Coming Revolutions in Black Africa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780615843971)

Professor Stephen Adebanji Akintoye is an eminent African scholar, academic and author from Nigeria, a leading African historian with famous works in the history of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria in West Africa. After a B.A Honours degree at London University and a Ph.D. in African History at the University of Ibadan, he started his university teaching career in African History at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, where he became a professor and Director of the Institute of African Studies. In the United States, he has taught African History at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, and Eastern University, St. Davids, Pennsylvania. His published works include: A History of the Yoruba People (2010), Revolution and Power Politics in Yorubaland 1840-93, (1971); Emergent States of Africa: Topics in 20th Century African History, (1976), Ten Years of the University of Ife (1973), and An Outline of Yoruba History (2016). He has contributed chapters to several books, as well as several articles to leading scholarly journals. For years, he has written weekly columns for two of Nigeria's national newspapers. Professor Akintoye is now in his eighties, but he still plays active roles as an elder statesman and intellectual leader in the promotion of rational federalism for the countries of his Sub-Saharan Africa. He is a strong pillar among those who propose respect for the nationalities inside each Black African country, through a sensible federal autonomy structure. He holds that this is the best solution to the perennial conflicts in these countries, conflicts whose foundation lies in arbitrary colonial boundaries and arbitrary agglomerations of peoples, conflicts that have been aggravated in each country by the poor management of diversity since independence, conflicts that are contributing in great measure to poor pace of development in Black Africa, to poverty, and to massive human suffering.