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SUMMARY:Colonist Strategies in the Making of the Oyo Empire (West Africa)\
 , ca. 1590-1790 - Dr Akin Ogundiran\, YIP Fellow\, Magdalene College\, Cam
 bridge/ University of North Carolina-Charlotte 
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CONTACT:Victoria Jones
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Akin Ogundiran is Chair of the Africana Studies Department
  and Professor of Africana Studies\, Anthropology & History at the Univers
 ity of North Carolina-Charlotte. He has previously taught in the Departmen
 t of History at Florida International University\, Miami and University of
  Benin (Nigeria). As an archaeological anthropologist and cultural histori
 an\, his primary research interests focus broadly on emergent societies an
 d social complexity in Yorubaland\, Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspo
 ra over the past 700 years. He has also written on historiography\, Black 
 Intellectual Thought\, modernity\,social sustainability\, and cultural her
 itage issues. He has authored and edited several publications\, including 
 Archaeology and History in Ilare District\, 1200-1900 (Cambridge Monograph
  in African Archaeology 55\, 2002)\; Precolonial Nigeria (Africa World Pre
 ss\, 2005)\; Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora (Indi
 ana University Press\, 2007)\, with Toyin Falola\; Power and Landscape in 
 Atlantic West Africa (Cambridge University Press\, 2012)\, with Cameron Mo
 nroe\; and\, with Paula Saunders\, Materialities of Ritual in the Black At
 lantic (Indiana University Press\, 2014)\, which won Choice Outstanding Ac
 ademic Title for 2015.
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambrid
 ge CB3 9DT
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