Birthday: A. B. Assensoh

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Toyin Falola

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Apr 1, 2020, 7:24:27 AM4/1/20
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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

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Anthony Akinola

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Apr 1, 2020, 7:58:01 AM4/1/20
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 May I join all men and women of good will in wishing Professor AB  Assensoh a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
I have known him for decades, and I can proudly say he is one of the best species of human beings the
world will ever know. On behalf of my family, I wish him more productive post- coronavirus years to come.
Anthony Akinola.
Oxford, UK

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Ivor Agyeman-Duah

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Apr 1, 2020, 8:33:10 AM4/1/20
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Congratulations Prof. Assensoh . An inspiration to us all.
Ivor

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Adeshina Afolayan

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Apr 1, 2020, 10:49:30 AM4/1/20
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Dear Baami Assensoh,
Today is a great day to celebrate a great man in the midst of all this terror about the virus. You have lived a great life, and you have many more years ahead of you to impact the world the more. 

Many happy returns, esteemed Professor!


Emmanuel Udogu

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Apr 1, 2020, 12:10:16 PM4/1/20
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"THIS MUST BE AN APRIL FOOL JOKE! " THE VIVACIOUS OSAGYEFO AB THAT I KNOW VERY WELL IS 60.

I AM GOING TO TOAST THIS SPECIAL OCCASION WITH A GLASS OF TOMBO -- ALIAS PALM WINE -- THAT I JUST TAPPED FROM MY PALM TREES.

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM YOUR FAMILY!

BROTHER IKE UDOGU





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Dompere, Kofi Kissi

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Apr 1, 2020, 1:01:35 PM4/1/20
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CONGRATULATION PROFESSOR ASSENSOH FOR YOUR PRODUCTIVE CONTRIBUTION FOR ALL THESE YEARS.

MAY THE CREATOR CONTINUE TO LEAD YOU FOR MORE PRODUCTIVE WORKS.

BEST FOR 2020.

DOMPERE.

 

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segun ogungbemi

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Apr 2, 2020, 6:40:55 AM4/2/20
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Congratulation and Happy birthday, Professor Assensoh, the ace Baba Ijebu. 
I wish you many more years in good health and longevity. 
Segun Ogungbemi 

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Okey Iheduru

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Apr 2, 2020, 7:07:24 PM4/2/20
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Happy Birthday, Prof. Assensoh! I owe a lot of my awareness of political developments in Africa in the early 1980s to you and your colleagues, Ralph Uwechue, Nick Fadugba and Kaye Whiteman. You were the best. We celebrate you and wish you well.
Okey Iheduru

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Michael Afolayan

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Apr 2, 2020, 7:07:24 PM4/2/20
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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)

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OLAYINKA AGBETUYI

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Apr 2, 2020, 7:24:02 PM4/2/20
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Oga Assensoh:

Say Hoosier!

Say many happy returns!

OAA



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Happy Birthday, Prof. Assensoh! I owe a lot of my awareness of political developments in Africa in the early 1980s to you and your colleagues, Ralph Uwechue, Nick Fadugba and Kaye Whiteman. You were the best. We celebrate you and wish you well.
Okey Iheduru

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Akwasi Osei

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Apr 3, 2020, 6:22:57 AM4/3/20
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Happy birthday to big brother AB.  May God pile on more years as you continue to light the way forward...

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Chukwuemeka C Agbo

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Apr 3, 2020, 6:22:57 AM4/3/20
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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
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Assensoh, Akwasi B.

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SIR Toyin:
On my birthday, yesterday, I was reflectively pondering over the contention that some of us (aged 70 and above) are coronavirus-
vulnerable. Then, suddenly, I started getting tons of "happy birthday" messages by text, telephone, e-mail, etc! I did not know that 
usa-africa-dialogue did it, indeed with your posting that I never anticipated. Beyond measure, I'm grateful to you as well as the many 
Brothers/Sisters, colleagues, friends and family members, who followed your post and variously contacted me!

Brother Femi (of Amherst) sorry that I missed your kind phone call. Just like Brother 'Tony Akinola of Oxford, we all go way back during 
our "old" Oxford years, when we were doing our individual stuff on that British campus; this makes me remember, with emotion, Comrade 
Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, the Rhodes Scholar and our scholar par excellence!  He should have been here to help me celebrate "7+4"!Thank you 
very much, SIR Toyin, and all.
A.B. Assensoh.

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Apr 3, 2020, 8:12:27 AM4/3/20
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Oga, TF, you chair the loc for the bd, we serve and support. Long live AB and TF!
bunza

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Assensoh, Akwasi B.

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Apr 3, 2020, 10:33:55 AM4/3/20
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Many thanks for the birthday wishes, Brothers Akwasi and Okey! We were in the Fleet Street/London journalistic trenches with several other amazing Journalists, including Peter Pan (Peter 

Enahoro), who typed 120-130 words per minute with one finger; Jonathan Reffell, the Liberian news announcer with a velvet voice, who was "exiled" to the Liberian Embassy as the Press Officer
by the Tolbert regime, before its fall in the April 12,  1980 coup; Elizabeth Akua Ohene of Talking Drums' fame; and, of course, Fidel Odum, Editor of Concord (London).  
A.B. Assensoh.

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Assensoh, Akwasi B.

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Apr 3, 2020, 12:33:19 PM4/3/20
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SIR 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, many
more 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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Abdul Bemath

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Apr 3, 2020, 2:17:18 PM4/3/20
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Happy birthday AB,
Abdul

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Samuel Zalanga

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Apr 3, 2020, 7:37:39 PM4/3/20
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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.
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Anthony Akinola

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Apr 4, 2020, 5:20:13 AM4/4/20
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In celebrating Professor Assensoh at 74, one would also want to say THANK YOU to his lovely wife, Prof Yvette Assensoh.
The duo are a bird of a feather-helpful,kind, generous, and thoughtful.The duo have done quite a lot in helping to promote
my works,via reviews, than the publishers ever did. In the selfish world we live in, Professor Assensoh is one of those rare
human beings who see no cause for selfishness. Long may he live, and may God continue to bless and protect his family.
Anthony Akinola

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