Toyin Falola
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 77508 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Toyin Falola |
| PRENOMES | Toyin |
| SOBRENOME | Falola |
| ASSINATURA | FALOLA T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2457-2930 |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 296 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 531 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 245 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 51 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up-to-date atlas on this 350-year history of kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps, especially created for the volume, that explore every detail of the African slave traffic to the New Wor…
Afterword
Within the dynamic realm of historiography and the generation of knowledge, the process of “Becoming Independent” serves as a profound testament to the tenacity and resolve exhibited by a wide array of intellectual communities in their efforts to confront and transform established narratives. This afterword explores the themes in this special issue, which not only offers a critical analysis of historiographical practices from both past and presen…
Women in Africa
This book introduces readers to the rich and diverse experiences of women across the African continent, covering their socio-cultural, political, and economic realities from the precolonial era right up to the modern day. In many precolonial African societies, women were empowered and considered to be important participants in the social structures and political systems that managed their communities, but during the colonial era, women were often…
Ayọ Olukotun – Mo Gbọ́ Ohùn Rẹ / Ayo Olukotun
Decolonizing African History
Understanding Colonial Nigeria
In this landmark new history, Toyin Falola analyses the impact of Britain's colonization of Nigeria from the late nineteenth century to 1960, when the country regained independence. Falola covers major events in depth, from the initial conquest and denial of Indigenous sovereignty, to the emergence and functioning of the colonial state, and later nationalist movements, offering fascinating insights into labour and trade relations, regionalism and…
Samuel Johnson, The History of the Yorubas
Prelude to Colonization
This chapter will address the various peoples, polities, individuals, movements, and the social-political and economic conditions of Nigeria before the colonial era (1900). It will also go over the processes that spurred ongoing transformations in the complex patchwork of political, cultural, and religious entities that dominated what is known today as Nigeria. This chapter names five principal events as the primary catalysts for these transforma…
Reflections on the future of African universities
Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe's essay 'African universities and the challenge of postcolonial development' sheds significant light on political and economic influences, freedom within academia, and the role of these institutions within wider socio-political contexts. I want to endorse some of his proposals and make additional suggestions to comprehend the complexities and potential directions of African universities
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Kenya
African Memoirs and Cultural Representations
Price of Instability
Africa’s problems are compounded by terrorism — the use of violence to attain certain objectives, including but not limited to armed insurgency, and secessionist agitations. Terrorism is a consequence of the prolonged state of instability across the nook and cranny of the continent. Put simply, terrorism and underdevelopment are the prices that Africa pays for treating with levity the need for stability. Africa cannot continue this way. There nee…
Ibadan In Ibadan
The University has served as the source of intellectual prowess of the nation and has constantly either produced great personalities in different walks of life or added to their scholastic formation or expansion. Second is the beautiful city of Ibadan, which has constantly reminded Nigerians of their heritage and served as a reference point of how progressive the existence of the town and gown can be. It is therefore not erroneous to affirm that …
Contemporary Identities
African Refugees
Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni and African Decolonial Studies
This book considers the work of the preeminent scholar on decoloniality, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, as a means of examining the development of decoloniality discourse and considering the future direction of the African knowledge economy. Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni has been instrumental in the construction of theories and ideas necessary for advancing a decolonial system of education and epistemology. This book considers how Professor Ndlovu-Gatsheni’s w…
The Palgrave Handbook of Kenyan History
This book covers Kenya’s precolonial and colonial history, society, culture, economics, politics, and environment with unprecedented thoroughness
A History of West Africa
This book introduces readers to the rich and fascinating history of West Africa, stretching all the way back to the stone age, and right up to the modern day. Over the course of twenty seven short and engaging chapters, the book delves into the social, cultural, economic and political history of West Africa, through prehistory, revolutions, ancient empires, thriving trade networks, religious traditions, and then the devastating impact of the Tran…
Birth of Breaking
The untold story of how breaking – one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today – began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s. Breaking is the first and most widely practiced hip-hop dance in the world, with around one million participants in this dynamic, multifaceted artform – and, as of 2024, Olympic sport. Yet, despite its global reach and nearly 50-year history, stories of bre…
Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing
Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing is the first book to bring rigorous literary, philosophical, and artistic discourse together to interrogate the ethics of governance and development in postcolonial Africa. It takes literature seriously as a context for philosophical reflection, vividly engaging the human agency, creativity, and resourcefulness of local Nigerians as political and social actors and shedding new light on …
The Palgrave Handbook of Africa and the Changing Global Order
Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project
The Women's War of 1929
Politics and economy in Ibadan, 1893-1945
Against decolonization
Against decolonization: taking African agency seriously." Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora
The material culture of the slave trade explored
Slow Death for Slavery. The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936
List of maps List of tables Preface 1. Slavery and the British conquest of Northern Nigeria 2. Fugitive slaves and the crisis in slavery policy 3. The debate on legal-status abolition 4. Emancipation and the law 5. Upholding proprietary rights to land 6. The role of taxation in the reform of slavery 7. The colonial economy and the slaves 8. The persistence of concubinage 9. Legal-status abolition: the final phase Appendix Notes Glossary Bibliogra…
Self-Assertion and Brokerage
Wives of the Leopard
Pawnship in Africa
The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies
Women’s Roles in Sub-Saharan Africa
This exhaustive exploration of the sociocultural, political, and economic roles of African women through history demonstrates how African women have shaped—and continue to shape—their societies. Women play essential, critical roles in every society; African women south of the Sahara are certainly no different. Women's Roles in Sub-Saharan Africa adds significantly to our understanding of the ways in which women contribute to the fabric of human c…
African Historiography
This is a tribute to Jacob Ade Ajayi, examining the four main areas he has addressed during his career: the importance of oral tradition as a historical source, Yoruba and West African studies, missionaries, and the historian's approach to the subject, focusing on the Ibadan school
Black Business and Economic Power
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Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History
The book traces the history of writing about Nigeria since the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on the rise of nationalist historiography and the leading themes. The second half of the twentieth century saw the publication of massive amounts of literature on Nigeria by Nigerian and non-Nigerian historians. This volume reflects on that literature, focusing on those works by Nigerians in thecontext of the rise and decline of African nationalist…
The Yoruba Caravan System of the Nineteenth Century
Salt is Gold
Pour remédier à la pénurie de sel au Nigèria durant la Deuxième guerre mondiale, l'état colonial a entrepris de faire revivre la production domestique, l'importation d'autres pays africains, le contrôle direct sur la distribution interne et le rationnement. L'intervention de l'état n'a pas été sans problèmes; en effet, les commerçants et les membres haut placés de l'élite politique ont cherché des moyens intelligents d'obtenir des allocations et …
Global Explanations Versus Local Interpretations
In 1918 an influenza pandemic of unprecedented virulence spread across the planet, infiltrating nearly all areas of human habitation. In less than a year the pandemic had run its course, ultimately responsible for some-where between 30,000,000 and 50,000,000 deaths worldwide. Truly, this was one of the greatest catastrophes in human history. However, despite the fact that the influenza pandemic has few historical rivals in terms of sheer loss of …
Culture and Customs of Nigeria
Series Foreword Preface Introduction Religion and Worldview Literature and Media Art and Architecture/Housing Cuisine and Traditional Dress Gender Roles, Marriage, and Family Social Customs and Lifestyle Music and Dance Glossary Bibliographic Essay Index
Development Planning and Decolonization in Nigeria
This work analyses the planning and impact of development schemes on Nigeria from 1940-1960. Using methods of economic history and based on documents from Britain, the USA and Nigeria, it examines the conflict created by the first colonial development plans and details the Ten Year Plan of 1946-56
Ghana in Africa and the World
Breaking the Chains
Lebanese Traders in Southwestern Nigeria, 1900—1960
Journal Article LEBANESE TRADERS IN SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA, 1900—1960 Get access TOYIN FALOLA TOYIN FALOLA The author is senior lecturer in history at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. I am grateful to the organisers and participants in three seminars where my essays on the Lebanese in West Africa were presented on different occasions in 1989: the Commonwealth seminar organised by Professors Anthony Low and David Fieldhouse of the University…
The Pan‐African Nation
Cassava Starch for Export in Nigeria during the Second World War
Although the economic policy of British colonial rule has received considerable attention,1 many gaps still exist in our knowledge of such commodities as rice, shea butter, maize, and cassava. In addition, only a few studies focus on the last fifteen years of colonial rule, in particular the impact of the Second World War on the export of raw materials that entered into international trade for the first time. The need for research on the less-kno…
From Hospitality to Hostility
The view that Ibadan society in the nineteenth century did not discriminate against strangers, irrespective of their origins in Yorubaland, is now firmly entrenched in the literature. To be sure, Ibadan, a new nineteenth-century Yoruba city-state, founded as a consequence of the political crises of the early decades of the century, did maintain an ‘open door’ policy to strangers, many of whom went there as adventurers, craftsmen and traders, hopi…
Africa's Media Empire
Publishing in Africa remains so difficult an enterprise that many publishers have collapsed, their dreams disappearing with them. This is especially true of the print media, particularly newspapers and magazines. During the past century, many magazines and newspapers failed to establish a loyal readership, keep costs down, insure wide circulation, or turn a huge profit. Consequently, not many African magazines can be viewed as “successful.” Drum …
The Power of African Cultures
An analysis of the ties between culture and every aspect of African life, using Africa's past to explain present situations. This book focuses on the modern cultures of Africa, from the consequences of the imposition of Western rule to the current struggles to define national identities in the context of neo-liberal economic policies and globalization.The book argues that it is against the backdrop of foreign influences that Africa has defined fo…
Nationalism and African Intellectuals
Tradition and Change in Africa
Oral Tradition as History
Church, Politics and Society in Ibadan in the Nineteenth Century
From Hospitality to Hostility
The view that Ibadan society in the nineteenth century did not discriminate against strangers, irrespective of their origins in Yorubaland, is now firmly entrenched in the literature. To be sure, Ibadan, a new nineteenth-century Yoruba city-state, founded as a consequence of the political crises of the early decades of the century, did maintain an ‘open door’ policy to strangers, many of whom went there as adventurers, craftsmen and traders, hopi…
A History of Nigeria
The Politics of Agriculture in Tropical Africa
Transport System in Nigeria
Missionaries and Domestic Slavery in Yorubaland in the Nineteenth Century
Power Relations and Social Interactions among Ibadan Slaves, 1850-1900
Research on slavery in Yorubaland has progressed rather slowly. Discussion on Yoruba society and the trans-Atlantic slave trade has been very brief,' and only Adeniyi Oroge has examined at some length the institution of domestic slavery with reference mainly to the nineteenth century.2 Several questions are yet to be posed, such as the precise impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade on different communities and socio-political institutions and t…
A Research Agenda on the Yoruba in the Nineteenth Century
The history of the Yoruba-speaking people in the nineteenth century has attracted considerable attention. The attempt to write on the era did not have to await the emergence of academic historians: some of the elites produced by the century took it upon themselves to be worthy chroniclers of their age. The most notable among these writers were Samuel Johnson, John Olawunmi George, E.M. Lijadu, Otunba Payne, and Mojola Agbebi all of whom wrote eit…
Nigeria and the International Capitalist System
State, Oil, and Agriculture in Nigeria
Nigeria and the International Capitalist System
The African Frontier. The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies
Cassava Starch for Export in Nigeria during the Second World War
Although the economic policy of British colonial rule has received considerable attention,1 many gaps still exist in our knowledge of such commodities as rice, shea butter, maize, and cassava. In addition, only a few studies focus on the last fifteen years of colonial rule, in particular the impact of the Second World War on the export of raw materials that entered into international trade for the first time. The need for research on the less-kno…
Iwe Itan Ọyọ
This article offers a translation of M. C. Adeyẹmi's book, A History of Old and New Ọyọ , completed in Yoruba in 1914. The original text comprises 32 pages, divided into ten short chapters, six of which treat the history of Ọyọ from the origins to 1914. The remaining four chapters examine cultural and political institutions. The translation retains the flavour of the original text which stems from a tradition of Yoruba oral historiography. M. C. …
The Yoruba Toll System
The Yoruba toll system has not been studied, in spite of its important place in Yoruba economy and politics. This essay fills the gap by examining toll collection among the Yoruba-speaking states of south-western Nigeria. It is divided into two parts, the first on the practice of toll collection during the pre-colonial era and the second on the changes introduced by the colonial administration. For the pre-colonial, it emphasizes the dominant asp…
Warfare & diplomacy in pre-colonial West Africa
Britain and Nigeria
Correspondence from the Royal African Company's Factories at Offra and Whydah on the Slave Coast of West Africa in the Public Record Office, London, 1678-1693
Lebanese Traders in Southwestern Nigeria, 1900—1960
Journal Article LEBANESE TRADERS IN SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA, 1900—1960 Get access TOYIN FALOLA TOYIN FALOLA The author is senior lecturer in history at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. I am grateful to the organisers and participants in three seminars where my essays on the Lebanese in West Africa were presented on different occasions in 1989: the Commonwealth seminar organised by Professors Anthony Low and David Fieldhouse of the University…
Ideology as a Determinant of Economic Systems
Incentives are not always of an economic kind, Stefan Hedlund and Mats Lundahl stress in this study of the role of ideology in Tanzanian development.The first part of the study offers a general dis
Pre-colonial origins of the national question in Nigéria
The author tries to put in evidence the pre-colonial origins of Nigerian national questions. Based on the Yoruba identity as case study, he deals with aspects relations whit the importance of the State in the interior of Yoruba groups in the pre-colonial era, as well as with the territorial domination, with the survival of the identity of the Yoruba in the pre and post-colonial era, and also with the emergency of a Yoruba conscience post-colonial…
Kemi Morgan and the Second Reconstruction of Ibadan History
I did not set out to write a new book, not even to write the history of Ibadan. I intended to re-write the old man's book. The concerns which dominated Yoruba historiography in the nineteenth century were similar to those of the first half of this century. Primary among these concerns were the patriotic desire to document Yoruba history, explain the turbulence of the nineteenth century, and inspire the new generation with a sense of history. Isaa…
In the Heart of the Hausa States
Journal Article In the Heart of the Hausa States Get access In the Heart of the Hausa States, 2 Vols., by Paul Staudinger, translated by Johanna E. Moody. Ohio University Monographs in International Studies, Africa Series, No. 56, Athens, Ohio, 1990. 425pp. £14.40. ISBN 0 89680 1608. TOYIN FALOLA TOYIN FALOLA University of YorkToronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 90, Issue 359, A…
Sokoto Province under British Rule 1903-1939
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