Mr Adeyinka Makinde
Adeyinka Makinde LL.B (Hons) of the Middle Temple, Barrister has been a Visiting Lecturer at Westminster Law School since 2002. He has served as the Module Leader for the Advanced Applied Legal Research module on the Law Progression Summer School, Introduction to Legal Practice on the LL.B course and Criminal Law and Public Law on the Solicitors Exempting Degree. Prior to this, he delivered the Public Law option on the ILEX programme from 2002 to 2009.
Other teaching has involved conducting a revision session for foreign jurisdiction-qualified lawyers on the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme (QLTS); constructing an online Public Law module segment for the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) Foundation Level Law programme; and presenting a lecture on a topic on naval history to military officers on the Naval Warfare Course run by the Naval War College, Nigeria.
His teaching specialism in constitutional law allied to long term interests respectively in international politics, political history, military history and the history of espionage has over the course of time germinated into a research interest in the genre of ‘intelligence and security studies.’
In May 2013 he was invited to present a paper at the biennial international conference on security issues held by the Centre for International Intelligence and Security Studies (CIISS) under the auspices of the University of Aberystwyth where his paper, "Intelligence and Accountability: From the Cold War to the War on Terror" was presented as part of the theme, ‘The Past, Present and Future of Intelligence’
In September 2014, his analysis of the dangers of war between NATO and the Russian Federation was the subject of an interview he gave to the Voice of Russia. This was reported by RIA Novosti, Russia's international news agency. He has also been interviewed on RT's World's Apart and on CrossTalk the flagship programme of RT.
He has peer reviewed articles for journals including the International Journal of Criminology and Sociology.
He has authored two books on pugilists and has written numerous features on boxing and produced articles on international relations, history and culture. He has served as a programme consultant and provided expert commentary for BBC World Service Radio, China Radio International, the Voice of Russia and Russia Today.
He was a talking head on 'The Rivals', an IMG Sport-produced documentary on boxing rivalries which was made for Sky TV in 2007.
He contributed two chapters to the Cambridge Companion to Boxing, edited by Gerald Early and published by Cambridge University Press in 2019.
Adeyinka’s writings, encompassing books, essays and commentaries have been cited by a host of researchers ranging from scholars to established writers for trade published books. These include a memoir by the world renowned literary figure Chinua Achebe and an activist advocating constitutional reform in Australia. The citations span books, academic journals, an academic textbook as well as miscellaneous reference books.
His biography on a world champion boxer, Dick Tiger: The Life and Times of a Boxing Immortal, was designated as required reading for the topic “Sport, Migration, Post-Colonial Strife” on a course on Modern African Sports History at the University of Florida.
He has delivered talks before audiences in the United States and the United Kingdom. These have included GMB Trade Union-sponsored Black History Month workshops covering the connection between sports and the American Civil Rights Movement, a lecture given under the auspices of London’s Jewish Museum concerning the alleged Hebraic origins of the Igbo people of Nigeria and a book launch at the Jersey City Main Library in which he presented the findings of his research into the officially unsolved murder of a Mafia-connected boxer.
● Global Security
● Intelligence & Security
● Military History
● The History and Culture of the sport of Boxing
Books
JERSEY BOY: The Life and Mob Slaying of Frankie DePaula (iUniverse) 2010, ISBN: 978-1-45020-637-2, 274pp including b/w photographs.
DICK TIGER: The Life and Times of a Boxing Immortal (Word Association) 2005, ISBN: 978-1-59571-042-0, 312pp including b/w photographs.
News magazine articles
“Italy’s Ethiopian Massacre Finally Comes to Light” (Book Review of Ian Campbell’s The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy’s National Shame). New African Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 584 June (2018) 68-71.
"A Night To Remember But...” (Commemorating the semi-centennial of Black Africa's first world championship boxing contest fought between Nigeria's Dick Tiger and the American Gene Fullmer on August 10th 1963). Africa Today, Vol. 19, No. 0809, August/September (2013) 31-34.
Journal articles
"The Bonny Landing: The anatomy of Black Africa’s first amphibious operation, July to September 1967". The Mariner's Mirror, Vol.110, Issue 3 August (2024) 335–349
"Old Man of Biafra" (Chapter Excerpt from the biography Dick Tiger: The Life and Times of a Boxing Immortal). African Renaissance, Vol 2, No 5 September/October (2005) 124-130.
