Isaac Adeagbo Akinjogbin

Isaac Adeagbo Akinjogbin, also known as I. A. Akinjogbin, was a Nigerian writer and historian. Akinjogbin engaged in extensive and thorough cultural and historical research, looking into a variety of Yoruba cultural, historical, and ideological processes and issues. Most African historiography considers the well-known work Dahomey and Its Neighbors, 1708–1818 to be a masterpiece.

Life and work Akinjogbin, who was born in 1930 in Ipetumodu, Ife North Local Government Area, Osun State, Nigeria, attended Christ Church School Ipetumodu and Origbo Central School, Ipetumodu between 1940 and 1946. He also attended Ijebu Ode Grammar School between 1946 and 1950, Fourah Bay College in Freetown between 1952 and 1954, and later the University of Durham in England, where he earned his B.A. (Hons.) in Modern History in 1957. He received a Ph.D in African History in 1963. He began working at the University of Ife in the same year as a lecturer in the history department. He was named the Institute of African Studies' acting director in 1965, and in 1968, after being promoted to full professor, he was named the department's permanent head

Works War and Peace in Yorubaland, 1793–1893 The impact of iron in Yorubaland Olókun; iwe àtìgbàdégbà ni Àtàtà Yoruba 2 September 1960 Dahomey and Its Neighbours, 1708–1818