Dr. Bridget Teboh: Congratulations !

[Toyin Falola]

 

Ikah-meyi

Women’s power!

 

The news of the elevation to full Professor was communicated yesterday to Bridget Teboh. What a way to start the summer! I am particularly happy about it. When we first met years ago, I was impressed by her rare gift of the deep knowledge of several West African languages, including Moghamo, Metta, Mungaka, West African Pidgin English, French, and German, all of which, I think, generated her rich sensibilities to oral and archival histories. She effortlessly switches from English to French, but it is when she speaks in pidgin, a variant different from my Lagos one, that I always urge her not to stop talking—it can be fast, as the words pour out as if a heavy rain is about to dump on you with lightening. Add a little bit of stress and anger to the subject, the pidgin communicates fury!  This pidgin should become a continental language. Walahi!

 

I am not sure I can fully track her history, but the bits I know is that she earned an M.A. in African Area Studies and a Ph.D. in African History from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She received a B.A. (Hons.) from the University of Cameroon, Yaounde, a DUEF (Diplome d’Université d’Etudes Francais) from Université Jean-Moulin, Lyon III, France. She specializes in African History, African-American Women’s History, Women’s and Gender studies, African Diaspora and oral history. She teaches courses in these fields as well as World History courses. She has been to Austin too many times where she developed a network of friends that now involve her going to Nigeria. We were all together in Ondo, Nigeria, last July. The ongoing crisis in Cameroon aborted her trip to Nigeria last January but she is travelling back there this summer.

 

As I follow her writings, her research interests include colonialism, post-coloniality, and the understanding of women’s history in West/Central Africa, Cameroon, and the Moghamo people of the Bamenda Grassfields. She has given me the draft of the biography on her mother. Yes, she wrote on her mother. We should encourage many of these biographies as they move us outside of the colonial archives.

 

I recently read her essay, “I Am What I Eat and Wear When It Matters: Identity Politics in the African Diaspora,” which links scholarship with identity politics. I look forward to her two forthcoming books, whose drafts I have read: Herstory: The Life and Times of “Madame Maternity,” (which is about her mother); and Unruly Mothers, Combative Wives: Rituals, Women and Change in the Cameroon Grassfields c. 1889-1960, an engaging study on women’s radicalism in the colonial era.

 

This is not the time to retell Bridget’s journey and multiple contributions to scholarship, but to rejoice with her.

 

Bridget, you are very great!

 

I know you go to Church every Sunday, the praying type. I don’t tamper with people’s faith. Thus, let me pray for you.

 

Very soon, very, very soon,  and I say very very soon, God is going to do a miracle and lift you up for good. Amen

 

The grace for completion will come on you. Amen

 

You shall be blessed till the blessed call you blessed. Amen

 

You shall be too relevant to be ignored. Amen

 

You will encounter God and will never remain the same again. Amen

 

From today on, you shall find favor with someone you don't expect. Including Trump!  Amen.

 

 

Congratulations!

TF

 

 

 

 

 

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Congratulations Professor Teboh for your accomplishments. You have added a new impetus to motivate and empower African women. 

Make you wash am o because it is washable! 

Segun Ogungbemi. 

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[Awosika Itunu]

On behalf of the Provost, College Management Committee, Faculty, Staff and Students of Adeyemi College of Education, Nigeria, l say a big congratulations to an amiable academic stalwart. The uncommon Historian and Scholar of Gender studies, a great mentor to so many people, and a very friendly individual. My personal friend, my namesake, and my Sister from another mother - Prof Bridget Teboh.

As a Carnegie Scholar, Prof Bridget Teboh spent 3 full months of unprecedented academic development for both faculty, staff and students particularly in the  Gender and Sustainability Development Studies Unit and the School of Arts and Social Sciences of Adeyemi College between May and July, 2017.

