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“Emirs in London: Muslims, Mobility, and Modernity in Colonial Nigeria”

Moses E. Ochonu is Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in History and Professor of African History at Vanderbilt University. His most recent books are Africa in Fragments: Essays on Nigeria, Africa, and Global Africanity (Diasporic Africa Press 2014), and Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Historical Approach (Indiana University Press, 2018). He is working on a book titled Emirs in London: Subaltern Travel and Nigeria’s Modernity, which is contracted to Indiana University Press.

His research has been funded by the ACLS, the SSRC, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the British Library, and other funding agencies. His public-facing work has been published in TIME Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Conversation, African Arguments, and many other publications. 

Co-hosted by the Department of Africana Studies and the Center for Africana Studies. Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Middle East Center.