Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Toyin Falola Appointed as a Vice President of the International Scientific Committee for UNESCO's Slave Trade Route Project

Toyin,
Congratulations! As brother Ashafa has noted, nothing can be said further about you than what has been written about you.

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> This is to congratulate Prof Falola on this well-deserved
> appointment. One interesting thing about Falola is that you
> can hardly say anything better than what had been said or
> written about him and am not always good in beaten the
> well-treaded path, except to congratulate the man. Indeed he
> deserves anything good on this planet related to scholarship.
> Abdullahi Ashafa, PhD
> Associate Professor of History,
> Dean, Faculty of Arts,
> Kaduna State University, Kaduna-Nigeria.
> +234 (80) 29123744,
> --- On Mon, 4/4/11, Chambi Chachage <chambi78@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Chambi Chachage <chambi78@yahoo.com>
> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Toyin Falola Appointed
> as a Vice President of the International Scientific Committee
> for UNESCO's Slave Trade Route Project
> To: "USA Africa Dialogue" <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>
> Date: Monday, April 4, 2011, 8:07 AM
> Historian appointed as a Vice President of the International
> Scientific Committee for UNESCO's Slave Trade Route Project
> (http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/history/news/3683)
> The Secretary General has approved Professor Toyin Falola's
> membership to the Board of the International Scientific Committee
> (ISC) for four years and the ISC voted to make him a Vice
> President.
> Posted: March 25, 2011
> [Prof. Toyin Falola]Prof. Toyin Falola
> UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
> Organization) began the Slave Trade Route Project in 1994 as
> part of its mission to educate and thereby foster tolerance
> for people of all races.
> According to UNESCO's website, "Ignorance or concealment of
> major historical events constitutes an obstacle to mutual
> understanding, reconciliation and cooperation among peoples.
> UNESCO has thus decided to break the silence surrounding the
> slave trade and slavery that have affected all continents and
> have caused the great upheavals that have shaped our modern
> societies."
> The ISC consists of experts who guide and advise the project
> to preserve documents, educational materials, create and
> preserve memorial sites, and promote the myriad contributions
> to the world that resulted from the African diaspora.
> Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor
> and a Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of
> History. He is a world renown professor and author, receiving
> numerous lifetime achievement awards and authoring over 100
> books.
> He has convened the Africa Conference annually for 11 years
> at The University of Texas at Austin campus with hundreds of
> attendees from the United States and multiple other countries.
> It is, in fact, taking place this week, March 25-27.
>  
> http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/history/news/3683
> (http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/history/news/3683)
>  
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> My mission is to acquire, produce and disseminate knowledge
> on and about humanity as well as divinity, especially as it
> relates to Africa, in a constructive and liberating manner to
> people wherever they may be.
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