Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Don Ohadike: Eight Years After

I do remember the late professor Ohadike with fond memories. I first met him at
one of brother Falola's annual meetings in Austin, Texas, many, many years ago.
As I recalled, he and other intellectual timbers such as professor Sklar were
waiting for a bus to take us back to our hotel, when he said to my friend
Bennett and I jovially that we should wait for the next bus because he and the
other top Africanists were in the process of catching the first bus. I pleaded
with him to allow us join them since in my village we have a saying that "he who
follows a native doctor eats a foul's legs." In other words, if they allowed us
to follow them, we might be lucky enough to be influenced by their intellect. We
had a big laugh after my adage. At this point, Ohadike then said to me "you have
spoken well--come join us."

Ike Udogu


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From: John Mbaku <jmbaku@weber.edu>
Date: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 1:19 pm
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Don Ohadike: Eight Years After
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com

> Very touching and thoughtful tribute to a great and powerful
> scholar and
> human being!
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Kunle Lawal
> <kunlelawal02@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > May the gentle soul of Don Ohadike continue to rest in perfect
> peace.>
> > Kunle Lawal
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > *From:* Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>
> > *To:* dialogue <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>
> > *Cc:* James Ohadike <ohadike@yahoo.com>; "ohadike@gmail.com" <
> > ohadike@gmail.com>; Ngozi Afulezi <ngozi.afulezi@gmail.com>; N'dri
> > assie-lumumba <na12@cornell.edu>; "nanji@gmail.com"
> <nanji@gmail.com>; "
> > ibeikejonah@yahoo.com" <ibeikejonah@yahoo.com>;
> "bychief@yahoo.com" <
> > bychief@yahoo.com>; Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>;
> Theo> Azubuike <Theo-mickey@rogers.com>; sandra ohadike
> <nohadike@yahoo.com>;> osia <Osiadi@aol.com>
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, 28 August 2013, 14:01
> > *Subject:* USA Africa Dialogue Series - Don Ohadike: Eight Years
> After>
> >
> > Don Ohadike: Eight Years After
> >
> > By Toyin Falola
> >
> > Today marks the eight year that we lost Professor Don Ohadike, an
> > outstanding scholar who acquired a tremendous reputation in African
> > history, one of the very best in the field of resistance to
> colonial rule
> > in south-eastern Nigeria and the social history of the Igbo of
> West Africa.
> > A man of grace, wit, and kindness, he cultivated the affection and
> > friendship of a large number of people, from the Gambia to the
> Cameroon.> Always smiling and unruffled, he took criticisms very
> lightly, and his
> > large heart never remembered a past conflict. His book, *The Ekumeku
> > Movement*, is an impressive analysis of resistance to colonial
> rule in
> > south-eastern Nigeria, one that broadens the discourse on
> resistance in
> > general through fresh data, original interpretations, and a
> conclusion that
> > previous scholars have made an error by assuming that resistance was
> > limited to large African groups. He laid the foundation of what
> we now call
> > Anioma Studies, with his *Anioma: A Social History of the Western
> Igbo> People* --the very first to explore how a dynamic group was
> able to
> > navigate change at a most dramatic period in their history. This
> book has
> > created a vigorous Anioma identity, propelled further by the work
> of Dr.
> > Kurinum Osia. The lot fell on me to bring into completion his
> final book,
> > *Sacred Drums of Liberation: Religions and Music of Resistance in
> Africa> and the African Diaspora, a careful work that links culture
> with> resistance.*
> >
> > In a note to me early this morning, his brilliant and committed
> > daughter, Sandra Ohadike, wrote:
> >
> > May the roads rise to meet you,
> > May the wind be always at your back,
> > May the sun shine warm upon your face,
> > The rain fall soft upon your fields
> > And, until we meet again,
> > May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
> >
> > Ezigbo Nnanyi Anyi Funanya...RIP Dad.
> >
> > Don is well and alive in our memories and libraries.
> > Toyin Falola
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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