PUBLICATIONS

Books

1.    Hot Spot: Sub-Saharan Africa, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2010), co-authored.

2.   Yoruba Fiction, Orature, and Culture: Oyekan Owomoyela and African Literature & the Yoruba Experience, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2010), co-edited.

3.    Reflections: Poems of Dreams and Betrayals, (Nashville: Westview, Inc. 2009).

4.       Culture and Customs of Angola, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006).

5.       The Foundations of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2003), edited.

6.       The Transformation of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2002), edited.

7.       Africa after the Cold War: The Changing Perspectives on Security, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 1998), co-edited.

Book Chapters

1.   “Yoruba Culture in Contemporary America,” in Adebayo Oyebade, ed., Yoruba Fiction, Orature, and Culture, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2010).

2.   “West Africa and the United States in Historical Perspective,” in Alusine Jalloh & Toyin Falola, ed., The United States and West Africa: Interactions and Relations, (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2008), co-authored.

3.   “Restoring Democracy in Sierra Leone: Nigeria’s Hegemonic Foreign Policy in West Africa,” in Olayiwola Abegunrin, ed., Nigeria in Global Politics: Twentieth Century and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Professor Olajide Aluko, (New York: Nova Publishers, Inc, 2006).

4.      “Africanizing Knowledge: the Burden of Academic Historiography,” in Toyin Falola, ed., Myth, History  and Society: the Collected Works of Adiele Afigbo, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2005).

5.      “Oral traditions and the Origins of the Yoruba,” in Nike Lawal, Matthew Sadiku, & Ade Dopamu, eds, Understanding Yoruba Life and Culture, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2004).

6.      “The Role of the Organization of African Unity in the Nigerian Civil War,” in Toyin Falola, ed., Nigeria in the Twentieth Century, (Durham: Carolina Academy Press, 2003).

7.      “Africa’s International Relations,” in Toyin Falola, ed., Africa Volume 5: (Durham: Carolina Academy, 2003.

8.      “A Retrospect on Colonial Nigeria,” in Adebayo Oyebade, ed., The Foundations of Nigeria, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2003).

9.      “Toyin Falola and the Historiography of Colonial Economy,” in Adebayo Oyebade, ed., The Foundations of Nigeria, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2003).

10.      “Radical Nationalism and Wars of National Liberation in Africa,” in Toyin Falola, ed., Africa Volume 4: Africa since 1945, (Durham: Carolina Academy Press, 2002).

11.      “Colonial Administrative Systems in Africa,” in Toyin Falola, ed., Africa Volume 3: Africa from 1885, (Durham: Carolina Academy Press, 2002).

12.  “Reluctant Democracy: The State, the Opposition, and the Crisis of   Political Transition,” in Adebayo Oyebade, ed., The Transformation of Nigeria, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2002).

13.  “The study of Africa in Historical Perspective,” in Toyin Falola, ed., Africa Volume 1: Africa to 1885, (Durham: Carolina Academy Press, 2000).

14.  “Euro-African Relations to 1885,” in Falola, ed., Africa Volume I: Africa to 1885, (Durham: Carolina Academy Press, 2000).

15.  “Redefining the Context and Content of African Security,” in Adebayo Oyebade & Abiodun Alao, eds., Africa after the Cold War, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 1998), co-authored.

16.  “Africa and Nuclear Weapons: Past Fears and Future Relevance for Security,” in Oyebade & Alao, eds., Africa after the Cold War, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 1998).

17.  “Conflict Management and Resolution in post Cold War Africa,” in Oyebade & Alao. eds., Africa after the Cold War, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 1998).

18.  “African Security: A Short Peep into a Long Future,” in Oyebade & Alao, eds., Africa after the Cold War, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 1998), co-authored.

Scholarly Journal Articles

1.       “’The Age of Imperialism is Ended’: The Anglo-American Conflict over the British Empire during World War II,” in Journal of History and Diplomatic Studies, 2 (1), 2005.

2.       “The Ghost of Somalia: the United States and African Crises in the Post-Cold War Period,” in Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians, (2004).

3.       “Feeding America's War Machine: The United States Economic Expansion in West Africa during World War II,” in African Economic History, 26, (1), 1998.

4.       “Re-shaping History Teaching and Learning in Nigerian Secondary Schools," in Curriculum and Teaching: International Review of Curriculum and Instruction, 6, (2), 1991.

5.       “African Studies and the Afrocentric paradigm: A Critique,” in Journal of Black Studies, 1, (2), 1990.

6.       “Imperialism versus Nationalism in the Writing of African History: The Evolution of an Africa Centered Approach in the Historiography of Nigerian History,” in Imhotep: A Review, 2, (1), 1990.

7.       “The Dilemma of Conflict Resolution: A re-assessment of the Role of the Organization of African Unity in the Nigerian Civil War,” in Ogun Journal of Arts. 2, (1), 1989.

8.       “The OAU and Peaceful Settlement of Disputes: An Assessment,” Nigerian Forum, (1), 1989.

9.       “A Critique of Ife Long Essays on Traditions of Origin,” in Ife Historian, 3, (2), 1986.

