigbo/ Wed, 14 Feb 2024 18:07:53 +0000 /research/tubman/?post_type=profile&p=7694 Ifeyinwa (Ify) Okadigbo, PhD. is a Black African Canadian scholar-activist with a strong record of developing theoretical and methodological frameworks for understanding the nuanced and complex experiences of Black African women across diverse physical and ideological contexts. She earned her PhD from 快播视频 in Gender, Feminist, and Women鈥檚 Studies, completing it in four years, passing without revisions, and receiving a nomination for dissertation prize by the faculty of Graduate Studies. In addition, she holds dual master鈥檚 degrees from 快播视频 where she earned a distinction, and the University of East Anglia, UK, in Gender and International Development.

With over a decade of research, teaching, and community engaged experience, her work explores gender, spirituality, governance, and institutional power in African and Black contexts. Her pedagogical practice is informed by critical, inclusive, and decolonial approaches that empower students to interrogate power, resistance, and social transformation. Beyond the academy, she collaborates with policymakers and community organizations to produce engaged, policy relevant research that advances gender justice, challenges racism, patriarchy and sexism across public and private spheres.

Keywords: Decolonization, Spirituality, African Feminism, Gender, Coloniality, Power

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