Obituary: Professor Oyekan Owomoyela
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Toyin Falola
Oct 6, 2007, 8:59:16 PM10/6/07
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It is with
great sadness that I announce the transition of Professor Oyekan
Owomoyela who died today, October 6, 2007. According to his last wish,
the only memorial service he would like is one with me and the larger
Yoruba/Africans at the annual Austin conference. At the time of his
death, he was completing his manuscript on African literature for
Columbia.
Profile:
Professor Oyekan Owomoyela
Background Educational History
Degrees
B.A. (London) 1963
M.F.A. (UCLA) 1966
Ph.D. (UCLA) 1970
M.F.A. Thesis
"The Slave." (Full-length screenplay set in traditional Yoruba society.)
Ph.D. Dissertation
"Folklore and the Rise of Theater Among the Yoruba."
Employment
Instructor, Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio, 1964
Lecturer, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1968-1972
Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1972-1975
Associate Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1975-1981
Senior Consultant and Head of the Department of Technical Support and Services, Centre for
Management Development, Lagos, Nigeria, 1975-1976 (on leave from UNL)
Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1981-
Visiting Scholar, University of Ghana, Legon, 1998-1999
Ryan Professor of African Literature, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2000-
Coordinator, African American and African Studies, 2005 -
Publications
Books, Monographs, Chapters
Yoruba: Proverbs: Translations and Annotations. Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1973, with Bernth Lindfors.
"Folklore and Yoruba Theater." Critical Perspectives on Nigerian Literatures. Ed. Bernth Lindfors. Washington: Three Continents Press, 1976, pp. 27-40.
"Folklore and Yoruba Theater." Forms of Folklore in Africa. Ed. Bernth Lindfors. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977, pp. 258-70. [Reprint]
African Literatures: An Introduction. Waltham: Crossroads Press, 1979.
A Kì í: Yoruba Proscriptive and Prescriptive Proverbs Lanham: University Press of America, 1988.
"Ulli Beier and Yoruba Theater: A Conversation." Critic as Terrorist. Ed. Tayo Olafioye. San Diego, Calif: Advantage Book Company, 1989, pp. 75-84.
"Africa and the Imperative of Philosophy." African Philosophy: The Essential Readings. Ed. Tsenay Serequeberhan. New York: Paragon House, 1991, pp. 156-86.
Visions and Revisions: Essays on African Literatures and Criticism. New York: Peter Lang, 1991.
"Yoruba Folk Opera: a Cross-Cultural Flowering." From Commonwealth to Post-Colonial. Ed. Anna Rutherford. Sydney: Dangaroo Press, 1992, pp. 160-80.
A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures (Edited volume, including Introduction and a chapter by me). Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.
"Drums in African Folklore." Drums: The Heartbeat of Africa. Ed. Esther A. Dagan. Montréal: Galerie Amrad African Art Publications, 1993, pp. 58-61.
Foreword. Guanya Pau, by J. J. Walters. Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press, 1994, pp. ix-xxiv.
"Africa and the Imperative of Philosophy." African Philosophy: Selected Readings. Ed. Albert G. Mosley. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: 1995, pp. 236-62. [Reprint]
The African Difference: Discourses on Africanity and the Relativity of Cultures. Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University Press, 1996; simultaneously published in the US by Peter Lang, NY, NY.
Yoruba Trickster Tales. Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
"The African Condition at the End of the Twentieth Century: The Perils of Clouded Vision and Reduced Perceptiveness," in Levels of Perception and Reproduction of Reality in Modern African Literature (Special Issue of the University of Leipzig Papers on Africa, Nos. 3 & 4 (1998). Eds. Dr. Ludwig Gerhardt and Dr. Hilke Meyer Bahlburg), 1998.
Amos Tutuola Revisited. New York, Twayne, 1999.
"From Folklore to Literature: The Route From Roots in the African World," in The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities, Eds. Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, and Ali Mazrui, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999, pp. 275-89.
Background Educational History
Degrees
B.A. (London) 1963
M.F.A. (UCLA) 1966
Ph.D. (UCLA) 1970
M.F.A. Thesis
"The Slave." (Full-length screenplay set in traditional Yoruba society.)
Ph.D. Dissertation
"Folklore and the Rise of Theater Among the Yoruba."
