Toyin Falola (University of Texas, Austin)

Submitted:  Wed, 14 September 2011


Toyin Falola
Frances Higginbothom Nalle Centennial Professor in History
Department of History
MC B7000
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas  78712  USA

phone:  512 475 7224
fax:    512 475 7222
e-mail: Toyin.falola@mail.utexas.edu


Web site: http://www.toyinfalola.com/


Writes and teaches African history since the 19th century. 


Selected books:

Author of:

Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University 
Press, 2009.

The Power of African Cultures.  Rochester, NY: University of Rochester 
Press, 2008.

A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: An African Memoir. East Lansing, MI: Michigan 
State University Press, 2005.

Key Events in Africna History: A Reference Guide.  Westport, Conn.: 
Greenwood Press, 2002.

Nationalism and African Intellectuals. Rochester, NY: Rochester
University Press, 2001.

Development Planning and Decolonization in Nigeria.  Gainesville, Florida:
University Press of Florida, 1996.

Politics and Economy in Ibadan, 1893-1945. Lagos, Nigeria:  Modelor,
1989.

The Political Economy of a Pre-Colonial African State: Ibadan, 1830-1900.
Ile-Ife, Nigeria: University of Ife Press Ltd., 1984.


Editor of
Africa. Vols. 1-5. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2000-2003.


Co-edited works include:

With Emily Brownell.
Africa, Empire and Globalization: Essays in Honor of A.G. Hopkins.  
Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2011.

With Raphael Chijioke Njoku.
War and Peace in Africa.  Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2010.

With Ann Genova.
Historical Dictionary of Nigeria. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009.

With Matthew Heaton.
Health Knowledge and Belief Systems in Africa. Durham, NC: Carolina 
Academic Press, 2008.

With Matthew Heaton.
A History of Nigeria. Cambridge, UK; New York, USA: Cambridge University 
Press, 2008.

With Christian Jennings.
Sources and Methods in African History: Spoken, Written, Unearthed.  
Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2008.

With Salah M. Hassan.
Power and Nationalism in Modern Africa: Essays in Honor of Don Ohadike.
Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2008.

With Akinwumi Ogundiran.
Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora.  Bloomington, IN: 
Indiana University Press, 2007.

With Pat Williams.
Religious Impact on the Nation State: The Nigerian Predicament.
Aldershot, Hants, England; Brookfield, Vt.: Avebury, 1995.

With Julius O. Ihonvbere. 
The Rise and Fall of Nigeria's Second Republic, 1979-84.  London: Zed
Books, 1985.