Family and friends of Toyin Falola, a renowned professor of history, celebrated his 70th birthday on Sunday.
The virtual surprise birthday celebration had in attendance former presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan; Kayode Fayemi, former governor of Ekiti, Ayo Banjo, former vice-chancellor of the University of Ibadan, and other dignitaries.
“Our existential challenges as humans and more critically as Nigerians are many, and even more so for someone like you who shoulders many responsibilities as a scholar, custodian of culture, elder in your own right, statesman, and a public global intellectual,” Obasanjo said. “I consider myself an indirect student of Prof. Falola. He taught my wife, who is also part of this webinar. But I first learned from his feet when he wrote that heartbreaking book with Julius Ihonvbere, ‘The Rise and Fall of the Second Republic.’ From then on, I became very fascinated by and interested in his work,” Fayemi said.
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