In the midst of the on-going ASUU strike in Nigeria, which has paralyzed the nation's educational sector, a foremost and illustrious son of the Ibadan School of History and Director of the Institute for African Studies, Professor Issac Olawale Albert, shared with me his views on Professor Toyin Falola while congratulating the celebrant.
"Professor Falola's scholarship is legendary. He manifested the African spirit, which knows no bounds. He traversed the different genres and mastered them all". Professor Albert, who pioneered Conflict and Peace building Studies in Nigeria, began.
"If not for Professor Falola's efforts, the labor of our past heroes would have gone, in vain and undocumented". He affirmed. "He - Professor Falola rescued most of these earliest works of history from their analogue form and compile them into volumes. Today we can read Ade-Ajayi, Tamuno, etc. as if we were there when these great historians wrote the first essays." I cannot but join others in wishing Prof. Toyin Falola a happy birthday".
"There is no gainsaying the fact that in most of our institutions today, almost all candidates for appointment and / or promotion have one or two essays in one or more of Professor Falola's edited works. Where do we place such a person?" Professor Albert asks.
He went on to enumerate the different ways Professor Toyin Falola had contributed and still contributing to knowledge production and dissemination, as well as the incomparable support he is giving scholars across the world to develop and master their crafts.
"May the good Lord continue to strengthen his contributions to knowledge and outstanding support to colleagues across the globe. Givers never lack; TF will never lack. Congratulations!"
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