Congrats to you, Prof Falola, and thank you for flying the African flag so high. From Nigeria to Kenya, from South Africa to Egypt, Africans, academics and non-academic, are proudly taking after you. For instance, in a conference I attended in Kenya not too long ago, you needed to have seen how excited a leading scholar from Kenya, Prof Maurice Amutabi, was when he was referred to as the Toyin Falola of Africa. May you days be long even as your frame grow larger to the glory of God and the promotion of Africa. IJMNA
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ayo_olukotun@yahoo.com: Sep 08 07:33PM
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From: Faith Adebiyi <faithadebiyi01@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 17:35:20
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Subject: Prof. Olukotun's Column
*EDO: THE POSTPONEMENT ,CONTROVERSY AND BEYOND*
*AYO OLUKOTUN*
"The United States is deeply disappointed by the decision to postpone the
elections. Political interference with the Independent Electoral Commission
is unacceptable and it is critical that the government not use security
concerns as a pretext for impeding the democratic process" John Kerry, Feb.
2015.
The opening quote is taken from a letter written by United States Secretary
of State to the Nigerian authorities in February 2015 after the
presidential election scheduled for February 14 was shifted to March 28.
That statement, typical of the national and international outrage that
greeted the postponement decision tapped into a groundswell of
dissatisfaction with the Jonathan government perceived as fighting a last
ditch battle to prevent electoral loss. For a country that learns from
history, that failed cynical attempt to fiddle with election schedule to
gain political advantage should have served as healthy deterrent against
what appears to be another effort to employ a security alert as a tool of
postponing the Edo State governorship election scheduled for Saturday.
Amazingly, less than 48 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari appeared at
an All Progressive Congress rally in Benin, the Nigeria Police and
Department of State Services informed the public "that credible
intelligence available to the agencies indicate plans by
insurgents/extremist elements to attack vulnerable communities and soft
targets with high population during the forthcoming Salah Celebrations
between September 12 and 13, 2016. Edo State is amongst is among the states
being earmarked for these attacks". It is on the basis of this "credible
intelligence" that the Electoral Commission had been advised to postpone
the election. As at the time this column was turned in, INEC was yet to
announce its decision on the matter, raising anxiety and uncertainty about
an event that is only 48 hours away.
Obviously, postponement of elections is a grave and fundamental decision
that ought to be taken as a last resort and in extreme circumstances such
as natural disasters or the death of a major candidate on the eve of an
election. That is why established democracies and several African Countries
such as Ghana do not have a record of postponing any election thus far.
Earlier this year, India had occasion for the first time in its history to
postpone an election because of allegations of widespread bribery and
possible rigging. But it is instructive that this postponement only
affected a few constituencies which were felt to have been tainted by
report of corruption. In the impending elections in the United States,
there have been speculations and scenario building concerning a possible
postponement, unheard of in its recent history should one of the major
presidential candidates, one 70 years the other 69 succumb to fatal ill
health. The speculations, fuelled by Hilary Clinton's recent cough attacks
and stumbling as well as Donald Trump's emotional instability are projected
in ways that suggest that these are farfetched and grave scenarios without
precedent. Hence, if it was wrong and cynical for Jonathan government to
have used a security excuse to shift the 2015 elections which it still
lost, it is no less reprehensible to postpone the Edo election under
whatever guise.
Talking about security reports, this writer recalls that in the course of
researching a book published in Sweden 12 years ago, I had occasion to
interview a former Minister of Information and well known Political
Scientist, Professor Sam Oyovbaire. In answer to one of my questions, he
said to me: "Don't forget that very often, security agents can be likened
to makers of coffins whose businesses flourish when there are fatalities.
It is understandable therefore that state security can sometimes
manufacture or create alarms in order to boost their relevance and
professional importance". Oyovbaire was of course referring to the role of
security under the General Ibrahim Babangida government about which I had
sought clarification. But the point can be applied generally. For example,
many Nigerians will find alarming a statement credited to the Inspector
General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, that the protests by the #*BringBackOurGirls
*constitute a security threat to public peace and order (The Punch,
September 8, 2016). One would have thought that the coalition now branded
security threats was doing the government a world of service by keeping an
important agenda on the national burner so that resolution and decisiveness
may be brought to bear on the rescue of the Girls.
Obviously, there is a distinct difference between intelligence gathering
and intelligence analysis, and recent events and statements call into
question the judgment and analytical acumen of our intelligence community.
Even if the alert on Edo is as credible as we are made to believe, could it
not have been raised before the arrival of international and national
observers in Edo State and INEC's preparation got into full gear?. It is
very poor advertisement for Nigeria and our sense of organization that such
an alert is being published 72 hours to a scheduled election. In the
unlikely event that INEC will brush aside the security advisory, its
publication without consultation with INEC have raised serious doubts about
the motives, not to talk of the monumental losses and disenfranchisement
that will occur as a consequence.