Employment
Instructor, Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio, 1964
Lecturer, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1968-1972
Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1972-1975
Associate Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1975-1981
Senior Consultant and Head of the Department of Technical Support and Services, Centre for
Management Development, Lagos, Nigeria, 1975-1976 (on leave from UNL)
Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1981-
Visiting Scholar, University of Ghana, Legon, 1998-1999
Ryan Professor of African Literature, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2000-
Coordinator, African American and African Studies, 2005 -
Publications
Books, Monographs, Chapters
Yoruba: Proverbs: Translations and Annotations. Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1973, with Bernth Lindfors.
"Folklore and Yoruba Theater." Critical Perspectives on Nigerian Literatures. Ed. Bernth Lindfors. Washington: Three Continents Press, 1976, pp. 27-40.
"Folklore and Yoruba Theater." Forms of Folklore in Africa. Ed. Bernth Lindfors. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977, pp. 258-70. [Reprint]
African Literatures: An Introduction. Waltham: Crossroads Press, 1979.
A Kì í: Yoruba Proscriptive and Prescriptive Proverbs Lanham: University Press of America, 1988.
"Ulli Beier and Yoruba Theater: A Conversation." Critic as Terrorist. Ed. Tayo Olafioye. San Diego, Calif: Advantage Book Company, 1989, pp. 75-84.
"Africa and the Imperative of Philosophy." African Philosophy: The Essential Readings. Ed. Tsenay Serequeberhan. New York: Paragon House, 1991, pp. 156-86.
Visions and Revisions: Essays on African Literatures and Criticism. New York: Peter Lang, 1991.
"Yoruba Folk Opera: a Cross-Cultural Flowering." From Commonwealth to Post-Colonial. Ed. Anna Rutherford. Sydney: Dangaroo Press, 1992, pp. 160-80.
A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures (Edited volume, including Introduction and a chapter by me). Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.
"Drums in African Folklore." Drums: The Heartbeat of Africa. Ed. Esther A. Dagan. Montréal: Galerie Amrad African Art Publications, 1993, pp. 58-61.
Foreword. Guanya Pau, by J. J. Walters. Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press, 1994, pp. ix-xxiv.
"Africa and the Imperative of Philosophy." African Philosophy: Selected Readings. Ed. Albert G. Mosley. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: 1995, pp. 236-62. [Reprint]
The African Difference: Discourses on Africanity and the Relativity of Cultures. Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University Press, 1996; simultaneously published in the US by Peter Lang, NY, NY.
Yoruba Trickster Tales. Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
"The African Condition at the End of the Twentieth Century: The Perils of Clouded Vision and Reduced Perceptiveness," in Levels of Perception and Reproduction of Reality in Modern African Literature (Special Issue of the University of Leipzig Papers on Africa, Nos. 3 & 4 (1998). Eds. Dr. Ludwig Gerhardt and Dr. Hilke Meyer Bahlburg), 1998.
Amos Tutuola Revisited. New York, Twayne, 1999.
"From Folklore to Literature: The Route From Roots in the African World," in The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities, Eds. Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, and Ali Mazrui, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999, pp. 275-89.
"Identity and Cultural Repression in the Colonized African
Psyche: Mariama Bâ's Scarlet Song and Tsitsi
Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions." Body, Identity, Sub-Cultures
and Repression in Texts From Africa. Johannes A. Smit, Ed. Durban:
CSSALL, 1999, pp.77-101.
"The Mata Kharibu Model and Its Oppositions: Conflicts and Transformations in Cultural Valuation," in The Transformation of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola. Adebayo Oyebade, Ed. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2002, pp. 483-509.
"Socialist Realism and African Knowledge." Tongue and Mother Tongue: African Literature and the Perpetual Quest for Identity, Eds. Pamela J Olúbùnmi Smith and Daniel P. Kunene. Trenton, NJ and Asmara, Eritrea. Africa World Press, 2002, pp. 89-102.
"Telling Africa's Past in Literature: Whose Story Is It Anyway?" In Africanizing Knowledge. Eds. Toyin Falola.and Christian Jennings. New Brunswick & London: Transaction Publishers, 2002, pp. 219-38.
