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Abdullahi Musa Ashafa Dr. Ashafa holds an MA and PhD from the University of Jos, in North-Central Nigeria. He currently is professor of history at Kaduna State University in Kaduna, Nigeria, and also represents the University Senate on the University Governing Council. Past roles at the university include serving as the pioneer head of the History Department and, most recently, as dean of the Faculty of Arts. Prior to this, Professor Ashafa was a visiting professor of history at the Nigerian Defence Academy, the premier military university in West Africa; a research fellow at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) in Lagos, Nigeria; and a visiting professor at Umaru Musa Yar’adua University in Katsina, Nigeria. Currently, he also serves many Nigerian universities as an external examiner in the Department of History, including the elite National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in Kuru, Jos. He has published extensively in journals, contributed dozens of chapters to books, and presented over 60 academic papers in local and international conferences. In addition, he has been invited to research, write papers, and make presentations for several government functions and civil society fora. His recent edited books include Urbanization and Infrastructure in Nigeria in the Twentieth Century: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Ezzeldeen Abdulrahman (Kaduna State University, 2011) and Nigeria at Fifty: Essays in Honour of Professor Abdullahi Mahadi (Gombe State University, 2014). Throughout his life, Ashafa has lived and worked in a context of religious plurality. He comes from a predominantly Christian community in Southern Kaduna, Nigeria, and his undergraduate education was in a primarily Muslim student body at Bayero University in Kano, a state that is also predominantly Muslim. At the University of Jos, he studied within a largely Christian population, and since then, he has spent decades working in northern Nigeria’s city of Kaduna, composed of a very plural populace. Such a background provides a fair understanding and analysis of Muslim-Christian relations in Nigeria. .

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