USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Yoruba Affairs - Obituary: Jan Vansina

Ojogbon Akinyeye: You just described the Jan Vansina that I knew - always showing interest in the progress of others and willing to mentor and encourage younger ones every time, everywhere. For close to two weeks he and I had engaging conversations on my memoir, Fate of Our Mothers. His comments were always of high quality. What a great scholar!  A "highly productive soul" indeed. Michael

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On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 5:17 AM, 'Abayomi Akinyeye' via Yoruba Affairs <yorubaaffairs@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I feel a sense of personal loss  at the death of the great icon. Though i never got to meet him personally, he was my personal benefactor as he offered me the Vilas research assistant ship in 1983 on the recommendation of the late Professor B.A. Agiri who had been his student at Wisconsin. Even though i could not take up the assistant  ship i subsequently communicated with him on my research and he made some useful comments and showed keen interest in my work. He will be sorely missed by the world of Africana scholarship, but we take solace in the indelible foot prints he has let behind in African studies,particularly in th area of oral tradition as a methodology in African history. May his highly productive soul rest in perfect peace.
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On Fri, 2/10/17, 'Michael Afolayan' via Yoruba Affairs <yorubaaffairs@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: Yoruba Affairs - Obituary: Jan Vansina
To: "yorubaaffairs+owners@googlegroups.com" <yorubaaffairs+owners@googlegroups.com>, "dialogue" <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>, "ya" <yorubaaffairs@googlegroups.com>
Date: Friday, February 10, 2017, 9:00 PM

What
a chiiling piece of news. We mourn the loss of one of the
greatest of them all!!  A great friend has
departed. I spoke to him just a few days before
traveling out and the country and he told me in clear terms
that the progmosis was not promising, a fact that prompted
me to warn Professor Falola of the impending news. Oh well,
death is a necessary end that will come when it will come,
as well said by Shakespeare. 
Attached
here is an essay I wrote about him and three other
non-African Africanists some three years ago. Please take
note of the last person, Jan Vansina. 
My
geatest condolences to the entire Vansina and the Africanist
familes.
Michael
O. Afolayan


 

    On Friday, February
10, 2017 5:11 AM, Toyin Falola
<toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
 

  The
great man is gone.

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from my iPhone

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