Muyiwa Falaiye, PhD., FNAL, is a Professor of African Philosophy/Studies at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. His research interests include African Studies, Political Philosophy, Philosophical Sagacity and Philosophy of Development.

Prof. Falaiye is an accomplished researcher and an astute administrator. Some of his publications include: Africa’s Political Stability: Ideas, Values and Questions, Ontario, Panaf Press (1999), African Spirit and Black Nationalism: A Discourse in African and African American Studies, Lagos, Foresight Press, (2003), Global Understanding in the Age of Terrorism, eds with Ayodeji Olukoju, Lagos, University of Lagos Press (2008), Sparks of Resistance, Flames of Change: Black Communities and Activism, eds with Sandra M Grayson, Foresight Press (2005), ‘Image of the Black Soul: From the Hut Near the Congo to the Banks of the Mississippi in Paul Lovejoy et.al eds  Africa and its Diasporas: History, Memories and Literary Manifestations Trenton: Africa World Press, Trenton, New Jersey (2008) ‘Is African Studies Afraid of African Philosophy?’ in Toyin Falola and A. Afolayan eds: A Handbook of African Philosophy  New York, Palgrave (2018) , Doctoral Training in Nigeria: Reengineering the Existing System for Sustainable Higher Education in Nigeria, with Moses Yakubu and Feyi Ademola-Adeoye,  Routledge: Taylor Francis  Group, London and New York  (2022), and Muyiwa Falaiye with Anthony Okeregbe ‘Women Sages in Male Epistemic Spaces-an Analysis of Patriarchal Forces in Female Knowledge Production’ in Katharina Schramm and Sabelo Ndlovu eds:  Knowing and Unknowing : African Studies at Crossroads E.J Brill Publishers, Leiden, Netherlands (2024).

Prof. Falaiye was Director, Confucius Institute, 2010-2013, Head of Philosophy at the University of Lagos, 2013-2015 and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the same University, 2015-2019. He was the Chair of University of Lagos Auditoria Management Board and the Media Ventures Board. Until his appointment as Deputy Vice Chancellor (Management Services), he was the Director of Institute of African and Diaspora Studies and the University of Lagos African Cluster Center (Lagos ACC), a Center of the Africa Multiple, Cluster of Excellence in African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Prof. Falaiye is a Fellow the Nigerian Academy of Letters.