Tag: Toyin Falola

It is with pleasure that I lecture on decolonisation at The Toyin Falola Masterclass on 5 May. I am excited ...

The conference honours the prolific career of Mr Falola, dubbed as the most cited African historian globally.

Mr Falola, a professor, delivered the First Olubadan Coronation Lecture organised in honour of Oba Ladoja in Ibadan on Wednesday.

Migration marks Africa's history and will continue to shape Africa's future. From trans-Saharan networks that surrounded empires across the world, ...

To overcome intellectual limitations, African countries must harness radical imagination. The future of Africa is written in Lagos, Dakar, Accra, ...

The invitation to give a series of lectures in Kenya and South Africa this month inspired this piece. The ideas ...

I am writing this piece from Lagos. “No gree” is what you now hear at every moment, every corner. I ...

Written by two professors and another academic, the book contains 36 essays as well as three extensive, back-and-forth conversations by ...

...my journey at Obafemi Awolowo University has been transformative, and the honour bestowed upon me today is not just a ...

In spite of the challenges, African literature has witnessed tremendous growth and positive evolutionary bouts since the advent of the ...

Sometimes, when events like this occur, one would need to take a moment to reflect on the many experiences and ...

The roles of the judiciary in pre- and post-election matters will never stop to beg the question of what should ...

Coups in Africa. Picture credit: Souleymane Camara/Reuters/Council on Foreign Relations There is need to address the root causes of these ...

The event was the first dialogue series organised by the office of the Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences at the ...

The US don lauded the JAMB registrar at an event organised by the ICPC in conjunction with the Anti-Corruption Academy ...

"If they politicians and political parties are not ready to reform, they will not be able to control the consequences."

Prof Akinjide Osuntokun says, "I have never seen any historian as fecund, deep, profound and fertile as Toyin is."

According to organisers, the event will feature tributes by eminent Nigerians, including former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

I will not be overreaching by stating that The Letterman is more about understanding the subject's psychology. Just like the ...

Global peace is a result of cumulative efforts from national and international endeavours; the former becomes the stronghold to build ...

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The Letterman, a 492-page, 25-chapter narrative non-fiction, curates some of the most significant and historical letters written and received by ...

This time, we must take a different, long-term approach to creating a digital pan-African education system. The total decolonisation of ...

In a world where the Yoruba maxim, "eniyàn l’ aṣọ mi" (humans — friends — are the clothes that cover ...

University of Nigeria (UNN) gate. I sing this dirge to Nigeria's dying future, which the government is ignorantly killing. Education ...