Honor for Professor Ademola Dasylva

[Toyin Falola]

AWARD OF  OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION

At the University's 8th Convocation Awards and Recognition Day of Redeemer’s University held  on Tuesday, 6th, September, 2016, Professor Dasylva received one of the  main awards for Outstanding Contributions bestowed on those with stellar records. The idea of the Awards and Recognition Day is to honor some distinguished personalities and worthy development partners who have made highly significant contributions to the establishment and development of the Redeemer's University since inception in 2005. The citation recognizes his "kind prodigious contributions to the growth and sustained development of the University”.

Do please join me in congratulating Professor Dasylva.

[Uyilawa Usuanlele]

My congrats Prof. and more feathers to your cap.

Uyilawa 

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AWARD OF  OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION

At the University's 8th Convocation Awards and Recognition Day of Redeemer’s University held  on Tuesday, 6th, September, 2016, Professor Dasylva received one of the  main awards for Outstanding Contributions bestowed on those with stellar records. The idea of the Awards and Recognition Day is to honor some distinguished personalities and worthy development partners who have made highly significant contributions to the establishment and development of the Redeemer's University since inception in 2005. The citation recognizes his "kind prodigious contributions to the growth and sustained development of the University”.

Do please join me in congratulating Professor Dasylva.

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Professor Dasylva fully earned the accolades. Sacrificial to a fault he gives his best shot uncomplainingly to the task at hand often going beyond the call of duty. Congratulations and here is wishing him many more years of service to humanity. Cheers. A O

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AWARD OF  OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION

At the University's 8th Convocation Awards and Recognition Day of Redeemer’s University held  on Tuesday, 6th, September, 2016, Professor Dasylva received one of the  main awards for Outstanding Contributions bestowed on those with stellar records. The idea of the Awards and Recognition Day is to honor some distinguished personalities and worthy development partners who have made highly significant contributions to the establishment and development of the Redeemer's University since inception in 2005. The citation recognizes his "kind prodigious contributions to the growth and sustained development of the University”.

Do please join me in congratulating Professor Dasylva.

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[Michael Afolayan]

"Have you seen a man diligent in service?" the wise monarch asked, "He shall stand before kings, and not before mean (ordinary) men" (Pr. 22:29). 

 

My greatest congratulations to Professor Ademola Dasylva for this prestigious recognition! I am not one bit surprised; this is a diligent man - pure and simple! Although our paths have not crossed physically, it has always been as if I've known him all my life. I have heard and read of so many beneficial services this man has indefatigably rendered to his students - graduates, undergraduates and alumni as well as his meaningful contribution to our various fora, particularly the USA-Africa and the Yoruba Affairs discussion groups.  A deep thinker in his own right, you only need to read and think about any of this mega intellectual's writings and you would have a firsthand taste of a man endowed with nothing but relentless pursuits of excellence and wisdom.  I have had private conversations with Dr. Dasylva online and on the phone and such encounters have always added an extra "something" to my inquisitive life. Were it not for a health glitch I incurred a few months ago that stunted my mobility in Nigeria, I would have been an ultimate beneficiary of his family's lavish welcome in their home. I have heard and read of his volunteerism not only at the University of Ibadan, but also at Redeemer's and Leeds Universities. May God bless you! "More-to-come" is the sound of the Yoruba gun. Keep doing what you are doing, brother, and the Rewarder of those who do good things will always smile at you. 

 

Again, congratulations!

 

Michael O. Afolayan

[Adigun Agbaje]

A most worthy award to a most-deserving academic of the old school in our own generation. Congrats, my brother. Adigun.

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[Michael Afolayan]

"Have you seen a man diligent in service?" the wise monarch asked, "He shall stand before kings, and not before mean (ordinary) men" (Pr. 22:29). 