The issue of the General Certificate Examinations which were played up for
different reasons could have been a more plausible factor for postponing
the election, except that the number of those affected, that is, candidates
who are over 18 are comparatively slim and their rights could perhaps have
been subsequently accommodated in a supplementary election. At any rate,
the exam had been scheduled before the election date was picked by INEC who
apparently had under researched the operating environment.
Interestingly, before the recent security alert hit the airwaves, I held
conversations with a scholar and politician resident in Benin as well as
with a senior journalist. One of them who has authoritative knowledge of
Edo State politics, having been in and out of government told me that: "The
election will be tightly fought and each of the major candidates from the
APC and PDP respectively has a 50:50 chance of winning". He went on to
explain that in Edo, party identification is not a predictor of electoral
consequences citing as precedent the election of 2007 where some members of
the People's Democratic Party including Pastor Osagie Ize- Iyamu worked for
the victory of Governor Adams Oshiomole, and went ahead to ensure his
judicial victory against the interest of their party.
Hence, although Oshiomole has performed above average in a climate of
pervasive mediocrity, his record does not automatically confer particular
advantages on his anointed heir apparent, Godwin Obaseki, whose voice has
been drowned in the campaigns by that of the comrade governor who was doing
more running than the candidate. It is possible therefore and speculations
are rife to that effect that the security alert had been invented at least
partly by a government that was sore afraid of being voted out of power.
If this is indeed the case, it remains to be seen how such a gamble could
shift the balance in its favour. At any rate, it was inopportune for
security to have counselled the postponement of the elections as they did
in 2015, on tenuous premises.
Olukotun is a Professor of International Relations at the Obafemi Awolowo
University, Ile-Ife.
Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> : Sep 08 05:48PM +0200
However, by tradition the economy and a strong military has mostly trumped
and thumped foreign policy in American presidential elections. Notice that
Trump is still treating Hillary with his kids size gloves; when he takes
them off it's estimated that he will be going straight for her jugular ,
maybe, with his bare hands...
Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> : Sep 08 09:03AM -0700
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Thursday, 8 September 2016 17:52:01 UTC+2, Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:
> However, by tradition the economy and a strong military has mostly trumped a
nd thumped foreign policy in American presidential elections. Notice that Trump is still treating Hillary with his kids size gloves; when he takes them off it's estimated that he will be going straight for her jugular , maybe, with his bare hands...
Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu >: Sep 07 10:56PM
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tunde_babawale@yahoo.com: Sep 08 07:22AM +0100
Oga,
You have proven once again that you are a worthy ambassador for us in Africa. We wish you well as you plan to receive more laurels.
CONGRATULATIONS !!
Tunde Babawale
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Scholars Toyin Falola, Barry Posen Arrive at the Kluge Center—Dispatch September 7, 2016
Historian Toyin Falola and political scientist Barry Posen arrived this month at The John W. Kluge Center for periods as senior scholars in residence. Falola will hold the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South; Posen will hold the Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations.
Toyin Falola is distinguished scholar of African history and a member of the Library of Congress Scholars Council. The Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, at the Kluge Center Falola will research a project titled "African Immigrant Communities in the United States." He is the author of numerous books, including "The African Diaspora: Slavery, Migration and Globalization," "Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies," "The Power of African Cultures," and "Nationalism and African Intellectuals."
Barry Posen is a political scientist who is currently the Ford International Professor of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and director of the MIT Security Studies Program. He is the author of three books, including "Restraint: A New Foundation for US Grand Strategy," "Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks," and the award-winning "The Sources of Military Doctrine." At the Kluge Center, Posen will study the implications for the United States of a multipolar international order.
Read more about Toyin Falola here.
Read more about Barry Posen here.
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Bola Dauda <boladauda@gmail.com>: Sep 08 04:24AM +0100
My Dear Chief, Friend, and Professor Toyin Falola,
A hearty congratulation to you on your arrival at the great Library of
Congress Kluge Center.
Your appointment has added anther chapter to the unheralded accomplishments
of the heroes of Africa in general and of Nigeria in particular, and on
behalf of my wife, Omobola, and my family I want to wish you all the best
as you continue to make us proud.
Isola, Omo Ibadan, may the Blessings and Mercy of God be with you and your
wife, Olori Olabisi, and your family.
Again, Congratulations and all the best. We love you dearly.
Ever yours sincerely,
Bola Imodoye Dauda and family.