"The Self as Exemplum: African Autobiography as Celebratory Performance of the Self." In African Writers and Their Readers: Essays in Honor of Bernth Lindfors, Vo. II. Eds. Toyin Falola and Barbara Harlow. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2002, pp. 1-25.
Culture and Customs of Zimbabwe. Culture and Customs of Africa Series. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2002.
"Zimbabwe." In Teen Life in Africa. Ed. Toyin Falola. Culture and Customs of Africa Series. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2004, pp. 303-20.
"Àjàpá, Ajá the Dog, and the Yams." Myth and Knowing: An Introduction to World Mythology. Eds. Scott Leonard and Michael McClure. Boston: MgGraw-Hill, 2004, pp. 257-64. (Reprint)
"The Literature of Empire: Africa." Empire On-Line, Section II: Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire. On-Line Database. Marlborough, U.K.: Adam Matthew Publications Ltd., 2004. Introductory Essay.
"The Good Person: Excerpts from the Yoruba Proverb Treasury." http://libr.unl.edu:2000/yoruba/ Introductory Essay and a selection of Yoruba proverbs digitized and published by the E-text Center at Love Library. 2004.
Yoruba Proverbs (A collection of over 5,000 Yoruba proverbs, with translations, annotations, and introductory discussion). University of Nebraska Press, September 2005.
"Lewis Nkosi: A Commentary Piece." Still Beating the Drum: Critical Perspectives on Lewis Nkosi." Rodopi Cross/Culture 81. Eds. Lindy Stiebel and Liz Gunner. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005, pp. 39-46.
Forthcoming
"African Philosophy: the Conditions of Its Possibility," in a book on The Transfer of Knowledge in Africa. Eds. V. Y. Mudimbe and Bogumil Jewsiewicki.
"African Culture, Technology and the New World Order: Lessons From the Gulf," in the proceedings of the Ohio State University Center for African Studies Symposium on "Culture, Technology and Development in the Third World: Examples and Lessons from Africa."
Articles
"New-Born Child of the Firmament: Yoruba Children's Moonlight Games," Nota Bene VII (1964), 11-17.
"'Yoruba Language Theater Draws Inspiration from Tradition," Africa Report (June, 1970), 32-33.
"Folklore and Yoruba Theater," Research in African Literatures 2, 2 (Fall, 1971), 122-33.
"The Sociology of Sex and Crudity in Yoruba Proverbs," Proverbium 20 (1972), 751-58.
"Western Humanism and African Usage: A Critical Survey of Non-African Responses to African Literature," Issue: A Quarterly Journal of Opinion IV, 4 (Winter, 1974), 9-14.
"Yoruba Wordplay: A Tongue Twister, a Tone Twister, and a Wellerism," Southern Folklore Quarterly 39 (1975), 167-70, with Bernth Lindfors.
"Western Humanism and African Usage," Afriscope (January, 1975) 54-58. Reprint.
"On Misjudging African Literature: Paternalistic Critics Perpetuate a False Image," Atlas World Press Review 22, 7 (July, 1975), 48-49. Excerpt Reprint.
"Obotunde Ijimere, The Phantom of Nigerian Theater," African Studies Review XXII, 1 (April, 1979), 43-50.
"Dissidence and the African Writer: Commitment or Dependency?" African Studies Review XXIV, 1 (March, 1981), 83-98.
"The Pragmatic Humanism of Yoruba Culture," Journal of African Studies 8, 3 (Fall, 1981), 126-32.
"The Mata Kharibu Model and Its Oppositions: Conflicts and Transformations in Cultural Valuation," in The Transformation of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola. Adebayo Oyebade, Ed. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2002, pp. 483-509.
"Socialist Realism and African Knowledge." Tongue and Mother Tongue: African Literature and the Perpetual Quest for Identity, Eds. Pamela J Olúbùnmi Smith and Daniel P. Kunene. Trenton, NJ and Asmara, Eritrea. Africa World Press, 2002, pp. 89-102.
"Telling Africa's Past in Literature: Whose Story Is It Anyway?" In Africanizing Knowledge. Eds. Toyin Falola.and Christian Jennings. New Brunswick & London: Transaction Publishers, 2002, pp. 219-38.
"The Self as Exemplum: African Autobiography as Celebratory Performance of the Self." In African Writers and Their Readers: Essays in Honor of Bernth Lindfors, Vo. II. Eds. Toyin Falola and Barbara Harlow. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2002, pp. 1-25.