"Boxing: Rousing the Nigerian Giant." African Renaissance, Vol 2, No 2 March/April (2005) 68-73.
Book reviews
"On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World". Global Security and Intelligence Studies Journal, Vol 2, Number 1 (2016)103-105.
"Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire." Covert Policing, Terrorism and Intelligence Law Review, Vol 2, Issue 2 (2014)159-161.
Textbook contributions
"Pug of Ages: Weep for Me." Essay reproduced in Writing the Synthesis Essay, edited by John Brassil et al. New Jersey: Peoples Education, 2008 13-15.
Book Chapters
"The Africans: Boxing and Africa," in The Cambridge Companion to Boxing, edited by Gerald Early, New York: Cambridge University Press, 201 99-117.
"Jose Torres: The Boxer as Writer," in The Cambridge Companion to Boxing, edited by Gerald Early, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019 223-235.
Selected Unrefereed Essays and Commentaries
Global Security
“From Hegemony to Multi-polarity: How Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Russia is Creating a Modern Eurasia by Adeyinka Makinde,” SSRN (2023).
“Russia and Britain: An Enduring but Fruitless Rivalry,” Global Research dot Canada (2018).
“The Pan-Islamic Option: The West’s Part in the Creation and Sustaining of Islamist Terror,” Global Research dot Canada (2017).
“Saudi Arabia and the Doctrine of Global Islamist Terror,” Global Research dot Canada (2017).
“Israel and Islamist Militias: A Strange and Recurring Alliance,” Global Research dot Canada (2017).
“M.A.D.: The Nuclear Debate America Should be Having,” Global Research dot Canada (2016).
“The Syrian Tragedy: Western Foreign Policy and its ‘Useful Idiots’,” Global Research dot Canada (2016).
“Vladimir Putin and the Patterns of Power,” Global Research dot Canada (2015).
“The Crisis of Isis: A Debacle of a Great Game,” Global Research dot Canada (2014).
“The Ukraine Crisis: The Case for Russia,” Adeyinka Makinde, Writer Blog (2014).
“Democracy, Terrorism, and the Secret State,” Global Research dot Canada (2013).
History
“The Six Day War - Myth and Reality,” Global Research dot Canada (2017).
“Solzhenitsyn: The Price of Blacklisting a Nobel Laureate’s Book,” Adeyinka Makinde, Writer Blog (2013).
“Pope Pius and History,” Adeyinka Makinde, Writer Blog (2009).
Military History
"The Nigerian Civil War: A New History of the Bonny Amphibious Operation, July-September 1967," Adeyinka Makinde, Writer Blog (2023).
“Frank Kitson: A Soldier’s Legacy,” Adeyinka Makinde, Writer Blog (2016).
“About Brigadier Benjamin Adekunle,” Adeyinka Makinde, Writer Blog (2014).
“Skorzeny: The Mythical Commando,” Adeyinka Makinde, Writer Blog (2013).
African Political History
“The Tragedy of Ignatius Acheampong: Visionary and Kleptocrat,” Global Research dot Canada, (2020).
“The Iron-Fisted Ethiopian State,” Global Research dot Canada, (2016).
Music
“Remembering Fela Anikulapo-Kuti,” Dissident Voice (2017).
“The Legacy of Michael Jackson,” Adeyinka Makinde, Writer Blog (2009).
Boxing
“The Mystery of the Velodrome: Battling Siki Versus Georges Carpentier,” Adeyinka Makinde, Writer Blog (2016).
“Floyd Mayweather: The Aesthetics of African-American Boxing Style,” Adeyinka Makinde, Writer Blog (2013).
“Remembering Dick Tiger,” Eastsideboxing.com (2001).
"Intelligence and Accountability: From the Cold War to the War on Terror."
Presented at 'The Past, Present and Future of Intelligence' on 25th May 2013 at Aberystwyth University under the auspices of the Centre for Intelligence and International Security Studies (CIISS).
"The Ukraine Crisis 2022" | The Mind Renewed, April 25th 2022. (Link)
"Russia and Britain: An Enduring but Fruitless Rivalry" | The Mind Renewed, May 11th 2018. (Link)
"The Pan-Islamic Option: Historical Background (Part 2)" | The Mind Renewed, August 25th 2017. (Link)
"The Pan-Islamic Option: Recent Years (Part 1)" | The Mind Renewed, August 18th 2017. (Link)
"Can the British State Convict Itself: Part 2 - Rendition & The Troubles" | The Mind Renewed, December 11th 2016. (Link)
"Can the British State Convict Itself: Part 1 - Tony Blair" | The Mind Renewed, December 4th 2016. (Link)
Books
Work cited: "From Hegemony to Multi-polarity: How Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Russia is Creating a Modern Eurasia", SSRN, 2023.
