Gratitude to the University of Ibadan faculty.

Thank you for leading Nigeria's first university with a chemist's precision, an Ibadan graduate three times over now stewarding the institution that trained you.

Thank you for bringing a psychologist's understanding of people to the daily running of a great university, where every administrative decision touches thousands of students' lives.

Thank you for building child and adolescent mental health care in Nigeria almost from first principles, and for making history as the first female Provost of Ibadan's College of Medicine.

Thank you for five hundred papers that put African mental health on the world's research map, and for training the leaders and advocates now carrying that work across the continent.

Thank you for a lifetime decoding the genetics of sickle cell disease and for founding the Sickle Cell Hope Alive Foundation, so that science and compassion reach the same families.

Thank you for founding the Pan African Society of Cardiology and devoting your career to the African heart, then giving your university the same devotion as its Vice-Chancellor.

Thank you for championing One Health from Ibadan's rivers to global panels, showing that the health of water, animals, and people is a single story, and for answering public service's call along the way.

Thank you for A Harvest of Laughters and Wanderer Cantos, and for keeping Ibadan's great literary tradition alive as poet, teacher, and dean in the house that raised Nigerian letters.