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.
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> 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.
>
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