Honors & Awards

Member, Institute for Advanced Study (School of Historical Societies), Princeton, New Jersey, Sept. 2005-April 2006 (not utilized)

John W. Kluge Fellow, Library of Congress, Washington, DC (Sept. 2002-July 2003)

University of Colorado-Boulder Arts and Sciences Dean's Fund for Research Excellence (2004; 2001)

University of Colorado-Boulder Implementation of Multicultural Perspectives and Approaches in Research and Teaching (IMPART) Awards (2001; 1997; 1996)

University of Colorado-Boulder Council on Research & Creative Works Grants-in-Aid (2001; 1998)

British Academy Visiting Fellow (1997)

University of Colorado-Boulder Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities Research Travel Grants (2004; 1997; 1996)

University of Colorado-Boulder Junior Faculty Development Award (1996)

Pre-doctoral Fellow, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, University of Rochester, New York (Sept. 1993-May 1995)

Izaak Walton Killam Post-doctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada (not utilized), 1994-95

University of Toronto Simcoe Special Fellow (Sept. 1990-Aug. 1994)

Abilene Travel Grant (from Dwight D. Eisenhower World Affairs Institute), 1993

John F. Kennedy Library Foundation Research Grant (1993)

Harry S. Truman Library Institute Research Grant (1993)

Junior Resident Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto (September 1990-April 1993)

Fredric Hudd Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto (1990-91; 1992-93)

Associates of the University Toronto Travel Grant Fund (1992)

Stacey Graduate Travel Fund, Department of History, University of Toronto (1992)

University of Toronto Differential Fee Waiver Scholarship (1990-91; 1991-92)

Research Grant from the Imo State (of Nigeria) Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports (1984)

Federal Government of Nigeria Scholar (1982-83)

University of Bradford (UK) Postgraduate Scholarship in Peace Studies (not utilized), 1980

University of Ilorin History Department Best Graduating B.A. Student (1979)

Osmoots Klubb (University of Ilorin) Certificate of Honor for "excellent contribution towards the literary upliftment of this University by [my] singular achievement in the field of Literature" (1978)

Second position, Nigerian National Independence Day Essay Contest (1977) Essay title: "Lingua Franca for Nigeria: Problems and Prospects"

Second position, All-Nigeria (undergraduates) United Nations Essay Contest (1977) Essay title: "The United Nations: Failing or Succeeding?"

Ngwa High School Certificate of Merit for "Outstanding Contribution" as a member of the school's two-person team to the 1974 finals of the national secondary schools' Quiz Contest organized by the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation