Teaching Career

Dr. Ojior began his university teaching career in February 1983, at the University of Benin UNIBEN. He earned a promotion to the academic rank of Lecturer 1, in 1989 before returning to the U.S. for his doctoral studies. Ojior’s work in collaboration with two other scholars, at UNIBEN, Chief, Professor W. J. Oyaide and Dr. Nwabueze H. Achime impacted some of the decisions which appeared in the “Cookey’s Commission of 1986-87. Also, Ojior’s paper, “Leadership and Mass Mobilization,” presented at the Nigerian Political Science Association, Annual National Conference in Lagos 1986, set the groundwork for the establishment of the Nigerian Centre for Democratic Studies.

Dr. Ojior serves as an Associate Professor of Political Science (adjunct), at the Departments of Political Science and History, at Morehouse College and at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta. Professor Ojior’s subjects range from Behavioral Science to Media and Society; History of Society and World Civilization to History of African Diaspora; Politics and Global Issues, Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Contemporary African Politics, International Organizations, and Political Ideologies.

Professor Ojior has taught at Morris Brown College and Atlanta Metropolitan College, all in Atlanta, Georgia. A social scientist and a current affairs discussant, he is a skilled political analyst who has appeared on television programs in Nigeria and in the United States. Dr. Ojior is also a pan-Africanist; he writes about his homeland, Etsako, and his people to illustrate his love for pan-Africanism.