Hats off to all members and well-wishers of DASA! This is extraordinarily good news that truly bodes well for the future of our organization. As for what the Executive Councils for the last number of years have done, I can only leave you awith this quotation:
"Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They are deeply informed about everything but interfere hardly at all. They are catalysts, and though things would not get done as well if they weren't there, when they succeed they take no credit. And because they take no credit, credit never leaves them"
......Lao Zi, (Li Erh, Lao Tzu, Lao Tse, Lao Tze)[The Way of Lao-tzu]
Abioseh Michael Porter, Ph.D.
Professor of English and Department Head
Editor, JALA (Journal of African Literature Association)
Department of English and Philosophy
Drexel University
August 26,2008