Alessandro Triulzi

Alessandro Triulzi (born 1941 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian historian, Africanist and since 2011 Emeritus Professor of African History and former Vice Director of the African and Arab Studies Department at the Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" at Naples.

Triulzi was Visiting Professor at the University of Addis Ababa (1994, 1998), the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2004), and Boston University (2008).

From 1995 up to 2010 he coordinated the PhD program in African Studies at the University of Naples "L'Orientale".

In 2007 Triulzi was awarded the Premio Giorgio Maria Sangiorgi prize for the History and Ethnology of Africa by the Accademia dei Lincei.

Triulzi published many scholarly books and research articles on Africa, including:[3][4][5]