Beautifully said, Dele, and I wish I'd said it, but you did. Indefatigable Toyin won't rest unless it is hard work on behalf of others, so let us all let others remind him of recognition that others recognize.
Congratulations.
P.
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dele jegedeToyin,I was headed your way to confer my personal honorary degree on you but learned that Lincoln has beaten me to it. It is indeed honorable to see you reduce work—hard work—to play. Congratulations.--On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:25 AM, akandeoj via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:This is a very big one in the award arsenal of our foremost academic! Congratulations to Prof Falola and to all of us in his constituency!Indeed some of us have children in LU and have proudly announced this big news!Laolu ASent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
Toyin FalolaProf Toyin Falola
Congratulations. You deserve this and other honours after your hard work.
I wish you long life and good health.
Prof Felicia A. D. Oyekanmi
Department of Sociology
University of Lagos
Akoka, Yaba,
Lagos Nigeria
Tel: {234} 1 7941757
Cell: {234}8056560970
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On Sun, 26/4/15, 'Dele Layiwola' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Lincoln Awards Honorary Degree to Toyin Falola
To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Date: Sunday, 26 April, 2015, 6:17
Ojogbon
Agba:May I
congratulate you once more on this deserved
recognition.May you
shadow continueto lengthen.Ire
o,Dele Prof.
Dele Layiwola
Institute of African Studies
University of Ibadan, Ibadan
Nigeria
From: Toyin Falola
<toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>
To: dialogue
<USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday,
April 24, 2015 12:02 AM
Subject: USA
Africa Dialogue Series - Lincoln Awards Honorary Degree to
Toyin Falola
Lincoln Awards Honorary Degree to Distinguished
University of Texas at Austin Professor
Posted on April
22, 2015 by Shelley Mix
Toyin Falola
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA – The Lincoln University, the nation's first-degree
granting Historically Black College
& University, announced it will award Dr. Toyin Falola,
the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the
Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor
at the University of Texas at Austin, an honorary doctorate
degree at its 156th Commencement
on Friday, May 8 at 9:00 a.m. in the university's
stadium.
Falola, who is one of the most prolific and erudite
global scholars of his generation, has published more
than 125 books, numerous journal articles and book chapters
on Africa and the African
Diaspora. Coupled with his high level of
international engagement activities and commitment to
Pan Africanism, he has become one of the most respected and
influential scholars of the 20th and 21st
centuries.
"I am deeply humbled and honored to receive such a
prestigious honor," Falola said. "The greatest hope that
a scholar can have is to feel that his/her efforts in the
academy have been appreciated
across time and space."
Widely proclaimed as Africa's preeminent historian
and one of the major intellectuals of our time, Falola has
been invited to speak in all continents, and in over sixty
countries. He also manages
five distinguished scholarly monograph series, and serves
on the board of over twenty journals.
Falola has received several honorary doctorates,
lifetime career awards and honors in various parts of
the world, including the Nigerian Diaspora Academic Prize,
the Cheikh Anta Diop Award,
the Amistad Award, the SIRAS Award for Outstanding
Contribution to African Studies, Africana Studies
Distinguished Global Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award,
Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, Fellow of the
Historical Society of Nigeria The Distinguished
Africanist Award and three Yoruba chieftaincy titles, most
notably the Bobapitan of Ibadanland ("the grand historian
of the empire").
At the University of Texas at Austin, he received the
Jean Holloway Award for Teaching Excellence, The Texas Exes
Teaching Award, the Chancellor's Council Outstanding
Teaching Award, Outstanding
Graduate Teaching Award, and the Career Research Excellence
Award.
In addition, an annual international conference has
been named after him, the Toyin Falola Annual Conference on
Africa and the African Diaspora (TOFAC), which meets every
July in a major African
university.
http://cubstolions.com/2015/04/22/lincoln-awards-honorary-degree-to-distinguished-university-of-texas-at-austin-professor/
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