Biography

Olalekan Tolulope, Aduloju is a faculty member of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. He holds a B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Urban and Regional Planning. Currently, he is a recipient of a Ph.D. Commonwealth Scholarship, tenable at the University of Chester, United Kingdom. My broad research interests centre on changes in cities of the global south and how certain frontline conditions, such as urbanization, population surge, inequality, poverty, and dietary change create uneven landscapes. I have over the years focused on urban agriculture, and food security, while profiling who practices urban agriculture and where it is practiced.  Within the context of urban planning, I am also interested in the spatio-temporal dynamics of urban areas.  My new research framing is on understanding the undermining roles of power relations in fostering conflicts, migration, and city fragmentation and they create new political geographies.