Folarin Ajibade
Assistant Professor of History
I am a historian of Africa and the African diaspora, with a regional focus on West Africa. I am broadly interested in the everyday lives of urban Africans, by which I mean the mundane and daily activities that they partake in. I see these activities as consequential and revelatory rather than as trivial pursuits that should be taken for granted. I completed my PhD at New York University, where I began working on my current manuscript, which is a history of the politics and profits of commercial gambling in urban Nigeria from the 1880s onward.
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West Africa, Nigeria, Urban Life and Urbanization, Mass/Popular Culture, Social and Political History