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This book examines the contributions of Toyin Falola to the field of African Studies since 1960, providing readers with the opportunity to review his work and introducing theoretical and methodological approaches for assessing his scholarship. Toyin Falola has attracted considerable academic attention as a leading African historian of this generation. Wide-ranging analyses of his career and contributions have been attempted in books and essays, most notably in five festschriften—two edited by Adebayo Oyebade, The Transformation of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola (2002) and The Foundations of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola (2003); one edited by Akin Ogundiran, Pre-Colonial Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola (2005); one edited by Niyi Afolabi, Toyin Falola: The Man, The Mask, The Muse (2010); and the most recent one edited by Akin Alao and Rotimi Taiwo, Perspectives on African Studies: Essays in Honour of Toyin Falola (2011).
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Vik Bahl and Bisola Falola, The Long Arm of Africa: The Prodigious Career of Toyin Falola (Brooklyn, NY: Saverance, 2010).
Adebayo Oyebade, ed., The Foundations of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003), ix.
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See, for example, Toyin Falola, Nationalism and African Intellectuals (Rochester, NY: Rochester University Press, 2001).
Imanuel Geiss, The Pan-African Movement: A History of Pan-Africanism in America, Europe and Africa, trans. Ann Keep (London, UK: Methuen, 1974).
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Francis P. Dinneen, S. J., General Linguistics, 7; Abdul Karim Bangura, “Introduction,” in Research Methodology and African Studies, ed. Abdul Karim Bangura (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1994), 4.
Dinneen, S. J., General Linguistics, 23; Abdul Karim Bangura, Sojourner-Douglass College’s Philosophy in Action: An African-Centered Creed (San Jose, CA: Writers Club Press, 2002), 17.
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Bangura, A.K. (2015). Introduction. In: Toyin Falola and African Epistemologies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137492708_1
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