 

My greatest congratulations to Professor Ademola Dasylva for this prestigious recognition! I am not one bit surprised; this is a diligent man - pure and simple! Although our paths have not crossed physically, it has always been as if I've known him all my life. I have heard and read of so many beneficial services this man has indefatigably rendered to his students - graduates, undergraduates and alumni as well as his meaningful contribution to our various fora, particularly the USA-Africa and the Yoruba Affairs discussion groups.  A deep thinker in his own right, you only need to read and think about any of this mega intellectual's writings and you would have a firsthand taste of a man endowed with nothing but relentless pursuits of excellence and wisdom.  I have had private conversations with Dr. Dasylva online and on the phone and such encounters have always added an extra "something" to my inquisitive life. Were it not for a health glitch I incurred a few months ago that stunted my mobility in Nigeria, I would have been an ultimate beneficiary of his family's lavish welcome in their home. I have heard and read of his volunteerism not only at the University of Ibadan, but also at Redeemer's and Leeds Universities. May God bless you! "More-to-come" is the sound of the Yoruba gun. Keep doing what you are doing, brother, and the Rewarder of those who do good things will always smile at you. 

 

Again, congratulations!

 

Michael O. Afolayan

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[Akin Alao]

May I join other friends and colleagues to congratulate Prof. Ademola Dasylva on this richly deserved recognition. Prof. Dasylva is always very passionate about whatever cause he is pursuing and that alone stands him out in any crowd, small or huge.

Again, I rejoice with you and wish you many more of such awards and recognition.

Akin Alao

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[Nimi Wariboko]

The news just made my day. Congratulations, Professor Dasylva. For those of you that has not met Prof. Dasylva, let me advise you to put meeting him on your bucket list. Do not leave this earth without meeting him. He is a great soul; his humility, friendliness, and exuberant joy will add fillips to your life. His life is an exemplary one. He is a soul that gives and gives generously to all. A day with him might move your soul and mouth to involuntarily sing the Magnificat: God still creates and nurtures people like him in Nigeria. My brother, congratulations.

 

 

Nimi Wariboko

Boston University

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Professor Dasylva fully earned the accolades. Sacrificial to a fault he gives his best shot uncomplainingly to the task at hand often going beyond the call of duty. Congratulations and here is wishing him many more years of service to humanity. Cheers. A O

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AWARD OF  OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION

At the University's 8th Convocation Awards and Recognition Day of Redeemer’s University held  on Tuesday, 6th, September, 2016, Professor Dasylva received one of the  main awards for Outstanding Contributions bestowed on those with stellar records. The idea of the Awards and Recognition Day is to honor some distinguished personalities and worthy development partners who have made highly significant contributions to the establishment and development of the Redeemer's University since inception in 2005. The citation recognizes his "kind prodigious contributions to the growth and sustained development of the University”.

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[Ezinwanyi Adam]

A hearty congratulation to a man who is always willing to impart others' lives. According to William  Lyon Phelps, "the final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him" and I must say that Prof. Ademola O. Dasylva is one of such gentlemen.
It was an honour well-deserved. Well done, sir.

Ezinwanyi Adam

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Professor Dasylva fully earned the accolades. Sacrificial to a fault he gives his best shot uncomplainingly to the task at hand often going beyond the call of duty. Congratulations and here is wishing him many more years of service to humanity. Cheers. A O

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AWARD OF  OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION

At the University's 8th Convocation Awards and Recognition Day of Redeemer’s University held  on Tuesday, 6th, September, 2016, Professor Dasylva received one of the  main awards for Outstanding Contributions bestowed on those with stellar records. The idea of the Awards and Recognition Day is to honor some distinguished personalities and worthy development partners who have made highly significant contributions to the establishment and development of the Redeemer's University since inception in 2005. The citation recognizes his "kind prodigious contributions to the growth and sustained development of the University”.

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[dijiaina]

I acknowledge Prof Dasylva's selfless contribution to scholarship and intellectual impact at the Redeemer University. Best way to end the week.

Ayandiji Daniel AINA, PhD

Professor of Political Science &

Vice Chancellor,

Caleb University,

Imota, Lagos State,

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[Dele Layiwola]

Dear Prof Dasylva:

Heartiest congratulations on this award. May your shadows lengthen IJMN.

