Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The 2020 Toyin Falola and Joseph Friesen Scholarship

Excellent!

On Sun, 1 Mar 2020, 01:22 Toyin Falola, <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

The Toyin Falola Center

hereby announces the

2020 Toyin Falola and Joseph Friesen Scholarship

(TFJF Scholarship)

Objective of the Scholarship

 

Dr. Toyin Falola (Jr) and Joseph Friesen hereby institute a scholarship scheme to benefit young people wishing to pursue university education in the fields of science or medicine at Nigeria universities. For the 2020 competition, only students in math and software engineering at First Technical University will be considered.

 

Recognizing that many brilliant, hardworking, and deserving Nigerian young people are unable to enter or remain in university specifically due to the lack of funds to complete their studies, this scholarship award aims to help two young Nigerians over a two-year period to achieve their dreams in order to make contributions to the development and progress of the Nigerian nation.

 

Award Amount

The award will be for $3,000 per candidate, divided up into annual installments over two years ($1,500 dollars per year). There will be two scholarship winners. The goal will be to cover tuition, books, and other school related expenses.

 

Administration of the Award

The process of advertisement, evaluation of applications, selection of candidates, verification of claims and documents, monitoring of progress, disbursement of award, and sundry other related tasks shall be undertaken by the Toyin Falola Center on behalf of Dr. Toyin Falola and Joseph Friesen, the grantors.

 

Criteria for selection

The scholarship will be awarded to students who demonstrate excellence in academic achievement, promising leadership qualities, and outstanding character. Academic achievement is recognized as outstanding achievement in all of WAEC/SSCE, UTME and first year examinations already undertaken by the candidate. Consistent high achievement is important for selection and retention on the scholarship. Other abilities must be evidenced by candidate's prior record and attested to by relevant individuals in her/his community. The candidate must also clearly show evidence of indigence and inability to pay fees without the aid of the scholarship.

Note that:

• Candidates must have completed the first year of studies and fulfill all criteria as set by the Toyin Falola Center.
• A candidate whose application is successful will have the distinction of being named a Toyin Falola and Joseph Friesen (TFJF) Scholar for the duration of the award.

Requirements/Conditions of the scholarship

 

If any of the following conditions are not met, subsequent installments of the scholarship will not be granted to the student:

 

The TFJF Scholar must maintain the academic distinction at the minimum grade level of Second Class Upper Division, and character qualities identified upon the award throughout her/his studentship;

 

The TFJF Scholar must remain at the institution/university approved for the scholarship; and

 

The TFJF Scholar must complete annual reports to be sent to the Toyin Falola Center about her/his progress including updated official transcripts and current GPA.

 

Candidates must ensure that their application documents are authentic and are a true reflection of the criteria of the award. Any fraud discovered in the Scholar's application documents or in her/his claims will lead to an immediate forfeiture of the scholarship (if already awarded), formal report to the university, a public disclaimer, and the repayment of any part of the award already disbursed to the individual as at the time of the discovery.

 

Application dates

Applications this year are accepted between May 1, 2020, and July 15, 2020. The selected candidates for this year will be announced by August 15, 2020.

 

Required application documents:

o   A completed application form

o   A letter of application (5300 character maximum), convincingly setting forth the need for the scholarship and demonstrating the candidate's goals in pursuing a university education

o   Certified true copy of WAEC/NECO result, at one sitting only

o   Certified true copy of Jamb result 

o   Certified true copy of university admission letter

o   First year transcripts/results, sent directly from the University to the Center

o   Two recommendation letters attesting to the candidate's academic achievement and promise, leadership potentials, and character

 

Shortlisted candidates may be required to submit additional documents or verification.

 

 

Submission of documents

Candidates must ensure that all documents are sent in a single email as one attachment to tfjfscholarship@gmail.com between May 1, 2020, and July 15, 2020. Documents arriving late for any reason at all will not be considered.

 

Documents may be scanned and emailed to tfjfscholarship@gmail.com.

 

 

 

 

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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Re[2]: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Obituary: Harry Garuba

Adetayo Alabi broke the news to me, of the tragic passing of my brother and friend. We loved and respected each other enormously and never stopped wanting to visit one another. Harry came all the way from Harvard at Cambridge to visit and give a talk at Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois in the midle of the Corn Country, and presented one of the most thrilling lectures on what he termed minority discourse, minority poetics! I have never had a more benovelent colleague. Himself, Uzoma Esonwanne and I edited two special volumes of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature on African Literature and Abiola Irele judged it urgent to publish both on a new book cover. This perhaps is the time to do so in Harry's honor! Sun re o! He decided South Africa was home after all, taking a wife and together making very brilliant and beautiful children. To the wicked souls who hate to see other Africans on the street of Cape Town, you prabaly should be ready for a heart attack because Harry's children have come to stay!

