 Aderinto is influenced by a "total" approach to historical research.Instead of locating historical ideas or events solely within a specific branch of history (such as social, political or economic), Aderinto adopts a holistic approach that borrows vocabulary, methodology, and discursive tools from a wide-range of disciplines and sub-disciplines.He is driven by ideas that do not "over-compartmentalize" history but connect diverse strands of knowledge in understanding the past.