Dr. Tanure Ojaide to receive Nigeria’s Highest Academic Honor

[Akin Ogundiran]

Dear Colleagues,

I am very pleased to share with you that Dr. Tanure Ojaide has been named the recipient of this year’s Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM), in the Humanities category. President Muhammadu Buhari will preside over the investiture ceremony in Abuja, the country’s capital, on December 1st.

 

Established by Act 53 of 1979, the Nigerian National Order of Merit is the highest academic honor in Africa’s most populous country. The award is conferred annually on the most deserving scholar and intellectual who has made outstanding and ethical contributions to national and global attainments in one of these areas of scholarly endeavor: humanities, sciences, engineering, and medicine.

 

The Nigerian National Order of Merit award comes with a substantial cash prize, a medal and certificate of honor, and the right to use NNOM after the name of the recipient. 

 

Dr. Ojaide is a graduate of the University of Ibadan and Syracuse University. Since joining the UNC Charlotte faculty rank in 1990, he has authored more than 30 books, and has won more than a dozen book prizes and accolades including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Cadbury Poetry Prize, and the Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Award. He received UNC Charlotte’s First Citizens Bank Scholar Medal Award in 2005, and was named the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies in 2006. Early this year, he received the African Literature Association’s Fonlon-Nichols Award in recognition of his scholarly contributions to democratic ideals, humanistic values, and literary excellence in Africa. 

 

Please join me in congratulating our friend and colleague, Dr. Tanure Ojaide, NNOM, for this latest career honor. 

AO

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Akin Ogundiran | Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology & History 

Chair, Department of Africana Studies

UNC Charlotte | Garinger 113

9201 University City Blvd. | Charlotte, NC 28223

Phone: 704-687-5162 | Fax: 704-687-1682

ogun...@uncc.edu | http://www.africana.uncc.edu

Africana Studies @ UNC Charlotte: 40+ Years of Transnational Education in a Global City

Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic (Indiana University Press, 2014). A 2015 Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title 

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[Ibigbolade Aderibigbe]

Big congratulations to Dr. Tanure.

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[Ademola Dasylva]

‎Dear Brother Tanure Ojaide, congratulations on this occasion of a well-deserved honor! May you go from strength to strength, and enjoy sound health as you continue to serve humanity through your creative and critical works. 

Ademola O. Dasylva.‎

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[Michael Afolayan]

Dr. Tanure Ojaide: 

May I join the bevy of friends, colleagues and well-wishers to cheerfully doff my hat, congratulate you, and greet you for doing us all so proud and happy. May this be the beginning of greater glories in your future strides. Stay well, brother, and remain blessed. Merry Christmas and Happy New Years in advance.

Michael O. Afolayan

[onyima blessing]

Congratulations to Dr Tanure Ojaide for your new award.

Wishing you more of such accomplishments.

 

Blesing Nonye Onyima
Lecturer
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka
Nigeria
+2348065014542
PhD Candidate
Department of Archaeology & Anthropology
University of Ibadan
Nigeria

[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

wow.

great, great, congratulations, Tanure Ojaide.

toyin

On 29 November 2016 at 08:17, 'onyima blessing' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Congratulations to Dr Tanure Ojaide for your new award.

Wishing you more of such accomplishments.

 

Blesing Nonye Onyima
Lecturer
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka
Nigeria
+2348065014542
PhD Candidate
Department of Archaeology & Anthropology
University of Ibadan
Nigeria

On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 9:07 AM, 'Michael Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Dr. Tanure Ojaide: 

May I join the bevy of friends, colleagues and well-wishers to cheerfully doff my hat, congratulate you, and greet you for doing us all so proud and happy. May this be the beginning of greater glories in your future strides. Stay well, brother, and remain blessed. Merry Christmas and Happy New Years in advance.

Michael O. Afolayan

On Monday, November 28, 2016 8:44 PM, Ademola Dasylva <dasy...@gmail.com> wrote:

‎Dear Brother Tanure Ojaide, congratulations on this occasion of a well-deserved honor! May you go from strength to strength, and enjoy sound health as you continue to serve humanity through your creative and critical works. 

Ademola O. Dasylva.‎

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

From: Akin Ogundiran Sent: Tuesday, 29 November 2016 01:00 To: usaafricadialogue

Reply To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com

Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Dr. Tanure Ojaide to receive Nigeria’s Highest Academic Honor

Dear Colleagues,

I am very pleased to share with you that Dr. Tanure Ojaide has been named the recipient of this year’s Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM), in the Humanities category. President Muhammadu Buhari will preside over the investiture ceremony in Abuja, the country’s capital, on December 1st.

 

Established by Act 53 of 1979, the Nigerian National Order of Merit is the highest academic honor in Africa’s most populous country. The award is conferred annually on the most deserving scholar and intellectual who has made outstanding and ethical contributions to national and global attainments in one of these areas of scholarly endeavor: humanities, sciences, engineering, and medicine.

 

The Nigerian National Order of Merit award comes with a substantial cash prize, a medal and certificate of honor, and the right to use NNOM after the name of the recipient. 

 

Dr. Ojaide is a graduate of the University of Ibadan and Syracuse University. Since joining the UNC Charlotte faculty rank in 1990, he has authored more than 30 books, and has won more than a dozen book prizes and accolades including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Cadbury Poetry Prize, and the Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Award. He received UNC Charlotte’s First Citizens Bank Scholar Medal Award in 2005, and was named the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies in 2006. Early this year, he received the African Literature Association’s Fonlon-Nichols Award in recognition of his scholarly contributions to democratic ideals, humanistic values, and literary excellence in Africa. 

 

Please join me in congratulating our friend and colleague, Dr. Tanure Ojaide, NNOM, for this latest career honor. 

AO

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Akin Ogundiran | Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology & History 

Chair, Department of Africana Studies

UNC Charlotte | Garinger 113

9201 University City Blvd. | Charlotte, NC 28223

Phone: 704-687-5162 | Fax: 704-687-1682

ogun...@uncc.edu | http:// www.africana.uncc.edu

Africana Studies @ UNC Charlotte: 40+ Years of Transnational Education in a Global City

Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic (Indiana University Press, 2014). A 2015 Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title 

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[Osuntokun]

I congratulate Professor Tanure Ojaide for winning this year's  Nigeria's national merit award in the humanities . This is the highest Honours our country can bestow on an academic . I remember Tanure's small beginnings when I was his dean in the university of Maiduguri in 1982 . Those were difficult times when we all worked very hard with heavy lecture load because of paucity of staff as a result of the  rather hostile weather and growing religious intolerance in the university which led to some of us including Tanure leaving  either for other Nigerian universities  or for the United States . I am happy to be alive to hear the good news . I hope Tanure reads this to know I wish him well.

Regards,

Akinjde Osuntokun, Ph.D OON FNAL FHSN

Professor Emeritus of History and International Relations

Bapitan of Oyo

[Segun Ogungbemi]

Congrats!!! We are very proud of you for a well deserved honour and award. 

Sent from my iPhone 

[Olayinka Agbetuyi]

A deserving award to an  unrelenting poet, scholar and intellectual. Congratulations to Dr Ojaide.

O. Agbetuyi

[ADETAYO ALABI]

This is remarkable. Congratulations to Professor Tanure Ojaide. 

Tayo Alabi

Department of English

University of Mississippi 

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