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)
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From: "fomidire-yahoo.fr Ayoh'OMIDIRE" <fomidire@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: "fomidire-yahoo.fr Ayoh'OMIDIRE" <fomidire@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 5:41 PM
To: Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>, dialogue <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>, Yoruba Affairs <yorubaaffairs@googlegroups.com>
Subject: AW: Obituary: Professor Femi Ojo-Ade
Prof. Femi Ojo-ade was the first indegenous füll Professor and Head of the then Department of Modern European Languages (now Foreign Languages) of the then University of Ife. He was indeed a versatile scholar who sustained the study of not only French, his Major, but, more specifically, Portuguese, through his more than working knowledge of Spanish language and literature. With the Blessings of the then Vice-Chancellor, Professor Wande Abimbola, he masterminded the acquisition of the OAU House in Salvador as a Safe House for our Portuguese Year Abroad Students, a visionary move that is today responsible for the sustainance of the Programme in Bahia and OAU. May the Soul of Prof. Ojoade rest in peace.
FAO
ICS-OAU, Ile-Ife.
Am Mi., März 20, 2019 at 20:05 schrieb Toyin Falola
<toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>:
It is with sadness that I announce the passing of Professor Femi-Ojo Ade. He died yesterday. A prolific and multi-talented scholar, he had an impactful career, producing books and essays, and training such notable and distinguished scholars as the pre-eminent Afro-Brazilianist, Professor Niyi Afolabi of the University of Texas at Austin, and the dynamic and versatile Professor Felix Ayoh Omidire, cerebral scholar of Afro-Latin American Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University.
Africa has reduced by one, a notable one, as a one in physical counting, but as a multitude in terms of significance.
Farewell—eat only the food they eat in the strange land.
TF
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)
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