Journal Editorship
Senior Editor, Oxford Research Encyclopedia in African History, 2016+
Editor, Yoruba Studies Review, 2015+
Editor, Journal of Africa Humanities and Social Sciences, 2015+
Co-Editor, African Economic History, (reappointed in 2015).
Editorial Board, Ife Journal of Contemporary International Affairs, 2015+
Editor (Africa), History Compass, 2011+
Editorial Board, Nigerian Studies Review, 2016+
Editorial Board, 3P+: KWASU Journal of the Arts, 2015+
Editorial Board, Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, 2015+
Editorial Consultant, Zaria Historical Research, 2014+
Editorial Advisory Board, Vienna Journal of African Studies, 2015+
Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of International Politics and Development (Babcock University) 2012+
Editorial Adviser, Kano History Journal, 2013+
International Advisory Board, Journal of African History, Politics, and Society, (Centre of African Studies, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic), 2013+
Editorial Board, Journal of African and Asian Local Government Studies, 2012+
Editorial Board, The Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora, 2009+
Advisory Board, The History of Historical Writing.
Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of African And Asian Local Government Studies, 2012+
Member, Editorial Board, OFO: Journal of Transatlantic Studies (Africana Studies Program, Bowling Green State University), 2011+
Editorial Advisory Board, Notes and Records: An International Journal of
African and African Diaspora Studies.
Editorial Advisor, Abuja Journal of Humanities, 2008+
Editorial Board, University of Lagos Sociological Review, 2006+
Faculty Editorial Board, University of Texas, Undergraduate Research Journal (URJ),
2005+.
Editor, African Economic History [published by the University of Wisconsin-Madison] 1992-2007.
Advisory Board Member, The Global South (University of Mississippi) 2004+
Member, Board of Editors of the Journal of Third World Studies (JTWS), 2005-2008.
Board Member, Classic in Black Studies, Humanities Press, 2002+.
Advisory Board Member, various encyclopedia projects (e.g., Africa in the twentieth
century, Africa, Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life Through History, etc.)
Editorial Advisory Board, Kleio, 2004+
Advisory Board, Ife Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 2001+
Advisory Board, Irinkerindo, A Journal of African Migration, 2002+
Advisory Board, Encyclopaedia of Africa (ed. K. Shillington), 1998+
Associate Editor, Environment and History 1995-1998.
Advisory Editorial Board, Journal of African History, 1991-2000; 2016+
Editorial Board Member, Research Journal of the National Council For Arts and Culture 1998+
Member, Advisory Board, Journal of Asian and African Studies, 1997+
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Benin Journal of Historical Studies, 1993+
Member, Editorial Committee, African Historical Sources.
Editorial Correspondent, Geneve-Afrique, 1989-1992.
Editor, ODU: A Journal of West African Studies,1983 to 1989.
Associate Editor, Lusophone Areas Studies Journal , 1982 to 84.
Associate Editor, The Herodotian: Journal of History, 1987+
Editorial Committee, Ife Humanities Society, 1987 to 90.
Editorial Consultant, Journal of History Teachers, (Nigeria) 1989+
Editorial Adviser, Nigerian Journal of Social Sciences, 1987-89
Editorial Adviser, IRORO: The Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, Bendel State University, Nigeria, 1989-1994.
Editorial Member, African Modernization and Development, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1987-1997.
Editorial Board, ANWE Educational Series, Jos, Nigeria, 1985-1992.