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Michael Afolayan <mafolayan@yahoo.com>: Sep 07 11:25PM
Congratulations on attaining yet another stride. May many more wreaths of victory adorn your crown.MOA
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Scholars Toyin Falola, Barry Posen Arrive at the Kluge Center—Dispatch September 7, 2016
Historian Toyin Falola and political scientist Barry Posen arrived this month at The John W. Kluge Center for periods as senior scholars in residence. Falola will hold theKluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South; Posen will hold the Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations.Toyin Falola is distinguished scholar of African history and a member of the Library of CongressScholars Council. The Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, at the Kluge Center Falola will research a project titled "African Immigrant Communities in the United States." He is the author of numerous books, including "The African Diaspora: Slavery, Migration and Globalization," "Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies," "The Power of African Cultures," and "Nationalism and African Intellectuals." Barry Posen is a political scientist who is currently the Ford International Professor of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and director of the MIT Security Studies Program. He is the author of three books, including "Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy," "Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks," and the award-winning "The Sources of Military Doctrine." At the Kluge Center, Posen will study the implications for the United States of a multipolar international order.Read more about Toyin Falolahere.
Read more about Barry Posenhere.
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Okey Ndibe <okndibe@yahoo.com>: Sep 07 08:11PM -0400
Congratulations, Prof. Falola. I'm proud of your accomplishments as a scholar of great range and consequence.
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Segun Ogungbemi <seguno2013@gmail.com>: Sep 08 03:21AM -0500
Congrats Irunmole Iwe!!!
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Akin Alao <akinalao@gmail.com>: Sep 08 10:28AM +0100
Oga,
We are so blessed to have you as leader, mentor and role model. We certainly rejoice with you and salute your total and lifelong commitment to academic excellence.
This is indeed a well deserved recognition of your contributions to scholarship in African Studies.
Akin Alao
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Oga,
You have proven once again that you are a worthy ambassador for us in Africa. We wish you well as you plan to receive more laurels.
CONGRATULATIONS !!
Tunde Babawale
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Scholars Toyin Falola, Barry Posen Arrive at the Kluge Center—Dispatch September 7, 2016
.
Scholars Toyin Falola, Barry Posen Arrive at the Kluge Center—Dispatch September 7, 2016
Historian Toyin Falola and political scientist Barry Posen arrived this month at The John W. Kluge Center for periods as senior scholars in residence. Falola will hold the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South; Posen will hold the Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations.
Toyin Falola is distinguished scholar of African history and a member of the Library of Congress Scholars Council. The Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, at the Kluge Center Falola will research a project titled "African Immigrant Communities in the United States." He is the author of numerous books, including "The African Diaspora: Slavery, Migration and Globalization," "Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies," "The Power of African Cultures," and "Nationalism and African Intellectuals."
Barry Posen is a political scientist who is currently the Ford International Professor of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and director of the MIT Security Studies Program. He is the author of three books, including "Restraint: A New Foundation for US Grand Strategy," "Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks," and the award-winning "The Sources of Military Doctrine." At the Kluge Center, Posen will study the implications for the United States of a multipolar international order.
Read more about Toyin Falola here.
Read more about Barry Posen here.
The John W. Kluge Center was established at the Library of Congress in 2000 to foster a mutually enriching relationship between the world of ideas and the world of action, between scholars and political leaders. The Center attracts outstanding scholarly figures to Washington, DC, facilitates their access to the Library's remarkable collections, and helps them engage in conversation with members of the US Congress and the public. Learn more at: http://www.loc.gov/kluge/.
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Ademola Dasylva <dasylvaus@gmail.com>: Sep 08 12:12PM +0100
Big, Big Congratulations, Baba Agbalagba, Eegun Ologbojo, Ako Erinmi a bori poola!!! (Ologbojo the biggest and most feared of masquerades; the male Hippopotamus with the massive head!)
This is another well deserved recognition of your ever amazing contribution to scholarship, globally. The Kludge Center has chosen a perfect pair that will definitely bring to bear their innovativeness, imaginativeness and dynamism into its activities in order to enrich, the more, existing works. It is the reward of your penchant for diligence and commitment to quality knowledge production.
It is such a great relief for one's works and worth to be so acknowledged, and to be so honored while one is alive and still productive on all sides. Baba Agbalagba, please keep up the good work. Long may you live. Ase Edumare.
Ademola O. Dasylva
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Oga,
We are so blessed to have you as leader, mentor and role model. We certainly rejoice with you and salute your total and lifelong commitment to academic excellence.
This is indeed a well deserved recognition of your contributions to scholarship in African Studies.
Akin Alao
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Oga,
You have proven once again that you are a worthy ambassador for us in Africa. We wish you well as you plan to receive more laurels.
CONGRATULATIONS !!