Bravo,

Dele Layiwola

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I congratulate Prof Dasylva on this well-deserved award. This is just the beginning. Your best is yet to come.

Tunde Babawale

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From: Toyin Falola Sent: Friday, 9 September 2016 2:45 PM To: dialogue; Yoruba Affairs Reply To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Honor for Professor Ademola Dasylva

AWARD OF  OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION

At the University's 8th Convocation Awards and Recognition Day of Redeemer’s University held  on Tuesday, 6th, September, 2016, Professor Dasylva received one of the  main awards for Outstanding Contributions bestowed on those with stellar records. The idea of the Awards and Recognition Day is to honor some distinguished personalities and worthy development partners who have made highly significant contributions to the establishment and development of the Redeemer's University since inception in 2005. The citation recognizes his "kind prodigious contributions to the growth and sustained development of the University”.

Do please join me in congratulating Professor Dasylva.

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[Vik Bahl]

Congratulations to the distinguished Professor Daslylva!

Vik

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[Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso]

Mighty congratulations to you, Prof Dasylva! A God-fearing, principled intellectual, Your stellar reputation precedes you and it is fitting that your contributions to humanity are recognised in this way. I have learnt so much from you in the short time of interaction online, and I believe that even greater recognitions await you. More blessings sir.
Jumoke

[aoye...@comcast.net]

Dear Prof. Dasylva,

Hearty congratulations! This is a recognition of your selfless and outstanding service to the academy and commitment to excellence. Very well-deserved! I am confident that many more accolades will come your way.

Best wishes,

Adebayo Oyebade

[Segun Ogungbemi]

Congratulations my good friend. You are a quiet and silent achiever. You make a lot of sacrifice everywhere you are called to serve humanity. I tell you what, the Irunmole take note. When the time for Olodumare to reward you came he caused them to sleep so that none among them would claim the source and authority that gave you the award. 

Yemoja says many more are coming your way this year. Aase Edumare. 

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[Segun Ogungbemi]

Congratulations my good friend. You are a quiet and silent achiever. You make a lot of sacrifice for us and the Irunmole take note. When the time for Olodumare to reward you came he caused them to sleep so that none among them would claim the source and authority that gave you the award. 

Yemoja says many more are coming your way this year. Aase Edumare. 

SO

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[Bola Dauda]

Please enjoy it all, my friend. There is no word to express how much you and your good works, humility and cheeky mischiefs are appreciated and recognised. Although you are my old enemy, I want to assure you that all the people who have sent you messages truly mean the letters and spirits of their congratulatory messages. We all love and appreciate YOU! Again, Congratulations and all the best for the future. Bola Dauda and family.

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On Sep 10, 2016 4:06 AM, Ademola Dasylva <dasy...@gmail.com> wrote:

I cannot thank USAAFRICADIALOGUE and Yoruba Affairs twin-family enough for your love, prayers and encouragement. So overwhelming that I blushed several times over. It is amazing and humbling to see, feel and know the extent of being genuinely loved by the best of good people and great minds like you. To be candid, I hardly felt noticed in my life, except now, through your individual encomium. I have always simply lived my normal life. So one can imagine the way I felt, and still feel, as I read through the chain of accolades! I am encouraged to do more for as long as I live, to the glory of God. 

May God, the Author of all good things, and bestows honor, be the center of your lives and homes! 

I thank the management of Redeemer's University for the Award, and I appreciate the University of Ibadan which made me the pioneer recipient of similar Award in the institution, in 2012. Thank you all.

 E se pupo.

Ademola O. Dasylva‎.

[Ademola Dasylva]

[Laolu Akande]

Since his days at OSCAS where he taught us Literature, and was our Staff Adviser at the Press Club in the mid eighties, Prof Dasylva has always been a diligent teacher, selfless and exemplary. On behalf of all his old students at Ile Ife, this is congratulating a noble man and worthy teacher. E ku orire o!

