The African Studies Association selected Professor Toyin Falola for
its 2011 Distinguished Africanist Award.
Posted: August 3, 2011
Executive Director of the African Studies Association (ASA) Karen
Jenkins notified Falola that he was the association's 2011 recipient
of its most coveted award.
In her letter, she stated, "As you are aware, the Distinguished
Africanist Award was established to recognize and honor individuals
who have contributed a lifetime of outstanding scholarship in African
Studies combined with service to the Africanist community."
Toyin Falola, just back from Nigeria where he participated in the
inaugural Toyin Falola Annual Conference, was surprised to learn he'd
received yet another lifetime achievement award. He said, "This is the
biggest award ever in academic organizations — I was not expecting
it."
According to the ASA's website, "the award was created in the 1980's
to recognize and honor scholars who have contributed a lifetime record
of outstanding scholarship in their respective field of African
studies."
The award will be presented at their Annual Business Meeting and
Awards Ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011 in Washington, D.C. Their
annual conference has approximately 2,000 attendees each year from all
over the world.
The ASA was founded in 1957 and has established itself as the
preeminent organization in North America that works to promote the
study of Africa. It boosts a membership of over 1,700.
It is a nonprofit organization with a membership in the American
Council of Learned Societies and housed at Rutgers University.
The ASA publishes two prestigious journals, the African Studies Review
and History in Africa.
Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in the
Department of History and a Distinguished Teaching Professor. He has
published over 100 books and holds his own Africa conference each year
on the campus of The University of Texas in the spring.
He has won numerous awards and was appointed as a Vice President of
the International Scientific Committee for UNESCO's Slave Trade Route
Project just this past spring.
He was also selected by the University Co-operative Society at UT for
their top Career Research Excellence Award in 2010 for the very
impressive research program in African history that he established
since he came to the university in 1991.
In 2009, he received the inaugural Africana Studies Distinguished
Global Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award from Indiana University
Purdue University Indianapolis.
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