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Uyilawa Usuanlele

Professor

Contact Information

212 Wilber Hall
315-312-3485
[email protected]
Umẹwaẹn: Journal of Benin and Ẹdo Studies, Editor

Office hours

Fall 2024

Tue 1:30 - 3:00, Wed 2:30 - 4:00

By Appointment

Research

  • Benin Kingdom and Edo speaking peoples of Nigeria
  • Poverty, Welfare and Development in African History
  • Disaporas in African history
  • Religion and history in Africa

Publications

  • Uyilawa Usuanlele and Bonny Ibhawoh (ed.) Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2017)
  • “Midwest State’s Non-Igbo Minorities’ Responses to Biafran Occupation and Federal Liberation  in  the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970” in Uyilawa Usuanlele and Bonny Ibhawoh (ed) Minority Rights  and the National Question in Nigeria (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2017) Pages 113-142 
  • “Tracing the African Origins of Obeah (Obia): Some Conjectures and inferences from the History of Benin Kingdom, West Bohemian Historical Review, Vol. VI, No.2, 2016, Pages 165-184
  •  “Emerging Patterns of Ethnic conflicts and Management in Nigerian Churches," African Notes (Journal of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria) Vol. 38, No.2, 2014, Pages 59-77
  • “ British Colonial Administration, Development of Islam and Islamic Education in a Non-Muslim Society: The Benin Division Experience, 1897-1960” Contemporary Journal of African Studies, (Journal of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana) Vol.2, No.2, 2014, Pages 65-96

Classes taught

  • Africa to 1800
  • Africa since 1800
  • Modernization and Development in Africa
  • History of Islam in Africa
  • Poverty and Welfare in Africa
  • Children and Society in Africa
  • Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies