Olumbe Bassir

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Olumbe Bassir was a Nigerian academic, editor, author and a pioneer professor of Biochemistry at the University of Ibadan. He was at one time, the head of the Biochemistry department. He specialized in Nutritional Biochemistry.

In the 1950s, he brought out an anthology of West African prose, though it was more of a pamphlet, the book was one of the earliest to expose Nigerian students to the writings of West Africans. ^[1]

[edit] Life

Bassir was born in Senegal and studied in the United Kingdom, while in U.K., he was a student of Richard Tecwyn Williams. In 1968, he formed a partnership with Tecwyn Williams through the U.K. Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas. The program's research division helped developed the Drug Metabolism and Biochemical Toxicology research program at Ibadan and contributed in fostering interest and discovering interesting findings in animal nutritional habits.