Tunde Babawale
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Scholars Toyin Falola, Barry Posen Arrive at the Kluge Center—Dispatch September 7, 2016
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Scholars Toyin Falola, Barry Posen Arrive at the Kluge Center—Dispatch September 7, 2016
Historian Toyin Falola and political scientist Barry Posen arrived this month at The John W. Kluge Center for periods as senior scholars in residence. Falola will hold the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South; Posen will hold the Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations.
Toyin Falola is distinguished scholar of African history and a member of the Library of Congress Scholars Council. The Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, at the Kluge Center Falola will research a project titled "African Immigrant Communities in the United States." He is the author of numerous books, including "The African Diaspora: Slavery, Migration and Globalization," "Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies," "The Power of African Cultures," and "Nationalism and African Intellectuals."
Barry Posen is a political scientist who is currently the Ford International Professor of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and director of the MIT Security Studies Program. He is the author of three books, including "Restraint: A New Foundation for US Grand Strategy," "Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks," and the award-winning "The Sources of Military Doctrine." At the Kluge Center, Posen will study the implications for the United States of a multipolar international order.
Read more about Toyin Falola here.
Read more about Barry Posen here.
The John W. Kluge Center was established at the Library of Congress in 2000 to foster a mutually enriching relationship between the world of ideas and the world of action, between scholars and political leaders. The Center attracts outstanding scholarly figures to Washington, DC, facilitates their access to the Library's remarkable collections, and helps them engage in conversation with members of the US Congress and the public. Learn more at: http://www.loc.gov/kluge/.
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M Buba <mb4383@aol.com>: Sep 08 01:55PM +0300
Maigida,
'Yabon gwani ya zama dole'. Sannu da aiki & tubarkalla!
Malami
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Sokoto State University
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Uyilawa Usuanlele <biguyi@hotmail.com>: Sep 08 08:02AM -0400
Big big congratulations Oga Prof. More ink to your pen.Uyi
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 07:22:59 +0100
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Oga,You have proven once again that you are a worthy ambassador for us in Africa. We wish you well as you plan to receive more laurels.CONGRATULATIONS !!
Tunde Babawale Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. From: Toyin FalolaSent: Wednesday, 7 September 2016 11:58 PMTo: dialogue; Yoruba AffairsReply To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.comSubject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - FW: Scholars Toyin Falola, Barry Posen Arrive at the Kluge Center‹Dispatch September 7, 2016
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Subject: Scholars Toyin Falola, Barry Posen Arrive at the Kluge Center—Dispatch September 7, 2016
Scholars Toyin Falola, Barry Posen Arrive at the Kluge Center—Dispatch September 7, 2016
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Scholars
Toyin Falola, Barry Posen Arrive at the Kluge Center—Dispatch September 7, 2016
Historian Toyin Falola and political scientist Barry Posen arrived this month at The John W. Kluge Center for periods as senior scholars in residence. Falola will hold the
Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South; Posen will hold the
Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations.
Toyin
Falola is distinguished scholar of African history and a member of the Library of Congress
Scholars Council. The Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, at the Kluge Center Falola will research a project titled "African Immigrant Communities
in the United States." He is the author of numerous books, including "The African Diaspora: Slavery, Migration and Globalization," "Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies," "The Power of African Cultures," and "Nationalism
and African Intellectuals."
Barry
Posen is a political scientist who is currently the Ford International Professor of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and director of the MIT Security Studies Program. He is the author of three books, including "Restraint:
A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy," "Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks," and the award-winning "The Sources of Military Doctrine." At the Kluge Center, Posen will study the implications for the United States of a multipolar
international order.
Read more about Toyin Falola
here.
Read more about Barry Posen
here.
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"Bitrus Gwamna" <bgwamna@gmail.com>: Sep 08 09:18AM -0500
Congratulations to you Prof Falola on this fine achievement.
Bitrus
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - FW: Scholars Toyin Falola, Barry Posen Arrive at the Kluge Center‹Dispatch September 7, 2016
My Dear Chief, Friend, and Professor Toyin Falola,
A hearty congratulation to you on your arrival at the great Library of Congress Kluge Center.
Your appointment has added anther chapter to the unheralded accomplishments of the heroes of Africa in general and of Nigeria in particular, and on behalf of my wife, Omobola, and my family I want to wish you all the best as you continue to make us proud.
Isola, Omo Ibadan, may the Blessings and Mercy of God be with you and your wife, Olori Olabisi, and your family.
Again, Congratulations and all the best. We love you dearly.
Ever yours sincerely,
Bola Imodoye Dauda and family.
On 7 September 2016 at 23:56, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu <mailto:toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu > > wrote:
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Tade Aina <tadeakinaina@yahoo.com>: Sep 08 11:23AM -0400
Oloye Ojogbon,
Congratulations.
