Kabiru Babatunde Amusa is a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Miami. His primary area of focus is African history, especially Precolonial and Colonial history of Africa. His research interests include Social and Environmental history. He is primarily interested in how British colonial forest policies altered indigenous livelihoods in Nigeria in the colonial period.
Kabiru has a BA (2016) and MA (2021) in History from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and a second MA (2023) in African Studies from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He has presented papers at many international conferences and has won many fellowships and grants, such as the Ben Gurion University Department of History Summar Research Grant (2022), Tamar Golan African Studies Centre Research Grant (2022), the University of Miami Dean’s Fellowship (2024-2026), and the Center for Global Black Studies Summer Research Grant (2025).
Kabiru is a member of various professional associations, such as the African Studies Association, the American Historical Association, Global History Lab, History Dialogue Program, West African Research and Innovation Management Association, and the Lagos Studies Association. He has published peer-reviewed journal articles, a book chapter, and a digital article. He is currently working on an article, “Creative Destruction”: The Impact of Western Conservation on Indigenous Economy in Colonial Southwestern Nigeria, 1900-1950. He is working with Professor Edmund Abaka as his Advisor.
