Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: teen, life, world, africa
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2004-03-30
List price: $60.95
ISBN-10: 0313321949
ISBN-13: 9780313321948

Thanks to its population growth rate, Africa has one of the highest numbers of teenagers in the world. This book explores the lives, cultures, and opportunities of African teens, offering students and general readers a substantial understanding of this important group.

Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Keywords: history, african, vol, africa
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0890897689
ISBN-13: 9780890897683

Africa: Volume 1 begins a series of books which adopt a new perspective on African history and culture, surveying the wide array of societies and states that have existed on the African continent and introducing readers to the diversity of African experiences and cultural expressions. Toyin Falola has brought together African studies professors from a variety of schools and settings. Writing from their individual areas of expertise, these authors work together to break general stereotypes about Africa, focusing instead on the substantive issues of the African past from an African pers

Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Keywords: africa, vol, contemporary
Number of Pages: 5
Published: 2003-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0890892032
ISBN-13: 9780890892039

Contemporary Africa, edited by Toyin Falola captures the challenges, optimism and problems that face modern Africa, notably those of economic underdevelopment and political instability. African countries seek various answers, and they have recorded varying degrees of success as they attempt to unite their peoples to build strong nations, develop their economies, and stabilize their politics. Failures have equally been recorded in a number of places, although these have not prevented the search for new solutions nor dampened the enthusiasm of Africans in liberating themselves from poverty. Amon

Authors:Toyin Falola, Ann Genova,
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: introduction, industry, oil, global, politics
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-10-30
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0313361843
ISBN-13: 9780313361845

The petroleum industry is among the most lucrative and most important in the world, and its impact within the realm of international politics is tremendous (although it can be overstated). Taking a well-balanced and objective approach to the complicated web of political and economic threads that make up the fabric of the oil industry, Falola and Genova introduce the most salient aspects in clear language, offering cogent and up-to-date information about the countries, companies, international organizations, and people who shape the contemporary history of the black gold.The relationship of int

Authors:Toyin Falola, Matthew M. Heato,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: nigeria, history
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2008-06-02
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 052168157X
ISBN-13: 9780521681575

Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country and the world’s eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant official corruption and an ailing economy. Toyin Falola, a leading historian intimately acquainted with the region, and Matthew Heaton, who has worked extensively on African science and culture, combine their expertise to explain the context to Nigeria’s recent troubles through an exploration of its pre-colonial and colonial past, and its journey from independence to stateh

Authors:Akinwumi Ogundiran, Toyin Falola,
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: diaspora, blacks, african, africa, atlantic, archaeology
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2010-01-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0253221757
ISBN-13: 9780253221759

This is the first book devoted to the archaeology of African life on both sides of the Atlantic; it highlights the importance of archaeology in completing the historical records of the Atlantic world’s Africans. Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora presents a diverse, richly textured picture of Africans’ experiences during the era of the Atlantic slave trade and offers the most comprehensive explanation of how African lives became entangled with the creation of the modern world. Through interdisciplinary approaches to material culture, the dynamics of a comparati

Authors:Steven J. Salm, Toyin Falola,
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: culture, customs, africa, ghana
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-03-30
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0313320500
ISBN-13: 9780313320507

The decades of independence in Ghana have strengthened the idea of a national Ghanaian culture. The culture and customs of Ghana today are a product of diversity in traditional forms, influenced by a long history of Islamic and European contact. Culture and Customs of Ghana is the first book to concisely provide an up-to-date narrative on the most significant elements of the established cultural life and institutions as well as the most recent changes in the cultural landscape. Written expressly for students and the general reader, it belongs in every library supporting multicultural and Afric