Olufemi Vaughan
- Professor of Africana Studies with joint appointment in History (D. Phil., Politics, University of Oxford, 1989.), Currently on leave
- olufemi.vaughan@sunysb.edu
- Office
- SBS S-239
- Phone
- 631-632-7408
- Fax
- 631-632-5703
- Research Interests
African history since the nineteenth century (regions & countries: West Africa, Nigeria; Southern Africa: Republic of South Africa & Botswana; East Africa: Uganda). African Historiography; Comparative Politics of African states; International Relations.
- Publications
"Chieftaincy Politics and Communal Identities in Western Nigeria, 1893-1951" Journal of African History,44, 2003, pp. 283-302.
Globalization and Marginality: Essays on the Paradoxes of Global and Local Forces, eds. Olufemi Vaughan, Marcheta Wright and Charles Small (2003).
Chiefs, Power, and Scial Change: Chiefship and Modern Politics in Botswana, 1880s-1990s, (2003).
Indigenous Political Structures and Governance in Nigeria, ed. Olufemi Vaughan (2003)
Nigerian Chiefs: Traditional Power in Modern Politics, 1890s-1990s (2000) -- winner of the Cecil B. Currey Book Prize of the Association of Third World Studies, 2001; winner of the Excellence in Authorship Award, African Scholars Research Board, 2000
co-editor with Terence Ranger, Legitimacy and the State in Twentieth Century Africa (1993)