Olutayo Charles Adesina is currently the British Academy Global Professor of History at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. For three decades, he taught at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts,  University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Between 2008 and 2022, he served as a Resource Person and member of the International Panel of Scholars with the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) in New York, assessing applications for the African Humanities Program fellowship. Prof. Adesina is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (FNAL), the apex organisation of humanistic scholars in Nigeria. He has also been a Fellow of the Atlantic History Seminar, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University, U.S.A. (1998); Fellow, Salzburg Seminar, Austria (2003); Visiting Professor at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, U.S.A. (2004 & 2013); African Visiting Fellow, Rhodes Chair of Race Relations, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, United Kingdom (2004/2005); and Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (2009). In 2023, he was a Fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin, Germany.