Niyi Osundare

Niyi Osundare

male, 62 years old
Ikere-Ekiti, Ondo State, free speech, freedom of speech, university of new orleans, universityofibadan…university of leeds, york university, ibadan
Niyi Osundare (born in 1947 in Ikere-Ekiti, Ondo State, Nigeria) is a prolific poet, dramatist and literary critic. He gained degrees at the...
Elechi Amadi

Elechi Amadi

male, 75 years old
Ikwerre, University of Ibadan alumni, novelist, The Slave, The Concubine, The Great Ponds…universityofibadan, from the Ekwerre people of eastern Nigeria
Elechi Amadi is a Nigerian writer. He has authored three African novels: The Concubine, The Great Ponds and The Slave. Amadi’s novels are ge...
James Meredith

James Meredith

male, 76 years old
Mississippi Republican, From Kosciusko, Mississippi, French, U.S. Marshal, United States Marshals Service, American Civil Rights Movement…universityofibadan, Jackson State University, University of Mississippi, Columbia University
James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an American civil rights movement figure, although he vocally prefers "not" to be regarded as such....
Demas Nwoko

Demas Nwoko

male
nigerian, protean, universityofibadan, african, designer, ibadan
Demas Nwoko (1935) is a Nigerian artist, protean designer and architect. As an artist, he strives to incorporate modern techniques in architecture...
Kwasi Wiredu

Kwasi Wiredu

male, 78 years old
Duke University, Legon, University of Keele, University of California, Los Angeles, Kumasi, Alumni of University College, Oxford…University College, Oxford, Bachelor of Philosophy, Academic of Keele University, University College of North Staffordshire, University College
Kwasi Wiredu (b. 1931) is one of the foremost African philosophers working today. Wiredu was born in Kumasi, Ghana in 1931, and attended Adisadel...
Fela Sowande

Fela Sowande

male
Blackbirds, University of London, musician, Kingsway Hall, George Oldroyd, Royal College of Organist…Trinity College of Music, Curse of the Fly, Institute of African Studies, Sowande School of Music, Lawrence University
Fela Sowande (b. Nigeria, May 1905; d. Ohio, United States, 1987) was a Nigerian musician and composer. Considered the father of modern Nigerian...
Grace Alele-Williams

Grace Alele-Williams

female, 77 years old
mathematician, nigerian, Newton, Lagos State Curriculum Review Committee, Modern Mathematics Handbook for Teacher, Lagos State Examinations Boards…University of Vermont, universityofibadan, University of Chicago
Grace Alele-Williams made history as the first Nigerian woman to become the head (Vice-Chancellor) of a Nigerian university (the University of...
Akin Euba

Akin Euba

male, 74 years old
University of Bayreuth, University of Lagos, Twelve-tone technique, Contemporary classical music, atenteben, Churchill College, Cambridge…Trinity College of Music, University of California, Los Angeles, Central Conservatory of Music, university of ghana, University of Pittsburgh
Akin Euba (born Olatunji Akin Euba, Lagos, Nigeria, April 28, 1935) is a Nigerian composer, musicologist, and pianist. Euba studied composition...
Tekena Tamuno

Tekena Tamuno

male
historian, nigerian, Academic, universityofibadan
Tekena Tamuno (born in 1932) is a Nigerian historian and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan. He is currently the president of the...
Maxwell Fry

Maxwell Fry

male, deceased (1987)
Modernism, Jane Drew, World War II, architect, university of liverpool, Modernist architect…universityofibadan, Royal Institute of British Architect, Festival of Britain, co-founder of MARS
Edwin Maxwell Fry, usually known as Maxwell Fry (born 2 August 1899; died 3 September 1987) was an English modernist architect. He was trained at...