Laolu A

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[oluyemisi Bamgbose]

Professor Dasylva. Well deserved award. In the University of Ibadan we are so proud of u. You are also a pride to many others. Congratulations. 

Professor Oluyemisi Bamgbose

Faculty of law. UI

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Congratulations my good friend. You are a quiet and silent achiever. You make a lot of sacrifice for us and the Irunmole take note. When the time for Olodumare to reward you came he caused them to sleep so that none among them would claim the source and authority that gave you the award. 

Yemoja says many more are coming your way this year. Aase Edumare. 

SO

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Dear Prof. Dasylva,

Hearty congratulations! This is a recognition of your selfless and outstanding service to the academy and commitment to excellence. Very well-deserved! I am confident that many more accolades will come your way.

Best wishes,

Adebayo Oyebade

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[Osuntokun]

May I join several others in  congratulating  Ademola for the recognition of his immense contribution to the academic growth and development of the Redeemer's university . I am a witness to your devotion and commitment to the task of making the university one of the best in Nigeria .  A university bearing the name of the Redeemer deserves no less a commitment . Our Redeemer is not a debtor , he will repay you a hundred fold . I was not able to witness the conferment of the  honor  because I was out of the country but I can assure you that you have my very best wishes always. .

Regards,

Akinjde Osuntokun, Ph.D OON FNAL FHSN

Professor Emeritus of History and International Relations

Bapitan of Oyo

[Osuntokun]

This is to join many others in congratulating Toyin for another addition to the string of academic honors and recognitions and encomiums showered on him in recent times .A prophet is without honor in his own country . Perhaps our people will one day see the light and realize that light can not be covered because it will shine through whatever it is covered with . Water does not dry in the hole of a crab your honors will never end . 

Regards,

Akinjde Osuntokun, Ph.D OON FNAL FHSN

Professor Emeritus of History and International Relations

Bapitan of Oyo

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[Mark Osama Ighile]

As someone who has enjoyed the privilege of being taught by Prof Dasylva in the late 1980s at the University of Ibadan, i can boldly say that he merits any outstanding contributions award from any institution in any part of the globe. For someone like me, who was a teaching staff at Rexeemer's University in 2013 when Prof Ademola Dasylva came for his sabbatical at our department, the department of English...the root platform of this award, i believe i am fully qualified and professionally audacious enough to pontificate on the appropriateness of this recognition: Within six months of Professor Dasylva's sojourn at the University, he transforned the Literature Unit of my department and made it the toast of the institution. He then moved on to the GST Unit, and from the bank of his experience as University of Ibadan former Director of GST, he turned the Unit into one of the best technologically powered GST directiorates in any University in Nigeria and beyond. In conjunction with other stakeholders, Prof Dasylva facilitated the commencement of the Departments of Philosphy, French and Christian Religious Studies, and yours sincerely, because of my published interest in Christan religious scholarship, in addition to literature and folklore, was asked to pioneer the CRS Dept. We are talking about a distingushed scholar and seasoned administrator who in 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 technically served as chief consultant to the Vice Chancellor on virtually every major academic issue. When it became expedient for him to coordinate the college as dean, he took up the challenge with stoic philosophical calmness and Christ-like confidence, not minding whose ox was gored.When he needed to extend his leave by some months for the sake of Redeemer's University, in spite of all the implications, he did not hesitate. Profesor Dasylva would seize every opprtunity to publicise and create collaborative plaforms for the institution. Examples of such efforts are too numerous to mention. I was not told, i did not read them from the papers or gadgets, i was there live! I was his 'Special Personal Assistant and Confidant' when all these monumental achievements were being mooted, processed and activated by him. At the Redemption Camp, his office was adjacent to mine. I noticed that most of the time, when i would be leaving the office at 10.00pm, his office lights would still be on. A pumping engine of ideas, morals, ethical and academic standards. Do i need to state the obvious, that the Toyin Falola international conference that took place at Redeemer's University Ede earlier in the year was entirely the concept and construct of Professor Ademola Omobewaji Dasylva?
I would have been mortally surprised if the Redeemer's University's Oustanding Contributions Award had not gone to him. How do you reward a man who was chairman of several sensitive committees, head of the literature Unit, ditector of the GST Unit and dean of the college, all in one and a half years of sabbatical leave?
If i were still at Redeemer's University i would certainly have read his citation at the award night, for obvious reasons. This short piece therfore, serves as my humble addition to the citation read. I celebrate you, my mentor,for making us proud, as usual!

Mark Osama Ighile Ph.D (Ibadan)
Director, Academic Planning
Benson Idahosa University &
Rector, Benson Idahosa
School of Basic & Applied Studies.

[Ibigbolade Aderibigbe]

Congratulations my brother!!! many more laurels to come.

Aderibigbe

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Uyilawa Usuanlele <big...@hotmail.com> wrote:

My congrats Prof. and more feathers to your cap.

Uyilawa 

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AWARD OF  OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION

At the University's 8th Convocation Awards and Recognition Day of Redeemer’s University held  on Tuesday, 6th, September, 2016, Professor Dasylva received one of the  main awards for Outstanding Contributions bestowed on those with stellar records. The idea of the Awards and Recognition Day is to honor some distinguished personalities and worthy development partners who have made highly significant contributions to the establishment and development of the Redeemer's University since inception in 2005. The citation recognizes his "kind prodigious contributions to the growth and sustained development of the University”.

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[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

Great, great congratulations, Professor Ademola Dasylva.

My experience of him is of a courageous and uncompromising scholar, terribly demanding.

thanks

toyin

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[H O]

For me an award given to a scholar is nothing but an attempt by the giver to express its appreciation for the noble and stellar qualities seen in the receiver; for we can only appreciate what we can see. But what about thousands of such other qualities we cannot see. I guess this is true of this award to Professor Dasylva by Redeemer's University, our Senior Colleague in the Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan. ear Prof, I congratulate you even as I pray for greater recognition for you from Him in whose service you are constantly on "call'. 

 

Oladosu A. Afis

Professor of Middle Eastern, North African and Cultural Studies

Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies,

University of Ibadan,

Ibadan, Nigeria.

“The best of princes is he who visits scholars.”
- Jalal al-Din Rumi, 13th century Persian Sufi poet

On Saturday, September 10, 2016 6:57 PM, Ibigbolade Aderibigbe <gbolaade....@gmail.com> wrote:

Congratulations my brother!!! many more laurels to come.

Aderibigbe

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Uyilawa Usuanlele <big...@hotmail.com> wrote:

My congrats Prof. and more feathers to your cap.

Uyilawa 

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[Emeagwali, Gloria (History)]

Sorry to be a bit late but you have always been a great support and I won't miss the opportunity to congratulate you. Well done.

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
History Department
CCSU. New Britain. CT 06050
africahistory.net

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[Ademola Dasylva]

My sister Gloria, thanks a heap for the encouragement and support, always. I am very grateful, and appreciate your rich intervention on this Listserv all the time‎. Keep up the good work.

Cheers,

Ademola O. Dasylva
‎

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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Honor for Professor Ademola Dasylva

[Awosika Itunu]

Warm greetings and Big Congratulations to my very Dear 'Oga' Prof
Dasylva on this great honor..... I am so happy for you Sir, and many
more will still roll in recognition of your diligence, dedication and
forthrightness in doing your best all the time.

Bravo!!!

Itunu Awosika


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[Ademola Dasylva]

Thanks a heap for your encouragement and support all the time.  I appreciate your rich and wonderful  works. Keep up the spirit.
 Again, I am indeed very grateful.
Cheers,

Ademola O. Dasylva, Ph.D
Professor of African & Oral Literature,
Department of English,
Coordinator, Ibadan Cultural Studies Group(ICSG)
Convener & Board Chair, TOFAC (International),
Room 68, Faculty of Arts,
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

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