Toyin Falola

Toyin Omoyeni Falola (an haife shi a ranar 1 ga Janairu, 1953)  mai ilimin tarihi ne kuma dan  Najeriya ne kuma farfesa na Nazarin Afirka. Falola dan kungiyar masana  Tarihin  Najeriya ne, na Cibiyar Nazarin Wasika ta Najeriya, kuma ya taba rike mukamin shugaban kungiyar Nazarin Afirka.  A halin yanzu shi ne Shugaban jacob da Frances Sanger Mossiker a Humanities a Jami'ar Texas a Austin. 

 Tarihin Rayuwa 

 Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
An haifi Falola a ranar 1 ga Janairu, 1953, a Ibadan, Najeriya. Ya sami BA da Ph.D. a iliminin tarihi a shekara ta (1981) a Jami'ar Ife, Ile-Ife ( Jami'ar Obafemi Awolowo ), a Najeriya.  A cikin watan Disamba 2020, ya sami digiri na ilimi D.Litt . Ya karanta ilimin sanin al'umma daga Jami'ar Ibadan . 

 Aikin ilimi 
Falola ya fara karatunsa ne a matsayin malamin makaranta a Pahayi, jihar Ogun a shekarar 1970, kuma a shekarar 1981 ya zama malami a jami'ar Ife .  Ya fara koyarwa a Jami'ar Texas a Austin a cikin 1991, kuma ya gudanar da alƙawura na ɗan gajeren lokaci na koyarwa a Jami'ar Cambridge ta Ingila, Jami'ar York a Kanada, Kwalejin Smith, Massachusetts, a Amurka, Jami'ar Ƙasa ta Australiya. a Canberra, Australia, da Cibiyar Nazarin Harkokin Kasa da Kasa ta Najeriya da ke Legas, Najeriya. 

 Bincike da ilmantarwa 
Babban abin da binciken Falola ya fi mayar da hankali a kai shi ne tarihin Afirka tun karni na 19, a al'adar Makarantar Ibadan .  Yankunan da yake da sha'awa sun kunshi  Afirka, Latin Amurka da Amurka; nazarorin shi sun haɗa da tarihin Atlantika, ƙaura da hijira ,daula da dunkulewar duniya, tarihin manazarta, dangantakar ƙasa da ƙasa, addini da al'adu . 

Falola shi ne marubuci kuma editan littattafai fiye da ɗari, da kuma babban editan Cambria African Studies Series ( Cambria Press ). 

Kwasa-kwasan da ya koyar a baya-bayan nan sun hada da "Gabatarwa akan al'adun africa, wani kwas na koyar da al'adu da al'adu na Afirka, wanda aka tsara don dalibai da suka rarabu ilimi a Afirka, da "Epistemologies of African/Black Studies", wani kwas a kan zartar da  Juyin Halitta na Nazarin Afirka / Baƙar fata, tare da mai da hankali kan koyarwa, hanyoyi da ci gaban tarihi na malanta a fagen. 

 Karatuttukan ilimi da kyaututtuka
Falola ya samu lambar yabo ta digirin digirgir, lambar yabo ta sana’a da kuma karramawa a sassa daban-daban na duniya, ciki har da:

 Emeritus Professor of Humanities, Lead City University Ibadan
 The Lincoln Award,
 Nigerian Diaspora Academic Prize,
 Cheikh Anta Diop Award,
 Amistad Award,
 SIRAS Award for Outstanding Contribution to African Studies,
 Africana Studies Distinguished Global Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award,
 Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters,
 Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria, and The Distinguished Africanist Award.
 He has also received honorary degree of doctors of letters from thirteen universities, including the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) during FUNAAB 26th convocation ceremony in November 2018, and Babcock University, in Ilishan-Remo.
Falola served as the president of the African Studies Association in 2014 and 2015.

Books
 Africa, Empire and Globalization. Essays in Honor of A. G. Hopkins, with Emily Brownell. Carolina Academic Press, Durham, NC (2011), .
 The Atlantic World, 1450–2000, with Kevin David Roberts (2008), .
 Yoruba Creativity: Fiction, Language, Life and Songs, with Ann Genova (2005), .
 A History of Nigeria, with Matthew M. Heaton (2008), .
 Britain and Nigeria: Exploitation or Development? Edited (1987). .
 Pawnship, Slavery, and Colonialism in Africa, with Paul E. Lovejoy (2003), .
 African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective, with Steven J. Salm (2005), .
 Historical Dictionary of Nigeria. With Ann Genova (2009). .
 Mouth Sweeter than Salt: An African Memoir  (2005), .
 Yoruba Warlords of the Nineteenth Century, with D. Oguntomisin and G. O. Oguntomisin (2001), .
 Yoruba Gurus: Indigenous Production of Knowledge in Africa (1999), .
 The Power of African Cultures (2008), .
 The Foundations of Nigeria: Essays in honor of Toyin Falola. Edited by Adebayo Oyebade (2003), .
 African Politics in Postimperial Times, with Richard L. Sklar (2001), .
 Counting the Tiger's Teeth: An African Teenager's Story (2014, University of Michigan Press), .
 Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society 3 vols. Edited with Daniel Jean-Jacques (2015), .
 The Political Economy of Health in Africa. Edited with Dennis Hyavyar (1992), .
 Yoruba Historiography (1991), .
 Pawnship in Africa: debt bondage in historical perspective. Edited with Paul. E. Lovejoy (1994), .
 Warfare and Diplomacy in Precolonial Nigeria: Essays in honor of Robert Smith. With Robin Law (1992), .
 The Rise and Fall of Nigeria's Second Republic, 1979–1984. With Julius Ihonvbere (1985), .
 Rural Development Problems in Nigeria. Edited with S. A. Olanrewaju (1992), .
 Culture, Politics and Money among the Yorubas. With Akanmu Adebayo (2000), .
 Religious Militancy and Self-assertion: Islam and Politics in Nigeria. With M. H. Kukah (1996), .
 Modern Nigeria: a tribute to G. O. Olusanya. Edited (1990), .
 Transport Systems in Nigeria. Edited (1986), .
 Violence in Nigeria: the crisis of religious politics and secular ideologies (1998), .
 The Military in Nineteenth Century Yoruba Politics (1984), .
 Islam and Christianity in West Africa. With Biodun Adediran (1983), .
 The Transformation of Nigeria: Essays in honor of Toyin Falola. (2002), .
 Culture and Customs of Ghana. With Steven J. Salm (2002), .
 Nationalism and Africa Intellectuals (2001), .
 Narrating War and Peace in Africa. Edited with Hetty Ter Haar (2010), .
 Culture and Customs of the Yoruba. With Akintunde Akinyemi (2001), .
 Encyclopedia of the Yoruba. With Akintude Akinyemi (2016), .

 TOFAC 
A Najeriya, akwai wani taro mai suna Toyin Falola na kungiyar nazarin al'adu ta Ibadan; kungiyar da Farfesa Ademola Dasylva ke jagoranta.  An gudanar da taron kasa da kasa na farko na Toyin Falola kan Afirka da ’yan Afirka (TOFAC) a shekarar 2011 a Jami’ar Ibadan .  Taron na biyu ya karbi bakunci ne a Legas wanda cibiyar bakar fata ta Afirka ta CBAAC karkashin kulawar babban daraktan cibiyar Farfesa Tunde Babawale.

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