I join others in congratulating our own Professor Falola for the recognition he has earned. At the ASA presidential lecture which he gave at Rutgers University last week, I could not but wonder whether it isn’t time to ask that our leaders in Nigeria, instead of going to Chatham house in London, take a course or two with professor Falola on how little events have profoundly shaped the history of the country. At dinner, as some of us tried to draw professor Falola into a discussion of the Nigerian elections, he remarkably restrained himself from making the dinner another Nigerian night by either simply listening or checking on his “baby”, the USA Africa Dialogue, on his cell phone. When he chose to speak, he delved into one hilarious fable after another. I am personally most grateful for the prayers he said for me and my wife. I know him to be a traditional chief but I did not know he is also a priest of Orunmila, the god of wisdom!
Bode Ibironke
On 4/26/15, 6:50 AM, "cogbogbo via USA Africa Dialogue Series" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Congratulations to Professor Toyin Falola, easily the most celebrated historian of Africa today.
As I add my voice of congratulations to this Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria, I want to particularly note that Prof. Falola remains unsurpassed amongst his generation of historians who have provided a shoulder for younger ones to stand on. He has co -authored with many, produced many, and provided publishing opportunities for a multitude of scholars across disciplinary boundaries. Simply put he has impacted on African Studies.
Accept my congratulations and that of the Historical Society of Nigeria.
Cbn Ogbogbo
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
| From: 'Dele Layiwola' via USA Africa Dialogue Series Sent: Sunday, 26 April 2015 10:27 Reply To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Lincoln Awards Honorary Degree to Toyin Falola |
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
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.
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