Professor Toyin Falola

Professor Toyin Falola is a distinguished Nigerian historian and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, holding the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities. He is widely recognized as Africa's most decorated scholar in the humanities, with over thirty lifetime achievement awards and sixteen honorary doctorates, and is the author of numerous books on African history and decolonial studies. Falola was born on January 1, 1953, in Ibadan, Nigeria, and continues to be a leading voice in globalizing the humanities.