Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Pan-African University Press: Fate of Our Mothers by Michael Afolayan

You crack me up big time, Ikhide. You are good with words. Had I held a cell phone in Oke-Awo, villagers would have called me "Ajantaala" and no one would ever visit my compound! But I hear you loud and clear. I say never mind; the "i-time" stories will come; they just won't be from me. Our kids are busy writing their, too. 

 

On Sunday, September 6, 2015 3:28 AM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

You can buy from next week---

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From: "xokigbo@yahoo.com" <xokigbo@yahoo.com>
Date: Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 3:19 AM
To: Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>
Cc: dialogue <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Pan-African University Press: Fate of Our Mothers by Michael Afolayan

Congratulations to Michael Afolayan. I tried to buy the book online, was unsuccessful. I am sure it will be a good read.  I love African coming of age stories.  I feel deprived though,  as an African who hada joyous chikdhood in Africa surrounded by iPhones,  iPads,  teddy bears and fast wifi,  I have trouble relatkng to pictures of bare footed little boys draging wailing chickens to slaughter! 

Congrats again! I shall read,  ma worry! 

Ikhide

Sent via smoke signals! 

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From: Toyin Falola

Date: Sat, Sep 5, 2015 4:20 PM

To: Yoruba Affairs;dialogue;

Subject:USA Africa Dialogue Series - Pan-African University Press: Fate of Our Mothers by Michael Afolayan

Dr. Michael Afolayan has released his memoir

http://panafricanuniversitypress.com/publications/

Fate of Our Mothers is the first in the series of the author's narrative of the assorted experiences that exemplify the first twenty years of his life. The story does not follow the orthodoxy of systematic chronicling that often characterizes traditional memoirs. Rather, for the most part, the author verbally renders to his own four children, who are born and raised in America, a sporadic reflection of his childhood upbringing in a far away village of Oke-Awo, Aba Iresi in southwestern Nigeria. He describes the rustic simplicity of a Yoruba village life, the beauty of living under the roof and compound of a caring father, two relentlessly hardworking mothers, ten siblings, many relatives, and a countless number of extended family members and non-relatives. 

Toyin Falola

Department of History

The University of Texas at Austin

104 Inner Campus Drive

Austin, TX 78712-0220

USA

512 475 7224

512 475 7222 (fax)

http://sites.utexas.edu/yoruba-studies-review/

http://www.toyinfalola.com 

http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa  

http://groups.google.com/group/yorubaaffairs 

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