My brother, as we call each other, you have left behind the strongest statement for African writing, for scholarship, for African unity! Adieu!

Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah

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Saturday, 29 February 2020, 05:56pm +01:00 from Ebunoluwa Sotunsa' via USA Africa Dialogue Series usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com:

Prof  Harry Garuba was one of the most brilliant minds I have come across. He taught me literary theory and his explanations in class remain vivid much after a quarter of a decade. I used to affirm, anyone Prof Harry Garuba teaches who fails is really not meant to be in school at all. 

My classmates and I will surely miss him

On Feb 29, 2020 5:17 PM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

 

We lost the outstanding poet, great essayist, and famous literary figure. Professor Garuba was full of talents. Very well known in the literary world, his voice started to echo at Ibadan, crossing the Atlantic, and then detouring to South Africa where he and Professor Kole Omotoso—his fellow Akure citizen—joined in the transformation of the South African academy. Harry Garuba, Nuruddin Farah (nominated multiple times for the Nobel Prize) and Amina Mama (the preeminent feminist scholar) once hosted me. The conversations were elaborate. Harry and I plotted one more time to push Nuruddin for the Nobel. No luck, but the omission is a major one, similar to that of Achebe and wa Thiong'o. The University of Cape Town was a great place to be. Fast forward—Harry and his colleagues were to appoint me to their Faculty as an Honorary Professor.

 

We invited Harry to Austin for a semester where we interacted intensely. He was a theorist with a limitless pool of knowledge. His lectures were well received. I cannot reproduce his laughter. Glued to his face was his signature smile. Only a hand was free at a time, the other holding a cigarette.

 

The transformation that preoccupied Harry created the path to our last meeting in Johannesburg.  Professor Adekeye Adebajo, the distinguished political scientist and eminent public intellectual, brought many of us together at the Institute of Pan-African Thought and Conversation on August 18^th and 19^th 2018 to dialogue on "Curriculum Transformation in the Humanities." My memory does not fail me in matters such as this. Harry spoke on the Heinemann African Writers' Series. At lunch time, we sat together where I told him about a manuscript he had not read, the dissertation of Bode Ibironke of Rutgers on that same Series, subsequently published by Palgrave (Remapping African Literature). And of course, a reminder about his long-awaited book which he was always agonizing about its completion. "There was no death on his face," as the Yoruba would say.

 

I had planned to see him in the coming weeks. Not anymore. Harry was a secularist. I don't know what he would say if I ask God to invite him to His side, but I seek this assurance. Harry lived a glorious life.

 

Harry had passion and zeal for poetry, the amazing source of his strength.

He loved words, the spring of his awesome inspiration.

He was both humane and urbane, his warmth and divine protection.

 

When I wanted to tease him, I would call him Haruna. "I am Harry, not Haruna!" he would object.

Harry, I would ask, "what is the difference between file and Fali?"

 

Haruna, you did well on earth.

Harry, your mission has been accomplished.

Harry will continue to be with us.

 

Harry would object but I will pray anyway:

 

Ya Allah,

please remove all the pride and arrogance from my heart,

forgive my major and minor sins and

make me worthy to jannah.

 

Sleep well, great mind.

 

TF

  

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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USA Africa Dialogue Series - The 2020 Toyin Falola and Joseph Friesen Scholarship

The Toyin Falola Center

hereby announces the

2020 Toyin Falola and Joseph Friesen Scholarship

(TFJF Scholarship)

Objective of the Scholarship

 

Dr. Toyin Falola (Jr) and Joseph Friesen hereby institute a scholarship scheme to benefit young people wishing to pursue university education in the fields of science or medicine at Nigeria universities. For the 2020 competition, only students in math and software engineering at First Technical University will be considered.

 

Recognizing that many brilliant, hardworking, and deserving Nigerian young people are unable to enter or remain in university specifically due to the lack of funds to complete their studies, this scholarship award aims to help two young Nigerians over a two-year period to achieve their dreams in order to make contributions to the development and progress of the Nigerian nation.

 

Award Amount

The award will be for $3,000 per candidate, divided up into annual installments over two years ($1,500 dollars per year). There will be two scholarship winners. The goal will be to cover tuition, books, and other school related expenses.

 

Administration of the Award

The process of advertisement, evaluation of applications, selection of candidates, verification of claims and documents, monitoring of progress, disbursement of award, and sundry other related tasks shall be undertaken by the Toyin Falola Center on behalf of Dr. Toyin Falola and Joseph Friesen, the grantors.

