1. PORTS, HINTERLANDS AND FORELANDS Co-Authors:

2. 2007 - The Fourteenth Commissar of Works: The Life and Labour of Rauf Aregbesola, Lagos and Winnipeg: Bluesign Publications and Canadian Centre for Global Studies (viii+200pp). Co-Authors:

3. 2006 - Ports, Hinterlands and Forelands, Inaugural Lecture Series, Lagos: University of Lagos Press (ii+ 40pp). Co-Authors:

4. 2006 -Culture and Customs of Liberia, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press (xix+154pp.) Co-Authors:

5. 2004 -The ‘Liverpool’ of West Africa: The Dynamics and Impact of Maritime Trade in Lagos, 1900-1950, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press (xiv+274pp). Co-Authors:

6. 2003 -A Plan for the ‘Re-organization’ of Nigeria, Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series, No.1, Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria: Faculty of Arts and Education, Adekunle Ajasin University (vi+32pp). Co-Authors:

7. 2003 - Infrastructure Development and Urban Facilities in Lagos, 1861-2000, Ibadan: Institut Française de Rechèrche en Afrique (xiv+ 155pp). Co-Authors:

8. 2002 - Positive Leadership in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa, Positive Leadership Monograph Series, No.3, Ikorodu, Nigeria: Centre for Social Science Research and Development (vi + 40pp). Co-Authors:

9. 1996 - Maritime Trade, Port Development and Administration: The Japanese Experience and Lessons for Nigeria, Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies (No. 268; xiii + 302pp). Co-Authors:

10. 2008 - Global Understanding in the Age of Terrorism, Lagos: University of Lagos Press Co-Authors: Muyiwa Falaiye

11. 2003 - Fundamentals of Economic History, Lagos: First Academic Publishers (vii, 394 pp) Co-Authors: Adebayo Lawal and Kehinde Faluyi

12. 2003 -Northeast Yorubaland: Studies in the History and Culture of a Frontier Zone, Ibadan: Rex Charles (iv, 229pp). Co-Authors: Z.O. Apata and O. Akinwumi

13. 1997 -Nigerian Peoples and Cultures, Ibadan: Davidson Press, 1997 (ii, 365pp).
Co-Authors: Akinjide Osuntokun

14. 2008 – “Liberalisation, Deregulation and Privatisation in Nigeria Since the 1980s,” in Toyin Falola (ed.), Emergent Themes and Methods in African Studies: Essays in Honor of Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. Co-Authors:

15. 2008 - “Maritime Terrorism: Dimensions, Scenarios and Countermeasures,” in Ayodeji Olukoju & Muyiwa Falaiye (eds.), Global Understanding in the Age of Terrorism, Lagos: University of Lagos Press. Co-Authors:

16. 2008 - “The Adisi Case: Currency Counterfeiting in Inter-War Colonial Gold Coast,” in Catherine Etherington and Harcourt Fuller (eds.), Money in Africa, London: British Museum. Co-Authors:

17. 2008 - “Economic Relations Between Nigeria and the United States of America in the Era of British Colonial Rule, c.1900-1950,” in Alusine Jalloh and Toyin Falola (eds.), The United States and West Africa: Relations and Interactions, Rochester: Rochester University Press, chapter 5. Co-Authors:

18. 2007 - “Rethinking Historical Scholarship in Africa,” in Sola Akinrinade, Dipo Fashina, David. O. Ogungbile and J.O. Famakinwa (eds.), Rethinking the Humanities in Africa, Ile-Ife: Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, pp.167-182. Co-Authors:

19. 2007-“State and Local Governments, and the Management of Markets in Lagos and Ibadan Since the 1950s” in Laurent Fourchard (ed.), Gouverner Les Villes d’Afrique: État, Gouvernement Local et Acteurs Privés, Paris: Karthala, pp.107-123. Co-Authors: Laurent Fourchard

20. 2006 - “Power Relations in Ward-Level Governance in An Urban Setting: Ajegunle-Lagos (Nigeria) Since the 1950s,” in Odile Goerg (ed.), Pouvoirs Locaux et Gestion Foncière en Afrique de L’Ouest, Paris: L’Harmattan, pp. 179-208 Co-Authors:

