STUDYING TOYIN FALOLA

Image Above Toyin Falola Picture by Matt Wright-Steel from " Meet the 2019 Texas Ten " Accessed 11/24/2019 A Storyteller I am a teller of stories, a traveler between various worlds, a sojourner in none. I am located at the University of Texas because the human being often needs a location in space and time but my spirit has no address. I travel through my stories, into the past, the present and the future. An Asker of Questions Human movement through space and time is my subject. The shaping of meaning out of the probabilities, the labyrinthine permutations of human existence, is my theme. What happened when did it happen how did it happen why did it happen what may happen what is the significance of these happenings and possibilities these are the questions through which I navigate this labyrinth, through which I steer across this ocean, a great story in which I find myself involved as I try to craft my own stories within the a

The young scholar in his office, the light of adventure in his eyes Toyin Falola: The Early Years: Laying Foundations My name is Toyin Falola. I am a traveller. I want to know how things happen, why things happen and the significance of how and why things happen the way they do. In pursuit of this quest, I have followed the migration of humanity's ancestors across the world, from the continent of dark skinned people, tropical forests and savannas.                           The rising scholar with textual mentor- a mentorship indirectly mediated through texts- John David Yeadon Peel, whose achievement Falola described in a manner suggestive of his own work, as explaining "complicated social processes [linking] micro events to the macro system [ analyzing] th