The History of Nigeria.(Book Review)

The Journal of Negro History;  January 1, 2001 ;     85 words ...The History of Nigeria. By Toyin Falola. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. Pp. 296, $35.00) This intriguing work focuses on Nigerian history from the early colonial period, to the present, and includes valuable insights on the state of the...

Adebayo Oyebade (ed.), The Transformation of Nigeria: essays in honor of...

Africa;  June 22, 2003 ;     694 words ......Transformation of Nigeria: essays in honor of Toyin Falola, Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2002...widely published for over thirty years, Toyin Falola has made an enormous contribution to...American and European institutions. Much of Toyin Falola's career has been spent ...

The Transformation of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola

African Studies Review;  September 1, 2004 ;     462 words ......of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World...collection of essays in honor of Toyin Falola. First is the remarkable disciplinary...chapters covering a wide variety of Nigerian topics. The material is arranged...provide anyone interested in recent ...

MWALIMU TOYIN FALOLA: THE MAN AND HIS WORK

Journal of Third World Studies;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......the following is part of what Mwalimu Toyin Falola wrote about himself in his Statement...awarded to Mwalimu Falola: Professor Toyin Falola deserves all the honors mat are coming...of such a great honor than Professor Toyin Falola. This man works harder in the broad...

An Unpredictable Soujourner

The Texas Observer;  September 10, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Professor of African Studies at the University of Texas, author Toyin Falola has written and edited over 50 academic books on subjects...city in southern Nigeria, and those of the United States. In Toyin Falola's rendition, the Ibadan of the 1950s is likely to appear...

Toyin Falola (ed.), Africa (volume 4): the end of colonial rule,...

Africa;  March 22, 2004 ;     636 words ...TOYIN FALOLA (ed.), Africa (volume 4): the end of colonial rule, nationalism and...Carolina Academic Press in a five-volume series edited by Professor Toyin Falola of the University of Texas at Austin (of which this is Volume 4). It...

Nigeria in the Twentieth Century

The International Journal of African Historical Studies;  May 1, 2006 ;     687 words ...Nigeria in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Toyin Falola. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2002. Pp...illustrations. $90.00. With characteristic wit and insight, Toyin Falola kicks off this mammoth tome (it is bigger than...coverage to consideration of women's agency in Nigerian ...

Christianity and Social Change in Africa: Essays in Honor of J.D.Y. Peel

The International Journal of African Historical Studies;  May 1, 2006 ;     584 words ......Change in Africa: Essays in Honor of J.D.Y. Peel. Edited by Toyin Falola. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2005. Pp. xix, 676...is compiled and well introduced by the editor, historian Toyin Falola, who brings his own breadth of knowledge and scholarly production...

The Dark Webs: Perspectives on Colonialism in Africa

African Studies Review;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Toyin Falola, ed. The Dark Webs: Perspectives on...Notes. References. Index. $45.00. Paper. Toyin Falola has been examining European colonialism...Coquery-Vidrovitch, and Terence Ranger. While Toyin Falola could not give us everything in a sin

Toyin Falola and Ann Genova (eds), Yoruba Identity and Power...

Africa;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ...TOYIN FALOLA AND ANN GENOVA (eds), Yoruba Identity and Power Politics. Rochester...00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00--978 15804 6219 8). 2006, 384 pp. Without Toyin Falola, the state of Nigerian and especially Yoruba studies would not be what...

Economic Reforms and Modernization in Nigeria, 1945-1965

African Studies Review;  September 1, 2007 ;     551 words ...Toyin Falola. Economic Reforms and Modernization in Nigeria, 1945-1965. Kent Ohio...xvi + 272 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.00. Cloth. Toyin Falola's second book on Nigeria's economic history during decolonization and...

Fact as Fiction in Debo Kontun's Abiku

The Journal of Pan African Studies (Online);  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......social history as he refreshes one's knowledge of recent Nigerian history by introducing literary embellishments which contribute...Fact as Fiction Kotun's theme centered post-independent Nigerian history with artistic finesse, and even though the events are not...

Fact as fiction in Debo Kotun's Abiku.(Critical essay)

Journal of Pan African Studies;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......social history as he refreshes one's knowledge of recent Nigerian history by introducing literary embellishments which contribute...Fact as Fiction Kotun's theme centered post-independent Nigerian history with artistic finesse, and even though the events are not...

(book review)

History Today;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Yoruba Warlords of the Nineteenth Century Toyin Falola and G.O. Oguntomisin Trenton, NJ and Asmara, Eritrea 301...the Nineteenth Century, two eminent Nigerian historians, Toyin Falola and G.O. Oguntomisin, explore the careers of the new generation...

(book reviews)

Journal of Asian and African Studies;  December 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Toyin Falola, (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1996), xxiv, 215 pp...the banality of which unhappily presages much of what is to follow. As Toyin Falola recognizes, development planning has lost credibility. Even when it...