Culture and Customs of Zimbabwe. Culture and Customs of Africa Series. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2002.
"Zimbabwe." In Teen Life in Africa. Ed. Toyin Falola. Culture and Customs of Africa Series. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2004, pp. 303-20.
"Àjàpá, Ajá the Dog, and the Yams." Myth and Knowing: An Introduction to World Mythology. Eds. Scott Leonard and Michael McClure. Boston: MgGraw-Hill, 2004, pp. 257-64. (Reprint)
"The Literature of Empire: Africa." Empire On-Line, Section II: Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire. On-Line Database. Marlborough, U.K.: Adam Matthew Publications Ltd., 2004. Introductory Essay.
"The Good Person: Excerpts from the Yoruba Proverb Treasury." http://libr.unl.edu:2000/yoruba/ Introductory Essay and a selection of Yoruba proverbs digitized and published by the E-text Center at Love Library. 2004.
Yoruba Proverbs (A collection of over 5,000 Yoruba proverbs, with translations, annotations, and introductory discussion). University of Nebraska Press, September 2005.
"Lewis Nkosi: A Commentary Piece." Still Beating the Drum: Critical Perspectives on Lewis Nkosi." Rodopi Cross/Culture 81. Eds. Lindy Stiebel and Liz Gunner. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005, pp. 39-46.
Forthcoming
"African Philosophy: the Conditions of Its Possibility," in a book on The Transfer of Knowledge in Africa. Eds. V. Y. Mudimbe and Bogumil Jewsiewicki.
"African Culture, Technology and the New World Order: Lessons From the Gulf," in the proceedings of the Ohio State University Center for African Studies Symposium on "Culture, Technology and Development in the Third World: Examples and Lessons from Africa."
Articles
"New-Born Child of the Firmament: Yoruba Children's Moonlight Games," Nota Bene VII (1964), 11-17.
"'Yoruba Language Theater Draws Inspiration from Tradition," Africa Report (June, 1970), 32-33.
"Folklore and Yoruba Theater," Research in African Literatures 2, 2 (Fall, 1971), 122-33.
"The Sociology of Sex and Crudity in Yoruba Proverbs," Proverbium 20 (1972), 751-58.
"Western Humanism and African Usage: A Critical Survey of Non-African Responses to African Literature," Issue: A Quarterly Journal of Opinion IV, 4 (Winter, 1974), 9-14.
"Yoruba Wordplay: A Tongue Twister, a Tone Twister, and a Wellerism," Southern Folklore Quarterly 39 (1975), 167-70, with Bernth Lindfors.
"Western Humanism and African Usage," Afriscope (January, 1975) 54-58. Reprint.
"On Misjudging African Literature: Paternalistic Critics Perpetuate a False Image," Atlas World Press Review 22, 7 (July, 1975), 48-49. Excerpt Reprint.
"Obotunde Ijimere, The Phantom of Nigerian Theater," African Studies Review XXII, 1 (April, 1979), 43-50.
"Dissidence and the African Writer: Commitment or Dependency?" African Studies Review XXIV, 1 (March, 1981), 83-98.
"The Pragmatic Humanism of Yoruba Culture," Journal of African Studies 8, 3 (Fall, 1981), 126-32.
"Proverbs: Exploration of an African Philosophy of Social
Communication," Ba Shiru, Journal of African Languages and
Literatures 12, 1 (1985), 3-16.
"Chinua Achebe on the Individual in Society," Journal of African Studies 12, 2 (Summer, 1985), 53-65.
"Give Me Drama, Or . . . : The Argument on the Existence of Drama in Traditional Africa," African Studies Review 28, 4 (December, 1985), 28-45.
"Creative Historiography and Critical Determinism in Nigerian Theater," Research in African Literatures 17, 2 (Summer, 1986), 234-51.
"Africa and the Imperative of Philosophy," African Studies Review 30, 1 (March, 1987), 70-100.
"Tortoise Tales and Yoruba Ethos," Research in African Literatures 20, 2 (Summer, 1989), 165-80.
"The Trickster in Contemporary African Folklore," The World & I (April 1990), 625-32.
