The Toyin Falola Annual International Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora (TOFAC) was established in 2011 at the University of Ibadan, as the brainchild of the Ibadan Cultural Studies Group, stationed at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan. The vibrant Ibadan Cultural Studies Group seeks to promote excellence in cultural studies globally with Africa as the main focus. The rationale of TOFAC is to provide an international forum for scholars, researchers, graduate students, policymakers, politicians, and technocrats from all over the world to converge, annually, to engage their minds in brainstorming, interrogating and sharing information on humanistic, social and scientific discourses for the advancement of Africa and the world.

The conference is so named as an enduring legacy in honor of Professor Toyin Falola, the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, a creative writer, a foremost academic icon and certainly, the most celebrated published African/Black scholar of all times, in recognition of his tremendous achievements as a scholar and teacher of African and African Diaspora History.

Each TOFAC has brought together politicians, artists, graduate students, scholars, experts and amateurs in diverse fields of study, the general public to share ideas, brainstorm on the myriad challenges facing the peoples of the continent as well as the plethora of opportunities for growth that the continent represents in the changing and evolving political and economic climate of the world.