Articles, commentaries, opinions, reflections, essays, and other write-ups by Toyin Falola and colleagues.
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TOFAC 2026: An Intellectual Feast with Granaries of History and Storehouses of Civilizations
Shul-Nom Yohanna Bako The 15th Toyin Falola Annual Conference on ...
Professor Wilhelmina J. Kalu at 80
Toyin Falola Human society is interesting. It is interesting because ...
The Urgent Need for Therapy after the Release of the Kidnapped Students and Teachers of Orire Community
Toyin Falola We are blessed that the students and teachers ...
Life Challenges, No. 5: Trauma
Toyin Falola Trauma is not always recognizabledragging bloodied baggage behind ...
Professor Toyin Falola Appointed to the Elizabeth Isichei Chair of African History, University of Jos
By Our Staff Reporter Renowned Nigerian historian and Africanist, Professor ...
Why I Dedicated My Book on Elebuibon to Toyin Adepoju
Toyin Falola This month, I released a book on the ...
Life Challenges, No. 4: When Cancer Hits!
Toyin Falola Cancer! You come in without knocking,you thief with ...
TOFAC 2026: Identities: Concepts, Theories—Change and Continuity
Toyin Falola The idea behind TOFAC 2026 is based on ...
Feminism, Africanism, and Globalism: A Review of Toyin Falola’s Study of Doyin Aguoru’s Drama
Ibrahim A. OdugbemiThe Media School,Indiana University-Bloomington Toyin Falola’s Feminism, Africanism, ...
Power, Politics, and the African Conditions
Toyin Falola This short piece is part of the Masterclass ...
Death and the Ancestral World: A Response to Toyin Falola’s “Life Challenges, No. 2: The Certainty of Death”
Ademola Omobewaji Dasylva Well, death to the indigenous African mind ...
A Critical Reception of Toyin Falola’s “Life Challenges – Betrayal No. 3”
Nelson Fashina Again, this is a deep philosophy of a ...
Life Challenges, No. 3: Betrayal
Toyin Falola BETRAYAL Strangers do not forge the bitterest knife.It ...
The Toyin Falola Masterclass on “Power, Politics, and the African Condition,” University of Lagos, July 2nd, 2026
Toyin Falola On July 2nd, 2026, the Faculty of Social ...
Life Challenges, No. 2: The Certainty of Death
Toyin Falola THE CERTAINTY OF DEATH Poetic Preamble You will ...
Book Review of Toyin Falola, African Identities: Absence, Loss, and the Quest for Self-Definition, Pan-African University Press, Austin/Ibadan, 2026. 544 pp. ISBN: 978-1-943533-87-9.
Temitope Fagunwa What constitutes identity? Under what historical conditions does ...
A Review of African Identities: Absence, Loss, and the Quest for Self-Definition
Oluwafunminiyi Wasiu Raheem In the past week, waves of immigration ...
TOFAC 2026: Why I dedicated my book on African Identities to Professor Sati Umaru Fwatshak
Toyin Falola I did not think twice about who to ...
