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Toyin Falola is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, at the University of Texas at Austin. He had served as the General Secretary of the Historical Society of Nigeria, the President of the African Studies Association, Vice-President of UNESCO Slave Route Project, and the Kluge Chair of the Countries of the South, Library of Congress. He is a member of the Scholars' Council, Kluge Center, the Library
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Téléchargez le livre :  Understanding Colonial Nigeria
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Understanding Colonial Nigeria

Toyin Falola


Cambridge University Press

2024-11-28

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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...

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Télécharger le livre :  Writing the History of the African Diaspora
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Writing the History of the African Diaspora


Toyin Falola


This Element is an analysis of the African Diaspora. It will define the African Diaspora and how the concepts behind the term came to be socially and historically engineered. The African diaspora is then placed into a broader historical context where the diverse,...

Parution : 2024-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Palgrave Handbook of Christianity in Africa from Apostolic Times to the Present
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The Palgrave Handbook of Christianity in Africa from Apostolic Times to the Present


Andrew Eugene Barnes , Toyin Falola


This comprehensive Handbook provides chapter length surveys of the history of Christian missions and Christian churches on the African continent since the time of Christ. Africa is rapidly becoming the most Christianized region of the world. While common...

Parution : 2024-03-07
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Kenya
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The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Kenya


Maurice N. Amutabi , Toyin Falola , Wanjala S. Nasong'o


This volume is a bold attempt to address a comprehensive range of themes and issues relating to contemporary Kenya. It covers independent Kenya’s history, society, culture, economics, politics, and environment with great breadth and depth, comprising thirty-four...

Parution : 2023-04-25
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Palgrave Handbook of Kenyan History
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The Palgrave Handbook of Kenyan History


Maurice N. Amutabi , Toyin Falola , Wanjala S. Nasong'o


This volume covers Kenya’s history, society, culture, economics, politics, and environment from precolonial times through the first years of independence. The book comprises twenty-one chapters divided into two parts. Part I focuses on the long precolonial moment,...

Parution : 2023-01-25
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project
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Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project


Toyin Falola


This book explores how modern Nigerian fiction is rooted in writers’ understanding of their identity and perception of Nigeria as a country and home. Surveying a broad range of authors and texts, the book shows how these fictionalized representations of Nigeria reveal...

Parution : 2022-07-14
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Decolonizing African Knowledge
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Decolonizing African Knowledge


Toyin Falola


Addressing the consequences of European slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism on African history, knowledge and its institutions, this innovative book applies autoethnography to the understanding of African knowledge systems. Considering the 'Self' and Yoruba Being...

Parution : 2022-07-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion
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The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion


Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe , Toyin Falola


The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion interrogates and presents robust and comprehensive contributions from interdisciplinary experts and scholars. Offering a range of perspectives and opinions through the prism of understanding the past about African...

Parution : 2022-05-20
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History
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The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History


Toyin Falola , Matthew Heaton


The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History provides a comprehensive history of Africa's most populous and most rapidly developing country. Rather than centering the rise of the nation-state, the Handbook reads the narrative of national politics alongside deeper histories...

Parution : 2022-02-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Palgrave Handbook of Africa and the Changing Global Order
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The Palgrave Handbook of Africa and the Changing Global Order


Toyin Falola , Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba


This handbook fills a large gap in the current knowledge about the critical role of Africa in the changing global order. By connecting the past, present, and future in a continuum that shows the paradox of existence for over one billion people,...

Parution : 2021-11-22
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding Modern Nigeria
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Understanding Modern Nigeria


Toyin Falola


Since its independence from Britain in 1960, Nigeria has emerged as Africa's second largest economy and one of the biggest producers of oil in the world. Despite its economic success, however, there are deep divisions among its two hundred and fifty ethnic groups....

Parution : 2021-06-24
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Télécharger le livre :  The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore
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The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore


Akintunde Akinyemi , Toyin Falola


This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars...

Parution : 2021-03-05
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Palgrave Handbook of Islam in Africa
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The Palgrave Handbook of Islam in Africa


Toyin Falola , Mustapha H. Kurfi , Fallou Ngom


This handbook generates new insights that enrich our understanding of the history of Islam in Africa and the diverse experiences and expressions of the faith on the continent. The chapters in the volume cover key themes that reflect the preoccupations and realities of...

Parution : 2020-09-26
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy
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The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy


Toyin Falola , Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba


This handbook constitutes a specialist single compendium that analyses African political economy in its theoretical, historical and policy dimensions. It emphasizes the uniqueness of African political economy within a global capitalist system that is ever changing and...

Parution : 2020-06-23
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Palgrave Handbook of African Education and Indigenous Knowledge
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The Palgrave Handbook of African Education and Indigenous Knowledge


Jamaine M. Abidogun , Toyin Falola


This handbook explores the evolution of African education in historical perspectives as well as the development within its three systems–Indigenous, Islamic, and Western education models—and how African societies have maintained and changed their approaches to education...

Parution : 2020-06-02
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics
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The Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics


Toyin Falola , Nimi Wariboko


This Handbook provides a robust collection of vibrant discourses on African social ethics and ethical practices. It focuses on how the ethical thoughts of Africans are forged within the context of everyday life, and how in turn ethical and philosophical thoughts...

Parution : 2020-03-30
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present
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The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present


Toyin Falola , Aribidesi Usman


The Yoruba are one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa, with significant populations in Nigeria, Benin and Togo, as well as a sizeable diasporic community around the world. By considering the art, religion, economics and political systems of the Yoruba,...

Parution : 2019-07-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
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Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa


Toyin Falola , Kenneth Kalu


This book offers new perspectives on the history of exploitation in Africa by examining postcolonial misrule as a product of colonial exploitation. Political independence has not produced inclusive institutions, economic growth, or social stability for most Africans—it...

Parution : 2018-10-08
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora
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Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora


Abimbola Adelakun , Toyin Falola


This book explores the politics of artistic creativity, examining how black artists in Africa and the diaspora create art as a procedure of self-making. Essays cross continents to uncover the efflorescence of black culture in national and global contexts and in...

Parution : 2018-07-26
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Pentecostalism and Politics in Africa
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Pentecostalism and Politics in Africa


Adeshina Afolayan , Toyin Falola , Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso


As the epicenter of Christianity has shifted towards Africa in recent decades, Pentecostalism has emerged as a particularly vibrant presence on the continent. This collection of essays offers a groundbreaking study of the complex links between politics and African...

Parution : 2018-06-29
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Africa and Globalization
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Africa and Globalization


Toyin Falola , Kenneth Kalu


This book considers the promises and challenges of globalization for Africa. Why have African states been perennially unable to diversify their economies and move beyond export of primary produce, even as Southeast Asia has made a tremendous leap into manufacturing?...

Parution : 2018-05-30
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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