Bolanle Awe
| Bolanle Awe | |
|---|---|
| Born |
26 January, 1933 Nigeria |
| Nationality | Nigeria |
Professor Bolanle Awe (born 26 January, 1933) is a Nigerian history professor.
Life
Awe was born in Nigeria in 1933. She was educated locally until she took her A-levels at the Perse School in Cambridge. She went to St Andrews University in Scotland where she obtained a masters in history, before taking a doctorate in history at Oxford University. Awe then returned to Nigeria where she became a lecturer at the Univerity of Ibadan. She rose to be a professor at the same university.[1]
She was one of six people who assisted Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka in founding the popular Nigerian confraternity National Association of Seadogs.[2]
References
- ↑ Bolanle Awe - A Quintessential teacher, historian, 2014, MyNewsWatchTimesNG.com, Retrieved 15 February 2016
- ↑ "'How Soyinka & I set up Pyrates Confraternity' – 82 year old Prof. Awe reveals". Information Nigeria. 17 November 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
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