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Congratulations our Dear Professor Falola.

On Wed, May 8, 2019, 6:47 PM <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Wale Ghazal <waleg...@gmail.com>: May 08 09:07AM +0100

*TF is 2019 Texas Ten*
 
 
Ten talented University of Texas at Austin professors have been selected by
the *Alcalde* to be a part of the annual Texas Ten awards.
 
Each year, alumni nominate the ...more
ayandiji daniel <diji...@yahoo.com>: May 08 10:17AM

Congratulations to the distinguished Professor. This is another recognition of your selfless service to humanity.Diji Aina.
 
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 11:05, Wale ...more
Adeshina Afolayan <shina7...@yahoo.com>: May 08 10:51AM

The award haul for 2019 is already opened! 
Huge congratulations, TF!
Adeshina Afolayan, PhD
Department of Philosophy
University of Ibadan
 
+23480-3928-8429
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Michael Afolayan <mafo...@yahoo.com>: May 08 11:29AM

A heap of congrats in order. Keep it up, Prof. Expect more to come.MOA
 
 
 
 

 
On Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 11:05:52 AM GMT+1, Wale Ghazal <waleg...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Aderemi Raji-Oyelade <rem...@yahoo.com>: May 08 03:15PM +0100

Hearty congratulations to Prof. TF. Wishing you many more titles and achievements to boot. Your inspiration is clearly exceptional.
 
Best regards,
 
Remi

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Raphael Njoku <njo...@gmail.com>: May 08 09:03AM -0600

Congratulations Prof.
 
Raphael
 
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Patrick Effiboley <peffi...@yahoo.fr>: May 08 03:20PM

Professor Falola,Congratulations for this insignia. Besides academic grading and titles, students are those who grade us in return. I would love to get a similar recognition in the future!
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"Assensoh, Akwasi B." <aass...@indiana.edu>: May 08 04:25PM

SIR Toyin:
 
Our united congratulations to you on making the "2019 Texas Ten" honor accolade! We are proud of you!!
 
Yvette and A.B. Assensoh.
 
 
 
 
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Awosika Itunu <bridy...@gmail.com>: May 08 06:45PM +0100

Waoh! Waoh!! Waoh!!!
 
This is another big feather to the big hat of our global citizen,
unequalled mentor, exceptional humanitarian and superb Teacher.......
Those of us that have attended Prof ...more
Nimi Wariboko <nimi...@msn.com>: May 08 04:54PM

Congratulations to The Professor.
 
Nimi Wariboko
 
On May 8, 2019, at 12:51 PM, Assensoh, Akwasi B. <aass...@indiana.edu<mailto:aass...@indiana.edu>> wrote:
 
 
 
SIR Toyin:
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Vik Bahl <vb...@greenriver.edu>: May 08 05:42PM

Thank you for sharing the news!
 
Professor Falola has long served as a case study of the level of recognition and adulation that can manifest when those were never the goal. Falola has never sought ...more
Kenneth Kalu <ken...@yahoo.com>: May 08 06:32PM

Wow! Congratulations, Prof. Many more awards to follow.
Best regards,
Ken
On Wednesday, 8 May 2019, 13:58:34 GMT-4, Awosika Itunu <bridy...@gmail.com> wrote:

Waoh! Waoh!! Waoh!!! ...more
Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso <jum...@gmail.com>: May 08 11:13AM -0700

Congratulations to the Teacher of teachers and all-round inspiration!
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Ademola Azeez <ademolaa...@gmail.com>: May 08 08:49PM +0100

Congrats to our own TF for being honoured as one of the 2019 Texas Ten. You
are always inspirational to us. We are proud of you Baba Oloye pupo.
 
Ademola Azeez
 
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Vik Bahl <vb...@greenriver.edu>: May 08 06:04PM

I can’t help sharing a letter of reference I wrote for Falola for a teaching award in 2003. Enjoy!
 
Vik
 
From: usaafric...@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafric...@googlegroups.com] On ...more
Chielozona Eze <chi...@gmail.com>: May 08 03:43PM -0500

Congratulations, Prof. Falola.
Many more prizes.
Chielozona
 
Chielozona Eze
Professor, African Literature and Cultural Studies, Northeastern Illinois
University; Extraordinary Professor, ...more
Awosika Itunu <bridy...@gmail.com>: May 08 09:36PM +0100

Waoh! Waoh!! Waoh!!!
 
This is another big feather to the big hat of our global citizen,
unequalled mentor, exceptional humanitarian and superb Teacher.......
Those of us that have attended Prof ...more
Wale Ghazal <waleg...@gmail.com>: May 08 12:49PM +0100

Esteemed Scholars and Friends:
 
Find attached and below an *Events-Timeline* comprising Academic
engagements and lectures to be delivered by Professor Toyin Falola from May
2019 till July 2019.
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Wale Ghazal <waleg...@gmail.com>: May 08 01:15PM +0100

Esteemed Scholars and Friends:
 
Find as attached, an *Events-Timeline* comprising Academic engagements and
lectures to be delivered by Professor Toyin Falola from May 2019 till July
2019.
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"Emeagwali, Gloria (History)" <emea...@ccsu.edu>: May 08 12:51PM

Thanksfor this. I shall attend the Unilag lecture in July.
 
My schedule is more mundane:
May : Trinidad and Tobago (Fun and film)😎
June: Ethiopia (Fun and film)😜
July: Nigeria (Keynote ...more
Elias Bongmba <ebon...@gmail.com>: May 08 01:11PM -0500

Congratulations to Professor Falola. It is well deserved.
 
 
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"Abidogun, Jamaine M" <Jamaine...@MissouriState.edu>: May 08 05:58PM

Dear African Studies Colleagues:
 
EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNT through July 15, 2019.
 
Please Share this Announcement with Your Colleagues and Students.
 
Join us this September for the
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Okechukwu Ukaga <ukag...@umn.edu>: May 07 03:55PM -0500

Moses, I think you will agree that the US Army is as modern as it gets. I
also think you will agree that Forbes is a credible source of information.
So here is a story about the US military ...more
"Emeagwali, Gloria (History)" <emea...@ccsu.edu>: May 07 11:36PM

You are just as bad as the professor. He cannot stand back and engage in a cool headed analysis- but neither can you, apparently.. How about engaging in some serious research into the U.S Stargate ...more
Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu>: May 07 11:43PM

I hope that many of you have also heard, in some Christian circles, that Obama practiced occultism in the White House!
The occult is a reality in many societies, most especially in Africa. ...more
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin....@gmail.com>: May 08 10:01AM +0100

Clarification on Mysticism
 
*What is Mysticism?*
 
Mysticism may be understood as the theory and practice of the quest for
perception of or unity with the essence of existence.
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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin....@gmail.com>: May 08 09:31AM +0100

Thanks, Chielozona, but the scholarly discourse on meditation, including
scientific studies, has gone well beyond this level-
 
My experience with meditation has led me to believe that if you ...more
Moses Ebe Ochonu <meoc...@gmail.com>: May 08 02:49AM -0500

Oga TF,
 
Yes, but the difference, a big one, is that Toyin Adepoju has never and
will never state with any degree of certitude let alone a hint of finality
that, 1) these paranormal, ...more
Moses Ebe Ochonu <meoc...@gmail.com>: May 08 02:36AM -0500

Okey Ukaga,
 
Let us examine the story you posted. You have one psychic's word/claim as
the basis of the story. One, you're inviting me and others to uncritically
accept the words of that psychic ...more
Moses Ebe Ochonu <meoc...@gmail.com>: May 08 02:20AM -0500

Gloria,
 
Gloria, you can raise a straw man and proceed to knock it down if it
tickles your fancy. I stated in my response to Okey Ukaga that I know of
many instances where investigators (both ...more
Femi Kolapo <kol...@uoguelph.ca>: May 07 11:59PM

The following publications include details of some of the most rigorous tests, including by sceptical establishment scientists, applied to issues of the paranormal or supernatural that you will find ...more
Moses Ebe Ochonu <meoc...@gmail.com>: May 08 05:23AM -0500

"Prof. Nwolise and others like him should first reduce their esoteric
knowledge to something more tangible and usable and observable and
testable, even if they are the only one that can replicate ...more
Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu>: May 08 11:17AM

Moses:
 
With respect to the Nigerian army, are we not giving this Professor too much credit than he deserves? If I were Nwolise, I would now be so happy that people are taking me so seriously that I ...more
Moses Ochonu <meoc...@gmail.com>: May 08 12:57PM +0100

“If the professor has been saying that many people believe that witches can land in Austin to break my legs, I won’t have any issue with it as this is “faith”, not science.”
 
 
Oga TF,
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Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu>: May 08 12:21PM

Moses:
 
You need to broaden the net wider than Nwolise’s. As you read more Inaugurals coming out of Nigeria, you will see that faith is embedded in many of them. Pages upon pages in those lectures ...more
"Emeagwali, Gloria (History)" <emea...@ccsu.edu>: May 08 12:39PM

Although I entered this discussion, initially, on the issue of the FBI , the CIA,
and the U.S. Stargate program, let me now quote one of the 20th century's great philosophers of science, ...more
"Harrow, Kenneth" <har...@msu.edu>: May 08 01:06PM

hi moses, toyin,
 
i think there are at least two or three things at stake in this. the academy is one, and it differs not only between countries but also regions. our midwest universities are ...more
Enyimba Himself <enyimb...@aol.com>: May 08 01:09PM

This is another comic review for lazy people who cannot differ fiction from reality.Did we not almost lose a battalion in Biafra simply because of some greedy nativedoctors who sold charms to Biafran ...more
Enyimba Himself <enyimb...@aol.com>: May 08 01:26PM

This is another comic review for lazy people who cannot differ fiction from reality.Did we not almost lose a battalion in Biafra simply because of some greedy nativedoctors who sold charms to Biafran ...more
"Harrow, Kenneth" <har...@msu.edu>: May 08 01:33PM

a footnote to my last comment on this.
 
sure, i don't believe in witchcraft. however, i do believe in scholarship, i.e., that all sets of beliefs that people hold are of interest for a range of ...more
Moses Ochonu <meoc...@gmail.com>: May 08 02:48PM +0100

“a claim about magical powers should not be viewed as a regional point of view when the claim abuts the laws of physics. physics does not claim it knows everything, or even human limits. ...more
"Emeagwali, Gloria (History)" <emea...@ccsu.edu>: May 08 01:45PM

"Hostile researchers who may directly or indirectly contaminate or
falsify research outcomes to prove the theory wrong, will have to be excluded, and so, too, stakeholders,
unbridled supporters and ...more
Chielozona Eze <chi...@gmail.com>: May 08 08:39AM -0500

"Yes, but the difference, a big one, is that Toyin Adepoju has never and
will never state with any degree of certitude let alone a hint of finality
that, 1) these paranormal, transcendental, astral, ...more
"Emeagwali, Gloria (History)" <emea...@ccsu.edu>: May 08 02:00PM

"Toyin Adepoju has never and will never state with any degree of certitude let alone a hint of finality that....."
 
Really? So you guys are now dabbling in futuristic psychic adventurism! Have you ...more
Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu>: May 08 02:03PM

Actually, millions believe that God Himself is in charge of those planes! This is not my evidence.
 
Where we have to keep this disagreement going is the evaluation of faith and where to place it. ...more
Moses Ochonu <meoc...@gmail.com>: May 08 03:33PM +0100

“no form of knowledge, as a way of knowing, must be dismissed. In dismissing Nwolise, he is dismissing a form of knowledge, no matter how gullible.”
 
Oga TF,
 
But what Nwolise advances is not ...more
Nimi Wariboko <nimi...@msn.com>: May 08 02:35PM

Professor Falola’s recent post on this matter reminds me of Slavoj Žižek’s anecdote about Neils Bohr, the famous quantum physicist:
Surprised at seeing a horse-shoe above the door of Bohr’s ...more
Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu>: May 08 02:57PM

I am enjoying this debate so much as the distinction between an academic and non-academic knowledge and their uses must lead us to a seminar that we all gather and do serious thinking. ...more
Chielozona Eze <chi...@gmail.com>: May 08 09:45AM -0500

Well, you're right on the "futuristic" part of the pronouncement. That
doesn't detract from the truth, anyway; and the truth is that Toyin Adepoju
talks authoritatively about private experiences. ...more
Kwabena Akurang-Parry <kap...@hotmail.com>: May 08 03:06PM

My Dear Oga Moses:
You wrote "Anybody can claim anything. A historian of all people should know better than to valorize the claims of people who purport to see into the realm of the unknown, predict ...more
Moses Ochonu <meoc...@gmail.com>: May 08 05:29PM +0100

Nimi,
 
Hehehehe. So funny. The anecdotal analogy is apt, although I also think Falola is having fun playing the devil’s advocate.
 
Sent from my iPhone
 
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Auwal Musa <rafsanj...@gmail.com>: May 08 02:21PM +0100

*PRESS RELEASE*
 
*CISLAC lauds Prof. Bande’s appointment as President of the UNGA *
 
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and CISLAC Global
commend the recent well deserved ...more
Tunji Olaopa <tolao...@gmail.com>: May 08 02:07PM +0100

getting-basics-public-service-reform-right-tunji-olaopa/
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Obododimma Oha <obod...@gmail.com>: May 08 05:12AM +0100

It looks like our "May" will likely turn to a "Must"! Well, I am here
again with an article. An idea still borrowed from Igbo folklore. You
"may" like to read "The Lone Dancer." Click on the ...more
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