Abubakar Sani Sule

Sule is a British Academy Global Professor based at the SRU for four years to lead a major research project on West African Communities as seen through Museum Collections. The project blends archaeology, museum practice and stakeholder engagement to study large and under-researched collections from key Nigerian sites, drawing on archaeological, ethnographic and archival data held in British and Nigerian museums.

A Professor in African Archaeology at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria (Nigeria), Sule’s research interests centre on understanding the socio-economic and political developments in West Africa in the last millennium, and the preservation of this heritage. Key interests include the settlement landscapes of the Nigeria’s Savannah region, the historical anthropology of socio-political traditions, pottery materials, museum collections, and earthen architectural heritage. His book Imprints of the Archaeology of Northern Nigeria: Landscape, society and crafts around Kirfi, Bauchi region (BAR Publishing, 2021) deploys a social theory of frontier to understand how Borno and other Hausa states impacted on cultural process across the savannah region over the past 1,500 years.