"African Philosophy: The Conditions of Its Possibility," Sapina Newsletter: A Bulletin of the Society for African Philosophy in North America 3, 1 (Jan-July 1990), 14-45.
"Socialist Realism or African Realism? A Choice of Ancestors," Research in African Literatures. 22, 2 (Summer 1991), 21-40.
"Language, Identity and Social Construction in African Literatures," in Research in African Literatures 23,1 (Spring 1992), 83-94.
"Recouping the African Spirit." Nebraska (Fall 1994), 24-27.
"With Friends Like These . . . A Critique of Pervasive Anti-Africanisms in Current African Studies Epistemology and Methodology." African Studies Review 37,3 (December 1994), 53-77.
"African Philosophy: The Conditions of Its Possibility." SAPINA: A Bulletin of the Society for African Philosophy in North America 10, 2 (1997). Tenth Anniversary Issue: An African Practice of Philosophy, pp. 119-43.
"Monumentality, Scriptocentrism and Other Mismeasures of Man. West Africa Review: 1, 2. http://www.icaap.org/iuicode?101.1.2.16, 2000.
"Discourse on Gender: Historical Contingency and the Ethics of Intellectual Work." West Africa Review: 3, 2 (2002). (www.westafricareview.com)
Forthcoming
"Trading Voices: Transformations in Yoruba Orin Òwe (Proverbial Songs) and Related " afriche & orienti Special Issue on Il potere della voce: forme di comunicazione orale fra tradizione e modernità, Ed. Annalisa Oboe, University of Padua, Italy.
"Lost in Transit: Africa in the Trough of the Black Atlantic." in the Proceedings of the second annual meeting of the Padua Research Group on "Identity Politics, Cosmopolitan Rights and Local Community in a Circumatlantic Context" at the University of Padova, Italy, October 25-28, 2005.
Encyclopaedia Entries
"Duro Ladipo," Encyclopedia Britannica Micropedia 7 (1985), 93.
"Osofisan, Femi." Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century. Vol. 5, Supplement and Index. Eds. Steven R. Serafin and Walter D. Glanze. New York: Continuum, 1993, 463-64.
"Amos Tutuola." Encyclopaedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Eds. Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly. London & New York: Routledge, 1994, 1602-03.
"Festus Iyayi." Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers, Third Series. Volume 157, Dictionary of Literary Biography. Eds. Bernth Lindfors and Richard Sander. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1996, 113-22.
"Amos Tutuola." African Writers. Ed. C. Brian Cox. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997, 865-78.
"African Literature." Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia, 1997.
"Language Use: Language Choice in Writing." The Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa. Ed., John Middleton. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.
"Literature: Anglophone Literature from West Africa." The Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa. Ed., John Middleton. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.
"Proverbs and Riddles." The Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa. Ed., John Middleton. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.
"Tricksters in African Folklore." African Folklore: an Encyclopedia. Eds. Phi
"Chinua Achebe on the Individual in Society," Journal of African Studies 12, 2 (Summer, 1985), 53-65.
"Give Me Drama, Or . . . : The Argument on the Existence of Drama in Traditional Africa," African Studies Review 28, 4 (December, 1985), 28-45.
"Creative Historiography and Critical Determinism in Nigerian Theater," Research in African Literatures 17, 2 (Summer, 1986), 234-51.
"Africa and the Imperative of Philosophy," African Studies Review 30, 1 (March, 1987), 70-100.
"Tortoise Tales and Yoruba Ethos," Research in African Literatures 20, 2 (Summer, 1989), 165-80.
"The Trickster in Contemporary African Folklore," The World & I (April 1990), 625-32.
"African Philosophy: The Conditions of Its Possibility," Sapina Newsletter: A Bulletin of the Society for African Philosophy in North America 3, 1 (Jan-July 1990), 14-45.
"Socialist Realism or African Realism? A Choice of Ancestors," Research in African Literatures. 22, 2 (Summer 1991), 21-40.
"Language, Identity and Social Construction in African Literatures," in Research in African Literatures 23,1 (Spring 1992), 83-94.
"Recouping the African Spirit." Nebraska (Fall 1994), 24-27.
"With Friends Like These . . . A Critique of Pervasive Anti-Africanisms in Current African Studies Epistemology and Methodology." African Studies Review 37,3 (December 1994), 53-77.