21. 2006 -“Provision and Management of Water Services in Lagos, 1915-2000,” in Petri S. Juuti, Tapio S. Katko & Heikki S. Vuorinen (eds.), Environmental History of Water: Global Views on Community Water Supply and Sanitation London: I.W.A. Publishing, pp. 343-354. Co-Authors:

22. 2005 - “Lagos: Birth of a City,” in Juerg Schneider, Ute Roeschenthaler and Bernhard Gardi (eds.), Between Basel and Angola: The Travels and Explorations of the Basel Citizen Carl Passavant to West and Central Africa from 1883 to 1885 (published in German as Zwischen Basel und Angola: Die Forschungsreisen des Basler Bürgers Carl Passavant nach West- und Zentralafrika in den Jahren 1883-85), Basel: Christoph Merian Verlag, pp. 177-188. Co-Authors:

23. 2005 -“(Re)Reading Afigbo’s Work on Nigeria,” in Toyin Falola (ed.), Nigerian History, Politics and Affairs: The Collected Essays of Adiele Afigbo, Trenton: Africa World Press, pp. 15-29. Co-Authors:

24. 2005 -“Electricity and Water Supply in Lagos (1861-2000),” in Chantal Chanson-Jabeur, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch and Odile Goerg (eds.), Politiques d’Équipement et Services Urbains dans les Villes du Sud: Etudes Comparée, Paris: Editions Harmattan, pp. 327-361. Co-Authors:

25. 2004 -“The Crisis of Academic Research and Publishing in Nigerian Universities,” in Adebayo Olukoshi and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza (eds.), African Universities in the Twenty-First Century, Volume 2: Knowledge and Society, Dakar: CODESRIA, pp. 363-375.
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26. 2003 - "Emergent Business Actors in Nigeria in the Post-Structural Adjustment Era," in Katsuya Mochizuki (ed.), Emergent Actors in African Political Economy and Society, International Workshop Proceedings No. 5, Makuhari/Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies, pp. 3-28. Co-Authors:

27. 2003 - “Economic History: Its Emergence, Relevance and Relationship with Cognate Disciplines,” in Ayodeji Olukoju, Adebayo Lawal and Kehinde Faluyi (eds.), Fundamentals of Economic History, Lagos: First Academic Publishers, pp.1-24.Co-Authors:

28. 2003 - “Oka” in G.O. Oguntomisin (ed.), Yoruba Towns and Cities, Ibadan: Bookshelf Resources Limited, pp. 77-88. Co-Authors:

29. 2003 - “Economic Thought in History: Mercantilism, Physiocracy and Laissez-Faire,” in Olukoju et.al (eds.), Fundamentals of Economic History, pp. 176-203.Co-Authors:

30. 2003 - “Nigerian Civil Rights Organisations Since the 1980s,” in Katsuya Mochizuki (ed.), Emergent Actors in African Political Economy, African Research Series No. 9, Makuhari/Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies, pp. 73-90.Co-Authors:

31. 2003 - “Nigeria and the World Market, 1890-1960: Local and Global Economic Dynamics in the Colonial Context,” in Jomo, K.S. and K. J. Khoo (eds.), Globalization and Its Discontents, Revisited, Delhi: Tulika Books, pp.141-156.Co-Authors:

32. 2003 - “Nigerian Cities in Historical Perspective,” in Toyin Falola and Steven J. Salm (eds.), Nigerian Cities, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, pp. 11-46.Co-Authors:

33. 2003 - “Urban Transport in Metropolitan Lagos,” in Falola and Salm (eds.), Nigerian Cities, pp. 211-236.Co-Authors:

34. 2003 - “The Western Region Local Government Law of 1952: A Study in Its Application to Akokoland, 1952-62”, in Olukoju et al. (eds.), Northeast Yorubaland, pp. 200-222.Co-Authors:

35. 2003 - “Colonial Taxation and Its Socio-Economic Impact in Akokoland, 1900-1930”, in Olukoju et al. (eds.), Northeast orubaland, pp. 143-167.Co-Authors:

36. 2003 - ‘The Faulkner “Blueprint” and the Evolution of Agricultural Policy in Inter-War Colonial Nigeria,” in Adebayo Oyebade (ed.), The Foundations of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, pp. 403-422.
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37. 2003 - “The Segregation of Europeans and Africans in Colonial Nigeria,” in Laurent Fourchard and Isaac Olawale Albert (eds.), Security, Crime and Segregation in West African Cities Since the 19th Century, Paris: Karthala, pp. 263-286.
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38. 2002 - “The Colonial Monetary System in Northern Nigeria, 1903-1939,” in Toyin Falola (ed.), Nigeria in the Twentieth Century, Durham: Carolina Academic Press, pp. 183-199. Co-Authors:

39. 2002 - “The Business Lobby and the Sustenance of Democratic Governance: The Nigerian and American Experiences,” in S.O.O. Amali et al. (eds.), Consolidation and Sustenance of Democracy: Nigeria and the United States, Ibadan: Hope Publications/ASAN, pp.103-115.Co-Authors:

40. 2002 - “The Impact of British Colonialism on the Development of African Business in Colonial Nigeria,” in Alusine Jalloh and Toyin Falola (eds.), Black Business and Economic Power, Rochester: Rochester University Press, pp. 176-198.
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41. 2001 - “The Pluralisms of Urban Waste Management: A Comparative Study of Lagos (Nigeria) and Tokyo (Japan)” in Agwonorobo Eruvbetine (ed.), The Humanistic Management of Pluralism: A Formula For Development in Nigeria, Lagos: Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, pp.508-525. Co-Authors:

42. 2001 - “Challenges Before the Twenty-First Century Nigerian Historian,” in O.O. Olubomehin (ed.), Issues in Historiography, Ibadan: College Press, pp.126-141. Co-Authors:

43. 2000 - “The American Civil Rights Movement and the Nigerian Civil Rights Organizations: Lessons in the Empowerment of Civil Society,” in Oyin Ogunba (ed.), The Empowerment of the Civil Society in a Democracy: Nigeria and the United States of America, Ile-Ife: American Studies Association of Nigeria/Anchor Prints, pp. 68-88. Co-Authors:

44. 2000 - “The Cost of Living in Lagos, 1914-45”, in Richard Rathbone and David Anderson (eds.), Africa’s Urban Past, Oxford: James Currey, pp. 126-143. Co-Authors:

45. 1998 - “Economy and Politics in Nigeria During the Nineteenth Century”, in Toyin Falola and Ann O’Hear (eds.), Studies in the Nineteenth-Century Economic History of Nigeria, Madison: African Studies Program, pp.11-26. Co-Authors:

46. 1997 - “Nigeria’s Coastal Zone: Environmental Problems, Responses, and Suggested Remedies”, in Akinjide Osuntokun (ed.), Dimensions of Environmental Problems in Nigeria, Ibadan: Davidson Press, pp.69-84. Co-Authors:

47. 1997 - “Nigeria: A Historical Review”, in F.U. Okafor (ed.), New Strategies For Curbing Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Nigeria, Enugu: Fourth Dimension Press, pp. 12-40. Co-Authors:

48. 1997 - “The Dynamics of Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Nigeria”, in Osuntokun and Olukoju (eds.), Nigerian Peoples and Cultures, pp. 298-309. Co-Authors:

49. 1997 - “Christianity and the Development of the Nigerian State”, in Osuntokun and Olukoju (eds.), Nigerian Peoples and Cultures, pp. 136-156. Co-Authors:

50. 1997 - “Organized Labour, Governance and the Electoral Process: Insights From the Nigerian and American Experiences”, in O. Ogunba (ed.), Governance and the Electoral Process: Nigeria and the United States of America, Lagos: American Studies Association of Nigeria, pp. 337-366. Co-Authors:

51. 1996 - “Transportation in Colonial West Africa”, in G.O. Ogunremi and E.K. Faluyi (eds.), Economic History of West Africa Since 1750, Ibadan: Rex Charles, pp. 144-156. Co-Authors:

52. 1994 - “Ecology and Economic Underdevelopment: Agriculture, Trade and Transport in Badagry, c.1880-1950”, in G.O. Ogunremi, M. Opeloye and Siyan Oyeweso (eds.), Badagry: A Study in the History, Culture and Traditions of an Ancient City, Ibadan: Rex Charles, pp. 72-89. Co-Authors:

