Curriculum Vitae

Samaila Suleiman

Department of History Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria P.M.B. 3011

Education PhD Historical Studies – University of Cape Town (2015) M.A. History – Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria (2011) B.A. History (2:1) – Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria (2004) Research Experience 2017- “The Economics of History: Deploying Heritage Tourism for Economic Development in Nigeria”. Ongoing 2017- “Authoring Dissent: Identity Politics, Historiography and the Discursive Construction of Violence in northern Nigeria”. Ongoing 2016- Research Associate, Tombouctou Manuscripts Project, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town 2016- Senior Researcher, NEPU History Project, Aminu Kano Centre for Democratic Research and Training, Mambayya House, Kano 2014-2015 Research Assistant, Institute for Humanities Research in Africa, University of Cape Town 2012-2015 Doctor of Philosophy, “The Nigerian History Machine and the Production of Middle Belt Historiography”, University of Cape Town 2010-2011 Research Assistant, “Financing Political Party Aspirants in Nigeria”, CODESRIA, CDP project phase II, Aminu Kano Centre for Democratic Research and Training, Mambayya House, Kano 2009-2010 Research Assistant, “Babba Dan’Agundi Biographical Project”, Aminu Kano Centre for Democratic Research and Training, Mambayya House, Kano 2010 Master of Arts, “Yusufu Bala Usman as a Historian: an Inquiry into his Writings and Historical Methodology” Bayero University, Kano 2004 Bachelor of Arts, “The History of the Modern Textile Industry in Funtua, Katsina State”, Bayero University, Kano Teaching Bayero University: Historiography (Level 300); Comparative Historical Methodology (Level 300); Imperialism: Theory and Practice (Level 300); African Prehistory (Level 100); Nigerian History before 19th century; African History in the 19th Century;

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Sule Lamido University: Nigerian History (level 200); Historiography (300); Historical Methodology (300)

Ummaru Musa Yar’adua University: Introduction to Economic History (Level 100)

Supervision

Postgraduate: PhD Ismail Ahmed, “A Kano Historiography: The Writings of non-professionals”, ongoing

Masters Kamnan Moses Adure, “An Economic History of Diiv District in Tivland, 1918-1960”, completed in 2017 Sa’idu Kassim Adamu, “ A History of Cinema in Kano Metropolis”, ongoing Musa Ibrahim Musdafa, “ A History of Benue Valley Farms Limited in Fufore Town, Adamawa State, 1978-2014”, ongoing

Internal examiner Reuben Luka Shekarau, “The Activities of Sudan Interior Mission in Bayara Area of Bauchi Province, 1952-1972”, 2017 Abubakar Mohammed, “A Study in the Declining Status of History in Schools in Taraba State, 1991-2013 Faruk Mani, “A History of the Office of Galadiman Katsina, District Head of Malumfashi, 1907-2016”, 2017

Undergraduate:

Amina Onieze Yusuf, “A History of Arewa House, Centre for Historical Documentation and Research, Kaduna, 1970-2015”, 2017 Jamilu Wada Abubakar, “A History of History Department, Bayero University Kano”, 2016 Abubakar Mukhatar Musa, “A History of Ynaganau Village”, 2016 Fauziyya Abdullahi, “The Impact of Industrial Pollution on the Lives of Residence o Kano: a Case Study of Sharada Industrial Estate, 1980-2000”, 2012 Nura Mu’azu, “the Movement of Izalaul Bidi’a Wa’ikamatussunnah in Malumfashi Town”, 2012. Zainab Ibrahim Danladi, “Women Education in Kano: a Case Study of Government Girls College Dala”, 2012 Aisha Tanimu Gidado, “History of the Office of Walin Katsina”, 2010

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Fellowships, Grants and Honors Presidential Fellow, African Studies Association/American Council of Learned Societies (ASA/ACLS), USA, 2018. Postdoctoral Fellow, African Peacebuilding Network (APN), Social Research Council (SSRC), 2018. Fellow Summer Program in Social Sciences (SPSS), Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, USA, 2018-2020 Postdoctoral Fellow, African Humanities Program, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), New York, USA, 2017-2018 2017- Fellow in Residence, Department of History, Rhodes University, South Africa September – November 2017 Fellow Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI), Watson Institute of International Studies, Brown University, USA, 2014 Fellow Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC), University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2013 Fellow Doctoral Research, Next Generation Social Science in Africa Fellowship, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York, USA, 2011-2012 Fellow Doctoral Completion, Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowship, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York, USA, 2012-2013 Carnegie Travel Grant for Conference Attendance, Institute of International Education, New York, 2016 Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Travel Grant, SSRC, 2013 Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Travel Grant, SSRC, 2014 Ibrahim El-Tayyeb Prize for the Best Graduating Student in History, Bayero University, Kano 2004 Certificate of Honor, Students Historical Society of Nigeria, BUK Chapter 2004 Review activity Reviewer for the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowship, 2015 to date Conferences and Seminars “Policing Local Histories: The Nigerian History Machine”, seminar presented at the History in the Making Seminar, Rhodes University, South Africa, 15 October 2017 “Ethnic Minorities and the Dynamics of Heritage Politics in Nigeria”, paper presented at International Conference on Urban Heritage Activism, Technical University Berlin, Germany, 16-17 March 2017 “From Timbuktu to Kano: a Social History of Kabara Library”, paper presented at International Conference on the Social Life of Books Conference, University of Cape Town, 18-19 January 2017 “Seeing Africanist Historiography as a Colonial Legacy: the Nigerian Case”, paper presented at Decolonizing the Academy Conference, Center of African Studies, The University of Edinburgh, UK, 21-22 April 2016 “From White Gold to Black Gold: an Economic History of Cotton in Funtua, Katsina State”, paper presented at Funtua Business Summit, Makera Hotels Funtua, 23 March 2016

