Diverse global currents and currencies of epistemic formation have influenced post-nationalist African historiography. Over the last four decades, Toyin Falola has emerged as a key contributor to these conversations, and in the process, his own historical imagination has undergone significant changes. Falola’s critique of African nationalist historiography, his reading of African pluriversalism, and more recently, his exploration of the idea of ‘ritual archives’ in the African context has ushered in some possibilities of rescuing Africa from the long sustained practices of epistemicide. This essay engages with these shifts in Falola’s scholarship to explain how it contributes to postcolonial critical thinking. Through an engagement with Falola as an intellectual historian, it seeks to extrapolate his contribution to the discipline of history from a global and transregional perspective.