Encyclopedia Entries

1.       “Impacts of the Cold on Africa,” in Encyclopedia of the Modern World, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2008).

2.       “Liberia: History and Politics,” in New Encyclopedia of Africa, 2^nd edition, (Charles Scibner's Sons/The Gale Group, 2007).

3.       “Nigeria: History and Politics, Southern Nigeria,” (With Tekena Tamuno), in New Encyclopedia of Africa, 2^nd edition, (Charles Scibner's Sons/The Gale Group, 2007).

4.       “Liberia,” in Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450, (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan/Thomson Gale, 2006).

5.       “Dual mandate,” in Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450, (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan/Thomson Gale, 2006).

Reviews

1.      Toyin Falola, The History of Nigeria, (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000), in African Economic History, (1), 2003.

2.      Frederick Cooper, Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa, (Cambridge: University Press, 1997), in Journal of Asian & African Studies, 34, (3), 1999.

3.      Frederick Cooper & Ann Laura Stoler, Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in A Bourgeois World, (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997), in Journal of Asian & African Studies, 33, (4), 1998.

4.      Agonafer, Mulugeta, Africa in the Contemporary International Disorder: Crisis and Possibilities," (Lanham: University Press of America, 1996), in African Studies Review, 40, (3), 1997.

5.      Tsehloane Keto, The Africa Centered Perspective of History, (New Jersey: K.A. Publications, 1989) in The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 24, (1), 1991.

6.      Martin & Terry R. Kandel, Studies of Development and Change in the Modern World, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989) in West Africa, 26 March--1 April, 1990.

7.      S.O. Agbi, The OAU and African Diplomacy, 1963-1979, (Ibadan: Impact Publishers, Nigeria, Ltd. 1986), in Nsukka Journal of History, 1, Dec., 1989.

8.      Toyin Falola, Nigeria and Britain: Exploitation or Development? (Zed Press, 1987) in African Notes, 13, (1&2), 1989.

Conference Papers

1.   "African Historiography and Paradigm Shift: Constructing an Africa-Centered Perspective of Knowledge," presented at the  20^th Annual Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference, ANKH, A Scientific Institute, Philadelphia, PA., Oct. 17-18, 2008.

2.  "Facts and Misconceptions: Critical Discourse on Forms and Characteristics of Domestic Slavery in Pre-Colonial West Africa," presented at the  Tennessee Conference of Historians, Union University, Jackson, TN., Sept. 2007.

3.     “Coping with Challenges of Integration: The Church and African Immigrants in Nashville Metropolitan Area, 1990-2005,” presented at the Tennessee Conference of Historians, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN., Sept. 2006.

4.      “Exporting Religion Abroad: New African Immigrants in America and their Churches,” presented at the Conference on Movements, Migrations and Displacements in Africa, University of Texas, Austin, TX, March 2006.

5.      “Colonial Nigeria and Indigenous Newspapers: Eko Akete as Case Study,” Southern Interdisciplinary Roundtable on African Studies (SIRAS), Kentucky State University, Frankfort, April 14-16, 2005.

6.      “Disengaging From Africa: The United States and Crisis management in Post-Cold War Africa,” presented at Georgia Association of Historians Conference, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, April 2-3, 2004.

7.      “Reporting Lagos in the 1920s: Eko Akete and Radical Journalism in Southwestern Nigeria,” presented at the Conference on Yoruba History and Culture, University of Texas, Austin, TX, March, 2004.

8.      “Africanizing Knowledge: African Historiography and the Confrontation of the Ideology of Historical Darkness,” presented at the 10^th Africana Studies Conference, Tennessee State University, Feb.5-7, 2004.

9.      “The Lord’s Song in a Strange Land: African Immigrant Churches in America,” presented at the Southern Interdisciplinary Roundtable on African Studies (SIRAS), Kentucky State University, March 27-29, 2003.

10.      “Breaking the Rule: The Principle of Non-Intervention and the Nigerian Civil War,” presented at the Conference on Nigeria in the Twentieth Century, University of Texas, Austin, TX. April 2002.

11.      “Regional Organizations and Conflict Resolution in Africa: The Case of ECOWAS in Sierra Leone and Liberia,” presented at the Southern Interdisciplinary Roundtable on African Studies, University of Kentucky, Frankford, Kentucky, April 14-15, 2000.

12. “No Chance to be Kids on the Block: Child Soldiers in African Conflicts,” presented at the 16th Annual Pan-African Studies Conference, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, April 9-10, 1999.

13. “The Unforgotten Lesson of Somalia: The United States and a New Attitude to Peacekeeping in post-Cold War Africa,” presented at the Tennessee Political Science Association Meeting, Townsend, Tennessee, April 17-18, 1998.

14. “The Evolution and Development of Historical Writing in Nigeria,” presented at the 16th Annual Conference of the National Council for Black Studies, St. Louis, Missouri, April, 9-12, 1992.

15. “African Security Strategies: The Nuclear Weapons Dimension,” (presented at the 10th Annual Conference of the Association of Third World Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, October 1-3, 1992.

16. “Nommo: The Power of the Spoken Word in the Historiography of Pre-Colonial History of Nigeria,” presented at the Conference on African American Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, April 1991.