 

Criteria for selection

The scholarship will be awarded to students who demonstrate excellence in academic achievement, promising leadership qualities, and outstanding character. Academic achievement is recognized as outstanding achievement in all of WAEC/SSCE, UTME and first year examinations already undertaken by the candidate. Consistent high achievement is important for selection and retention on the scholarship. Other abilities must be evidenced by candidate's prior record and attested to by relevant individuals in her/his community. The candidate must also clearly show evidence of indigence and inability to pay fees without the aid of the scholarship.

Note that:

• Candidates must have completed the first year of studies and fulfill all criteria as set by the Toyin Falola Center.
• A candidate whose application is successful will have the distinction of being named a Toyin Falola and Joseph Friesen (TFJF) Scholar for the duration of the award.

Requirements/Conditions of the scholarship

 

If any of the following conditions are not met, subsequent installments of the scholarship will not be granted to the student:

 

The TFJF Scholar must maintain the academic distinction at the minimum grade level of Second Class Upper Division, and character qualities identified upon the award throughout her/his studentship;

 

The TFJF Scholar must remain at the institution/university approved for the scholarship; and

 

The TFJF Scholar must complete annual reports to be sent to the Toyin Falola Center about her/his progress including updated official transcripts and current GPA.

 

Candidates must ensure that their application documents are authentic and are a true reflection of the criteria of the award. Any fraud discovered in the Scholar's application documents or in her/his claims will lead to an immediate forfeiture of the scholarship (if already awarded), formal report to the university, a public disclaimer, and the repayment of any part of the award already disbursed to the individual as at the time of the discovery.

 

Application dates

Applications this year are accepted between May 1, 2020, and July 15, 2020. The selected candidates for this year will be announced by August 15, 2020.

 

Required application documents:

o   A completed application form

o   A letter of application (5300 character maximum), convincingly setting forth the need for the scholarship and demonstrating the candidate's goals in pursuing a university education

o   Certified true copy of WAEC/NECO result, at one sitting only

o   Certified true copy of Jamb result 

o   Certified true copy of university admission letter

o   First year transcripts/results, sent directly from the University to the Center

o   Two recommendation letters attesting to the candidate's academic achievement and promise, leadership potentials, and character

 

Shortlisted candidates may be required to submit additional documents or verification.

 

 

Submission of documents

Candidates must ensure that all documents are sent in a single email as one attachment to tfjfscholarship@gmail.com between May 1, 2020, and July 15, 2020. Documents arriving late for any reason at all will not be considered.

 

Documents may be scanned and emailed to tfjfscholarship@gmail.com.

 

 

 

 

Toyin Falola

Department of History

The University of Texas at Austin

104 Inner Campus Drive

Austin, TX 78712-0220, USA

http://toyinfalolanetwork.org/

 

 

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Harry Garuba

https://www.thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2020/02/29/professor-harry-garba-61-dies/


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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Dr. Jumoke Yacob-Haliso

A hearty congratulations to you Dr. O. Yacob-Haliso 
Itohan

On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 at 03:52, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

Dr. Jumoke Yacob-Haliso has been appointed as the first African to ever chair the FTGS Executive Committee of the ISA in its 30 years of existence. The list of past chairs of the section is a list of the founders and doyens of feminist international relations, and it is indeed a great honor for her to join that list.

 

The ISA represents 100 countries with over 7,000 members worldwide. It is the most respected, most widely known, and at 61 years old, one of the oldest interdisciplinary associations in the field of international, transnational and global affairs. 

 

Dr. Yacob-Haliso and Punam Yadav (UCL) were elected as joint Chairs of the Executive Committee of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section (FTGS)  for the 2020-2023 term.

 

Websites:

FTGS: https://www.isanet.org/ISA/Sections/FTGS

ISA: https://www.isanet.org/ISA/About-ISA

 

 

See her expansive project, The Handbook of African Women's Studies https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007%2F978-3-319-77030-7

 

A huge congratulations.

 

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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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Corona(Poem)

By Chidi Anthony Opara

At the large laboratory,

At the garden

Close to the Golgotha,

They cloned it

And called it

Corona.

Like the bullets

And the rockets

They shoot from Golan,

They shot corona

Into the land of Shinto.

Like wildfire

Corona flew and spread.

All corners of earth

Got shares of corona.

The deaths are frequent,

The deaths are many.

The dead are buried by the dying.

Mourners

Minimized by frequency of deaths.

