with Anthony I Asiwaju, Emeritus Professor of Comparative African History and Borderlands Studies at the University of Lagos | Zoom and University of Victoria, BC | 10AM PST, May 26th, 2025

Anthony I Asiwaju (Emeritus Professor of Comparative African History and Borderlands Studies, University of Lagos) joined us to present on his compendium, Bridging African Boundaries: Cross-Border Areas and Regional Integration in Comparative History and Policy Advocacy (Pan-African University Press, 2021). The book brings together three seminal works by the author, representing a lifetime of labor and outstanding achievement in the field of Comparative African History and Borderlands Studies.

This presentation followed up on a recent special review report, “Bridging African Boundaries: Four Reviews of Professor Asiwaju’s Compendium” by Isabella Soi, Victor Konrad, Jussi P. Laine, and Paul Nugent (Borders in Globalization Review, Vol. 6, no. 1, Feb. 2025, pp. 206-11).