Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - A New Award for Toyin Falola

Congratulations to our intellectual giant!

Rasheed O. Olaniyi, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Department of History,
University of Ibadan,
Ibadan, Nigeria.
Email:rasolaniyi@yahoo.com, rasheed_olaniyi@hotmail.com
Mobile Phone:+234-8033358474

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On Sun, 10/9/16, Akin Alao <akinalao@gmail.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - A New Award for Toyin Falola
To: "'Adeshina Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>, "USAAfricaDialogue" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Cc: "UCJ UI" <ucjunibadan@gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, October 9, 2016, 12:41 PM



We congratulate
Prof. Falola for being such a worthy leader who is deserving
of this recognition/award and many others. May the good Lord
continue to enlarge your coast and grant you long life in
good health. 
Akin Alao






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From: 'Adeshina
Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue
SeriesSent: Sunday, October 9, 2016
00:44To:
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UCJ UISubject: USA Africa Dialogue
Series - A New Award for Toyin
Falola
Toyin
Falola bagged Distinguished Award for Academic Excellence at
University of Ibadan
The
Union of Campus Journalists (UCJ), University of Ibadan,
today added another honor to the already brimming chest of
Professor Toyin Falola. The UCJ is one of the few student
groups on the University of Ibadan campus that has
maintained a consistent tradition of character-molding and
extra-curricular professional training for its members.
Yours sincerely is also proud to have been a fringe member
of this unique body in the early 90s as a student cub
columnist. The association has maintained its reputation
since then. In fact, its guest lecturer at today induction
and award ceremony was Koláwolé Olátúnbosún, an
award-winning journalist, writer, linguist, teacher,
translator, culture activist. And Koláwolé Olátúnbosún
was the president of UCJ from 2002 to 2004! The UCJ also
counts amongst its own Tolu Ogunlesi (the Special Adviser to
the Nigerian President on New Media), Fisayo Soyombo (of the
online newspaper, TheCables), Gbenga Salau and Olaiya
Templer (The Guardian Newspapers), etc. 
In his
lecture at the occasion, Mr Koláwolé Olátúnbosún shared
his passions about writing, his experiences, both sweet and
bitter, in journalism, his Yoruba language advocacy and his
commitment to cultural consciousness. According to him, the
state of cultural degradation in Nigeria is too deplorable.
And this is not only in the curious diminishing of the, say,
Yoruba language, but also in the terrible neglect of
cultural sites and the pig-headed demolition of cultural
places. The guest lecturer shared some of his painful
experiences in reporting these occurrences. But in spite of
these experiences, according to him, the imperative of truth
is very significant to reportage, and the reportage
especially of cultural dislocations in the Nigerian national
space. When government officials assiduously prevent the
revelation of information that put them on the spot, then
journalists also must not relent in pursuing the truth about
their misdeeds. Journalism, for Koláwolé Olátúnbosún,
"journalism is too important to be left to journalists
alone." This statement speaks not only to his own passion
as a journalist without any training in journalism, but also
to the hearts of the eager faces of the members of UCJ as
well as their new inductees who were charged to take
journalism and their responsibility to the community to
heart.   
What the
UCJ calls its Famous Five Awards is a 29-year old
organisational tradition which recognizes and honor great
individuals who have impacted their fields of endeavor. This
year's ceremony has five categories—politics, academics,
journalism (of course!), entrepreneurship and technology.
His Excellency Kashim Shettima, the governor of Borno state,
got the award in the political category; the multiple
award-winner, Ms Toyosi Ogunseye of the Punch Newspaper is
the awardee in journalism; the award for entrepreneurship
went to Mr Mene Blessing, the CEO of an up and rising
agricultural business initiative focusing on livestock
feeds; Mr Joel Ogunsola was honoured in the technology
category for social and technological
entrepreneurship. And the
Distinguished Award for Academic Excellence went to
Professor Toyin Omoyeni Falola, of the University of Texas
at Austin, who has dedicated his academic prowess in
"repositioning, retelling and restructuring the narratives
of the Yoruba people and Africans as a race." 
The UCJ
president, Oredola Ibrahim, remarked that "all the five
awardees [were] carefully chosen, and in this era of virtue
scarcity, I can say that these people are role models…"
 
 Adeshina
Afolayan, PhD
Department of
Philosophy
University of Ibadan

+23480-3928-8429



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