Nigeria, April 2 -- On Thursday, 3 April, The Harriet Tubman Institute and the Department of History, York University, Canada, will host a book launch and retirement celebration for Professor Paul Lovejoy. We cannot thank Professor Damilola Adebayo enough for the initiative and organisation that made this possible.

It is not often that one is privileged to encounter thoroughness. A more probable experience is interaction with the average from the vast majority. This thought acquires even deeper nuance when the unsparing completeness referenced here is politically contradictory to the interests of the social group one represents. In this sense, I perceive Paul Lovejoy as a distinguished researcher and highly decorated member of the academ...