ABOUT TOJA OKOH

Oghenetoja (Toja) Okoh is an Associate Professor of African History at Loyola University Maryland. Her fields of interest include modern African history, the politics of minority identity formation, decolonization, and the post-colonial experience. Her most recent publication is Minority Identities in Nigeria: Contesting and Claiming Citizenship in the 20th Century, published by Cambridge University Press. Her current project explores the impact of transnational migration on the formation and evolution of ideals such as success and prestige within Nigeria over the course of the late 20th century to the present.