In Praise of Greatness

Description

“Using a distinct and revolutionary methodology and approach, Toyin Falola employs his own original transcripts and primary texts ­— a series of mini biographies and poems ­— to generate an expansive interpretative text, a book that will surely instigate serious conversations in learned circles. Deploying unusual talents in multiple fields and disciplines, Toyin Falola is not merely genre bending and reconstructing, he pioneers a genre “marque”. This is one piece too many ­— a smorgasbord of homages, tributes, praises, adulations. . . . And more, recreating and reclaiming memories and histories.”

Mobolanle E. Sotunsa Professor of African Oral Literatures and Gender Studies, Babcock University