The College of Lagos has conferred on famend historian and eminent scholar, Professor Toyin Falola, the honorary Physician of Letters (D.Litt) diploma on the establishment's 54th convocation ceremonies.
Different honorees included Professor Attahiru Jega (former Chairman of the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee of Nigeria); and Phyllis Kanki of the Harvard Chan College of Public Well being, Boston. Distinguished personalities current on the occasion included Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, represented by the Minister of Schooling, Professor Tahir Mammam; Sheikh Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai El-Kanemi, Chancellor of the College; the Vice Chancellor, Professor Folasade Ogunsola; Pastor Tunde Bakare; Performing Govt Secretary of the Nationwide Universities Fee (NUC), Dr. Chris Maiyaki, and former Vice Chancellor of UNILAG, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe.
Professor Toyin Falola is a distinguished professor of African Research, whose scholarship transcends the borders of Africa and turns into a worldwide icon for his revolutionary contributions to information, particularly within the fields of African epistemologies and African historical past. Professor Falola is a broad genius and has crossed the boundaries of a number of disciplines and fields of analysis to turn into a worldwide and polymathic mental. He holds the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair within the Humanities, is a professor of historical past, and is a Distinguished Educating Professor on the College of Texas at Austin. He additionally holds three Distinguished Professorships in South Africa and an emeritus professorship at a Nigerian college
Professor Falola was born on January 1, 1953 in Ibadan. On the age of 17, he determined that his profession can be instructing. He began his profession in training in 1970 as a instructor at UAMC Main College, Pahayi, Ilaro. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Historical past from the College of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo College, in 1976 and obtained his Ph.D. in Historical past from the identical college in 1981. From 1981 to 1989, he taught at Obafemi Awolowo College. In 1991 he turned a professor on the College of Texas at Austin.
Falola is a wonderful scientist with a few years of expertise and sacrifices which have made him a worldwide phenomenon. He has been a professor, fellow or researcher and held many educational positions at so many establishments around the globe. A few of these positions embrace the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in Historical past from 1995 to 2012; professor of African Historical past, College of Texas at Austin, 1991 to 1995; Professor at York College, Ontario, Canada, from 1990 to 1991; Senior Researcher on the Nigerian Institute of Worldwide Affairs in 1989; Smuts Fellow on the College of Cambridge, England from 1988 to 1989; Professor of African Research on the College of Cape City; a distinguished professor of political science on the College of Pretoria, a unprecedented professor of human rights, College of Regulation, College of the Free State, and plenty of others the place he was a member of the college or respective boards.
These providers additionally lengthen to varied worldwide organizations and educational associations. For instance, he was a professor on the Pontifica Universidade Catholica De Sao Paulo, Brazil; a Carter Visiting Professor at Smith Faculty, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA; a Fellow on the Humanities Analysis Council, Australian Nationwide College in Australia; and Kluge Chairman of the International locations of the South on the world-class Library of Congress in Washington, DC
