Toby Green

Professor Toby Green is a Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture at King's College London's Faculty of Arts & Humanities. He holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham (2007) and degrees from the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on African engagement with the Atlantic world, global inequality, and decolonizing academic paradigms. He has been PI on major grants from the AHRC, Leverhulme Trust, and EU, and chairs the British Academy's Fontes Historiae Africanae Committee.

Research Interests: African economic history, trans-Atlantic diasporas, precolonial state formations, postcolonial Angola, and the historical intersections of race, slavery, and capitalism. His work emphasizes collaborative research with scholars in the Global South, including Angola, Ghana, and The Gambia.

Key Achievements: Awarded the British Academy Book Prize (2019) for A Fistful of Shells, Philip Leverhulme Prize (2017), and elected British Academy Fellow (2024). Authored seminal works on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and pandemic responses, including The Covid Consensus (2023).

Awards:

• Fellow of the British Academy (2024)
• Philip Leverhulme Prize for History (2017)
• Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding (2019)

Teaching & Public Engagement: Designs UK and West African school curricula, including OCR A Level History materials and an AHRC-funded textbook for the West African Senior School Certificate. Advises governments on pandemic policy and collaborates with institutions like the British Library and the Royal United Services Institute.