"African Philosophy: The Conditions of Its Possibility." SAPINA: A Bulletin of the Society for African Philosophy in North America 10, 2 (1997). Tenth Anniversary Issue: An African Practice of Philosophy, pp. 119-43.
"Monumentality, Scriptocentrism and Other Mismeasures of Man. West Africa Review: 1, 2. http://www.icaap.org/iuicode?101.1.2.16, 2000.
"Discourse on Gender: Historical Contingency and the Ethics of Intellectual Work." West Africa Review: 3, 2 (2002). (www.westafricareview.com)
Forthcoming
"Trading Voices: Transformations in Yoruba Orin Òwe (Proverbial Songs) and Related " afriche & orienti Special Issue on Il potere della voce: forme di comunicazione orale fra tradizione e modernità, Ed. Annalisa Oboe, University of Padua, Italy.
"Lost in Transit: Africa in the Trough of the Black Atlantic." in the Proceedings of the second annual meeting of the Padua Research Group on "Identity Politics, Cosmopolitan Rights and Local Community in a Circumatlantic Context" at the University of Padova, Italy, October 25-28, 2005.
Encyclopaedia Entries
"Duro Ladipo," Encyclopedia Britannica Micropedia 7 (1985), 93.
"Osofisan, Femi." Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century. Vol. 5, Supplement and Index. Eds. Steven R. Serafin and Walter D. Glanze. New York: Continuum, 1993, 463-64.
"Amos Tutuola." Encyclopaedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Eds. Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly. London & New York: Routledge, 1994, 1602-03.
"Festus Iyayi." Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers, Third Series. Volume 157, Dictionary of Literary Biography. Eds. Bernth Lindfors and Richard Sander. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1996, 113-22.
"Amos Tutuola." African Writers. Ed. C. Brian Cox. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997, 865-78.
"African Literature." Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia, 1997.
"Language Use: Language Choice in Writing." The Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa. Ed., John Middleton. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.
"Literature: Anglophone Literature from West Africa." The Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa. Ed., John Middleton. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.
"Proverbs and Riddles." The Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa. Ed., John Middleton. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.
"Tricksters in African Folklore." African Folklore: an Encyclopedia. Eds. Phi
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Toyin Falola
Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin
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Austin, TX 78712-0220
USA
512 475 7224
512 475 7222 (fax)
http://www.toyinfalola.com/
Toyin Falola
Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station
Austin, TX 78712-0220
USA
512 475 7224
512 475 7222 (fax)
http://www.toyinfalola.com/
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KolaT
Oct 7, 2007, 12:48:02 AM10/7/07
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What a loss! What an unmitigated passing of a great icon of our nation-state. May
Olodumare grant you a safe and easy passage into the great beyond. Ase. Thanks for
leaving giant footprints in the sands of time.
-Kolawole Akintola-Thomas
San Francisco, CA
Olodumare grant you a safe and easy passage into the great beyond. Ase. Thanks for
leaving giant footprints in the sands of time.
-Kolawole Akintola-Thomas
San Francisco, CA
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Dr. Samuel Olamijulo
Oct 7, 2007, 5:49:51 AM10/7/07
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Alagba Oyekan Owomoyela ko ni ku akufa lagbara Olodumare.
Oluwa a jowo se emi ni fun Iyawo, Omo, Ebi ati awon Ojulumo ti won fi sile.
Eyin oku a dara o - Amin.
Dokita Samuel Kayode Olamijulo ati Ebi lati Imesi-Ile
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Ojo-Ade, Femi
Oct 7, 2007, 6:55:28 AM10/7/07
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Eleyi ba enia leru o!!!
Ki Eledua gbe Oyekan si afefe rere.
Ire o.
Femi Ojo-Ade
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Ki Eledua gbe Oyekan si afefe rere.
Ire o.
Femi Ojo-Ade
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Subject: Yoruba Affairs - Obituary: Professor Oyekan Owomoyela
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Oct 7, 2007, 9:13:34 AM10/7/07
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Iku doro o mu eni ire lo
Iku sika, o mu eni ayo o
Ojogbon Owomoyela, a fi oyinbo fo bi ojo
di eni airi ayafi ni oju ala
Oyekan, ma jokun, ma je kolo o.
