The african diaspora toyin falola biography
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Toyin Falola
Nigerian historian (born 1953)
Toyin Omoyeni Falola (born 1 January 1953) is a Nigerianhistorian and professor of African Studies.
Falola is a Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria and of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, and has served as the president of the African Studies Association.[1] He is currently the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.[2]
Biography
Early life and education
Falola was born on 1 January 1953, in Ibadan, Nigeria.
He earned his B.A. and Ph.D. in History (1981) at the University of Ife, Ile-Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), in Nigeria.[3] In December 2020, he earned an academic D.Litt. in Humanities from the University of Ibadan.[4]
Academic career
Falola began his academic career as a schoolteacher in Pahayi, Ogun State, in 1970, and by 1981 he was a lecturer at the University of Ife.[5] He joined the faculty at