During the period, she  participated in several local and international conferences in Nigeria, Ghana and across the West African Region. Her academic strength highly is recognized in the College, and she is currently the General Editor of several volumes of academic papers that are under review.......

We cannot expect anything less than this to happen in her career growth because  it is deserved....

We can only wish her a lengthy and healthy tenure in the professorial cadre as we continue to count the laurels......

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[Bridget Dr. Teboh]

Dear Professor Falola,

Thank you so much for these kind words! From your lips to God's ears-Amen!

I couldn't have done this without your support and the encouragement from you all--my colleagues.

I'll continue to do my best, God willing. THANK YOU!!!

Best regards,

Bridget

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[Bridget Dr. Teboh]

Dear Prof. Falola,

Thank you so much for these kind words!  From your lips to God's ears-Amen!

I couldn't have done this without your support and the encouragement from you all--my colleagues.

I'll continue to do my best. THANK YOU!!!

Best regards,

Bridget

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Congratulations, Prof Teboh. 

Malami

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[Bridget Dr. Teboh]

My Dear Name Sake,

You are too kind...I am humbled to say the least.  I am grateful  for friends and a sister like you.  

Thank you!  Special thanks to The Provost and entire Adeyemi College of Education family/community!

I will see you soon by God's Grace .

Best,

Your Sake

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[Bridget Dr. Teboh]

Thank you Prof. Malami Buba! 

Bridget

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Bridget, I join Professor Falola to extend my congratulations to you on your promotion to full professor. Great job.

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Thank you Prof. Malami Buba! 

Bridget

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[Ashafa Abdullahi]

May I from Kaduna State Universty join other colleagues in congratulating Dr Professor Temboh. Reading about her for the first time in the most elogius manner put by TF. Am happy for,  for African history,  African women,  African Historians and Gender Studies. May you live long for posterity to continue drinking from your reservoir of knowledge, a product of efforts put to come this far. 

Congrats. 

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[Joyce Ash]

Thank you Prof. TF for beaming wide the light of my Cameroonian big sis! Congratulations Prof. (The Full version) Bridget Teboh! Your work inspires!

Regards

Joyce

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Congratulations to you, Prof Bridget Teboh.

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[Adeshina Afolayan]

Dear Prof. Teboh,

A huge congratulations from me to you! But just to let you know that there cannot be any relenting in this intellectual business. The next announcement on this list should be the publications of those books and more, and your ascension into an endowed chair. Amen!

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[Bessie House Soremekun]

Congratulations Dr. Teboh on your promotion to Full Professor. It could not have happened to a more deserving and hard working person. 

May God continue to shine upon you and provide you with much continued success in the upcoming days and years ahead.

With best regards,

Bessie House Soremekun

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Hearty congratulations to Professor Teboh for a well-deserved promotion.

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[Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso]

I say a big AMEN to all the prayers of the senior Prof for the newly inaugurated Professor. Congratulations, dear Prof ma. Though we have never met physically, I have been so encouraged by your very gracious and enthusiastic acceptance of my email invitations to collaborate on something or the other. I am so happy at your elevation, and wish you every success and greater strides in this new season.

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Congratulations Prof. Bridget Teboh, PhD for the promotion to full professor. You deserve it and I just look forward to the pouring  of libation, when and place and will be there to celebrate. We have traveled very closely together as we look to the same mentor Prof. Toyin Falola, PhD.

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[Kehbuma Langmia]

Congratulations my sister Ma Bridget Teboh. Mu tso nga koe eh!! Nnikob Mfa Fuh Mfa Juh yi!!

Ba Gweh Tateh, From Bali Nyonga, North West Region of Cameroon.

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Congratulations dear Bridget!

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[Michael Afolayan]

What a gift to humanity, a joy of Africa! Congratulations, Bridget. Keep the flag flying; we are very proud of you.  

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mighty congrats Bridget. Keep flying. 

superb celebration from Falola.

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My belated congratulations, Prof. Teboh, on your deserved elevation. 

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