They are compounding,

They are ready to release the antidote

To keep corona away from our bodies.

We, the helpless and hapless of this earth

Will in great gratitude

Surrender our meagre earnings

To the evil geniuses

Who cloned corona.

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Dr. Jumoke Yacob-Haliso

Mighty Congratulations, Dr. Jumoke Yacob-Haliso!

What a very important position for us, a milestone for you, for women, for the African woman.

It was not so long ago that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie amplified the issue when she famously advised on feminism, that we (African men too?) that "We should all be feminists!"

So, we are expecting more movements in that direction from you now that you're stationed at such a responsible position.

Over here in Sweden, "Gender Studies" is a very popular course being offered at the universities and is chosen by almost as many modern men, as modern women; I know a few men  - far from being emasculated, hen-pecked husbands and boyfriends who have nevertheless become " feminists";  perhaps that's why  " woman power!", the women are gradually and successfully taking over in Scandinavia even as we listen to Fela ( 29 wives) still  braying "Lady nah Master". In time to come, I suppose that the African societies that are currently most firmly entrenched in strong patriarchal cultures of gender-based violence and so forth will make the necessary concessions to modernity, in the name of women's rights to an education at all levels, to equality, equal pay, "Metoo" etc.

 Once again, Cheers, more grease to your elbows and in the struggle, May the Almighty be with you always!  

Prince Lincoln & the Royal Rasses: Humanity

 

 

On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 at 12:52, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

Dr. Jumoke Yacob-Haliso has been appointed as the first African to ever chair the FTGS Executive Committee of the ISA in its 30 years of existence. The list of past chairs of the section is a list of the founders and doyens of feminist international relations, and it is indeed a great honor for her to join that list.

 

The ISA represents 100 countries with over 7,000 members worldwide. It is the most respected, most widely known, and at 61 years old, one of the oldest interdisciplinary associations in the field of international, transnational and global affairs. 

 

Dr. Yacob-Haliso and Punam Yadav (UCL) were elected as joint Chairs of the Executive Committee of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section (FTGS)  for the 2020-2023 term.

 

Websites:

FTGS: https://www.isanet.org/ISA/Sections/FTGS

ISA: https://www.isanet.org/ISA/About-ISA

 

 

See her expansive project, The Handbook of African Women's Studies https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007%2F978-3-319-77030-7

 

A huge congratulations.

 

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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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Obituary: Harry Garuba

It is sad to hear of his death. My condolences to his family, relations, friends and associates.

May his soul rest in peace with his Ancestors. 

Segun Ogungbemi. 

On Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 1:40 PM OLAYINKA AGBETUYI <yagbetuyi@hotmail.com> wrote:

This is yet another unbearable  loss. Three  remarkable members of the literati in about a year.

My last memorable image of Harry was on the floor of Oduduwa Hall acting the Wole Soyinka directed Biko's Inquest in which Soyinka himself acted, as part of the struggle against Apartheid.  So you could say Harry's engagement with South Africa began at that country's hour of need.

May his noble soul rest in perfect peace.

OAA

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We lost the outstanding poet, great essayist, and famous literary figure. Professor Garuba was full of talents. Very well known in the literary world, his voice started to echo at Ibadan, crossing the Atlantic, and then detouring to South Africa where he and Professor Kole Omotoso—his fellow Akure citizen—joined in the transformation of the South African academy. Harry Garuba, Nuruddin Farah (nominated multiple times for the Nobel Prize) and Amina Mama (the preeminent feminist scholar) once hosted me. The conversations were elaborate. Harry and I plotted one more time to push Nuruddin for the Nobel. No luck, but the omission is a major one, similar to that of Achebe and wa Thiong'o. The University of Cape Town was a great place to be. Fast forward—Harry and his colleagues were to appoint me to their Faculty as an Honorary Professor.

 

We invited Harry to Austin for a semester where we interacted intensely. He was a theorist with a limitless pool of knowledge. His lectures were well received. I cannot reproduce his laughter. Glued to his face was his signature smile. Only a hand was free at a time, the other holding a cigarette.

 

The transformation that preoccupied Harry created the path to our last meeting in Johannesburg.  Professor Adekeye Adebajo, the distinguished political scientist and eminent public intellectual, brought many of us together at the Institute of Pan-African Thought and Conversation on August 18^th and 19^th 2018 to dialogue on "Curriculum Transformation in the Humanities." My memory does not fail me in matters such as this. Harry spoke on the Heinemann African Writers' Series. At lunch time, we sat together where I told him about a manuscript he had not read, the dissertation of Bode Ibironke of Rutgers on that same Series, subsequently published by Palgrave (Remapping African Literature). And of course, a reminder about his long-awaited book which he was always agonizing about its completion. "There was no death on his face," as the Yoruba would say.

