Toyin Falola

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Toyin Omoyeni Falola (born January 1, 1953 in Ibadan , Nigeria ) is a Nigerian historian .

Live and act

Toyin Falola is the son of tailor James Adesina Falola and his wife Nihinlola Grace Falola. He dropped out of high school in the 1960s to take part in the farmers' protest movement against high taxation and poor working conditions. The loss of his grandfather during this protest movement gave him the idea of ​​studying the humanities instead of studying medicine. In 1970 he began teaching at a primary school in Pahayi , Ogun State . At the same time he studied history at the University of Ile-Ife , where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1976 , received his doctorate in 1981 and worked at the university until 1991. During this time he held guest lectures at the University of Cambridge , York University in Toronto, Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, the Australian National University and the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs.

In 1991 he went to the University of Texas at Austin . There he teaches history and African studies at the "Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair". Since 2010 he has also held a chair at Benue State University in Nigeria. His research, teaching and publishing activities focus on the political economy of Southwest Nigeria, the life of young people in Africa, biographies of African business leaders , ecology in Africa and the world oil industry .

Toyin Falola is a founding member of the Ife Humanities Society, President of the Nigerian Studies Association and Secretary General of the Historical Society of Nigeria. Since 2013 the annual conference of the “African Studies Association” has been called “Toyin Falola International Conference” (TOFAC), and since 2015 he has been President of the “African Studies Association”. He has been honorary chief of the Akako since 2000 and in Ugboland and Ibadanland since 2014. At the University of Texas at Austin in 2014 a “Dr. Toyin Falola Excellence Endowment ”.

Toyin Falola is married to Florence Olabisi Falola and has two sons and a daughter.

Fonts

Toyin Falola is the author or co-author of several books, he has written over 100 specialist articles and is the editor of several books and book series. He published a volume of poetry with Vivek Bahl. His autobiography A Mouth Sweeter than Salt , published in 2004, has won several prizes, including the EJ Alagoa Prize from the West African Oral History Association and the Distinguished Leadership and Scholarship Award from the Association of Third World Studies.

  • A mouth sweeter than salt. An African Memoir. Autobiography. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2005, ISBN 978-0-472-03132-0 .
  • with Ann Genova: The politics of the global oil industry. An introduction. Praeger, Westport 2005, ISBN 0-275-98400-1 .
  • with Vivek Bahl: Scoundrels of Deferral. Poems to Redeem Reflection. Carolina Academic Press, Durham, NC, 2006, ISBN 1-59460-338-3 .
  • with Matthew M. Heaton: A History of Nigeria. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-68157-5 .
  • with Ann Genova: Historical dictionary of Nigeria. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-6316-3 .

Editing:

  • with Robin Law: Warfare and Diplomacy in Precolonoal Nigeria. Essays in Honor of Robert Smith . University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin 1992, ISBN 0-942615-14-X .
  • Tradition and Change in Africa. The Essays of JF Ade Ajayi . Africa World Press, Trenton, NJ, 2000, ISBN 0-86543-769-6 .
  • with Barbara Harlow: African Writers and Their Readers. Essays in honor of Bernth Lindfors. Africa World Press, Trenton, NJ, 2002, ISBN 0-86543-860-9 .
  • with Christian Jennings: Sources and Methods in African History: Spoken, Written, Unearthed. Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge 2003, ISBN 1-58046-134-4 .
  • Ghana in Africa and the World: Essays in Honor of Adu Boahen . Africa World Press, Trenton, NJ, 2003, ISBN 1-59221-069-4 .
  • with Amanda Warnock: Encyclopedia of the middle passage. Greenwood milestones in African American history. Greenwood, Westport 2007, ISBN 0-313-33480-3 .
  • with Niyi Afolabi: African Minorities in the New World. Routledge, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-96092-2 .
  • with Augustine Agwuel: Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture. University of Rochester Press, Rochester 2009, ISBN 978-1-58046-331-7 .
  • with Hetty ter Haar: Narrating War and Peace in Africa (= Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Book 47). University of Rochester Press, Rochester 2010, ISBN 978-1-58046-330-0 .
  • with Jessica Achberger: The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment in Africa. Routledge, New York 2013, ISBN 978-1-136-68380-0 .
  • with Solimar Otero: Yemoja. Gender, sexuality, and creativity in the Latina / o and Afro-Atlantic diasporas. State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4619-5138-4 .
  • with Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi: Nigeria. ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara 2015, ISBN 978-1-59884-968-4 .

literature

  • Adebayo Oyebade (Ed.): The transformation of Nigeria. Essays in honor of Toyin Falola. Africa World Press, Trenton, NJ, 2002, ISBN 0-86543-997-4 .
  • Adebayo Oyebade (Ed.): The foundations of Nigeria. Essays in honor of Toyin Falola. Africa World Press, Trenton, NJ, 2003, ISBN 1-59221-119-4 .
  • Akinwumi Ogundiran (Ed.): Precolonial Nigeria. Essays in honor of Toyin Falola. Africa World Press, Trenton, NJ, 2005, ISBN 1-59221-219-0 .
  • Niyi Afolabi (Ed.): Toyin Falola. The man, the mask, the muse. Carolina Academic Press, Durham, NC, 2010, ISBN 978-1-59460-754-7 .
  • Akin Alao, Rotimi Taiwo (Eds.): Perspectives on African studies. Essays in honor of Toyin Falola. Lincom Europa, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86288-500-8 .
  • Abdul Karim Bangura: Toyin Falola and African Epistemologies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-137-49516-7 ( partial view in Google books ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Toyin Falola recipient of chair of Modern African History At-Large from Benue State University, Nigeria. on utexas.edu, January 14, 2010
  2. ↑ Chieftaincy Title for Toyin Falola on blackafricanliterature.blogspot.de
  3. ↑ Dr. Toyin Falola Excellence Endowment on endowments.giving.utexas.edu
  4. ↑ Book awards: West African Oral History Association's EJ Alagoa Prize for Best Book on librarything.com
  5. ↑ A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt on the University of Michigan website
personal data
SURNAME Falola, Toyin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Falola, Toyin Omoyeni (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Ibadan , Nigeria