Samaila Suleiman is a Professor of Historiography in the Department of History, Bayero University, Kano. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Bayeryo University, Kano and PhD from the Univewrsity of Cape Town. He is a visiting professor in Black Life and History at McGill University, Canada, and recipeint of several fellowships such as the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Fellowship of the SSRC, New York; two time Fellow of the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa of the SSRC; Fellow Summer Program in Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Princeton; Presidential Fellow African Studies Association/American Council of Learned Societies, New York; Fellow Yusufu Bala Usman Institute (YBUI), Zaria; Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) Brown University USA. He was Deputy Director Research and Documentation at Mambayya House, the Aminu Kano Center for Democratic Studies, and currently serves as the Regional Lead for West Africa, Association of Common Wealth Universities (ACU) Higher Education and SDGs Network. Some of his recent publictions include: “The Dangers of History: Another Culture of Violence in Benue and Plateau, Central Nigeria”, Praticas da Historia, Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past, No18, 2024, pp. 343–375; “From Teaching Library to Family Archives: The Social Life of Umar Kabara Library, Kano”, Journal of African Humanities Research and Development (JAHRD) 1, 2024, pp. 54–66.