Professor
Contact Information
212 Wilber Hall
315-312-3485
[email protected]
Umẹwaẹn: Journal of Benin and Ẹdo Studies, Editor
Office hours
Fall 2026
Tue 1:30-3:15 and Wed 1:30-2:30
and 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