Professor Ayo Olukotun, Pioneer Chair, Oba Sir Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair in Governance

[Toyin Falola]

Professor Ayo Olukotun, Pioneer Chair, Oba Sir Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair in Governance

 

 

It has been announced by the Olabisi Onabanjo University at Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria, that Professor Ayo Olukotun is to occupy the newly created Oba Adetona Chair. The announcement clearly delineated the objectives of the new academic Chair as following:

 

(i)            Initiate and execute researches that have the capacity of proffering solutions to contemporary challenges and issues of governance at the local and global levels.

 

(ii)          Promote scholarship, rigorous research activities and opportunities for collaboration with scholars and institutions committed to issues of governance.

 

(iii)         Serve as springboard for attracting quality staff and students to the Department of Political Science through research output.

 

 

In view of his distinguished professorial and intellectual backgrounds, Professor Olukotun is a perfect fit for the honor, as he is a scholar who will energize the Olabisi Onabanjo University’s intellectual community as well as to provide reasonable interventions in critical moments and, in the process, analyze the complex ways in which contemporary education is aligned with politics and development.

 

 Axiomatically, it is not an exaggeration to underscore that Professor Olukotun’s garment is a string of pockets, each serving as a container of contents of stellar significance. There are, indeed, those on politics, governance, democracy, institutions and all those listed in the aforementioned objectives. Most certainly, there is no need to elaborate on these totemic accolades. However, what is key and at the very core of the garment and its pockets is the overall mindset that connects a moral economy to a humanitarian order when it comes to Professor Olukotun. Exemplifying the foregoing is the relentlessness of his weekly pieces on one aspect or another of the character of the Nigerian nation.

 

 Clearly, the honoree’s moral economy has been connected to a moral compass and its community, via his own long list of recipients of his weekly bags of words, coupled with  our own  megaphone known as the USA-Africa Dialogue, the  alternative Internet site that further broadcasts them far and wide. In totality, Professor Olukotun  has created a popular moral movement that generates humanistic-cum-ethical  ideas about the state of our being, our nationhood, our future. Without any shade of doubt, he is our leader, and it is befitting that the academy has recognized him transparently. We salute this decision and, in our own way, we publicly honor Professor Olukotun’s brilliance and his sense of intellectual purpose.

 

With Professor Olukotun serving as the first occupant of the Oba Adetona Chair, I am more than assured that he will be a pathfinder, creating a new junction between the ideals of this great university and the humanistic concerns about the future of humanity in general. Furthermore, I am optimistic that new norms will congeal around him to serve as a glue that will bring together activists of the Left with pragmatists of the Right, without the exclusion of cultural jammers, with the overall purpose of  discussing the interests, expectations and, above all, the contributions of citizenship. History, politics and nature, in the process, will spell out the structural changes we need in our humanistic conditions.

 

In appointing Professor Olukotun to this Chair, the Olabisi Onabanjo University has distinguished itself with a clear statement: that scholarship and humanitarian activism is, symbolically, a Siamese  Twin that is needed on a serious campus to redefine our intellectual goals, retool our academic politics, and re-generate profound ideas to benefit academia and practical policies. In this important framework, the generous Oba Adetona and the gifted Professor Olukotun are agents of transformation to create a new space to promote and, in the final analysis, to enforce a new national scholarly ethos as well as orientation, coupled with stellar humanitarian ethics.

 

As colleagues, who admire high quality accmplishments of other colleagues, do please join me in saluting as well congratulating Professor Olukotun and, in unison, joyously exclaim loudly: this is the day that Olabisi Onabanjo University has made, and we shall rejoice in it!

 

Toyin Falola, November 1, 2016

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[Olayinka Agbetuyi]

We felicitate with Prefessor Olukotun and seize this opportunity to call on kindred forward looking traditional rulers to follow Oba Adetona's sterling progressive example.