Oun won ba nje lajule orun ni o ba won je o
Eyin re ko nii ba je o
Ise owo re lati gbe Yoruba laruge
Ko se e gbagbe lawujo o.
Sun re, sun re, sun re.
Ropo Sekoni
D Prof Adelugba
Oct 7, 2007, 2:52:02 PM10/7/07
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My dear Prof,
I have just accessed your e-mail and you can not imagine the shock I had, especially at a time when we were putting heads together to decide on a befitting annual prize in his honour now that he is beginning his retirement
I believe those plans will go on but we had hoped he would be present at such events in person. I could not in my wildest dreams have anticipated that he would go so soon
Dear brother, dear Oyekan, we shall miss you. Rest in peace
Dapo Adelugba
P.S
Kindly send a copy of this to Mrs Owomoyela and the family
I look forward to briefs on further details
Dapo
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Henry John Drewal
Oct 7, 2007, 3:57:51 PM10/7/07
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> During his all too brief journey in aye he brought us many Yoruba
> "words of wisdom" -- we thank him for his life and work -- may his
> journey home to orun be smooth and cool -- Ashe! -- IRE O! -- Henry
> Isola Drewal
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jare Ajayi
Oct 7, 2007, 3:18:32 PM10/7/07
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Elders, Colleagues and Associates,
I recall that it was just in the last few months a decision was taken on making an annual award in honour of this distinguished scholar part of the African Conference being hosted yearly at Texas. I recall that the award, spearheaded by Prof Toyin Falola, is to start with the retirement of the respectable African. As Prof Adelugba stated, the hope was that he would be physically around to personally present the award to the winner for a number of years to come. It is a big shock therefore to read of his 'sudden' death.
I join numerous others to mourn him.
My hope and appeal is that works will continue on the planned award - the demise of the honouree notwithstanding. Ojo a jin si'ra, amin.(May the survivors not 'follow' too soon, amen).
Once again, Condolences.
Jare Ajayi
Remi Raji
Oct 7, 2007, 5:52:47 PM10/7/07
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There goes one of the exemplars,
Across the inevitable route...
Now he sheds the heaviness of the market
And keeps his date with his Creator
May the soul of the departed find rest eternal.
Remi
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Joseph Falodun
Oct 7, 2007, 6:05:27 PM10/7/07
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Odaju niku, iku o menikan. Iku to pa eni a n pe, oun naa lo pa eni ti n peni. Professor Oyekan Owomoyela, orun un re o! Ma ba won jokun, ma ma ba won jekolo, oun ti won ba n je lajule orun ni o maa ba won je. The consolation to African scholars is the relevant Yoruba proverb that says: Bonirese ba ko ti o fingba mo, eyi to ti fin o le e parun. E ku ara fera ku enire to lo!
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Subject: Yoruba Affairs - Obituary: Professor Oyekan Owomoyela
Ayotunde Bewaji
Oct 7, 2007, 7:11:43 PM10/7/07
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Eyi se mi ni kayefi o. Eese ewe we? A o ni fi iru eyi san fun ra wa o. Eledua a fun ebi ati ara ni okun ati suuru l'asiko yi o. Ojo a jina si ra won o. Eyi ojulumo, ise ti ojogbon se ku di sise fun wa o. Ire o.
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Oct 8, 2007, 12:33:10 AM10/8/07
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Mo gba'dura ki Olorun ro gbogbo ebi, ara, ore, ati ojulumo ti Ojogbon Owomoyela ti o re'wale asa fi s'aye lo.Ojo a ji'na si'ra o.Amin
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Subject: Yoruba Affairs - Re: Obituary: Professor Oyekan Owomoyela
Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka
Oct 8, 2007, 3:04:27 AM10/8/07
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Ah, O ma se o. Erin wo!
Ki Edumare gbe Ologbe Ojogbon Owomoyela si afefe rere.
Ise rere ti won fi s’ile, ko ni b’aje, yio gbo, yio ni owo l’ehin. Ase.
Our thoughts and prayers with his family. May God sustain them through this period and always. Amen.
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Yiwola Awoyale
Oct 8, 2007, 12:39:57 PM10/8/07
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Somehow, I never had a chance to meet Ojogbon-agba Oyekan Owomoyela in
person, because, for some reasons our paths did not cross in life!
