This is a fantastic tribute to one of the world’s most productive historians.
Congrats to the organizers. This is well deserved indeed. Special
congratulations to the honoree, the indefatigable scholar, Professor Toyin Falola.
Gloria Emeagwali
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Toyin Falola
Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin
104 Inner Campus Drive
Austin, TX 78712-0220
USA
512 475 7224
512 475 7222 (fax)
From: adeyemi_bukola_oyeniyi oyeniyi <oyeniyib@gmail.com>
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Toyin Falola @ 60 Conference & Book Presentation
Toyin Falola @ 60 Conference
&
Book Presentation
Nana Amposah, ed., Beyond the Boundaries: Toyin Falola and the Art of Genre-Bending,
2013
Scholars from across three continents will gather at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in the weekend of October 11th 2013 to honor and celebrate the erudite, indefatigable and most prolific historian of Africa, Professor Toyin Falola.
The conference, which features thirteen panels, begins on 11th October and ends 12th October 2013. Professor Toyin Falola,unarguably Africa’s most celebrated humanity scholar, will be presented with an 800 page-long book at this conference.
This truly massive book aptly entitled, Beyond the Boundaries: Toyin Falola and the Art of Genre-Bending, which was edited by Dr. Nana Akua Amponsah showcases issues and themes that bothered on Professor Falola’s three decade of scholarship.
Professor Toyin Falola, a truly global intellectual, is an iconic figure, whose name conjures tremendous awe and admiration. Born in Ibadan, Professor Toyin Falola started his academic career at the University of Ife, Ile-Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife), Nigeria and later joined the University of Texas at Austin, USA after a brief spell in Canada and Australia.
Professor Toyin Falola’s contributions to humanity and scholarship are legendary. As one of the would-be participants told me, although not less than five volumes have already been written in his honor, it is like allowing a head of steam to pass without harnessing its horsepower to allow Professor Toyin Falola’s sixtieth anniversary to pass without a landmark celebration. In truth, Dr. Nana Amposah’s edited volume says volumes about how well referenced is Professor Toyin Falola globally. The contributors included not only Professor Toyin Falola’s colleagues, but also other generations of scholars after him. The same could be said of confirmed participants at the conference.
As recent events have also shown, it is not only these contributors and confirmed conference participants who alone are celebrating Professor Toyin Falola, a few months ago, Professor Toyin Falola was awarded two honorary doctorates, two distinguished lifetime career awards, and a statewide teaching award. All these and his other numerous awards are eloquent testimonies of Professor Toyin Falola’s scholarship. Even with more than one hundred (120) books, Professor Toyin Falola’s indefatigable and unquenchable spirit still remains at work, as he has published about 12 books this year alone. Among these are a number of definitive books such as his solo book on African diaspora and seven edited books:
(i) Art, Parody and Politics: Dele Jegede’s Creative Activism, Nigeria and the Transnational Space (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2013), 419 pp.
(ii) The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment in Africa (New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 438 pp.
(iii) The African Diaspora: Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013), pp. xiv+418.
(iv) Esu: Yoruba God, Power, And The Imaginative Frontiers (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2013), pp. xvii+392.
(v) The Power of Gender and the Gender of Power: Women’s Labor, Rights, and Responsibilities in Africa(Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2013), pp. 801.
(vi) Warfare, Ethnicity and National Identity in Nigeria(Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2013), pp. viii+356.
(vii) Women, Gender, And Sexualities in Africa (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2013), pp. xiv+356.
(viii) Africa After Fifty Years: Retrospections and Reflections (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2013), pp. xxv + 401.
From the above, it is certain that Professor Toyin Falola is still firing on all cylinders and the world, in general, and Africa, in particular, is blessed with this man of a rare courage and genius!
The Keynote Address entitled “African History Today: What Is It? Who Needs It?”, which looks at the academic practices of African history and the role it has played in the projects of decolonization and independence in Africa and in the movements for black power and black citizenship in the Western hemisphere over the past six decades, shall be delivered by Professor Akin Ogundiran, the Professor and Chair of Africana Department, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi
Department of History
Strong Building, Room 440,
Tel: 417-836-6959
Mobile: (+1) 832-211-8921
Missouri State University
901 S. National Ave.
Springfield, MO 65897
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