Folarin Ajibade

Assistant Professor of African History

Primary Academic Program: Historical Studies

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Africana Studies

Biography: Folarin Ajibade is a historian of everyday life in Africa and the African diaspora, with a focus on West Africa since the 19th century. He writes and teaches about urban belonging, mass and popular culture, and the political economy of pleasure. His current book project is a social and political history of gambling in urban Nigeria from the 1880s onward. Part of this work has been published in the Journal of African History. Prior to Bard, he was an Assistant Professor of African History at Florida State University.

BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison; M Phil, PhD, New York University. At Bard since 2025.
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