Abubakar Babajo Sani is Deputy Vice Chancellor Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, Katsina, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities. He obtained his Ph.D. from Bayero University, Kano, in 2004. Sani previously worked in the Department of History, Nigeria Defense eAcademy, Kaduna. His research interests concentrate on the economic history of Africa, particularly the economies of the Central Sudan and the trans-Saharan trade. He is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project.