Femi Owolade
Femi Owolade is a legal historian and Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He holds a PhD in Legal History, and an MA in Medical Ethics and Law, both from King’s College London. His main research interests include legal pluralism, colonial history, and higher education policy. He has held teaching and research positions at the University of Leeds, SOAS University of London, and Sheffield Hallam University. He is the author of Legal Pluralism as a Colonial Project in Africa: Law, Colonial Domination and Resistance in Northern Nigeria (Routledge, 2026).
List of recent publications:
Femi Owolade, Legal pluralism as a colonial project in Africa: law, colonial domination, and resistance in Northern Nigeria (Routledge, 2026)
Femi Owolade, ‘Imperial law and native authority: legal pluralism in the making of colonial Northern Nigeria, 1900-1920’, Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis, 57 (2-3), 207-222. (2025)
Femi Owolade: ‘Writing a colonial legal history of Northern Nigeria: an analysis of methods and sources’, History in Africa, 50, 73-98. (2023)