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The 9Th Toyin Falola Annual International Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora (Tofac 2019) The 9th Toyin Falola Annual International Conference On Africa And The African Diaspora (tofac 2019) THEME: RELIGION, THE STATE AND GLOBAL POLITICS JULY 1-3, 2019 @BABCOCK UNIVERSITY ILISHAN-REMO, OGUN STATE, NIGERIA PROGRAMME OF EVENTS FEATURING: DISTINGUISHED GUEST OF HONOUR CHIEF DR OLUSEGUN OBASANJO, GCFR, PhD Former President, Federal Republic of Nigeria CHIEF HOST PROFESSOR ADEMOLA S. TAYO HOST President/Vice-Chancellor, Babcock PROFESSOR ADEMOLA DASYLVA University Board Chair, TOFAC (International) GRAND HOST HE CHIEF DR DAPO ABIODUN, MFR Executive Governor, Ogun State, Nigeria CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS HE Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Nigeria Professor Bankole Omotoso, Writer, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, Elizade University Professor Ibigbolade Aderibigbe, Professor of Religion & Associate Director, The African Studies Institute, University of Georgia, Athens, USA BANQUET CHAIRMAN: His Imperial Majesty Fuankem Achankeng I, MA, MA, PhD The Nyatema of Atoabechied Ruler, Atoabechied, Lebialem Southwestern Cameroon & Professor, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, USA BANQUET SPECIAL GUEST OF HONOUR Professor Jide Owoeye Chairman, Governing Council & Proprietor Lead City University, Ibadan 2 NATIONAL ANTHEM Great lofty heights attain To build a nation where peace Arise, O compatriot, And justice shall reign. Nigeria’s call obey To serve our father’s land BABCOCK UNIVERSITY With love and strength and faith The labour of our heroes past ANTHEM Shall never be in vain Hail Babcock God’s own University To serve with heart and mind Built on the power of His Word One nation bound in freedom Knowledge and truth, Peace and unity Service to God and man Building a future for the youth Wholistic education, O God of creation, The vision is still aflame: Direct our noble cause Mental, physical, social, spiritual Guide our leaders right Babcock is it! Help our youths the truth to know Hail, Babcock God’s own University In love and honesty to grow Good life here and forever more. And living just and true 3 CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE DATE & TIME EVENT/ACTIVITY VENUE Sunday, 30 June 2019: Arrival All day Arrival BGH& Hotels Day One: Monday, 1 July 2019 8.00am-5.00pm Registration BBS 9.00-9.30am Devotional BBS Aud A 9.30-11.30am Parallel Session A: Panels 1-7 BBS & New Horizon 11.30-12.00 noon Tea Break BBS 12.00-2.30pm Plenary Session 1: Opening Ceremony& Keynote Lecture 1 BBS Aud. A 2.30-3.30pm Lunch Queen Esther Activity Hall 3.30-5.30pm Roundtables 1 & 2 Aud. A &B Parallel Session B, Panels 8-13 BBS &New Horizon 6.00pm Refreshments BBS 6.30-9.00pm Film Show: Yoruba Beyond Borders, a documentary BBS Aud. A Day Two: Tuesday, 2 July 2019 5.30-7.00am Health Walk/Campus Tour Babcock Guest House 8.30-9.00am Devotional BBS Aud. A 9.00-11.00am Plenary Session 2: Conference Keynotes 2 & 3 BBS Aud. A. 11.00-11.30am Tea Break BBS 11.30-1.00pm Roundtables 3 & 4 BBS &New Parallel Session C: Panels 14-19 Horizon 1.00-2.00pm Lunch Queen Esther Activity Hall 2.00-4.00pm Roundtable 5 BBS &New Parallel Session D, Panels 20-26 Horizon 4.00-5.30pm Roundtable 6 BBS & New Parallel Session E, Panels 27-35 Horizon 6.30-9.30pm Conference Banquet& Awards Ceremony Central Cafeteria Day Three: Wednesday 3 July 2019 8.30-9.00am Devotional BBS Aud. A 9.00-10.30am Parallel Session F, Panels 36-40 BBS 10.30-11.00am Tea-break & Takeoff for Sightseeing Trip BBS 11.00am-5.00pm Tourism & Honoree’s Finale Celebration OOPL, Abeokuta Thursday 4 July 2019: Departure Conference Closes: Farewell! 4 OPENING CEREMONY PROGRAMME Monday July 1, 2019 @12:00 -2:30 PM Master of Ceremony: Mr Jonathan Dangana Music: Dr Segun Ojuola/ Mr Seun Oladini 12.00-12.10 Arrival and Recognition of Dignitaries 12.11-12.15 National Anthem & Babcock University Anthem 12.16-12.18 Opening Prayer Pastor (Dr.) Sunday D. Audu, Associate Vice President, Spiritual Life/ University Pastor, BU 12.19-12.25 Welcome Addresses: 12.19-12.20 Dr Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso Convener, TOFAC 2019 & Ag.Dean, Veronica Adeleke School of Social Sciences, BU 12.21-12.25 Prof. Ademola S. Tayo Chief Host, TOFAC 2019 & President/ Vice-Chancellor, Babcock University 12.26-12.30 Citation on Honoree Prof. Ademola Dasylva, TOFAC Board Chair & Host TOFAC 2019 12.31-12.35 Special Remarks by Honoree Prof. Toyin Falola Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin, USA 12.36-12.45 Special Performance OPATRADCONCEPTS 12.46-12.50 Introduction of Keynote Speaker Prof. Mobolanle E. Sotunsa Co-Convener TOFAC 2019 & Coordinator, Gender & African Studies Group BU 12.51-1.35 Keynote Lecture 1: “Caeser & God: Prophetic Engagement of the State in Africa” HE, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Nigeria 1.36-1.45 Special Performance OPATRADCONCEPTS 5 1.46-2.00 Remarks by Distinguished Guest of Honour HE Chief Dr. Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR, PhD Former President, Federal Republic of Nigeria 2.01-2.10 Remarks by Grand Host HE Chief Dr Dapo Abiodun, MFR., Executive Governor, Ogun State, Nigeria 2.11-2.15 Declaration of Conference Open HE Chief Dapo Abiodun, MFR, Executive Governor, Ogun State, Nigeria 2.16-2.20 Appreciation of Guests Prof. Iheanyichuku Okoro, Senior Vice President/Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics), BU 2.21-2.23 Vote of Thanks Dr Jane Adebusuyi, LoC Chair, TOFAC 2019 & HoD Department of Social Work 2.24-2.25 Closing Prayer Dr Foluke Akoja LoC Program Director & Lecturer, Mass Communication, BU 2.25-2.29 National Anthem Photographs University Photographer 6 TOYIN FALOLA: BRIEF PROFILE Toyin Falola, PhD, is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and until recently the Kluge Chair of the Countries and Cultures of the South, Library of Congress. He is a celebrated author, editor, writer, poet, academic leader, organizer, teacher, Pan-Africanist, and a visionary of extraordinary grace, talent and accomplishments. An author and editor of over one hundred and fifty books on Africa and the African Diaspora, he has been invited to speak on all continents, and in over sixty countries, and widely proclaimed as Africa’s preeminent historian and one of the major intellectuals of our time. Many of his books have received awards, defined various fields, and inspired the writings of various critical works. He manages seven distinguished scholarly monograph series, and serves on the board of over twenty journals. A global icon in African Studies, Toyin Falola has received thirteen honorary doctorates: Doctor of Humane Letters from Lincoln University, Doctor of Humanities from Monmouth University, Doctor of Humane Letters from City University of New York, Staten Island, D. Litt. from Lead City University, D. Litt. Adekunle Ajasin University, D. ED. from Tai Solarin University of Education (Nigeria), D. Litt from Redeemer’s University, D. Litt. from the University of Jos, D. Litt, from Olabisi Onabanjo University, D.Litt. from Caleb University, D. Litt. From PcPherson University, D. Litt. From Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, and D. Litt., Babcock University. His lifetime career awards include the Nigerian Diaspora Academic Prize, the Cheikh Anta Diop Award, the Amistad Award, and the SIRAS Award for Outstanding Contribution to African Studies, Africana Studies Distinguished Global Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award, Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria, and The Distinguished Africanist Award. An annual international conference has been named after him, TOFAC (Toyin Falola Annual Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora) which meets every July in a major African university. In January 2018, thirty-three universities convened a conference at the University of Ibadan in honor of his 65th birthday. The Association of Third World Studies has named its annual best book award after him as the Toyin Falola Prize for the best book on Africa. His memoir, A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt, captures his childhood, while another memoir, Counting the Tiger’s Teeth, covers his years as a teenager. For his contribution to the study of Africa, his students and colleagues have presented him with a set of five Festschriften, two edited by Adebayo Oyebade, The Transformation of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola and The Foundations of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola, one by Akin Ogundiran, Precolonial Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola, 7 and yet another by Nana Amposah, Beyond the Boundaries: Toyin Falola and the Art of Genre-Bending. Toyin Falola: The Man, Mask and Muse presents bio-critical studies of his works in over a thousand pages. Abdul Karim Bangura examines his contributions to pedagogy in two major books: Toyin Falola and African Epistemologies and Falolaism: The Epistemologies and Methodologies of Africana Knowledge. He has received various awards and honors in various parts of the world. At the University of Texas at Austin, he received the Jean Holloway Award for Teaching Excellence, The Texas Exes Teaching Award, the Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, and the Career Research Excellence Award. His life time career awards are over two dozens, including three Yoruba chieftaincy titles, most notably the Bobapitan of Ibadanland. He served as the Chair of the ASA Herskovits Prize for the best book on Africa, the chair of the Martin Klein Book prize for the best book on African history (American Historical Association), and committee member of the Joel Gregory Prize for the Canadian Association of African Studies. He once served as the Vice President of the International Scientific Committee, UNESCO Slave Route Project, and President of the African Studies Association and President of the Nigerian Studies Association.
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