Titilola Halimat Somotan

Halimat Somotan is a historian of twentieth-century Africa with research interests in the history of decolonization, postcolonial rule, urban history, and women’s history. Her first book manuscript, The Decolonizing City: Popular Politics and the Making of Postcolonial Lagos, 1941-76, is a people-centered history of Lagos, one of the most populous cities in the world, during and after Nigeria’s transition from colonial rule to independence.