Tade.
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Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu >: Sep 08 02:02PM
The family will receive friends from 10-11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 16, at St. Vincent de Paul Church, 465 Clubhouse Rd., Vestal. A funeral Mass will immediately follow at 11 a.m. Burial will be on Saturday, Sept. 17, at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in East Hanover, N.J.
Akin Ogundiran <ogundiran@gmail.com>: Sep 07 06:03PM -0700
A Center of Orature and Performance named after this intellectual icon
would not only honor Professor Okpewho's contributions to Africana Studies
and the Humanities in general, but would also help galvanize a new
generation of scholars to take the study of orature to a new level. The
relevance of Okpewho's work is not limited to African literature. No
Nigerian scholar has made a better case for the validity of orality in
African history than Okpewho. He was also an anthropologist, among others.
His fieldwork, and the theoretical sophistication of his scholarship are of
superior quality.
It was by chance in graduate school that I attended one of his seminars at
the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, in 1989 or 1990. I
remember him saying that most of his fieldwork projects were self-financed
or foreign-finance. He mentioned one incident of pittance that he received
from the University of Ibadan in form of research grant. Until that time, I
had not read any of his works. It was only when I arrived in the US that I
came across his books and began to follow his scholarship. Looking back, I
think we missed a lot in the way we blindly copy Western academic
boundaries in Nigerian and other African institutions. None of his writings
was assigned in my undergraduate and graduate classes (in history,
anthropology, and archaeology), both at UI and Ife, even in orality and
historical memory courses. Maybe, I was just unlucky. Others may have a
different experience. But I don't think we have taken the
cross-fertilization of methods, theories, and conceptualization of research
questions across our borrowed artificial disciplinary boundaries beyond the
usual programmatic slogans of decolonization. Unfortunately, much has not
changed today. This occasion calls for a sense of renewal using the body of
Professor Okpewho's scholarship as a springboard. The center would provide
the platform for scholars in both the humanities and social sciences to
develop new works that cut across disciplinary boundaries. Ibadan should
surely take a leadership role in this endeavor. There could also be a peer
center at Binghamton named for him.
Akin Ogundiran
UNC Charlotte
On Wednesday, September 7, 2016 at 6:52:42 PM UTC-4, Emeagwali, Gloria
(History) wrote:
"Okechukwu, Christiana" <cm.okechukwu@ montgomerycollege.edu >: Sep 08 01:28PM
This news is really sad. May his gracious soul rest in peace as we mourn him.
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com ] On Behalf Of Bosoma Sheriff
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 5:18 PM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Obituary: isidore Okpewho
It's sad. But he has left a profound legacy in the field of oral literature and performance studies-a feat that is best celebrated by establishing a university of orature and performance, or something of that nature somewhere in Africa with his name engraved in silver.
On 7 September 2016 at 00:15, Bosoma Sheriff <bosomashrff@gmail.com<mailto:bosomashrff@gmail.com >> wrote:
It's sad. But he has left a profound legacy in the field of oral literature and performance studies-a feat that is best celebrated by establishing a university of orature and performance, or something of that nature somewhere in Africa with his name engrave in silver.
Bosoma Sheriff
University of Maiduguri
On 6 September 2016 at 15:27, Elias Bongmba <ebongmba@gmail.com<mailto:ebongmba@gmail.com >> wrote:
I am very saddened this morning to read about the home going of Professor Isidore Okpewho. He was a brilliant scholar and wonderful person. I loved teaching his works in my classes. His book Myth in Africa remains the locus classicus in the field. He will be missed. May his soul rest in peace.
Elias Kifon Bongmba
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 6:19 AM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu<mailto:toyinfalola@austin. utexas.edu >> wrote:
I bring sad news.
Professor Isidore Okpewho, our great friend, teacher, and mentor died yesterday. I just spoke with his wife, and funeral arrangements are being made for September. Orations to follow.
It was a privilege for me to interact with this great scholar, publishing his last major book in my University of Rochester's Series, Blood on the Tides: The Ozidi Saga and Oral Epic Narratology. He completed this book while sick. A masterpiece, I will talk about this great book after I recover from this shock.
A man of grace and elegance, it was always a delight to be with him. I visited him and his wife at their home in Binghamton, where we discussed his collected essays which I also promised to publish for him.
I will attend his funeral service and report back.
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Calling Life by Its Rightful Name
(for Isidore Okpweho 1941- 2016)
By
Niyi Osundare
The loss is hard to bear, the shock almost impossible to endure. A great tree has fallen in our forest of letters. Isidore Okpewho has joined the ancestors.