What many may not know is that contrary to what leftism advanced in the heydays of socialism, the idea of universities was established and forstered first and foremost by the European royal families to grow the idea of just governance in princes and princesses of the royal household. 

On top of this noble idea was grafted the leftist ideas of royal families as retrogades and parasites!

HRH

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[Assensoh, Akwasi B.]

SIR Toyin:

 

As usual, this is an excellent and moving statement from you! Many thanks for bringing the important information to our attention, as Professor Olukotun deserves such a stellar honor! Congratulations to him, as we as well wish him a lot more grease on/to his elbow!

 

A.B. Assensoh.

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[ayandiji daniel]

Congratulations to Prof Olukotun. This is an honour well deserved. We will be glad to work with you as you set the pace in this new capacity.

 

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[Moses Ebe Ochonu]

Congratulations go to the erudite Professor Olukotun on this well-deserved honor. As an interested if irregular reader of his weekly column, I can testify to the quality of his mind and to his analytical rigor. It was a smart move for the University to appoint such a brilliant scholar-intellectual to the Adetona Chair.

Let me use this happy occasion as a point of contact (in pentecostal speak) to raise the question of why there are so few endowed chairs in Nigerian/African universities? I hope other universities with emulate OOU Ago Iwoye.

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I congratulate Prof Ayo Olukotun on this significant accomplishment. A man of letters and deep reflections, Prof olukotun as a pathfinder a‎nd academic leader will bring his intellectual prowess to bear on  this assignment and the Oba Adetona Professorial Chair in Governance will stand to benefit from his rich experience and his immense intellectual stature.

Tunde Babawale

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[Ademola Dasylva]

Professor Ayo Olukotun, Agba Ojogbon! I join numerous friends, colleagues and well wishers to congratulate you on this well deserved appointment. A "round peg in a round hole", no doubt, as you will surely bring to bear your steller intellection both on academic and public issues, journalistic excellence, creativeness, imaginativeness and objectivity in running effectively your onerous but equally exciting assignments. May God be with you for unprecedented achievements.
Cheers,

Ademola Omobewaji Dasylva.

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[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

Magnificent summation by Toyin Falola.

Great congrats to Professor Olukotun.

toyin

On 1 November 2016 at 18:51, Assensoh, Akwasi B. <aass...@indiana.edu> wrote:

SIR Toyin:

 

As usual, this is an excellent and moving statement from you! Many thanks for bringing the important information to our attention, as Professor Olukotun deserves such a stellar honor! Congratulations to him, as we as well wish him a lot more grease on/to his elbow!

 

A.B. Assensoh.

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[Tade Aina]

Congratulations my dear brother.

So well deserved.

Best,

Tade Aina.

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On Nov 1, 2016, at 10:53 PM, banji oyeyinka <boye...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Dearest Ayo,

So well deserved, congratulations!!!!! More work for you but more strength to you!

I rejoice with you.

Kindest

Banji

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On 2 Nov 2016, at 03:59, John Ayotunde Bewaji <tunde....@gmail.com> wrote:

Ojogbon Agba Olukotun,

This is great news, of a well deserved appointment, and am sure my old University made the right choice. In any case, with Madam Ojogbon Kofeso Ebun Oduwole in a top position at the University, one can only continue to expect great things.

May your shadows continue to grow long, and may this be a new salutary trend in Nigerian University System.

Ire o.

Tunde.

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Subject: Re: Professor Ayo Olukotun, Pioneer Chair, Oba Sir Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair in Governance

Toyin, (and Ayo!!!)

Thanks Toyin, for ensuring that Ayo is deservedly celebrated for this recognition. But Ayo must understand why I have those exclamation marks with his name above. Well, it's his well-known care-free disposition to things material (this is anything but material, though), plus an un-usual capacity to literally forget to mention that which is outstanding about himself. That trait was there when he was our Students' Union 'Presido' in the early '70s - always the 'rough-and-ready', but highly thoughtful idea/action leader, with hardly the slightest concern for any airs or circumstance attaching to his role. Intellect accompanied by self-effacing humility? He knows why I'm writing all this. 

Just last Sunday, the very day before the announcement, Ayo and I literally 'talked and talked' (one hour or a little more??), reminiscing over the radical (mostly Marxist/leftist) Professors and lecturers who had inspired us at Ife in the '70s, and how it somehow feels (if you see how things have gone against our brightest hopes from that time) that all that inspired energy and hope burning in our belly may have been dashed. We spoke - both seriously and in self-deprecating humour - about how the much touted 'impending CRISIS of the Nigerian bourgeouisie . . ' (which radical students tended to interprete as their 'internal contradictions' and ultimate failure - VERY SOON) has thus far failed to materialise; how, in fact, the 'bourgeouisie' (whoever they are) seemed to have done VERY WELL since then, in capturing power, capital (our commonwealth) and the machinery of public governance - thank you very much!!, etc. And we played around with a couple new ideas about how we might ensure the next generation doesn't also inherit our frustration and sense of emptiness on the collective-public-space front, etc. 

With this development, Ayo has just been given a platform that provides a rare opportunity to help our country in the urgent task of reconstituting its infrastructure and institutions of the mind, especially around the challenges and opportunities of developmental governance (integrity in service, commitment and rigour in effort, a strong sense of the supremacy of the shared/public space and cause (of course, with adequate respect for the 'sacred', private space of the individual). It's even nicer that Ayo will have an opportunity to more directly influence/enhance the worldview and public-good orientation of our youth (including, by the way, anyone on this group who may still, like me, be among Nigeria's youthful 'leaders of tomorrow!!).

In that long conversation, Ayo did not for a minute mention the honour nearly at his door (I'm sure, already there, - since he would have had the Chair appointment and day of announcement cleared with him as at when we talked our marathon). Again, humility in the service of great intellect!!

My special plea, Ayo. Please do not let anyone place any bogus, out-sized door-plaque on your Professorial Chair office door. Let the modesty play on. A small 'good-example' anecdote to underscore the plea. Years back, my wife and I went visiting our son who had then just started studies in something called 'Part 3 Mathematics' in Cambridge. I learnt it was a course/skill area used in Theoretical Physics, etc. (I can't write a line on that subject!!). While there, I asked my son to take us to the office of the wheel-chair-bound maths/physics genius, Stephen Hawkins, who I knew occupied the Lucasian Chair of Physics and Maths, a Chair first occupied by Isaac Newton. He obliged, and the great man's door sign was small, exactly same-size, same scripting as those of the other Profs on that floor. It struck me as modesty in the service of rare intellectual latitude. Has anyone noticed that if our Governors attend an event, their chairs - de-rigueur - have to be bigger and most (often distastefully) lavishly adorned than the other VIP's chairs? Oh, the Dep. Gov's one is the next bigger and bogus, and may be, then, the ones for the Commissioners, etc - and then regular ones for Mrs&Mrs Everybody Else. Why not just a good, standard FUNCTIONALLY comfortable chair for everyone? This is one of those areas (generically speaking) where we need some society-wide 'growing-up' mind process. So, Ayo, part of your challenge with this Chair is (however modest the results) in trying to help this country trim the boundaries and gestures of excesses and self-indulgence by power holders and leaders. Buhari provided a lovely example over last weekend at his daughter's wedding.

Congrats, Prof. Ayo Olukotun

Bolaji

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Subject: FW: Professor Ayo Olukotun, Pioneer Chair, Oba Sir Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair in Governance

From: Ayo Banjo <profay...@yahoo.com>
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Date: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at 7:12 PM
To: Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: Professor Ayo Olukotun, Pioneer Chair, Oba Sir Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair in Governance

Hello Toyin,

Well dpoken!

Ayo Banjo

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On Tue, 1 Nov, 2016 at 18:34, Toyin Falola

[Jibrin Ibrahim]

Ayo don't mind Bolaji, get a mighty SIGN and warm congratulations

Jibo

Professor Jibrin Ibrahim

Senior Fellow

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On 2 November 2016 at 10:49, ayo_olukotun via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

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From: Bolaji Ogunseye <eri...@yahoo.com>

Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 09:21:15 +0000 (UTC)

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Subject: Re: Professor Ayo Olukotun, Pioneer Chair, Oba Sir Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair in Governance

Toyin, (and Ayo!!!)

Thanks Toyin, for ensuring that Ayo is deservedly celebrated for this recognition. But Ayo must understand why I have those exclamation marks with his name above. Well, it's his well-known care-free disposition to things material (this is anything but material, though), plus an un-usual capacity to literally forget to mention that which is outstanding about himself. That trait was there when he was our Students' Union 'Presido' in the early '70s - always the 'rough-and-ready', but highly thoughtful idea/action leader, with hardly the slightest concern for any airs or circumstance attaching to his role. Intellect accompanied by self-effacing humility? He knows why I'm writing all this. 

Just last Sunday, the very day before the announcement, Ayo and I literally 'talked and talked' (one hour or a little more??), reminiscing over the radical (mostly Marxist/leftist) Professors and lecturers who had inspired us at Ife in the '70s, and how it somehow feels (if you see how things have gone against our brightest hopes from that time) that all that inspired energy and hope burning in our belly may have been dashed. We spoke - both seriously and in self-deprecating humour - about how the much touted 'impending CRISIS of the Nigerian bourgeouisie . . ' (which radical students tended to interprete as their 'internal contradictions' and ultimate failure - VERY SOON) has thus far failed to materialise; how, in fact, the 'bourgeouisie' (whoever they are) seemed to have done VERY WELL since then, in capturing power, capital (our commonwealth) and the machinery of public governance - thank you very much!!, etc. And we played around with a couple new ideas about how we might ensure the next generation doesn't also inherit our frustration and sense of emptiness on the collective-public-space front, etc. 

With this development, Ayo has just been given a platform that provides a rare opportunity to help our country in the urgent task of reconstituting its infrastructure and institutions of the mind, especially around the challenges and opportunities of developmental governance (integrity in service, commitment and rigour in effort, a strong sense of the supremacy of the shared/public space and cause (of course, with adequate respect for the 'sacred', private space of the individual). It's even nicer that Ayo will have an opportunity to more directly influence/enhance the worldview and public-good orientation of our youth (including, by the way, anyone on this group who may still, like me, be among Nigeria's youthful 'leaders of tomorrow!!).

In that long conversation, Ayo did not for a minute mention the honour nearly at his door (I'm sure, already there, - since he would have had the Chair appointment and day of announcement cleared with him as at when we talked our marathon). Again, humility in the service of great intellect!!

My special plea, Ayo. Please do not let anyone place any bogus, out-sized door-plaque on your Professorial Chair office door. Let the modesty play on. A small 'good-example' anecdote to underscore the plea. Years back, my wife and I went visiting our son who had then just started studies in something called 'Part 3 Mathematics' in Cambridge. I learnt it was a course/skill area used in Theoretical Physics, etc. (I can't write a line on that subject!!). While there, I asked my son to take us to the office of the wheel-chair-bound maths/physics genius, Stephen Hawkins, who I knew occupied the Lucasian Chair of Physics and Maths, a Chair first occupied by Isaac Newton. He obliged, and the great man's door sign was small, exactly same-size, same scripting as those of the other Profs on that floor. It struck me as modesty in the service of rare intellectual latitude. Has anyone noticed that if our Governors attend an event, their chairs - de-rigueur - have to be bigger and most (often distastefully) lavishly adorned than the other VIP's chairs? Oh, the Dep. Gov's one is the next bigger and bogus, and may be, then, the ones for the Commissioners, etc - and then regular ones for Mrs&Mrs Everybody Else. Why not just a good, standard FUNCTIONALLY comfortable chair for everyone? This is one of those areas (generically speaking) where we need some society-wide 'growing-up' mind process. So, Ayo, part of your challenge with this Chair is (however modest the results) in trying to help this country trim the boundaries and gestures of excesses and self-indulgence by power holders and leaders. Buhari provided a lovely example over last weekend at his daughter's wedding.

Congrats, Prof. Ayo Olukotun

Bolaji

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Subject: Re: Fw: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Professor Ayo Olukotun, Pioneer Chair, Oba Sir Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair in Governance

I join the cerebral collectives to celebrate your appointment as the pioneer Chair, Oba Sir Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair in Governance by the  Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria. Having been your close associate for about three decades now, even before Yemi Ogunbiyi caravaned us to Daily Times in the early 1990s, I am proud to identify with your achievements and fame, the same way I identified with you when you were a "peripathetic" (sorry, peripatetic) "acadeditorialist" (mouthful?) with the newspaper.  Remember when you used to shuttle between Lasu Ojo and Agidingbi wondering whether your future was in journalism or academics,  or in their combined honours. 

My oga, because we are wearing the same shoes, I know that with this appointment,  Providence seems to be confirming the yoruba saying that "ori lo mo ise asela". Therefore, your situation today is crucially instructive to the resolution of the dilemma I am facing today-am I a journalist or an academic?  Or am I both "in spirit and in truth"? O ku sowo OLORUN.

I also use this opportunity to doff my hat for my teacher, Toyin Falola, for that beautiful seminal eulogy he wrote on you.

Congratulations Prof.

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Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 02:52:24 +0000 (UTC)

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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Professor Ayo Olukotun, Pioneer Chair, Oba Sir Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair in Governance

A well deserved appointment of a highly principled, knowledgeable and sound professor of integrity - someone I have known since we were both students at great Ife. Someone who has never departed his good ways of serving humanity.  One of the most patriotic and dutiful Nigerians that I know.  The University has made a good choice - I congratulate both Professor Olukotun and the University. And wish them all the very best.

Professor F Okonofua, VC University of Medical Sciences

On Tuesday, 1 November 2016, 23:19, Femi Osofisan <okinba...@yahoo.com> wrote:

This is great news indeed, & Toyin has said everything we need to say. Congratulations, aburo, & I pray you never disappoint our expectations.
FEMI OSOFISAN.

On 1 Nov 2016 22:53, banji oyeyinka <boye...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Dearest Ayo,

So well deserved, congratulations!!!!! More work for you but more strength to you!

I rejoice with you.

Kindest

Banji

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On 2 Nov 2016, at 03:59, John Ayotunde Bewaji <tunde....@gmail.com> wrote:

Ojogbon Agba Olukotun,

This is great news, of a well deserved appointment, and am sure my old University made the right choice. In any case, with Madam Ojogbon Kofeso Ebun Oduwole in a top position at the University, one can only continue to expect great things.

May your shadows continue to grow long, and may this be a new salutary trend in Nigerian University System.

Ire o.

Tunde.

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Subject: Re: Professor Ayo Olukotun, Pioneer Chair, Oba Sir Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair in Governance

Congratulations, Prof! I am so glad to see that, through this appointment, Ogun State has gained such a rare gem. Please let me know when you move in to the campus so I can visit and welcome you properly. I look forward to sharing your ideas with my colleagues and others that would be well-served by your clear thinking.

Warm regards,

hafsat

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Subject: Re: Professor Ayo Olukotun, Pioneer Chair, Oba Sir Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair in Governance

 

My Dear Brother Ayo,

Let me join the others in saying your appointment as Pioneer Chair, Oba Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair in Governance is most deserving. You have shown leadership, commitment, intellectual profoundness coupled with rare humility over the many years that I have known you. In all of these you have been consistently consistent. 

My wife and I salute you, and please accept our most hearty congratulations at this time. The Lord God of Heaven will continue to supply you with abundance of Grace to continue to perform in your new position.

Congratulations Ayo,

‘Fred

On Nov 3, 2016, at 6:03 AM, Prof Bayo Adekanye <profbayo...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Ayo, fantastic and most deserving appointment. Congratulations! More laurels to your academic work as critical scholar and public essayist, from awon egbon Bayo & Tomi

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Subject: Re: Professor Ayo Olukotun, Pioneer Chair, Oba Sir Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair in Governance

Dear Ayo:

Profound congratulations, for you and the nation.
 

A deep hole has been dug in which the nation is now mired. The professorial chair acknowledges your superb contributions to critical thought and constructive action in Nigeria.

It also confers on you greater moral and intellectual authority to help reverse the undermining of developmental institutions and practices.

Just yesterday, I received a copy of Biodun Jeyifo's great compilation of essays, "Against the Predators' Republic", published under the editorship of Toyin Falola.

Soon to follow surely is a volume of your trenchant essays. How do we convert knowledge of the predicament into actionable steps out of the abyss is the challenge you have relentlessly pursued.

Lead On, Distinguished Professor Ayo.

Richard

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Subject: Re: Professor Ayo Olukotun, Pioneer Chair, Oba Sir Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair in Governance

Toyin, (and Ayo!!!)

Thanks Toyin, for ensuring that Ayo is deservedly celebrated for this recognition. But Ayo must understand why I have those exclamation marks with his name above. Well, it's his well-known care-free disposition to things material (this is anything but material, though), plus an un-usual capacity to literally forget to mention that which is outstanding about himself. That trait was there when he was our Students' Union 'Presido' in the early '70s - always the 'rough-and-ready', but highly thoughtful idea/action leader, with hardly the slightest concern for any airs or circumstance attaching to his role. Intellect accompanied by self-effacing humility? He knows why I'm writing all this. 

Just last Sunday, the very day before the announcement, Ayo and I literally 'talked and talked' (one hour or a little more??), reminiscing over the radical (mostly Marxist/leftist) Professors and lecturers who had inspired us at Ife in the '70s, and how it somehow feels (if you see how things have gone against our brightest hopes from that time) that all that inspired energy and hope burning in our belly may have been dashed. We spoke - both seriously and in self-deprecating humour - about how the much touted 'impending CRISIS of the Nigerian bourgeouisie . . ' (which radical students tended to interprete as their 'internal contradictions' and ultimate failure - VERY SOON) has thus far failed to materialise; how, in fact, the 'bourgeouisie' (whoever they are) seemed to have done VERY WELL since then, in capturing power, capital (our commonwealth) and the machinery of public governance - thank you very much!!, etc. And we played around with a couple new ideas about how we might ensure the next generation doesn't also inherit our frustration and sense of emptiness on the collective-public-space front, etc. 

With this development, Ayo has just been given a platform that provides a rare opportunity to help our country in the urgent task of reconstituting its infrastructure and institutions of the mind, especially around the challenges and opportunities of developmental governance (integrity in service, commitment and rigour in effort, a strong sense of the supremacy of the shared/public space and cause (of course, with adequate respect for the 'sacred', private space of the individual). It's even nicer that Ayo will have an opportunity to more directly influence/enhance the worldview and public-good orientation of our youth (including, by the way, anyone on this group who may still, like me, be among Nigeria's youthful 'leaders of tomorrow!!).

In that long conversation, Ayo did not for a minute mention the honour nearly at his door (I'm sure, already there, - since he would have had the Chair appointment and day of announcement cleared with him as at when we talked our marathon). Again, humility in the service of great intellect!!

My special plea, Ayo. Please do not let anyone place any bogus, out-sized door-plaque on your Professorial Chair office door. Let the modesty play on. A small 'good-example' anecdote to underscore the plea. Years back, my wife and I went visiting our son who had then just started studies in something called 'Part 3 Mathematics' in Cambridge. I learnt it was a course/skill area used in Theoretical Physics, etc. (I can't write a line on t

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