Questions we chased.
Papers we published.
Policy work and academic research from the Extrafemi desk — peer-reviewed articles, statistical audits, documentary biography and bylined journalism. Open access, footnoted, and written to be read rather than merely cited. The catalogue below is complete: nothing published here has been withdrawn, and corrections stay on the record.
Start with the peer-reviewed PhD study on Nigerian e-commerce founders, or read the methodology that governs every paper on this desk.
Entrepreneurial Learning Dynamics of Nigerians in E-Commerce.
Nigerian e-commerce is one of the fastest-growing digital economies in the world — and one of the least studied inside the academy. This peer-reviewed PhD study is one of the few that goes inside the sector, interviewing 53 Nigerian e-commerce founders to trace how they actually learn: not from textbooks, but from loops of experience, failure, and adaptation in a resource-constrained market.
The paper proposes a conceptual model of experiential entrepreneurial learning grounded in Kolb's framework and the resource-based view, and offers a rare on-the-ground look at how Nigerian digital founders build, adapt, and scale.
The MBA thesis that made it into the North Cyprus chamber of commerce library.
The MBA study on how micro-sized businesses in North Cyprus actually use digital marketing was recognised by Cyprus International University and accessioned into the Cyprus Turkish Chamber of Commerce (CTCC) library collection — where local operators, students and researchers now use it as a working reference.
A quiet indicator that the work outlived the defence: not just archived, but adopted by the institution the research was written for.
The Aug 2021 trafficking exposé that helped pass a bill — and rescue Nigerian girls.
A T-VINE opinion investigation into the student-agent trafficking pipeline into North Cyprus was cited inside the Turkish Cypriot parliament and contributed to the passage of anti-human-trafficking legislation. The reporting also raised the awareness that led to the rescue of several Nigerian girls trafficked to the TRNC.
The work drew a personal commendation from Prof. Fatima Waziri-Azi, PhD, then Director-General of Nigeria's National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
"Your efforts are a testament to the incredible impact that individual actions, when united, can have on the lives of others and society as a whole."
"Turning the TRNC into a tech hub" — the feature that landed on national television.
A 2022 T-VINE feature laying out how Northern Cyprus could turn its student population, regulatory gaps and geography into a regional tech hub. The argument travelled beyond print — into a broadcast conversation on BRT 1 HD, the TRNC's national public television.
A rare instance of a bylined opinion piece getting picked up by state broadcast and turned into a policy conversation on air.
Every paper here answers a question we couldn't stop asking.
Policy briefs, working papers, long-form analysis. Written in plain English, footnoted like an academic, and published where anyone can read them.
Everything the desk has published, in full.
- 012025SSRN · Methodology
Iterative Adversarial Inquiry: The Whetstone Method
ByOlorunfemi Obasa·Dr. Precious Obasa (née Olusegun)SSRNA framework for generating genuine theoretical contributions through structured adversarial debate.
PublishedSSRNMethodRead the paper → - 022025SSRN · AI · Access
AI, Knowledge Accessibility, and the Democratisation of High-Quality Research
ByOlorunfemi Obasa·Dr. Precious Obasa (née Olusegun)·Temitope Obasa·Itunu IjilaSSRNWhat happens to the academy when a well-prompted LLM can produce a defensible literature review in an afternoon.
PublishedSSRNAIRead the paper → - 032025SSRN · Policy audit
Ghost Statistics and Gender
ByOlorunfemi Obasa·Dr. Precious Obasa (née Olusegun)·Temitope Obasa·Oluwatoni Abraham·Victoria OladipoSSRNA comparative audit of the numbers most-cited by gender-policy advocates on both sides — which survive contact with the source, and which are ghosts.
PublishedSSRNPolicyRead the paper → - 042025SSRN · Demography
Fertility Trends — The Aspiration Horizon
ByOlorunfemi Obasa·Dr. Precious Obasa (née Olusegun)SSRNWhy fertility falls as opportunity rises, and why the countries that succeed loudest may quietly stop replacing themselves.
PublishedSSRNDemographyRead the paper → - 052025SSRN · Documentary biography
Chief Micheal Soyebo Sowole of Ipara-Remo
ByOlorunfemi Obasa·Dr. Precious Obasa (née Olusegun)·Temitope Obasa·Oluwatobiloba ObasaSSRNA documentary biography of a Western Nigerian legislator, diplomat, and public servant — drawn from Hansards, family papers, and the diplomatic record.
PublishedSSRNHistoryRead the paper → - 062022Collaborative · 7 countries
Africa 80 — Challenges and solutions across the continent and diaspora
ByOlorunfemi Obasa·and 79 co-authors across 7 countriesAfrica 80Co-authored with 80 Africans from seven countries, Africa 80 identifies the shared challenges facing Africans within the continent and across the diaspora — and proposes practical, on-the-ground solutions.
PublishedCollaborativeAfricaDiasporaRead the paper → - 072012Undergraduate thesis · Field research
Impacts of Climate Change on Water Quality of Self-Supply Wells
ByOlorunfemi Obasa·Prof. Grace Oluwasanya (supervisor)FUNAAB · AbeokutaAn undergraduate thesis — supervised by Professor Grace Oluwasanya — investigating the impacts of climate change on the water quality of self-supply wells in Abeokuta-South LGA, Ogun State, Nigeria.
ArchivedEnvironmentField researchNigeriaRead the paper →
Bylined work, in the press.
Features, opinion and cultural criticism — filed mostly from Northern Cyprus and Nigeria, for T-VINE and other outlets. One of these pieces fed directly into legislation.
- 01Celebrating diversity in the TRNC: five-star El SaborCulture · T-VINE · Aug 2021
- 02Celebrating diversity in the TRNC: The AcademyCulture · T-VINE · Jul 2021
- 03How the TRNC can survive the economic fallout of the pandemicOpinion · T-VINE · Mar 2021
- 04The dubious role of agents and their enrolment practices for TRNC universitiesInvestigation · T-VINE · Nov 2020
- 05Dear world, Nigeria needs your help to #EndSARSOpinion · T-VINE · Oct 2020
- 06Maximising opportunities: 5 ways to help North Cyprus to developOpinion · T-VINE · Oct 2020
Three rules,
quietly enforced.
Written to be read
Plain English first, jargon only when it earns its place. If a smart non-specialist can't follow it, the paper isn't finished.
Footnotes over vibes
Every claim links back to the data, the document, or the interview. No unsourced assertions — even the ones we like.
Open by default
No paywall, no institutional login. If it's worth publishing, it's worth publishing where anyone can read it.
"A citation is a promise. A footnote is the receipt."
Reading is the start.
Sharing keeps the work alive.
If a paper here helped you think, cite it, forward it, teach with it. If you'd like the author in a room — a lecture, a panel, a podcast, a private roundtable — the desk is open to invitations.
Bring the question — we'll bring the receipts.
Commission a brief, propose a co-authored paper, or send a dataset that deserves a longer look.