Paul Lovejoy

Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, York University, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Founding Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas at York University, and Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History (2000-2015). Member of the UNESCO “Slave Route” Project (1996-2012) and General Editor of The Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora (Africa World Press). Co-editor of the journal, African Economic History for 37 years. Published forty books, including The Atlantic and Africa: The Second Slavery and Beyond (2020), with Dale Tomich, Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa (2019), Slavery, Resistance and Abolitions: A Pluralist Perspective (2019), with Ali Moussa Iye and Nelly Schmidt, Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions (1775-1850) (2016), Slavery, Commerce and Production in West Africa: Slave Society in the Sokoto Caliphate.(2005), Ecology and Ethnography of Muslim Trade in West Africa (2005), Slow Death for Slavery. The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936 (1993), with J.S. Hogendorn, Salt of the Desert Sun. A History of Salt Production and Trade in the Central Sudan (1986), Transformations in Slavery. History of Slavery in Africa (1983), and Caravans of Kola. The Hausa Kola Trade, 1700-1900 (1980). Recipient of grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the British Library, the Mellon Foundation, Canada Foundation for Innovation, and Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Innovation. Websites include: “Freedom Narratives” www.freedomnarratives.org, “Equiano’s World (www.equianosworld.org), and “Islamic Protest and National Security” (www.iptsa.org).

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