Damilola Adebayo is an award-winning historian of Anglophone West Africa, particularly Nigeria. His research and teaching interests are at the intersection of three historical fields: technology, socioeconomic life, and international organizations. His current research theme investigates the socioeconomic life of Western technologies in African cities since the 1850s. He is keen to understand the varied contexts within which Western energy, communication, and transportation technologies were introduced, used, or discarded by the upper class and everyday people; and how these technologies have been a cause and effect of change in African societies. His ongoing book project is tentatively entitled Power and the People: Electricity and Urban Life in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Nigeria.