Ancient Roots podcast with Joseph Ogbonna, executive coach and African enthusiast

Episode 10: Conversation with Professor Bayo Folorunso

Prof Bayo Is a Professor of Archaeology and former Head of Department, Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Ibadan.  His research interest includes ethnoarchaeology, historical archaeology and cultural resources management. Engages in consultancy in archaeological research and has published papers on African farming and promoting African Archaeology.

Episodes 9: Conversations with Dr Tunde Babalola - Part 2

Dr Tunde is the Andrew Mellon Postdoc at the British Museum, United Kingdom, and a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow at the Cyprus Institute’s STARC.  He was the Smuts fellow at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge, the McMillan Stewart fellow at the Hutchins Centre of Africa and African American Research, Harvard University, and a Postdoc at the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.  His research focuses on high-temperature technologies in pre-colonial West African societies, the role technology played in the emergence of complex society, and the ontology, sociality, and cultural processes of technology. He is the Director of the “Archaeology of Glass” project in Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

Episodes 8: Conversations with Dr Tunde Babalola - Part 1

Dr Tunde is the Andrew Mellon Postdoc at the British Museum, United Kingdom, and a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow at the Cyprus Institute’s STARC.  He was the Smuts fellow at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge, the McMillan Stewart fellow at the Hutchins Centre of Africa and African American Research, Harvard University, and a Postdoc at the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.  His research focuses on high-temperature technologies in pre-colonial West African societies, the role technology played in the emergence of complex society, and the ontology, sociality, and cultural processes of technology. He is the Director of the “Archaeology of Glass” projectin Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

Episodes 7: Conversations with Dr Kingsley Darajoimba - Part 2

An Environmental archaeologist who has excavated in southern Nigerian, Igboland and Yorubaland.  With his major interest on archaeopalynology, he uses the study of pollen, spores and certain microscopic plankton organisms as a tool to understand human-environment interactions with the aim of uncovering natural and cultural phenomena, and processes which drive landscape evolution. He is currently British Academy Newton International Fellow McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK.

Episodes 6: Conversations with Dr Kingsley Darajoimba - Part 1

An Environmental archaeologist who has excavated in southern Nigerian, Igboland and Yorubaland.  With his major interest on archaeopalynology, he uses the study of pollen, spores and certain microscopic plankton organisms as a tool to understand human-environment interactions with the aim of uncovering natural and cultural phenomena, and processes which drive landscape evolution. He is currently British Academy Newton International Fellow McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK.