53pp., paperback, Carl Schlettwein Lecture 15, Basel, 2024

Nigerian historian Toyin Falola (b.1953, Ibadan) is Professor of African Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He served as Vice President of UNESCO’s International Scientific Committee Slave Route Project (2011-2015), currently serves on the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellows Programme and the International Committee of the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute at UNISA, and is past president of the African Studies Association (2013-2016).

Falola is the author and editor of more than 100 books, including Decolonizing African Knowledge: Autoethnography and African epistemologies (2022); Narrating War and Peace in Africa, edited with Hetty Ter Haar (2010); The Power of African Cultures (2008); African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective, with Steven J. Salm (2005); Pawnship, Slavery, and Colonialism in Africa, with Paul E. Lovejoy (2003); Nationalism and Africa Intellectuals (2001), and Pawnship in Africa: debt bondage in historical perspective, edited with Paul. E. Lovejoy (1994).

DECOLONIZING AFRICAN HISTORY

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