Cited in the following book:
Freddy, Haans J. and Bijukumar, V. New Trends in Emerging Power-Great Power Conflicts, Palgrave Macmillan (Springer Nature Switzerland), 2024.
Work cited: "Chinua Achebe's There was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra", Academia dot Edu, 2012.
Cited in the following book:
Asakitikpi, Alex E. and Asakitikpi, Aretha O. Modern Nigeria, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.
Work cited: DICK TIGER: The Life and Times of a Boxing Immortal. Word Association, May 2005.
Cited in the following books:
Battaglia, Boris and Castaldi, Paolo. Pugni: Storie di boxe. Feltrinelli, May 2023.
Lis, Daniel. Jewish Identity among the Igbo of Nigeria: Israel's "Lost Tribe" and the Question of Belonging in the Jewish State. Africa World Press, Nov. 2014.
Oliver, Brian. The Commonwealth Games: Extraordinary Stories Behind the Medals. Bloomsbury Sport, May 2014.
Torromeo, Dario and Esposito, Franco. I Pugni Degli Eroi. Absolutely Free Editore, Dec. 2013.
Achebe, Chinua. There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra. Allen Lane, Sept. 2012.
Hall, Karen L. Game Plan: A Social History of Sport in Alberta. University of Alberta Press, Jun. 2012.
Hudson, David L. Boxing in America: An Autopsy. Praeger Publishers, Jun. 2012.
Redner, Charles. Down But Never Out. Open Books Press, Feb. 2010.
Work cited: "Debacle of a Great Game: The Islamic State and America's War on Iraq and Syria", Global Research, August 10, 2014.
Cited in the following book:
Sensini, Paolo. ISIS: Mandati, registi, e attori del 'terrorismo' internazionale. Arianna Editrice, 2016.
Work cited: "The Africans: Boxing and Africa", Chapter 8 In The Cambridge Companion to Boxing edited by Gerald Early, New York: Cambridge University Press, 201 99-117.
Cited in the following book:
Stapleton, Timothy. West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army, 1860-1960. University of Rochester Press, Dec. 2021.
Work cited: "Boxing and Pan-Africanism: Kwame Nkrumah Meets Roy Ankrah", Global Research dot Canada, Feb. 2019.
Cited in the following book:
Stapleton, Timothy. West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army, 1860-1960. University of Rochester Press, Dec. 2021.
Work cited: "Review of Manning Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention" The Daily Independent, Lagos (June 2011).
Cited in the following book:
Temple, Christel N. Black Cultural Mythology. SUNY Press (State University of New York Press), Apr. 2021.
Work cited: "Saudi Arabia and the Doctrine of Global Islamist Terror," Global Research dot Canada, June 2017.
Cited in the following book:
Wenlin, Tian. Getting out of the Dependency Trap: Development Dilemma and Road Choices in the Third World. Social Science Literature Publishing House, Sept. 2018.
Work cited: "The Destruction of Syria. Will Military Action put America and Russia on the Dangerous Path of a Possible Confrontation?" Global Research dot Canada, Sept. 2013.
Cited in the following book:
Luo Lin, Tian Wenlin and Tu Longde. Arab Development Report (2015-2016). Social Science Literature Publishing House, 2017.
Work cited: "Democracy, Terrorism and the Secret State: From the Era of Gladio to the War on Terror." GlobalResearch.ca, Jan. 2013.
Cited in the following book:
Paterson, Graham L. A Constitutional Journey. Xlibris, Feb. 2013.
Work cited: "The Politics of Anthony Mundine." Eastsideboxing.com, Oct. 2001.
Cited in the following book:
Sarra, Chris. Strong and Smart - Towards a Pedagogy for Emancipation: Education for First Peoples (Part of New Studies in Critical Realism and Education Series). Routledge, Aug. 2012.
Academic journals
Work cited: DICK TIGER: The Life and Times of a Boxing Immortal. Word Association, May 2005.
