Obituary: Professor Wilson Ogbomo

[Toyin Falola]

 

With sadness, I announce the passing of Professor Wilson Ogbomo. I have known him for decades. Professors Ogbomo, Julius Adekunle, and Apollos Nwauwa were the last set of students supervised by Professor Webster at Dalhousie in the late 1980s. It was my privilege to have been the last External Examiner of that tradition. Ogbomo’s revised Ph.D. inaugurated the Series with Rochester on Africa and the Diaspora.

 

He taught at Ekpoma, South Carolina, University of Rochester, Allegheny College, and Western Michigan. Ogbomo and Jerry Dibua, current Chair of History, Morgan State University, developed a long-life friendship of a kind that we all should pray for and emulate.

 

We were fond of one another, and I followed his career and health with interest. Although I am senior in this world, Professor Ogbomo has used death to claim an eternal superiority to me. In that eternal seniority lies his glory, and the reunion with his ancestors.

 

In your hands, O Lord,
we humbly entrust our brothers and sisters.
In this life you embraced them with your tender love;
deliver them now from every evil
and bid them eternal rest.

The old order has passed away:
welcome them into paradise,
where there will be no sorrow, no weeping or pain,
but fullness of peace and joy
with your Son and the Holy Spirit
forever and ever.

Amen.

Sleep well, a genuinely loving man, humane, friendly, kind to all, compassionate to the needy, tolerant to his students, polite and cordial to strangers, sympathetic to the opinions of others, and detribalized.

 

I will miss you.

Toyin Falola

 

[Assensoh, Akwasi B.]

May Professor Wilson Ogbomo (whom I first met at Ekpoma; Bendel State?) rest in perfect peace until

we all meet again, during which he will be an Elder. Also, many thanks for the moving tribute; hopefully,

I will get a warm tribute in the end, as a man of infinite justice (Shakespearean)!

A.B. Assensoh. 

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[Uyilawa Usuanlele]

Can't still believe that Ọnaiwu Ogbomo is gone. May his gentle soul rest in peace. Amen.

Uyi

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[Dr BioDun J Ogundayo]

May his family and friends be comforted. May he rest in peace. Sorry about the loss.

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[Akeem Oladiti Abiodun]

May his soul rest in peace

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[Moses Ochonu]

A terrible loss indeed. He was indeed a gentleman to the core, a humble and approachable person. My first personal encounter with him was at the ASA. He stopped me, introduced himself, and told me that it was his pleasure to have reviewed something of mine and that since then he had been looking forward to meeting me. His humility and accessible personality was both disarming and deeply touching. My regret is that I never followed up that meeting with any contact despite being profoundly and memorably impressed by his gesture. May his soul find rest and May his family find strength and comfort.

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I called Dibua last night to ask why Falola was telling such a lie about Ogbomo but he told me that it was true. Chai. I met him in Ekpoma when I was a Nigerian Youth Serving Capitalism and he remained supportive of my work. By coincidence, we both went abroad to write and publish doctoral dissertations on Black women. May he rest in power and reincarnate soon to continue the struggle. Victory is certain.

Biko

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[Michael Afolayan]

Depressing!

Since meeting him right at the earliest stage of the Falola friendship circle formation, Wilson had been friendly, supportive and helpful. I can't even tell how many times we chatted on the phone until his health became quite challenging and his activities reduced. May this man's legacy live on and may all those he has left behind be comforted. I submit the link below as one of the celebrations of Wilson's life, thanks in no small proportion to TF's indefatigable and excellent 

toyin falola

toyin falola Explore toyin falola's 113,691 photos on Flickr!

documentation of friendship when seven years ago, he made us to picturally share in the wedding of Wilson's son! 

So long, Wilson Onaiwu Ogbomo!

Michael O. Afoláyan

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[segun ogungbemi]

Sorry for the loss. May his family and friends be comforted by the spirit of his ancestors. 

May his soul rest eternally with ancestors and Creator. 

Segun Ogungbemi. 

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[Afolayan, Funso]

A most devastating loss, indeed. An inspiring and versatile scholar and a wonderful colleague, a great friend and a perfect gentleman. He was the founding president of the Nigerian Studies Association in North America. Generous hearted and with a vivacious zest for life, it is impossible to meet Ogbomo without being deeply refreshed, encouraged, and enriched by him. It was a privilege to have known him and to have been his friend for the last two and a half decades. He will be surely missed. Farewell, and rest in peace, my friend, and looking forward to seeing you again in that land, where illness, loss, or death, shall be no more!

Funso Afolayan

department of History

University of New Hampshire

Durham, NH 03824

  

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