17.99 €
3 / 5A book which deals with many aspects of the colonial and post-independence periods and the country's relations with other nations. By examining key themes such as colonialism, religion, slavery, nationalism and the economy, the authors show how Nigeria's history has been swayed by the vicissitudes of the world around it, and how Nigerians have adapted to meet these challenges.
Published : 2008
Language : English
Pages : 370 pages
ISBN : 52168157
Dimension : 15.21 x 2.13 x 22.91cm
Toyin Omoyeni Falola (born January 1, 1953) is a Nigerian historian and professor of African Studies. Falola is a Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria and of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, and has served as the president of the African Studies Association.He is currently the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.
Falola began his academic career as a schoolteacher in Pahayi, Ogun State, in 1970 and by 1981 he was a lecturer at the University of Ife.Falola earned his B.A. and Ph.D. (1981) in History at the University of Ife, Ile-Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), in Nigeria.
He joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 1991, and has also held short-term teaching appointments at the University of Cambridge in England, York University in Canada, Smith College, Massachusetts, in the United States, The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, and the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in Lagos, Nigeria.
On 31 December 2020, he earned an academic D.Litt. in Humanities from the University of Ibadan.