Sheriff Folarin
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- Oro Nursery and Primary School, Oro Kwara State
- Abadina College, Ibadan, Oyo State
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| Born | 15 August 1973 Kaduna |
| Citizenship | Nigerian, Rwandan |
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| Alma mater | University of Ibadan |
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Sheriff F. Folarin is a United States-based Nigerian-Rwandan academic and international relations professor, who teaches at Texas State University, University of Rwanda, and the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria. He is a Pan-Africanist, and a founder and president of the African Homegrown Development Initiative (AHDI), a non-governmental organization that operates from the United States, Nigeria, and Rwanda. Folarin attained the full rank of Professor of International Relations in 2017 at Covenant University, becoming the first of such in the institution.[1]
In 2020, Professor Folarin was engaged by the Center for Conflict Management of the University of Rwanda to teach and mentor graduate students of the Center, including members of the Senior Command and Staff Course of the Rwandan Defense Force Command and Staff College, and the National Intelligence Academy. Folarin is also a professor-at-large at Ife Institute of Advanced Studies, Ile-Ife, and the Institute for Peace, Security and Development Studies of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria. The University of Johannesburg in South Africa, Institute of Future Diplomacy recently engaged him as a Senior Research Associate.[2]
Sheriff Folarin was born in Kaduna, Kaduna State, Northern Nigeria on 15 August 1973. He originally came from Abeokuta, Ogun State. Folarin had his primary school education in different parts of Northern Nigeria- Kaduna, where he attended LGA Primary School and Army Children School; Niger State, where he went to Bosso Primary School in Minna; and the Catholic mission-owned Oro Nursery and Primary School in Kwara State.[3] Afterward, he proceeded to Benue State for his secondary school education, first at Tilley Gyado College and later at the prestigious Government College Makurdi. After his father retired from the federal public service, which was the reason for the frequent changes of school in the North, he eventually moved with his family to Ibadan, Oyo State in Southwestern Nigeria, where he completed his secondary education, graduating from Abadina College in 1989.[4][5]
He proceeded to Nigeria’s premier higher institution, the University of Ibadan, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) degree in history, the best-graduating student in his set(UI). In 1993, he won the Oba Lipede Prize in History as the best undergraduate student with prize money and a certificate. Folarin pursued a Master’s degree in political science at his alma mater, Ibadan,and completed the program as one of the top two in a class of about 40 students. He proceeded to undertake a doctoral program at Covenant University and obtained a PhD in International Relations in 2010.[6]