Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Toyin Falola recipient of another lifetime achievement award

Toyin;

I join all our colleagues and friends to wish you well and rejoice with you on yet another well deserved award.

Impressive and outstanding as always. Thanks for all your work and support for African scholarship.

-Tade.

From: Kwasi Gyan-Apenteng <gapenteng@hotmail.com>
To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2011 6:33 AM
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Toyin Falola recipient of another lifetime achievement award

Prof Totin Falola deserves every accolade that is bestowed on him.  ... And more! Kwasi
 Kwasi Gyan-Apenteng, Journalist & Communications ConsultantAccra
President,Ghana Association of WritersPAWA House, Accra

 

Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 11:04:17 +0100From: amiola2002@yahoo.co.ukSubject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Toyin Falola recipient of another lifetime achievement awardTo: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com

Just adding my voice to thousands of others to congratulate Prof. Toyin Falola for this singular honour. You remain the cynosure and icon of African scholarship.

 

Joseph Oladejo Faniran PhD

CESACC, Port Harcourt

 

amioladejoe

From: Prof Segun Ogunbemi <seguno2001@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, 9 August 2011, 2:36
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Toyin Falola recipient of another lifetime achievement award

We wholeheartedly congratulate you at Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria for this award as a mark of your contributions to scholarship. Segun Ogungbemi. --- On Mon, 8/8/11, House-Soremekun, Bessie <beshouse@iupui.edu> wrote: From: House-Soremekun, Bessie <beshouse@iupui.edu> Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Toyin Falola recipient of another lifetime achievement award To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> Date: Monday, August 8, 2011, 7:10 AM Congratulations Professor Falola on yet another prestigious award. You continue to make us all so very proud!   Bessie House-Soremekun  From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] on behalf of Segun Dosumu [jubadosu@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 6:00 AM To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Toyin Falola recipient of another lifetime achievement award Congratulations Sir!!!   Adesegun Dosumu Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC) 36/38, Broad Street, Lagos Island, Lagos, Nigeria. 01-7744489, +2348083950755, +2348055404320 ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tracy Flemming <cafenegritude@gmail.com> > To: USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> > Cc: > Sent: Monday, August 8, 2011 3:35 AM > Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Toyin Falola recipient of another lifetime achievement award > > Falola recipient of another lifetime achievement award > > The African Studies Association selected Professor Toyin Falola for > its 2011 Distinguished Africanist Award. > > Posted: August 3, 2011 > > Executive Director of the African Studies Association (ASA) Karen > Jenkins notified Falola that he was the association's 2011 recipient > of its most coveted award. > > In her letter, she stated, "As you are aware, the Distinguished > Africanist Award was established to recognize and honor individuals > who have contributed a lifetime of outstanding scholarship in African > Studies combined with service to the Africanist community." > > Toyin Falola, just back from Nigeria where he participated in the > inaugural Toyin Falola Annual Conference, was surprised to learn he'd > received yet another lifetime achievement award. He said, "This is the > biggest award ever in academic organizations — I was not expecting > it." > > According to the ASA's website, "the award was created in the 1980's > to recognize and honor scholars who have contributed a lifetime record > of outstanding scholarship in their respective field of African > studies." > > The award will be presented at their Annual Business Meeting and > Awards Ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011 in Washington, D.C. Their > annual conference has approximately 2,000 attendees each year from all > over the world. > > The ASA was founded in 1957 and has established itself as the > preeminent organization in North America that works to promote the > study of Africa. It boosts a membership of over 1,700. > > It is a nonprofit organization with a membership in the American > Council of Learned Societies and housed at Rutgers University. > > The ASA publishes two prestigious journals, the African Studies Review > and History in Africa. > > Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in the > Department of History and a Distinguished Teaching Professor. He has > published over 100 books and holds his own Africa conference each year > on the campus of The University of Texas in the spring. > > He has won numerous awards and was appointed as a Vice President of > the International Scientific Committee for UNESCO's Slave Trade Route > Project just this past spring. > > He was also selected by the University Co-operative Society at UT for > their top Career Research Excellence Award in 2010 for the very > impressive research program in African history that he established > since he came to the university in 1991. > > In 2009, he received the inaugural Africana Studies Distinguished > Global Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award from Indiana University > Purdue University Indianapolis. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "USA-Africa > Dialogue Series" moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin. >   For current archives, visit http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue >   For previous archives, visit  > http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html >   To post to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com >   To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue-    >   unsubscribe@googlegroups.com > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "USA-Africa Dialogue Series" moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin. 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