Dr. Paul Lovejoy

Paul Lovejoy is the most published Africanist in Canada. His three monographs on West Africa and a fourth awaiting publication, his many articles, his edited volumes, and his position on the editorial boards of major journals have made him the leading economic and social historian of Africa at work in Canada and one of the major African scholars in the world. His work on the salt trade, on slavery, and now on the conquest of the Sokoto Caliphate is marked by formidable knowledge of history, anthropology and economics, massive research, and fine prose.