Professor Dr. Kolawole Ogundowole, PhD.DSc., obtained his Masters and Ph.D. from the prestigious Leningrad State University. Leningrad.
He began his lecturing career at the University of Lagos in November, 1975 where he became a full professor of Philosophy in 1996.
He is an author who has published widely. Some of his published books include:
Self-reliancism: Philosophy of a New Order - Alternative Development Strategy for the New States (1988);
Colonial Amalgam, Federalism and the National Question: A Philosophical Examination (1994);
Concerning Self-retrieval of The Self (Problems of Retrieving African Primordial Universe of Being) - 2005;
The Amalgam, Kakistocracy, and Warfare Society: The Options (2006);
From Kakistocracy to Institution of Democracy (2014); and
U S Africa: The Path Not Taken (2014).
Professor Dr. Ogundowole was the first African to be conferred with an earned Doctor of Science degree in Philosophy by the highly reputable Saint Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, upon his successful defense of his Treatise, entitled: "Самопалагаемость как Философия Нового Социального Порядка" (Self-reliancism as the Philosophy of a New Social Order) in 1991 and the first Nigerian ever to earn such a degree in Philosophy.
He was Courtesy Professor at the Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA (1982/83 session), Visiting Research Scholar at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos (1990/91 academic session), Visiting Professor on invitation at the Lagos State
University, Ojo, (2000/2001), Visiting Professor at the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra (Jan. - Dec.,2009).
In the course of his academic endeavours Professor Ezekiel Kolawole Ogundowole supervised and graduated numerous Bachelor degree students, several Masters and a number of PhD students; he demonstrated a huge appetite for attending and presenting/delivering papers in scholarly fora, colloquia, in Nigeria, Africa, Europe, and America. Ideation, creating/ proposing new notions, concepts, theories, and systems.
His passionate area of research interest lies in the developmental strategies for African and backward areas in general.
