2011 ASA Distinguished Africanist Award: Dr. Toyin Falola, former Prof. at Ife (Nigeria)
On behalf of the African Studies Association Board of Directors, ASA is proud to announce Dr. Toyin Falola as the recipient of the 2011 ASA Distinguished Africanist Award. The award was established 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 and service to the Africanist community.
Dr. Toyin Falola is currently a Distinguished Teaching Professor and the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin and is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters and Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria. Falola is the author or editor of more than 90 books, including Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies, The Power and African Cultures,and Nationalism and African Intellectuals and countless articles and book chapters. Falola received his BA and his PhD from the University of Ife where he began his teaching career, moving to the University of Texas in 1991. He has been the mentor and teacher to innumerable students and future scholars in the United States, Africa and elsewhere and a relentless supporter of linkages between North American and Africa-based scholars. Through his own very wide-ranging publications, and through various editorships, his organization of conferences and symposia, and his teaching, Falola has made a powerful impact on African studies. A dedicated member of the African Studies Association, Falola currently chairs the Herskovits book prize committee. The recipient of many awards, his memoir, A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt, was a finalist for the Herskovits prize.
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Please join us in honoring Dr. Toyin Falola, the 2011 ASA Distinguished Africanist, at the Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony on Thursday, November 17, from 12:30-1:30 PM.
ASA 54th Annual Meeting
November 17-19, 2011
Marriot Wardman Park Hotel
Washington, D.C.
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