53. 1992 - “The Siege of Oka, ca.1878-84: A Study in the Resistance to Nupe Militarism in Northeast Yorubaland”, in Toyin Falola and Robin Law (eds.), Warfare and Diplomacy in Precolonial Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Robert Smith, Madison: African Studies Program, pp.102-110. Co-Authors:

54. 1987 - “The Politics of Free Trade Between Lagos and the Hinterland, 1861-1907”, in Ade Adefuye, Babatunde Agiri and Jide Osuntokun (eds.), History of the Peoples of Lagos State, Lagos: Literamed, pp. 85-103. Co-Authors:

55. 2006 - “The ‘Liverpool’ of West Africa: A Roundtable Response,” International Journal of Maritime History (St. John’s, Canada), vol. XVIII, no. 2 (December), pp.473-478. Co-Authors:

56. 2006 - ‘“King of West Africa”? Bernard Bourdillon and the Politics of the West African Governors’ Conference, 1940-42,’ ITINERARIO: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction (Leiden, Holland), vol. 30, no.1, pp.17-38. Co-Authors:

57. 2004 - “Ports as Growth Poles: The Japanese ‘Developer Port’ Concept in Comparative Perspective,” International Journal of Maritime History, vol. XVI, no. 1 (June), pp.43-57. Co-Authors:

58. 2004 - “Economic History at the University of Lagos Since the 1970s,” Lagos Historical Review (Lagos), vol. 4, pp. 77-94.
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59. 2004 - ‘“Never Expect Power Always:” Electricity Consumers’ Response to Monopoly, Corruption and Inefficient Services in Nigeria,’ African Affairs (London), vol. 103, no. 410 (Jan.), pp.51-71. Co-Authors:

60. 2003-2004 -“Maritime Policy and Economic Development: A Comparison of Nigerian and Japanese Experiences Since the Second World War,” Afrika Zamani: Journal of the Association of African Historians (Dakar), special issue on “African History in Comparative Perspective,” nos. 11 and 12, pp.160-182. Co-Authors:

61. 2003 - “A ‘Truly Nigerian Project’?: The Politics of the Establishment of the Nigerian National Shipping Line (NNSL), 1957-59,” International Journal of Maritime History, vol. XV, no.1 (June), pp. 69-90. Co-Authors:

62. 2002 - ‘“Buy British, Sell Foreign:” External Trade Control Policies in Nigeria During the Second World War and Its Aftermath, 1939-50,’ International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston), vol. 35, nos. 2 & 3, pp.363-384.
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63. 2002 - ‘“Nigeria or Lever-ia?”: Nationalist Reactions to Economic Depression and the “Menace of Mergers” in Colonial Nigeria’, Journal of Third World Studies (Americus, GA,USA), vol. 19, No. 1 (Spring), pp.173-194. Co-Authors:

64. 2001-2002 - ‘“Getting Too Great A Grip:” European Shipping Lines and British West African Lighterage Services in the 1930s’, Afrika Zamani: Journal of the Association of African Historians, nos. 9 & 10 , pp. 19-40.Co-Authors:

65. 2001 - “Tropical Terminus: The Distress and Disposal of the American Schooner, Allanwilde, in Lagos, 1920-22,” Lagos Historical Review, vol. 1, pp.114-126.Co-Authors:

66. 2000 - “Self-Help Criminality as Resistance?: Currency Counterfeiting in Colonial Nigeria,” International Review of Social History (Cambridge/Amsterdam), vol. 45, Part 3, pp. 385-407.Co-Authors:

67. 2000 - “Fishing, Migrations and Inter-Group Relations in the Gulf of Guinea (Atlantic Coast of West Africa) in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”, ITINERARIO: European Journal of Overseas History, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 69-85.Co-Authors:

68. 2000 - “Confronting the Combines: Producers’ and Traders’ Militancy in Western Nigeria, 1934-1939,” Nordic Journal of African Studies (Helsinki, Finland), vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 49-69.Co-Authors:

69. 1999 - “‘Subsidizing the Merchants at the Expense of the Administration:’ Railway Tariffs and Nigerian Maritime Trade in the 1920s,” Indian Journal of African Studies (New Delhi), vol. X, nos.1 & 2 (April-Oct.), pp. 61-77. [reprinted in Oyebade (ed.), The Foundations of Nigeria…, pp. 373-388] Co-Authors:

70. 1999 - ‘Slamming the “Open Door”: British Protectionist Fiscal Policy in Inter-War Nigeria’, ITINERARIO: European Journal of Overseas History, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 13-28.Co-Authors:

71. 1999 - ‘“Helping Our Own Shipping”: Official Passages to Nigeria, 1914-45’, The Journal of Transport History (Manchester), vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 30-45.Co-Authors:

72. 1998 - “Government, the Business Community and Quality Control Schemes in the Agricultural Export Trade of Nigeria, 1889-1929”, African Economic History (Madison, Wisconsin), vol. 26, pp. 99-118.Co-Authors:

73. 1997 -“Nigeria’s Colonial Government, Commercial Banks and the Currency Crisis of 1916-1920”, International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 277-298.Co-Authors:

74. 1997 - “Government and Port Administration in Japan in the Aftermath of the Port and Harbour Law of 1950”, The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord (St. John’s, Canada), vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 65-80.Co-Authors:

75. 1997 - “Rotgut and Revenue: Fiscal Aspects of the Liquor Trade in Southern Nigeria, 1890-1919”, ITINERARIO: European Journal of Overseas History, vol. 21, no.2, pp. 66-81.Co-Authors:

76. 1996 - “The Maritime Trade of Lagos During the First World War”, Lagos Notes and Records (Lagos), vol. 7, no. 1, pp.167-184.
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77. 1996 - “Playing the Second Fiddle: The Development of Port Harcourt and Its Role in the Nigerian Economy, 1917-1950”, International Journal of Maritime History, vol. VIII, no.1, pp.105-131.Co-Authors:

78. 1996 - “The Travails of Migrant and Wage Labour in the Lagos Metropolitan Area in the Inter-War Years”, Labour History Review (Edinburgh), vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 49-70.Co-Authors:

79. 1996 - “Race and Access to Liquor: Prohibition as Colonial Policy in Northern Nigeria, 1919-45”, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (London), vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 218-243.Co-Authors:

80. 1996 - “Spatial Analysis and Interport Competition: Lagos, the Niger and the ‘Capture’ of the Kano-Tripoli Trade, 1890-1914”, The Great Circle: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History (Melbourne), vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 30-47.
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81. 1995 - “Local Government and Inter-Communal Relations in Akokoland, 1900-52”, Nigerian Journal of Inter-Group Relations (Lagos/Ilorin), vol. 1, pp. 11-21.Co-Authors:

82. 1995 - “Anatomy of Business-Government Relations: Fiscal Policy and Mercantile Pressure Group Activity in Nigeria, 1916-1933”, African Studies Review (Atlanta, US), vol. 38, no.1, pp. 23-50.Co-Authors:

83. 1994 - ‘The Making of an “Expensive Port”: Shipping Lines, Government and Port Tariffs in Lagos, 1917-1949’, International Journal of Maritime History, vol. VI, no.1, pp. 141-159.Co-Authors:

84. 1993 - “Oral Traditions and the Political History of Oka-Akoko”, History in Africa: A Journal of Method (Madison, US), vol. 20, pp.249-262.Co-Authors:

85. 1993 - “Population Pressure, Housing and Sanitation in West Africa’s Premier Port-City: Lagos, 1900-1939”, The Great Circle: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History, vol. 15, no.2, pp.91-106.Co-Authors:

86. 1992 - “Background to the Establishment of the Nigerian Ports Authority: The Politics of Port Administration in Nigeria, c.1920-1954”, International Journal of Maritime History, vol. IV, no.2, pp. 155-173. Co-Authors:

87. 1992 - “Maritime Trade in Lagos in the Aftermath of the First World War”, African Economic History, vol. 20, pp.119-135.
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88. 1992 - “Elder Dempster and the Shipping Trade of Nigeria During the First World War”, Journal of African History (Cambridge, UK), vol. 33, no.2, pp. 255-271.Co-Authors:

89. 1992 - “The Development of the Port of Lagos, c.1892-1946”, The Journal of Transport History, vol. 13, no.1, pp. 59-78. [Reprinted in David Williams (ed.), The World of Shipping, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997, pp. 133-152].Co-Authors:

90. 1991 - “Prohibition and Paternalism: The State and the Clandestine Liquor Traffic