Novelist, poet, folklorist, scholar, and university administrator, Okpewho was a Jack of many trades and master of all, who left his mindprints on virtually every aspect of African literature and literary studies. With his foundational books, The Epic in Africa and Myth in Africa, Okpewho summoned all his scholarly prowess as a truly First Class Classics scholar and carved out a niche for African oral lore and its inexhaustible possibilities at a time when virtually every claim to high culture and intellectual accomplishment was denied to the 'Dark Continent'. And his emphasis was on oral lore as a living, throbbing, incessantly regenerative phenomenon, complex, fluently literate in its orateness - a lore which derives its dynamism and fluidity from relentless narratology and performativity. The Oral Performance in Africa, a book he edited some three decades ago with a supremely edifying and authoritative introduction, is a study in this direction. So is Blood on the Tides: The Ozidi Saga and Oral Epic Narratology, (facilitated for the University of Rochester Series, by Toyin Falola), his last book which was completed even while he was already ill. In these works, Okpewho's competence as a Classicist, historian, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, literary scholar came to the fore. The result is a series of works enlivened by their author's astonishing versatility and the irresistible polyvalence of their contents. Okpewho gained world acclaim as a foremost scholar of oral lore, and was elected President of the International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA), a position he exercised with characteristic dignity, energy, and efficiency.
Without a speck of doubt, the gems garnered from oral lore enriched Okpewho's treasury as a creative writer. His three novels, The Last Duty, Tides, and Call Me by My Rightful Name, are characterized – and energized – by the kind of orchestration of memory, narrative style, rhetorical immediacy, and vocal vivacity associated with oral narratives. Call Me by My Rightful Name, the most ambitious of these novels, thrives through the mixed medium of orthodox plot sequencing and epistolary narrativity. In this quintessential African Diaspora story, Okpewho astonishes us all with his versatility as historian, anthropologist, musicologist, and the psycho-analyst of race relations and racial selfhood. More than any of his works of fiction, this novel benefitted immeasurably from its author's calling as scholar/ researcher. I was in a privileged position to know for I watched Okpewho from close quarters as collaborator, Ekiti-Yoruba dialect 'consultant', and sounding board while the research which preceded the writing was in progress. He was so mindful of fidelity to detail, correctness of source and story, unalloyed respect for the subjects of his inquiry, appropriateness of names and naming, etc that many times I had to remind him that what he had before him was a work of fiction, yes, fiction, relatively immune from the strictures of crass factuality and academic verifiability. That was the essential Okpewho: hard-nosed scholar , finicky researcher of tremendous integrity.
Any wonder then why I have more than a mere professional interest in Call Me by My Rightful Name? For many years I have taught this novel in my African literature/ Literature of the African Diaspora classes at the University of New Orleans, and in every class it has won bright and ardent fans. I used to call Isidore at the end of the semester and regale him with some of the comments (and queries) of my students. And this semester it is again one of the top items on our literary menu. When this afternoon I broke the news of the author's passing to my class, we had a moment of painful silence – succeeded by a sense of gratitude, sure as we were, that the author of the remarkable book on our reading list can NEVER die.
One area of Okpewho's many capabilities that may not be widely known is his achievement as academic administrator. For the three years he was head of the Department of English, University of Ibadan, the department bubbled with life and purpose. It was during his headship that the Department's annual African Literature Conference attracted world-class scholars such as Terry Eagleton and Houston Baker. Okpewho insisted on high intellectual attainment and the maintenance of world-class standard. He had no room for mediocrity, and his own conduct served as exemplum for hard work and prodigious productivity. He knew how to carry colleagues along, even those that might have been intimidated by his sterling achievements.
Nowhere did I see Isidore at his more beatific than in the classroom. The dissemination of knowledge excited him, for he possessed knowledge in admirable abundance, and was passionately eager to share it. He was one of those teachers that just could not resist the celebration of excellence. Many times Isidore came to my office with student scripts in his hand, enthusing; 'Niyi, just see this. Superb! Isn't it wonderful that we still have students who can write like this?!'. He invested so much in his students; and the students loved and admired him in return. He pioneered the teaching of creative writing (Prose Fiction) in Ibadan University's English Department, and broadened the Oral Literature curriculum originated by Professor Oyin Ogunba years before Isidore joined the English faculty. Many of the products of Okpewho's creative writing classes (Sonala Olumhense, Lekan Oyegoke, Nduka Otiono and others) have become renowned writers themselves, while those who passed through his hands as post-graduate students are now productive professors (JOJ Nwachuku Agbada, Gboyega Kolawole, Chiji Akoma, and many others) in their own right.