 

I had planned to see him in the coming weeks. Not anymore. Harry was a secularist. I don't know what he would say if I ask God to invite him to His side, but I seek this assurance. Harry lived a glorious life.

 

Harry had passion and zeal for poetry, the amazing source of his strength.

He loved words, the spring of his awesome inspiration.

He was both humane and urbane, his warmth and divine protection.

 

When I wanted to tease him, I would call him Haruna. "I am Harry, not Haruna!" he would object.

Harry, I would ask, "what is the difference between file and Fali?"

 

Haruna, you did well on earth.

Harry, your mission has been accomplished.

Harry will continue to be with us.

 

Harry would object but I will pray anyway:

 

Ya Allah,

please remove all the pride and arrogance from my heart,

forgive my major and minor sins and

make me worthy to jannah.

 

Sleep well, great mind.

 

TF

  

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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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Yoruba Affairs - Obituary: Harry Garuba

The diviner dies as if lacking in the art of divination;

The medicine man dies as if wanting in the knowledge of his own medicine;

Death is the ultimate deifier of all things.

Death stings!

It has taken our Harry away -

Across the valley of Great Decision

Ferrying Harry into the pantheon of his ancestors. 

Harry Garuba, the Renaissance man -

Sleep on.

No questions asked;

Shhhhhhh. . .

Sleep on, Harry -

Sleep on.

Now, you are free!

Michael O. Afoláyan

On Saturday, February 29, 2020, 6:06:20 PM GMT+1, Dr BioDun J Ogundayo <akande1098@gmail.com> wrote:

  I shall stand here alone

Through this long blighted night

I will neither sing nor

Dance but listening to

The murmur of the

Ebbing waters I shall

Weave my little web of

Dreams beneath the shadows

Cast by these dead iroko trees.

Harry Garuba, RIP😭😭😭

On Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 11:15 Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

We lost the outstanding poet, great essayist, and famous literary figure. Professor Garuba was full of talents. Very well known in the literary world, his voice started to echo at Ibadan, crossing the Atlantic, and then detouring to South Africa where he and Professor Kole Omotoso—his fellow Akure citizen—joined in the transformation of the South African academy. Harry Garuba, Nuruddin Farah (nominated multiple times for the Nobel Prize) and Amina Mama (the preeminent feminist scholar) once hosted me. The conversations were elaborate. Harry and I plotted one more time to push Nuruddin for the Nobel. No luck, but the omission is a major one, similar to that of Achebe and wa Thiong'o. The University of Cape Town was a great place to be. Fast forward—Harry and his colleagues were to appoint me to their Faculty as an Honorary Professor.

 

We invited Harry to Austin for a semester where we interacted intensely. He was a theorist with a limitless pool of knowledge. His lectures were well received. I cannot reproduce his laughter. Glued to his face was his signature smile. Only a hand was free at a time, the other holding a cigarette.

 

The transformation that preoccupied Harry created the path to our last meeting in Johannesburg.  Professor Adekeye Adebajo, the distinguished political scientist and eminent public intellectual, brought many of us together at the Institute of Pan-African Thought and Conversation on August 18^th and 19^th 2018 to dialogue on "Curriculum Transformation in the Humanities." My memory does not fail me in matters such as this. Harry spoke on the Heinemann African Writers' Series. At lunch time, we sat together where I told him about a manuscript he had not read, the dissertation of Bode Ibironke of Rutgers on that same Series, subsequently published by Palgrave (Remapping African Literature). And of course, a reminder about his long-awaited book which he was always agonizing about its completion. "There was no death on his face," as the Yoruba would say.

 

I had planned to see him in the coming weeks. Not anymore. Harry was a secularist. I don't know what he would say if I ask God to invite him to His side, but I seek this assurance. Harry lived a glorious life.

 

Harry had passion and zeal for poetry, the amazing source of his strength.

He loved words, the spring of his awesome inspiration.

He was both humane and urbane, his warmth and divine protection.

 

When I wanted to tease him, I would call him Haruna. "I am Harry, not Haruna!" he would object.

Harry, I would ask, "what is the difference between file and Fali?"

 

Haruna, you did well on earth.

Harry, your mission has been accomplished.

Harry will continue to be with us.

 

Harry would object but I will pray anyway:

 

Ya Allah,

please remove all the pride and arrogance from my heart,

forgive my major and minor sins and

make me worthy to jannah.

 

Sleep well, great mind.

 

TF

  

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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