Dear Brother Tanure Ojaide, congratulations on this occasion of a well-deserved honor! May you go from strength to strength, and enjoy sound health as you continue to serve humanity through your creative and critical works.Ademola O. Dasylva.
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Dear Colleagues,
I am very pleased to share with you that Dr. Tanure Ojaide has been named the recipient of this year's Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM), in the Humanities category. President Muhammadu Buhari will preside over the investiture ceremony in Abuja, the country's capital, on December 1st.
Established by Act 53 of 1979, the Nigerian National Order of Merit is the highest academic honor in Africa's most populous country. The award is conferred annually on the most deserving scholar and intellectual who has made outstanding and ethical contributions to national and global attainments in one of these areas of scholarly endeavor: humanities, sciences, engineering, and medicine.
The Nigerian National Order of Merit award comes with a substantial cash prize, a medal and certificate of honor, and the right to use NNOM after the name of the recipient.
Dr. Ojaide is a graduate of the University of Ibadan and Syracuse University. Since joining the UNC Charlotte faculty rank in 1990, he has authored more than 30 books, and has won more than a dozen book prizes and accolades including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Cadbury Poetry Prize, and the Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Award. He received UNC Charlotte's First Citizens Bank Scholar Medal Award in 2005, and was named the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies in 2006. Early this year, he received the African Literature Association's Fonlon-Nichols Award in recognition of his scholarly contributions to democratic ideals, humanistic values, and literary excellence in Africa.
Please join me in congratulating our friend and colleague, Dr. Tanure Ojaide, NNOM, for this latest career honor.
AO
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Dr. Tanure Ojaide to receive Nigeria’s Highest Academic Honor
I congratulate Professor Tanure Ojaide for winning this year's Nigeria's national merit award in the humanities . This is the highest Honours our country can bestow on an academic . I remember Tanure's small beginnings when I was his dean in the university of Maiduguri in 1982 . Those were difficult times when we all worked very hard with heavy lecture load because of paucity of staff as a result of the rather hostile weather and growing religious intolerance in the university which led to some of us including Tanure leaving either for other Nigerian universities or for the United States . I am happy to be alive to hear the good news . I hope Tanure reads this to know I wish him well.
Regards,
Akinjde Osuntokun, Ph.D OON FNAL FHSN
Professor Emeritus of History and International Relations
Bapitan of Oyo
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