Jimoh Shehu

Jimoh Shehu is a senior lecturer in the Department of Physical Education, Health & Recreation at the University of Botswana, where he teaches pedagogy and sociology of sport. He has been departmental head since 2008. He has previously taught at the University of Benin (Nigeria), Kenyatta University (Kenya) and the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). In 1996, he was Deputy Director of Operations at the Centre for Advanced Social Science, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. His research interests include discursive construction of physical education and sport pedagogy, sport and development policy analysis; and hierarchies, spatiality, subjectivities and inequalities in physical activity. His recent publications have appeared in Sport Education & Society, Educational Studies, Teacher Development, and South African Journal of Research in Sport, Physical Education & Recreation.