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“Putting Archives on Trial: the Past as a Legal Resource”, paper presented at the 3rd Academic International Conference on Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, University of Oxford, Green Templeton College, UK, 1-3 March 2016 “Tracking Epistemic Continuities: the Coloniality of Postcolonial Historical Production in Nigeria”, paper presented at the conference on “Migration of Knowledge: Potentials and Limits of Knowledge Productions and Critique in Europe and Africa”, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany, 3-6 December 2014 “The Nigerian History Machine and the Poverty of National Narrative”, paper presented at the Institute for Humanities Research (HUMA) University of Cape Town, August 2014 “Nigeria @ 50: Rethinking Nationalist Historiography in an Age of National Crisis”, paper presented at the 54th Annual conference of the Historical Society of Nigeria, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, October 2010 “Colonialism and Identity Formation in Funtua: a Historical Perspective”, paper presented at a symposium organized by Funtua Friends Forum, April 2010

Workshops Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa workshop, SSRC, University of Ghana, Legon, July. 2012. “Social Theory Workshop on Discourse Analysis”, Institute of Humanities Research in Africa (HUMA), University of Cape Town, September 2012. Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa workshop, SSRC, Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research (Wiser), University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, “The Life of Forms”, Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC), University of Witwatersrand, June 2013 Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa workshop, SSRC, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, July 2013 Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa workshop, SSRC, University of Dar es Sallam, Tanzania, January 2014 Multimedia Training Workshop, Bayero University, Kano 2017

Publications “Ethnic Minorities and the Dynamics of Heritage Politics in Nigeria”, Unpacking Heritage: Things don’t really exist until you give them a name, Mkuki Na Nyota, Dar es Salam, eds. Rachael Lee, Diane Barbe, Phillip Misselwitz, 2018. “The Nigerian History Machine”, Theories of History: History Read Across the Humanities, eds J. Kelly and Arthur Rose, Bloomsbury, London, 2018. “What will you do with History: A Memoir”, The consequences of being a Historian: Thoughts and Reflections from Practitioners and Students of History ed. Aminu I. Yandaki. Forthcoming. “Expatriate Historians and Africanist Historiography in northern Nigeria: a Brief Commentary”, Kano Journal of History, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2016

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“Exhuming Passions: Religion and the Emergence of the Middle Belt Struggle in Nigeria”, in Annual Review of Islam in Africa, No 11, 2012. “The Dynamics of Inter-group Relations and Conflict Management in northern Nigeria”, in Nigeria’s Convulsive Federalism: Perspectives on Flash Points in Northern Nigeria, Cypress Concepts and Solutions Ltd, Ibadan, 2012. “Transcending the Limits of Modern Historiography: an Assessment of the Historiographical Approach of Dahiru Yahya” in Saidu Babura and Ibrahim Khaleel Abdussalam eds. Resurgent Nigeria: issues in Nigerian Intellectual History, University Press Plc., Ibadan, 2011 “Historians and the Analysis of Social Movements: the Case of Y. B. Usman” in Kaduna Journal of Historical Studies, Maiden Edition, September 2009 “Yusufu Bala Usman and the Marxist Philosophy of History”, FAIS Journal of Humanities, Vol.4. No 2., July, Bayero University, Kano, 2011 “A Review of Five Centuries of Historical Writing in Borno and Hausaland”, in Journal of Intra-African Studies, No. 5, 2011 “A Review of The Transformation of Katsina” by Yusufu Bala Usman in Lapai Journal of Humanities, Vol. 4/5, 2010/2011 “Putting Archives on Trial: A Note on Lawyers in search of Records”, Tombouctou Manuscript Project Editorial, April 2015. http://www.tombouctoumanuscripts.org/blog/entry/putting_archives_on_trial_a_note_ on_lawyers_in_search_of_records/

Administrative Positions

Member Mambayya House Committee on Archives Establishment, 2016 to date Member Editorial Board, Kano Journal of History, 2016 to date Member Conference Committee, Faculty of Arts and Islamic Studies, Bayero University, Kano, 2016 – to date Member Linkages Committee, Department of History Bayero University, Kano 2017 to date Chair Fieldtrip Committee, Department of History Bayero University, Kano Member Library Committee, Department of History, Bayero University, Kano Member organizing committee Aminu Kano Memorial Lecture, Aminu Kano Centre for Democratic Research and Training, Mambayya House, Kano. Secretary Appointment and Promotion Committee, History Department, Bayero University, Kano, 2015 to date Level Coordinator, History Department, Bayero University, Kano, 2010-2012 Examinations Officer, Department of History, Bayero University, Kano, 2011-2012 Assistant Examinations Officer, Department of History, Bayero University, Kano, 2010-2011 Member Public Lecture Committee, History Department, Bayero University, Kano, 2010- 2012 Member Bayero University Self-Study Committee for the 2011 accreditation exercise. Member Organizing Committee Maiden Festschrift Conference, Bayero University, Kano, 2010 Secretary Students’ Historical Society of Nigeria, Bayero University, Kano, 2002- 2003 5