Cited in the following journal:
McCall, Dawson. "A Hero Who Made This Country Proud’: Boxing, Nation, and the Politics of Sport in Kenya, ca 1950–1980", The International Journal of the History of Sport, which was published online on October 30, 2023.
Work cited: "The Africans: Boxing and Africa", Chapter 8 of the Cambridge Companion to Boxing, (ed.) G. Early, 99-117. Cambridge: University Press. January 2019.
Cited in the following journal:
Hopkinson, Leo. "Only One Mayweather: a Critique of Hope from the Hopeful" which was published online on May 14th 2022 in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Work cited: "Italy’s Ethiopian Massacre Finally Comes to Light” (Book Review of Ian Campbell's "The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy’s National Shame") New African Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 584 June (2018) 68-71.
Cited in the following journal:
Fonju, Njuafac Kenedy. "Italian Hegemonic Hopes of Glory, God, and Gold (3Gs) Versus Gross Ambitions of Exploration, Expropriation and Exploitation (3Es) to Global Shameful Atrocities (GSA) Against Ethiopia 19th-20th Centuries" which was published in the October 2021 edition of the Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 10, pp. 365-397.
Work cited: "Project Balkanisation: Oded Yinon and an Enduring Plank of Israeli Foreign Policy". Global Research dot Canada, July 2018.
Cited in the following journal:
Aydin, Hasan. "Afrika'nın Balkanlaşması: Angola Örneği", Dumlupınar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, Issue 66, October 2020 pp 97-113.
Work cited: "Project Balkanisation: Oded Yinon and an Enduring Plank of Israeli Foreign Policy". Global Research dot Canada, July. 2018.
Cited in the following journal:
Abadi, Jacob, "Israel and Lebanon: Relations Under Stress" Contemporary Review of the Middle East, March 2020.
Work cited: DICK TIGER: The Life and Times of a Boxing Immortal. Word Association, May 2005.
Cited in the following journal:
Johnes, Martin and Taylor, Matthew. "Boxing, Race and British Identity, 1945-1962" The Historical Journal, 1 29, Cambridge University Press (2020).
Work cited: "M.A.D.: The Nuclear Debate America Should be Having". Global Research dot Canada, Oct. 2016.
Cited in the following journal:
Kővári, László Lt. Col."AZ Amerikai-Orosz Fegyversetkorlatozasi, Illetve Csokkentesi Megallapodasok Helyzete es Perspektivaja" Honvédségi Szemle,2019/5 pp. 102-113.
Work cited: Book review of "On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World.” Global Security and Intelligence Studies, Vol. 2: No. 1, Article 8 (2016).
Cited in the following journal:
Bonaldo, Frederico and Marques Silva. “Industria da Espionagem: Ponte Comercial ou Obstaculo a Paz?” Quaestio luris, Volume 5, Volume 12, No. 2 (2019) pp. 691-705.
Work cited: “Vladimir Putin and the Patterns of Global Power.” Global Research dot Canada, Nov. 2015.
Cited in the following journal:
Li Ming, Tseng. “No More Blood For Oil. How Could EU Help?” Review of Business and Economics Studies, Volume 5, No. 2 (2017), pp. 47-57.
Work cited: 'Israel, the "Neighborhood Bully": Deconstructing the Lyrics of Bob Dylan in the Light of the Gaza Crisis' Global Research dot Canada, July 2014.'
Cited in the following journal:
Farooqi, Irfanullah. "The 'Expansion' Of Literary and Poetic: The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature" in India International Centre Quarterly, Volume 44, No. 2 (Autumn 2017), pp. 23-34. Published by India International Centre.
Work cited: “NATO: Private Club of War Criminals.” Global Research dot Canada, Oct. 2016.
Cited in the following journal:
Ahmed, Mughees; Murtaza, Zainab & Shahzadi, Tanzila. “Libyan Gold Dinar Plan and US-Nato Retort”. The Government: Annual Research Journal of Political Science, Volume 6, No. 6 (2017), pp. 115-124.
Work cited: "Floyd Mayweather: The Aesthetics of African-American Boxing Style." Adeyinka Makinde, Writer Blog, Oct. 2013.
Cited in the following journals:
Perkins, Paul; Helmer, Richard J.N.; Mackintosh, Colin & Hahn, Allan G. "Reflections on Long-Term Development and Use of Automated Scoring Technology in a Sport (Modified Boxing) Context." World Journal of Engineering and Technology, Volume 5, No. 03 (2017), pp. 455-480.