And, finally, Isidore Okpewho's golden gift the University of Ibadan: the University Anthem. Again, I was witness to the careful birthing of that anthem and Isidore's intellectual/musical concerns about 'para-rhymes', 'half-rhymes', 'eye-rhymes', and the suffocating strictures of metrical verse. I will never forget that afternoon on the long corridor of the English Department when he showed me the first draft, a half- smile on his lips. My eyes lighted upon two lines that looked/sounded so Biblical in their gnomic simplicity: 'For the mind that knows/Is the mind that is free'. 'This is the lyrical, philosophic nugget of this anthem', I remarked. 'Thank you for giving us something to treasure. . . . '.
Yes, thank you, Isidore, for giving us somebody to treasure. Generous, inspiring teacher, perceptive writer, scholar of no mean repute, you enrich us all with your combination of intellect and integrity, acute seriousness and lightness of being, seamless sense of humor and sizzling vivacity, a consistently compassionate temperament and humane disposition. You have called Life by its rightful name. Its answer is robustly positive and eternally assuring.
Rest well, dear friend
Rest well, noble scholar
September 6, 2016 Niyi Osundare
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On 8 September 2016 at 09:07, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>
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> The Ancestors rejoice to have you amongst their number.
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Subject: Osundare on Okpewho
Calling Life by Its Rightful Name
(for Isidore Okpweho 1941- 2016)
By
Niyi Osundare
The loss is hard to bear, the shock almost impossible to endure. A
great tree has fallen in our forest of letters. Isidore Okpewho has joined
the ancestors.
Novelist, poet, folklorist, scholar, and university administrator,
Okpewho was a Jack of many trades and master of all, who left his mindprints
on virtually every aspect of African literature and literary studies. With
his foundational books, The Epic in Africa and Myth in Africa, Okpewho
summoned all his scholarly prowess as a truly First Class Classics scholar
and carved out a niche for African oral lore and its inexhaustible
possibilities at a time when virtually every claim to high culture and
intellectual accomplishment was denied to the ŒDark Continent¹. And his
emphasis was on oral lore as a living, throbbing, incessantly regenerative
phenomenon, complex, fluently literate in its orateness - a lore which
derives its dynamism and fluidity from relentless narratology and
performativity. The Oral Performance in Africa, a book he edited some three
decades ago with a supremely edifying and authoritative introduction, is a
study in this direction. So is Blood on the Tides: The Ozidi Saga and Oral
Epic Narratology, (facilitated for the University of Rochester Series, by
Toyin Falola), his last book which was completed even while he was already
ill. In these works, Okpewho¹s competence as a Classicist, historian,
anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, literary scholar came to the fore.
The result is a series of works enlivened by their author¹s astonishing
versatility and the irresistible polyvalence of their contents. Okpewho
gained world acclaim as a foremost scholar of oral lore, and was elected
President of the International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa
(ISOLA), a position he exercised with characteristic dignity, energy, and
efficiency.
Without a speck of doubt, the gems garnered from oral lore enriched
Okpewho¹s treasury as a creative writer. His three novels, The Last Duty,
Tides, and Call Me by My Rightful Name, are characterized and energized
by the kind of orchestration of memory, narrative style, rhetorical
immediacy, and vocal vivacity associated with oral narratives. Call Me by My
Rightful Name, the most ambitious of these novels, thrives through the mixed
medium of orthodox plot sequencing and epistolary narrativity. In this
quintessential African Diaspora story, Okpewho astonishes us all with his
versatility as historian, anthropologist, musicologist, and the
psycho-analyst of race relations and racial selfhood. More than any of his
works of fiction, this novel benefitted immeasurably from its author¹s
calling as scholar/ researcher. I was in a privileged position to know for I
watched Okpewho from close quarters as collaborator, Ekiti-Yoruba dialect
Œconsultant¹, and sounding board while the research which preceded the
writing was in progress. He was so mindful of fidelity to detail,
correctness of source and story, unalloyed respect for the subjects of his
inquiry, appropriateness of names and naming, etc that many times I had to
remind him that what he had before him was a work of fiction, yes, fiction,
relatively immune from the strictures of crass factuality and academic
verifiability. That was the essential Okpewho: hard-nosed scholar , finicky
researcher of tremendous integrity.
Any wonder then why I have more than a mere professional interest in
Call Me by My Rightful Name? For many years I have taught this novel in my
African literature/ Literature of the African Diaspora classes at the
University of New Orleans, and in every class it has won bright and ardent
fans. I used to call Isidore at the end of the semester and regale him with
some of the comments (and queries) of my students. And this semester it is
again one of the top items on our literary menu. When this afternoon I broke
the news of the author¹s passing to my class, we had a moment of painful
silence succeeded by a sense of gratitude, sure as we were, that the
author of the remarkable book on our reading list can NEVER die.
