Gibril Cole
Associate Professor
225-C Himes Hall
578-4591
gcole@lsu.edu
Courses Taught
West Africa from Pre-History to 1800; West Africa from 1800 to the Present; Islam in Contemporary African Societies; Pre-Colonial Africa; Modern Africa Since 1800
Current Research Interests
Islam and the process of creolization in colonial West Africa 1808-1910; Political violence in post-independence Sierra Leone.
Interested in Directing Theses On
Colonial and Post-Colonial West Africa.
Education
B.A. (Honors), Fourah Bay College (University of Sierra Leone); M.A. California State University, Chico; PhD UCLA
Awards and Honors
UCLA Summer Research Grant
International Studies and Overseas Program Fellowship
Outstanding Faculty Award, UCSD 2004
Notable Articles
鈥淚slam in Africa鈥�, Africa, vol. 5, edited by Toyin Falola (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2003)
鈥淟iberated Slaves and Islam in Nineteenth Century West Africa鈥�, in The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World, edited by Toyin Falola and Matt D. Childs (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004)
鈥淩ethinking the Demographic Make-up of Krio Society鈥�, in New Perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio, edited by Mac Dixon-Fyle and Gibril Cole (New York: Peter Lang, 2006).
Books
The Krio of West Africa: Islam, Culture, Creolization, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century (Ohio University Press/Swallow Press, 2013)
New Perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio, editor with Mac Dixon-Fyle (New York: Peter Lang, 2006