Nigerian Academy of Letters

CONVOCATION/INDUCTION/INVESTITURE

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NAL to Hold 25th Convocation, Invests 10 New Fellows, Inducts 53 New Members The Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL), has scheduled its 25th Convocation for Thursday, August 10, 2023, where 10 members will

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PROFESSOR EMERITUS AKINWANDE OLUWOLE BABATUNDE SOYINKA, NOBEL LAUREATE, A LIVING LEGEND!

The President of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL), Professor Duro Oni, FNAL, on behalf of the Executive Committee, Fellows and Members of the Academy, celebrates the grandeur and exploits of Professor Emeritus Wole Soyinka, FNAL, NNOM, a Foundation Fellow of the Academy, a man of laudable achievements and sterling virtues, on his 89th Birthday.

At 89, you remain vibrant and relevant to our literary, academic and national developments. May you remain so for many more years to come; may you continue to enjoy robust and greater productivity. As you turn 89 years old today, Thursday, July 13, 2023, we wish you many more happy years in good health.

We love you, Sir, and rejoice with you on this occasion of your Eight-Scores-and-Nine Years’ (89th) Birthday! We join your family members, friends, colleagues and teeming mentees in wishing our Living Legend, Our Icon, Professor Emeritus Wole Soyinka, a very happy 89th Birthday Celebration. We wish you many more happy years.



Ayobami Kehinde
Secretary, Nigerian Academy of Letters

OBITUARY: PROFESSOR LAI OSO, MNAL (1956 – 2023)

The President, Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL), Professor Duro Oni, FNAL, regrets to announce the transition of Professor Muraino Olayiwola Oso (Lai Oso), a renowned Mass Communication Professor at the Lagos State University. The sad event happened on Saturday (24 June, 2023) evening when his car reportedly plunged into a river along the Ijebu axis of Ogun State. It was gathered that the distinguished Professor and dedicated member of NAL was returning to Lagos from Delta State University (DELSU), where he was an external examiner at the Department of Mass Communication.

The 67-year-old Prof. Lai Oso was educated at the University of Lagos (B.Sc. Mass Communication), Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (M.Sc. International Relations) and obtained a Ph.D. degree in Mass Communication as a Federal Government scholar at the University of Leicester, England . He was a communication and media studies teacher at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, from where he headed for Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye and later, the Lagos State University.

Professor Lai Oso will be sorely missed by family, friends, colleagues, former students, the NAL family and the entire intellectual humanistic community.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by the family.

May his soul rest in peace.

Ayobami Kehinde,
Secretary, NAL

TEN LEADING HUMANISTIC SCHOLARS ADMITTED INTO THE COLLEGE OF FELLOWS OF THE NIGERIAN ACADEMY OF LETTERS!

Today, May 25, 2023, I am delighted to announce that ten leading humanistic scholars have been conferred with the award of the Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL). They have been admitted into the prestigious Fellowship of the Academy based on their outstanding contributions to scholarship and extension of frontiers of knowledge in their various subfields of the Humanities. The Fellows of the Nigerian Academy of Letters are a group of distinguished scholars of the humanities, nominated and elected in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanistic scholarship.

The ten new Fellows have been elected following a robust review process; they have been recognised for the excellence of their research outputs. The new Fellows of NAL, highly accomplished in their fields, are as follows:

1. Professor Ayobami Kehinde (Literary Studies) – Regular Fellow)

2. Professor Asabe Kabir Usman (Literary Studies) - Regular Fellow)

3. Professor Solomon Oluwole Oyetade (Languages) – Regular Fellow)

4. Professor Herbert S. Igboanusi (Languages) - Regular Fellow)

5. Professor Egodi Uchendu (History) – Regular Fellow)

6. Professor Olufunke Asake Adeboye (History) – Regular Fellow)

7. Professor Emmanuel Samu Dandaura (Theatre, Visual and Performing Arts)– Regular Fellow

8. Professor Irene Isoken Agunloye (Theatre, Visual and Performing Arts) – Regular Fellow!

9. Professor Isaac Olawale Albert (Interdisciplinary & Multi-disciplinary Studies) – Regular Fellow

10. Professor Akinbiyi Akinlabi (Languages and Linguistics) – Overseas Fellow

Allow me to convey, on behalf of the College of Fellows, the Executive Committee and Members of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, my warmest congratulations on your appointments as Fellows of the Nigerian Academy of Letters. Wishing you every success in your new status.

Professor Duro Oni, FNAL,

President, Nigerian Academy of Letters/Chairman, College of Fellows of NAL

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PROFESSOR SIMEON OLUSEGUN ILESANMI, FNAL, HAS BEEN NAMED THE WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES

The President of Nigerian Academy of Letters, Professor Duro Oni, FNAL, on behalf of the Executive Committee, Fellows and Members of NAL, felicitates Professor Simeon Olusegun Ilesanmi, FNAL, on his well-deserved appointment as The Wake Forest University Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies.

This appointment is indeed a great honour to Professor Ilesanmi’s immediate family and the NAL family in general. Given his antecedents, versatility, and thoroughness, there is no doubt that he will excel in this new position. It is our sincere prayer that, in this new position, Professor Ilesanmi will continue to contribute immensely to the development of humanistic studies, in general, and Religious Studies, in particular. May he continue to find favour in the eyes of God, Amen.

Hearty Congratulations!

Ayobami Kehinde,
Secretary, NAL