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'Understanding Colonial Nigeria illuminates the intricacies of the interaction between the British and the people in the territory that became Nigeria. No doubt the book is an important source material for teachers, students and researchers of Nigerian history.' Aisha Balarabe Bawa, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto 'Falola's Understanding Colonial Nigeria brings a freshness to the discourse on the colonial era of Nigeria's History, introducing new themes and expanding the methodology for engaging this crucial period of Nigerian History.' CBN Ogbogbo, University of Ibadan

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Toyin Falola is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. He served as the General Secretary of the Historical Society of Nigeria, the President of the African Studies Association, Vice-President of the UNESCO Slave Route Project, and the Kluge Chair of the Countries of the South, Library of Congress. He is a member of the Scholars' Council, Kluge Center, the Library of Congress. He has received over thirty lifetime career awards and seventeen honorary doctorates. He has written extensively on African knowledge systems, including Religious Beliefs and Knowledge Systems in Africa (2021), African Spirituality, Politics and Knowledge Systems: Sacred Words and Holy Realm (2021) and Decolonizing African Studies: Knowledge Production, Agency and Voice (2022). He is also the series coeditor for Cambridge University Press's African Identities series.

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