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BOOKS

• Hot Spot: Sub-Saharan Africa, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2010), co-authored.
• Yoruba Fiction, Orature, and Culture: Oyekan Owomoyela and African Literature & the Yoruba Experience, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2010), co-edited.
• Reflections: Poems of Dreams and Betrayals, (Nashville: Westview, Inc. 2009).
• Culture and Customs of Angola, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006).
• The Foundations of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2003), edited
• The Transformation of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2002), edited.
• Africa after the Cold War: The Changing Perspectives on Security, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 1998), co-edited.

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BOOK CHAPTERS

• “Yoruba Culture in Contemporary America,” in Adebayo Oyebade, ed., Yoruba Fiction, Orature, and Culture, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2010).
• “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.
• “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).
• "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).
• “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).
• “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).
• “Africa’s International Relations,” in Toyin Falola, ed., Africa Volume 5: (Durham: Carolina Academy, 2003.
• “A Retrospect on Colonial Nigeria,” in Adebayo Oyebade, ed., The Foundations of Nigeria, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2003).
• “Toyin Falola and the Historiography of Colonial Economy,” in Adebayo Oyebade, ed., The Foundations of Nigeria, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2003).
• “Radical Nationalism and Wars of National Liberation in Africa,” in Toyin Falola, ed., Africa Volume 4: Africa since 1945, (Durham: Carolina Academy Press, 2002).
• “Colonial Administrative Systems in Africa,” in Toyin Falola, ed., Africa Volume 3: Africa from 1885, (Durham: Carolina Academy Press, 2002).
• “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).
• “The study of Africa in Historical Perspective,” in Toyin Falola, ed., Africa Volume 1: Africa to 1885, (Durham: Carolina Academy Press, 2000).
• “Euro-African Relations to 1885,” in Falola, ed., Africa Volume I: Africa to 1885, (Durham: Carolina Academy Press, 2000).
• “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.
• “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).
• “Conflict Management and Resolution in post Cold War Africa,” in Oyebade & Alao. eds., Africa after the Cold War, (Trenton: Africa World Press, 1998).
• “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.

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SCHOLARLY  JOURNAL ARTICLES

• “’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.
• "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).
• “Feeding America's War Machine: The United States Economic Expansion in West Africa during World War II,” in African Economic History, 26, (1), 1998.
• “Re-shaping History Teaching and Learning in Nigerian Secondary Schools," in Curriculum and Teaching: International Review of Curriculum and Instruction, 6, (2), 1991.
• “African Studies and the Afrocentric paradigm: A Critique,” in Journal of Black Studies, 1, (2), 1990.
• “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.
• “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.
• “The OAU and Peaceful Settlement of Disputes: An Assessment,” Nigerian Forum, (1), 1989.
• “A Critique of Ife Long Essays on Traditions of Origin,” in Ife Historian, 3, (2), 1986.

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ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

• “Impacts of the Cold on Africa,” in Encyclopedia of the Modern World, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2008).
• “Liberia: History and Politics,” in New Encyclopedia of Africa, 2nd edition, (Charles Scibner's Sons/The Gale Group, 2007).
• “Nigeria: History and Politics, Southern Nigeria,” (With Tekena Tamuno), in New Encyclopedia of Africa, 2nd edition, (Charles Scibner's Sons/The Gale Group, 2007).
• “Liberia,” in Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450, (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan/Thomson Gale, 2006).
• “Dual mandate,” in Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450, (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan/Thomson Gale, 2006).

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REVIEWS

• Toyin Falola, The History of Nigeria, (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000), in African Economic History, (1), 2003.
• 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.
• 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.
• Agonafer, Mulugeta, Africa in the Contemporary International Disorder: Crisis and Possibilities," (Lanham: University Press of America, 1996), in African Studies Review, 40, (3), 1997.
• 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.
• 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.
• S.O. Agbi, The OAU and African Diplomacy, 1963-1979, (Ibadan: Impact Publishers, Nigeria, Ltd. 1986), in Nsukka Journal of History, 1, Dec., 1989.
• Toyin Falola, Nigeria and Britain: Exploitation or Development? (Zed Press, 1987) in African Notes, 13, (1&2), 1989.

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CONFERENCE PAPERS

• "African Historiography and Paradigm Shift: Constructing an Africa-Centered Perspective of Knowledge," presented at the  20th Annual Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference, ANKH, A Scientific Institute, Philadelphia, PA., Oct. 17-18, 2008.
• "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.
• “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.
• “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.
• "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.
• “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.
• “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.
• “Africanizing Knowledge: African Historiography and the Confrontation of the Ideology of Historical Darkness,” presented at the 10th Africana Studies Conference, Tennessee State University, Feb.5-7, 2004.
• “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.
• “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.
• “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.
• “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.
• “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.
• “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.
• “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.
• “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.

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