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Ogundiran worked as a newsroom editor at the
Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State (Nigeria) in 1991. He began his pre-doctoral teaching career in Nigeria at Delta State University and the University of Benin. His post-doctoral teaching took off in the Department of History at
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world of western Africa, especially questions of emergent communities, social complexity, and cultural history during the period 1000-1800 AD. Ogundiran has also facilitated collaborative research projects on the archaeology of
Atlantic Africa and the
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Settlement cycling and regional interactions in central Yorùbá-land, AD 1200-1900: Archaeology and history in Ìlàrè district, Nigeria
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