Femi J. Kolapo
Professor
College of Arts, Department of History
Research Areas
- Africa
Education
Ph.D. York University, Toronto, 1999
M.A. Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, 1989
B.A. Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, 1982
Professional
University of Guelph, 2001 -
York/UNESCO Nigerian Hinterland Project, York University, Toronto, 1999-2001
Uhmadu Bello University, History Department, Zaria (Nigeria), 1985-1993
Research
West Africa
Engagement between Christian missionaries and West African communities before colonization
slavery, war and society in precolonial Africa
abolition and post-abolition in Africa
Publications
books
Christian Missionary Engagement in Central Nigeria, 1857-1891: The Church Missionary Society's All-African Mission on the Upper Niger. (Palgrave Macmillan 2019).
editor, Immigrant Academics and Cultural Challenges in a Global Environment (London: Cambria Press, 2009).
articles and book chapters
"The Writings and Legacy of J. F. Ade Ajayi." In: Barnes, A.E., Falola, T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Christianity in Africa from Apostolic Times to the Present. Palgrave Macmillan 2024, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48270-0_10
“The following exchange was prompted by Femi J. Kolapo’s review of Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine’s The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020), published as ‘Child Trafficking After Abolition’ in this journal, Volume 62, Issue 3, 2021.” The Journal of African History, 63.2 (2022), 284–285.
"The Saro of West Africa." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History; https://oxfordre.com/africanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.... (27 Oct. 2020).
“Nigeria's Pentecostal Churches and the Tribunal of Social Media”. Cyberjournal for Pentecostal-Charismatic Research no.26. (Februa 2019). http://www.pctii.org/cyberj/cyberj26/kolapo2.html.
“Political Ramifications of Some Shifts in Nigeria’s Pentecostal Movement” in A. Afolayan et al. (eds.), Pentecostalism and Politics in Africa, African Histories and Modernities. (Palgrave Macmillan 2018) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74911-2_13
“Anglicanism in West Africa” in Oxford History of Anglicanism. Vol. 5. Edited by William Sachs (London: Oxford University Press 2018), pp. 124-147.
"The Political Impact of European Rule," in T. Falola, ed., Africa Vol. 3: Colonial Africa, 1885-1939 (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press: 2002).
"Central Africa," in T. Falola, ed., Africa Vol. 3: Colonial Africa, 1885-1939 (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2002).
"CMS Missionaries of African Origin and Extra-religious Encounters at the Niger-Benue Confluence, 1858-1880," African Studies Review 43 no 2 (2002): 87-115.
"The Ife Origin and Creation Myths," Groniek Historisch Tijdschrift 151 (2001): 121-136.
"The 1858-59 Gbebe Journal of CMS Missionary James Thomas," History in Africa 27 (2000): 159-192.