However both his /A Kì í: Yoruba Proscriptive and Prescriptive Proverbs
(1988), and //Yoruba Proverbs (2005)/ in particular, have shown in their
richness of Yoruba language data, the kind of rare scholar that
Ojogbon-agba Owomoyela was. He was very meticulous not only in the
classification and annotation of the proverbs, but much more importantly
in accurately recording the proverbs in the current Yoruba orthography
for posterity. The tones were accurately marked. I am personally
grateful that his works have provided me with an extremely reliable
source of Yoruba language data for a construction of Yoruba language
database. I have always been proud to recommend his data to my
second-language learners of the Yoruba language. He has left behind a
rare gem for us for which we must remain eternally grateful. K'a too ri
erin, o di igbo; k'a too ri efon, o di eyin odan; k'a too ri eye bi
okin-oloja, o di kese. Ojogbon-agba Owomoyela, e seun o. Orun rere o!
Oluwa yoo tu awon ebi ati ara ti e fi sile ninu o!
person, because, for some reasons our paths did not cross in life!
However both his /A Kì í: Yoruba Proscriptive and Prescriptive Proverbs
(1988), and //Yoruba Proverbs (2005)/ in particular, have shown in their
richness of Yoruba language data, the kind of rare scholar that
Ojogbon-agba Owomoyela was. He was very meticulous not only in the
classification and annotation of the proverbs, but much more importantly
in accurately recording the proverbs in the current Yoruba orthography
for posterity. The tones were accurately marked. I am personally
grateful that his works have provided me with an extremely reliable
source of Yoruba language data for a construction of Yoruba language
database. I have always been proud to recommend his data to my
second-language learners of the Yoruba language. He has left behind a
rare gem for us for which we must remain eternally grateful. K'a too ri
erin, o di igbo; k'a too ri efon, o di eyin odan; k'a too ri eye bi
okin-oloja, o di kese. Ojogbon-agba Owomoyela, e seun o. Orun rere o!
Oluwa yoo tu awon ebi ati ara ti e fi sile ninu o!
Yiwola Awoyale
==
Toyin Falola wrote:
> It is with great sadness that I announce the transition of Professor
> Oyekan Owomoyela who died today, October 6, 2007. According to his
> last wish, the only memorial service he would like is one with me and
> the larger Yoruba/Africans at the annual Austin conference. At the
> time of his death, he was completing his manuscript on African
> literature for Columbia.
> *
> *
>
>
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Ayo Bamgbose
Oct 16, 2007, 7:56:10 PM10/16/07
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I join the numerous members of this Group to express my condolences to the
family and friends of the late Professor Oyekan Owomoyela. It is a pity that
he should pass on just at the time that Professor Toyin Falola was planning
to institute an award in his honour.
I remember him very well as a young lecturer at Ibadan in the late sixties
and my last interaction with him was during his sabbatical in Ghana in 1998.
At a dinner I had with him and his wife, he was full of ideas about reaserch
in several aspects of Yoruba literature and culture. He, of course, later
immortalized himself with his monumental work on Yoruba Proverbs. In his
passing on, Nigeria has lost a great scholar. May his soul continue to rest
in peace!
Ayo Bamgbose
family and friends of the late Professor Oyekan Owomoyela. It is a pity that
he should pass on just at the time that Professor Toyin Falola was planning
to institute an award in his honour.
I remember him very well as a young lecturer at Ibadan in the late sixties
and my last interaction with him was during his sabbatical in Ghana in 1998.
At a dinner I had with him and his wife, he was full of ideas about reaserch
in several aspects of Yoruba literature and culture. He, of course, later
immortalized himself with his monumental work on Yoruba Proverbs. In his
passing on, Nigeria has lost a great scholar. May his soul continue to rest
in peace!
Ayo Bamgbose
Akinyemi Akintunde
Nov 28, 2007, 4:31:42 PM11/28/07
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Hello,
I have seen this name a couple of times but unsure if this is the same
Joseph Sola Falodun who left Ife for the US. If you are not, please
pardon me.
Tunde Akinyemi
I have seen this name a couple of times but unsure if this is the same
Joseph Sola Falodun who left Ife for the US. If you are not, please
pardon me.
Tunde Akinyemi
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