Scholarship and Commitment

Professor Darah turned seventy on Wednesday November 22, 2017 and
to celebrate his very productive career, his colleagues and many of
those he has mentored thought it appropriate to mark his official exit
from the university in a dignified way by commissioning for publication,
in the now acceptable festschrift tradition, the highly compelling and
outstanding collection of essays titled: Scholarship and Commitment:
Essays in Honour of G.G. Darah. The book is a ground-breaking collection
of essays; some are couched as tributes to the ebullient celebrant,
there are others on more serious discourses in the areas of literary
theories and criticism, language and linguistics, popular literature and
politics, the African woman, identity and contemporary realities, oral
literature, the news media and cultural studies. The essays, on their
own, attest to the vivacity and liveliness as well as the encouraging
state of health of publishing in the Nigerian academia, which in this
collection alone, parades forty-two essays in different fields or
discourses.