Academic Publications

Dr. Ojior has published more than 150 feature articles (editorials), discourses, and academic journal articles. He has authored and co-authored books. This author’s works are enlightening and informative on Africa, its culture, and people. His intense love, understanding, and appreciation for his home land and culture have been the driving force behind his literary works, dispelling some of the myths and misconceptions about Africa and its diverse indigenes and culture. Several of Professor Ojior’s popular feature articles include “Is There Honour in Being Called a Chief?” “How Holy is The Holy Land?” and “Abrogate Sharia Court.”

Dr. Ojior is skilled in examining issues in diverse angles, which others do not seem to attempt. He says that there is always a third, fourth or even more dimensions to a coin or some issues, which most people seem not to recognize or understand. Blessed with a highly perceptive and intuitive insight, he makes people want to go back to learning arenas.

Professor Ojior opines that, “from nonsense we gather senses,” and in defense of African cultures, the author says that “he who runs from what he is, becomes what he or she is not.” In the first ever held Nigerian Presidential Dialogue with Nigerians in United States of America, Professor Coordinated and the Moderated the Political Committee, of the first ever Nigerian Presidential Dialogue with Nigerians in America. The task of the Committee was to suggest ways to sustain political democracy in Nigeria in 2001. He was also a local coordinator in Atlanta for “Africa Constituency” for Al Gore/Joe Lieberman in the November 2000 presidential elections in the United States. Dr. Ojior has interacted with two notable world leaders, Presidents John F. Kennedy, and William Jefferson Clinton, both of the United States of America, and he has received correspondences from the two outstanding individuals, including a letter of commendation from the President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.

Other important works produced by Dr. Ojior include the following:

“Party Supremacy over Elected Officials: A Misnomer in Presidential Democracy”, which, in 1983, called for sanity in the Nigerian political system where a political party’s membership cards, of the ruling party became a certification and license to win over inflated government contract sums that were not being carried out. He called the practice a misnomer in presidential democracy, and predicted the type of social anomie that brought about the Idiagbon/Buhari’s regime in 1983 in Nigeria.

With his “We Need Environmental Protection Agency,” in 1984, Professor Ojior became the first of few Nigerians, if there were any such Nigerians, to call on the then Federal Government to create such an agency for the sanity and purification of the Nigerian environment.

In, “Has Democracy Failed in Nigeria?” published in 1984, this author believed that Nigerians failed democracy as a political ideology. In his work in the year 2001, the author tells Nigerians or Africans in general, that democracy has been an African social philosophy in the past, but was borrowed by others who now attempt to claim its origin.

“Is there Honour In Being Called a Chief” was a rejoinder in a 1985 public debate between two learned gentlemen, Honorable S. M. Aka, who felt that there was honor in the word “chief” as a title for Nigerians, and Barrister Steven Giwa-Amu who considered it to be the contrary. Dr. Ojior aligned with Steven while attacking the origins of the word “chief” as a foreign appellation that demeans the culture of the African peoples.

In his work, “How Holy is The Holy-land,” in 1985, Ojior called on the government to stop funding the so-called holy-land pilgrimage which many Nigerians undertake every year to Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Jerusalem. Dr. Ojior alleged that in view of what goes on in those regions of the world, in terms of wars and the immoral practices by “pilgrims” who go to the Islamic Hajji every year, and the wars that have being going on in the northeast Africa region since the dawn of time, there seems to be nothing to write home about the holiness of the “holy-land.” Dr. Ojior’s Abrogate Sharia Court was an exercise in 1986 to end the dual legal systems in Nigeria, and it was only recently that Sharia Court has been outlawed in Nigeria.

In his Presidential Political Order for Nigeria in 1987, Dr. Ojior called for the continuation of the presidential political system of government as he blamed the political debacles of Nigeria on the Nigerian rulerships that overtime shirked their civic and moral responsibilities each time they ought not to have done so.

“Africa and Africans in The Diaspora: An Evaluation of the Impact They Have on Each Other,” is a book in which, in 1996, Dr. Ojior x-rayed the relationship between the people of Africa and those of the Diaspora. The book is an analysis of the psychological impact of the African experience worldwide. He discovered that there were abundant positives for the Africans, should Africa go on the political offensive to reclaim the Africans of the Diaspora.

Amongst other serious thoughts of Professor Ojior are: Female Circumcision: An African Perspective; The Political Empowerment of the Nigerian Women…; Nigerians: Lets Save Our Languages; Nigerians Abroad are Nigerians; Nigerians are the Best Image Makers for Nigeria; The Court and the Survival of Nigerian Democracy; and In Defense of Race Relation in America

Reparations For Africa And The African Diaspora, 1998 is the work in which Dr. Ojior called on African nations to join in the crusade to obtain reparations from European nations and the USA, all of whom were involved in the Trans-Atlantic trade.