A Selected listing of awards
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- 2004 Elected to the Academy of Distinguished Teachers
- 2003 Chancellor’s Council Outstanding Teaching Award
- 2001 Texas Excellence Teaching Award
- 2000 Jean Holloway Award for Teaching Excellence
- 2005 Winner, Cecil B. Currey Award, Association of Third World Studies for Economic Reforms and Modernization in Nigeria
- 2004 - 2005 Herskovits Award Finalist, African Studies Association award for best English-language book in African Studies, for A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt
- Hamilton Runners-up, (University of Texas Coop) for A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt
- 2004 Conover-Porter Finalist Certificate, African Studies Association, for Key Events in African History: A Reference Guide.
- 2008 Quintessence Award, The African Writers Endowment (AWE)
- 2008 Distinguished Africana Award, The African New World Studies Program (Florida International University)
- 2007 Amistad Award for Academic Excellence in Historical Scholarship on Africa and the African Diaspora [Organized by Africana Studies, Central Connecticut State University]
- 2006 Isese Distinguished Fellow Award of Honor
- 2006 Award of Excellence, FCE, Abeokuta, Nigeria
- 2006 Distinguished Nigerian Award
- 2004 President’s Distinguished Leadership and Scholarship Award (Association of Third World Studies)
- Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters
- Distinguished Alumnus Award
- Ibn Khaldun Distinguished Research Excellence Award
- 1999 Fellow, Carter Visiting Professor, Smith College
- 1995 Fellow, Humanities Research Council, Australian National University, Australia
- 1989-90 Project Coordinator, then Consultant, Oral Documentation Project, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs
- 1988-89 Smuts Fellowship, University of Cambridge, England
- 1980 United States Education Travel Award/Operations Crossroad Africa
- Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
- 1988-90 General Secretary
- 1988 Member, Publicity Committee
- 1986-88 Assistant Secretary
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