I received the news of the death of Prof. JDY Peel with great shock. He was such a great scholar. I met him through the late Prof JF Ade-Ajayi, who supervised my PhD thesis. John was very close to the Ajayi family. He read drafts of my PhD thesis in the early 90s and gave me very useful suggestions for revision. Since then, he has been a very worthy mentor and dear friend, encouraging me in my career at very turn. I have had very rewarding intellectual exchanges with him. John was a very fine scholar. We shall all miss him.
May God comfort his family and other members of the Africanist community.
Olufunke Adeboye, Ph.D
Professor and Head,
Department of History and Strategic Studies,
University of Lagos,
Nigeria.
On Monday, 2 November 2015, 21:19, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
--Professor JDY Peel passed on this evening in London around 4 pm. He had been struggling with cancer in recent years. We have lost a great man, a great teacher, and a wonderful human being.An obituary will follow.Toyin FalolaDepartment of HistoryThe University of Texas at Austin104 Inner Campus DriveAustin, TX 78712-0220USA512 475 7224512 475 7222 (fax)
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