One area of Okpewho¹s many capabilities that may not be widely known
is his achievement as academic administrator. For the three years he was
head of the Department of English, University of Ibadan, the department
bubbled with life and purpose. It was during his headship that the
Department¹s annual African Literature Conference attracted world-class
scholars such as Terry Eagleton and Houston Baker. Okpewho insisted on high
intellectual attainment and the maintenance of world-class standard. He had
no room for mediocrity, and his own conduct served as exemplum for hard work
and prodigious productivity. He knew how to carry colleagues along, even
those that might have been intimidated by his sterling achievements.
Nowhere did I see Isidore at his more beatific than in the classroom.
The dissemination of knowledge excited him, for he possessed knowledge in
admirable abundance, and was passionately eager to share it. He was one of
those teachers that just could not resist the celebration of excellence.
Many times Isidore came to my office with student scripts in his hand,
enthusing; ŒNiyi, just see this. Superb! Isn¹t it wonderful that we still
have students who can write like this?!¹. He invested so much in his
students; and the students loved and admired him in return. He pioneered the
teaching of creative writing (Prose Fiction) in Ibadan University¹s English
Department, and broadened the Oral Literature curriculum originated by
Professor Oyin Ogunba years before Isidore joined the English faculty. Many
of the products of Okpewho¹s creative writing classes (Sonala Olumhense,
Lekan Oyegoke, Nduka Otiono and others) have become renowned
chidi opara reports <chidioparareports@rocketmail. com >: Sep 08 11:25AM
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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com>: Sep 08 10:36AM +0100
Digital Publics and Counterpublics in Africa
[ Apologies for late notification but one might be able to register on the
day of the workshop]
9 September 2016, 16:00 - 10 September 2016, 17:00
Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT [ Apologies for
late notification but one might be able to register on the day of the
workshop]
*Registration for the conference is now open
<https://webservices.admin.cam.ac.uk/cbk/vmxc/index.cgi >. Fees are £30
(full price) and £15 (student/unwaged). Registration will close on
Wednesday 7 September.*
[image: Digital Publics and Counterpublics in Africa]
Conveners
Stephanie Diepeveen (University of Cambridge)
George H. Karekwaivanane (University of Edinburgh)
Sharath Srinivasan (University of Cambridge)
Summary
Over the last decade Africa has been experiencing what has commonly been
referred to as a 'digital revolution', driven, in no small measure, by the
rapid spread of mobile telephony. While digital technologies have enabled
individuals to connect instantaneously and mobilise on a hitherto
unimaginable scale, the manner and extent to which such mobilisation is
fostering new trajectories of political change is under-researched. In
addition, the seemingly unmediated nature of digital communications,
coupled with notions such as 'cyberspace' and 'virtual reality', mistakenly
distract us from the material infrastructure, capital investment and
institutional control that make digital communications possible. In short,
the same enabling technologies for 'digital publics' can, in the control of
powerful actors - from national security agencies to telecommunications and
internet giants - be directed at purposes and logics that are quite at odds
with the political agency and power of citizens coming together.
Many east African countries, understood broadly, have been at the forefront
of Africa's digital transformation, and the time is ripe to bring together
scholarship on this region. The *Digital Publics and Counterpublics
Workshop*, jointly hosted by the Centre of Governance and Human Rights, and
CRASSH, will critically explore the ways that new digital technologies are
progressively being incorporated in everyday practices in east Africa and
the socio-political impacts this has had. This workshop will involve
presentations by scholars in the disciplines of political science, media
studies, history and anthropology who have increasingly sought to bring
thinking on the public sphere to bear upon social and political processes
in Africa.
Some of the questions we hope to engage with in the course of the workshop
include: What kinds of publics and counterpublics are being convoked by
means of digital media, and how do they relate to older publics that were
convened by print media or radio? How are digital technologies altering
existing forms of social exchange and belonging, and to what extent are
they creating possibilities for changes to how people imagine community and
forms of belonging? What are the transnational dimensions of digital
communications, how are they made possible and made useful by foreign
corporate actors and security agencies?
This workshop is aimed at furthering the study of digital media and
everyday politics in Africa through interdisciplinary discussion. Thus, it
is structured to promote discussion, and it is expected that participants
will actively engage with the papers being presented.
Sponsors
Supported by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social
Sciences (CRASSH) and the Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR).
*Administrative assistance:* conferences@crassh.cam.ac.uk
Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi.opara@gmail.com>: Sep 08 08:05AM +0100
Former President Jonathan created the necessity for President Buhari and
President Buhari is in turn creating a situation in which former President
Jonathan is now being seen as a hero which he is not.
CAO.
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Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria
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Faculty of Arts, Ambrose Alli University
Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria
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