Toyin Falola, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Toyin Falola

Nigerian historian

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1953

Place of Birth: Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

Profession: writer, historian, university teacher

Nationality: Nigeria

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Toyin Omoyeni Falola (born 1 January 1953 in Ibadan) is a Nigerian historian and professor of African Studies.
He is currently the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.
Falola earned his B.A.
and Ph.D.
(1981) in History at the University of Ife, Ile-Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), in Nigeria.
He is a Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria and of the Nigerian Academy of Letters.
Falola is author and editor of more than one hundred books, and he is the general editor of the Cambria African Studies Series (Cambria Press).