Re: Fw: [External] Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Obituary: Teju Olaniyan is gone

He was just speaking at ASA! This is such awful news. Such a brilliant mind amd open spirit. This is so incredibly sad. One of the good ones. 

On Sun, Dec 1, 2019, 7:04 AM Assensoh, Akwasi B. <aassenso@indiana.edu> wrote:

Nigerian-Born Professor Tejumola ("Teju") Olaniyan, One of Our Best, in sudden death...

Saturday, November 30, 2019 11:32 pm | News

Professor Tejumola Olaniyan: sudden death in US

Tejumola Olaniyan, one of the most brilliant and accomplished Professors of English and African Literatures in America died suddenly Saturday afternoon at his home in Madison.

He died of sudden heart failure.

He was about to set out for a trip to Europe for a conference, when he was found in his room, dead.

He turned 60 on 3 April this year.

He was the Louis Durham Mead Professor in English and the Wole Soyinka Humanities Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

His works include: "Scars of Conquest/ Masks of Resistance; "Arrest the Music: Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics"; (co-edited with Ato Quayson) "African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory; (co-edited with John Conteh-Morgan) "African Drama and Performance"; (co-edited with James H. Sweet) "African Diaspora and the Discipline", (co-edited with Peter Limb) "Taking African Cartoons Seriously: Politics, Satire and Culture"; and edited "State and Culture in Post-colonial Africa." He was until his death editor of 'Journal of the African Literature Association'. Professor Tejumola Olaniyan was putting finishing touches to his magisterial book on African cartoons.

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Hmmmmmm! Good grief. May his soul rest in perfect peace. 

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On 30 Nov 2019, at 11:34 PM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:



We lost him, an outstanding scholar.

More later.

 

Toyin Falola

Department of History

The University of Texas at Austin

104 Inner Campus Drive

Austin, TX 78712-0220, USA

http://toyinfalolanetwork.org/

 

 

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