Perkins, Paul; Hahn, Allan; Lucas, Richard & Keegan, Richard. “The Boxing Conundrum: Is there a Place for a New Variant of the Sport?” Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science, Volume 2, Issue 09 (2014), pp. 09-25.
Work cited: “The Iron-Fisted Ethiopian State.” Global Research dot Canada, Sept. 2016.
Cited in the following journal:
Yiannoutsos, Alexandra. “Crossing Arms: The Plight and Protest of the Oromo in Ethiopia.” The McGill International Review [Online] Nov. 8 (2016).
Work cited: DICK TIGER: The Life and Times of a Boxing Immortal. Word Association, May 2005.
Cited in the following journal:
Gennaro, Michael. “‘The Whole Place is in Pandemonium’: Dick Tiger versus Gene Fullmer III and the Consumption of Boxing in Nigeria." The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 30, Issue 16 (2013).
Work cited: "Retreading Hagler versus Hearns." Eastsideboxing.com, Apr. 2002.
Cited in the following journal:
Ehrlichman, Brad. "In This Corner: An Analysis of Federal Boxing Legislation." Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts. Volume 34, No. 3 (2011), pp 421-456.
Academic textbooks
Work cited: "Pug of Ages: Weep For Me." Cyberboxingzone.com, Oct. 2002.
Reproduced in the following textbook:
Brassil, John et al. Writing the Synthesis Essay. Peoples Education, 2007.
Reference books
Work cited: DICK TIGER: The Life and Times of a Boxing Immortal. Word Association, May 2005.
Cited in the following books:
The Editors of Salem Press. Great Athletes - Boxing & Soccer (Volume 1 of a 12-Volume set). Salem Press, Sept. 2014.
Grasso, John. Historical Dictionary of Boxing. Scarecrow Press, Jan. 2014.
Akyeampong, Emmanuel K.; Gates, Henry Louis (Editors). Dictionary of African Biography. Oxford University Press, Dec. 2011.
Hudson, David L. Combat Sports: An Encyclopedia of Wrestling, Fighting and Mixed Martial Arts. Greenwood Press, Apr. 2009.
Gates, Henry Louis; Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks (Editors). The African-American National Biography. Oxford University Press. Mar. 2008.
Think Tank papers
Work cited: “Debacle of a Great Game: The Islamic State (IS) and America’s War on Iraq and Syria”, Global Research dot Canada, Aug. 2014.
Cited in the following papers:
Yilmaz, Sait. “Kuresel Tetorun Geldigi Asamayi Nasil Okumaliyiz?”, 21 Yuzyil Turkiye Enstitusu (2015).
Yilmaz, Sait. “ISID ve Ortadogu’da Uzun Savas”, 21 Yuzyil Turkiye Enstitusu (2014).
Unpublished work (Theses & Dissertations)
Work cited: DICK TIGER: The Life and Times of a Boxing Immortal. Word Association, May 2005.
Cited in the following projects:
Gennero, Michael. “‘Empire Boxers are the Goods’: Race, Boxing, and Nigerians in the Black Atlantic," Nigeria in the Ring: Boxing, Masculinity, and the Empire in Nigeria, 1930-1957, unpublished dissertation, University of Florida (2016).
Obasa, Olusegun. Sports and the Modernity of Leisure in Nigeria: Stadium Space and the Symbolisms of Expressions, 1930-1980, unpublished dissertation, University of Texas at Austin (2015).
Work cited: "Floyd Mayweather: The Aesthetics of African-American Boxing Style." Adeyinka Makinde, Writer Blog, Oct. 2013.
Cited in the following project:
Perkins, Paul. "Can a Modified, Low Risk Form of Boxing Achieve Significant Community Intake?" unpublished dissertation, University of Canberra (2019).
Work cited: “The Six Day War: Myth and Reality”, Global Research dot Canada, June 2017.
Cited in the following project:
Havelkova, Lenka. “Conflict of Identities: Zionism and Palestinian Nationalism”, unpublished master’s thesis, Univerzita Karlova (2017).
Work cited: “The Manchester Bombing: A Case of State Criminal Negligence or Worse?”, Global Research dot Canada, May 2017.
Cited in the following project:
Giroux, Kathryn. “The Quest for an Optimal Balance: Civil Liberties in an era of Securitization: An Analysis of Canadian Anti-Terror Legislation", unpublished master’s thesis, McGill University, Montreal (2018).