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, USA. He has 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 of Congress. He has received over 30 lifetime career awards and 14 honorary doctorates. He has written extensively on Nigeria, including A History of Nigeria (1989), Nigerian Political Modernity and Postcolonial Predicaments (2016), Violence in Nigeria (1998), and Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria (1998).
