Happy Birthday to Professor Assensoh indeed. I will never forget the first time I met him and since then he has become not just a mentor but like a senior brother. I just started teaching and was fresh in the vocation, when I chose to participate for the first time in the annual meeting of the Association of Third World Studies in Macon, Georgia. On my way, I met at the boarding area of the Chicago Midway Airport with Professor Assensoh. At that time, he was the President of the Association but I did not know that. He asked me whether I was attending the conference of the association too and that was how everything started and I came to know him.
What surprised me then and up to now was his deep care for the flourishing of others. It is not uncommon to find some people who are very successful and up there trying to force others to recognize and respect them. For me, I will always think of Professor Assensoh as someone who commanded respect and honor by virtue of how he wholeheartedly cares about others and his voice is always one of building bridges across divides. Divides that are common and all over the place these days. His bride-building role is clearly manifested in his participation in the politics of scholarship and scholarly associations.
Thanks for being an inspiration Professor Assensoh. Sometimes when I read about your life and the places you have lived and what you have learned and published about, I feel like you are one hundred years old. It is not just that your scholarly work is broad, deep and diverse but the places you have lived and worked are also diverse and each of them has made a unique contribution in shaping your experience and worldview that is cosmopolitan and inclusive.
Samuel
Samuel Zalanga
Bethel University
Department of Political Science
Bethel University, 3900 Bethel Drive, #13, Saint Paul, MN 55112.
Office Phone: 651-638-6023
On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 1:17 PM Abdul Bemath <abemath@mweb.co.za> wrote:
--Happy birthday AB,Abdul
Sent from my iPadSIR Toyin:
--In the words of Baba Ijebu, "You don create wahala for me!" I just saw the kind words of Brothers Michael O. Afoláyan (MOA) and Agbo (whose last name is also found in Ghana).The wahala is for me to forget to acknowledge or thank the so many kind words, some of which appeared in the postings. Hopefully, all the kind words will translate into many, manymore years for me to survive corona in order to "challenge" my mother in age, as she turned 98 in January of 2020! I need 24 more years, Amen!!
Many thanks brothers and any others out there. In Akan, back in Ghana, we say: "Medaase beberee"; in Yoruba: "E se pupo".A.B. Assensoh.
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Dear Professor Assensoh,
A very Happy Birthday to you. "As thy days, so shall thy strength be".
Chukwuemeka
Chukwuemeka Agbo, M.A.
Doctoral Candidate in African History
Department of HistoryThe University of Texas at Austin128 Inner Campus DriveB7000 Austin, Tx, 78712-0220
USA
--On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 6:07 PM 'Michael Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
--Cheers to Professor Assensoh. Anyone who has read A Matter of Sharing, the memo of this unrepentant pan-Africanist enthusiast, would appreciate "the grace that has brought him safe thus far", to borrow the words of the legendary hymn writer, John Newton. Brother AB would be an edifice without a foundation if we forget to mention Baba Ijebu, to whom he has become a lifelong protégé in wisdom and sound judgment. He would be a mansion without a roof if we forget to pay homage to Dr. Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh, his wife. To Dr. Assensoh and all the proverbial linens that have clothed him into this warping 74-year maturity, then, I say Happy Birthday! In the prayer of the Yoruba people, May 200 years be to you like the passage of a single year!
Michael O. Afoláyan(Behind the veil and spell of the frozen tundra of the Upper Midwest)
On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, 5:24:30 AM MDT, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
--Professor Assensoh is 74 today. He continues to live a great life. After his retirement from Indiana, he completed his law degree at the University of Oregon—he started it in the UK decades before but had to abandon it for circumstances beyond his control. And he continues to publish, working hard on his current project on Nkrumah, as if he is still preparing for his GCE A Level London.
With men and spirit like this, we can continue to say not just aluta continua but Forward Ever, Backward Never.
Onward, to 75, when all survivors of the raging Coronavirus will gather to honor both the dead and living. I am in charge of your 80th birthday!!!
TF
Toyin Falola
Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin
104 Inner Campus Drive
Austin, TX 78712-0220
USA
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512 475 7222 (fax)
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