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Adetoun Ogunsheye

b. 1926

First Nigerian Female Professor (born 1926)

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Born 1926. Adetoun Ogunsheye is a Nigerian librarian, university teacher and writer.

Felicia Adetowun Omolara Ogunsheye (, nΓ©e Banjo; born 5 December 1926) is a Nigerian academic. The first female professor in Nigeria, she served as a professor of library and information science at the University of Ibadan.

Early life and education Adetowun Ogunsheye was born on 5 December 1926 in Benin City, Edo State. She is the elder sister of Lieutenant Colonel Victor Banjo and Ademola Banjo. She had her secondary education at Queens College, before becoming the only female student to attend Yaba Higher School, now Yaba College of Technology, in 1946. In 1948, she received her diploma, becoming the first woman to graduate from the school. She attended University College Ibadan, She earned another master's degree in Library Science from Simmons College, Massachusetts, USA, in 1962.

She established the Abadina Media Resource Centre Library of the University of Ibadan.

Honours She has received the Ford International Fellow, 1961; the Hon. D.L.S. of Simmons College, 1969; the Simmons College International Alumnus Award, 1979; the Fulbright Fellowship for Senior African Scholars, 1980; the Decade of Women Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Achievement, 1985; Fellow, Nigerian Library Association, 1982 and Nigerian Academy of Education, 1985; Hon. Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) University of Maiduguri, 1990; and the International Education Hall of Fame, Nigeria, 2000. She also holds the chieftaincy title of the Iyalaje of Ile-Oluji, which she first received in 1982.

The University of Ibadan named a female postgraduate hall after her under the administration of Prof. Abel Idowu Olayinka.

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University of Ibadan, Newnham College, Simmons University, Yaba College of Technology
Employers
University of Ibadan
Awards
Fulbright Scholarship
Also known as
Felicia Adetowun Omolara Ogunsheye, F. Adetoun Ogunsheye

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Who is Adetoun Ogunsheye?

First Nigerian Female Professor (born 1926)

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Adetoun Ogunsheye was born on 5 December 1926 in Benin City.

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Adetoun Ogunsheye is a librarian, university teacher and writer.

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Adetoun Ogunsheye is Nigerian.

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