Journal Article — All Publications

Information systems and digitization of traditional knowledge: Trends in cultural heritage and memory institutions and the WIPO Genetic Resources Treaty

The Journal of World Intellectual Property
(August 2025)

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamSeptember 9, 2025IP and Knowledge Governance, Indigenous, Indigenous Knowledge, CBD, WIPO, IPLC

Regime Complex in Life Sciences Innovation: Disclosure of Source, Traditional Knowledge and Shifts in Intellectual Property and Knowledge Governance

International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law
(June 2025)

Kente Weaving Among Akan and Ewe Peoples of Ghana

International Journal of Cultural Property
(December 2024)

Power Contestations in the Use of Agri-food Data: Towards a Sustainability Governance Approach

Law, Technology and Humans
(October 2024)

A Critical Examination of the African Legal Framework for Indigenous Knowledge

Journal of African Law
Vol. 67, Issue 1 (February 2023)

Smart farming and artificial intelligence in East Africa: Addressing indigeneity, plants, and gender

Smart Agricultural Technology
Vol. 3 (February 2023)

Transition to the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Africa’s Science, Technology and Innovation Framework and Indigenous Knowledge Systems

African Journal of Legal Studies
Vol. 15, Issue 1 (January 2023)

Marginalisation of Indigenous Knowledge in African Education: The Case of Rwandan Traditional Medicinal Treatments for Livestock

Open AIR (African Innovation Research) Network
Working Paper No. 24 (2021)
Co-authored with Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu and Vedaste Ndungutse

Other, Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamFebruary 18, 2021Agriculture and Biodiversity, Traditional Culture

Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Retooling Indigenous Resurgence for Development

CIGI Papers
No. 234 (2019)

Plant Breeders’ Rights, Farmers’ Rights and Food Security: Africa’s Failure of Resolve and India’s Wobbly Leadership

Indian Journal of Law and Technology
Vol. 14, Issue 2 (2018)

The Nollywood Phenomenon: Innovation, Openness and Technical Opportunism in the Modeling of Successful African Entrepreneurship

Open AIR (African Innovation Research) Network
Working Paper No. 19 (2018)

ICTs in Agricultural Production and Potential Deployment in Operationalising Geographical Indications in Uganda

Open AIR (African Innovation Research) Network
Working Paper No. 14 (2018)
Co-authored w/ Tesh Dagne

Tiered or Differentiated Approach to Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions: The Evolution of a Concept

CIGI Papers
No. 185 (2018)

Wandering Footloose: Traditional Knowledge and the "Public Domain" Revisited

Journal of World Intellectual Property
Vol. 21, No. 5-6 (2018)

Access and Benefit Sharing, Canadian and Aboriginal Research Ethics Policy After the Nagoya Protocol: Digital DNA and Transformations in Biotechnology

Journal of Environmental Law and Policy
Vol. 31, No. 1 (2017)
Co-authored w/ Vipal Jain

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamDecember 1, 2017IP and Knowledge Governance, Indigenous, International

A Cross-Regional Research Partnership for Sustainable Development: The Open African Innovation Research (Open AIR) Experience

Open AIR (African Innovation Research) Network
Working Paper No. 8 (2017)
Co-authored w/ Jeremy de Beer

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamJune 27, 2017IP and Knowledge Governance, Africa

Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Assessing Regional Integration in Africa (ARIA VIII)

Open AIR (African Innovation Research) Network
Working Paper No. 5 (2017)
Co-authored w/ Caroline Ncube, Tobias Schonwetter & Jeremy de Beer

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamMay 5, 2017Africa, IP and Knowledge Governance

Cross-Cultural Dynamics in Palliative Care: The Emerging Canadian Scenario

Dalhousie Law Journal
Vol. 39, No. 2 (Fall 2016)

Journal ArticleChidi OguamanamSeptember 21, 2016Health Law and Medical Ethics

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