Area of Interest: Sociology/Ethnography
Address: Department of Sociology
               College of Human Development
               Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria.

 Some Published Works:

“Changing Values Concerning Marriage and Family in West Africa: The Case of Nigeria and Ghana” (in collaboration with K.A. Tejumola and H.O. Akinnagbe) in World Values Translated from English into Spanish and published by Complutence University (Universidad Complutense) Donoso Cortes 65, 5e izda Madrid, Spain. 1993. 

“Ethnographic Fieldwork Experience among the Egun of Badagry” in African Notes. Journal of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, 1990. 

The Culture of Vodun and Ancestor Worship in Badagry Town. Lagos: Interlingua Ltd. 2001.

 Oral Tradition and Slave Trade in Nigeria, Ghana and Benin.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris. (Book published in English and French. 2004) 

“Cultural Interpretation of Menstruation in Relation to Adolescent Girls in Nigeria” in Ife Psychologia International Journal of Psychology in Africa.  Nigeria:Centre for Psychological Studies, Ife. pp219-228. 

Research Activities
Alaba Simpson has been personally involved in community-based, market, social and ethnographic research. She has personally carried out research on diverse subjects in the Southern, Western and Northern parts of Nigeria. Other areas covered in her research activities include Ghana, Republic of Benin and Jamaica.

Areas of research activities which are mostly participatory include Gender, health, children and adolescent studies (including problems related to girl-drop out rates in secondary schools).

Current Research Work
Currently working on Fanti (Carreta ) Carnival: An Ethnographic Account of African-Brazilian Influence on the Island of Lagos, Nigeria.