Expanding the pantheon of our national heroes
Subtitle: a festschrift in honour of Sola Akinrinade
By: edited by Olukoya Ogen
Contributors: Akinrinade, Sola, 1959-
Edition: International ed.
Publisher: Canadian Center for Global Studies
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9789783726642
Subjects: Biography; Heroes; College administrators
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Josy Ajiboye : Nigeria's cartooning icon  -- Tunde Decker; title: Art of the popular : Mudope Alade and the making of Nigerian show business  -- Rotimi Fasan; title: The blind minstrel : a focus on the life and times of Benjamin Aderounmu aka Kokoro  -- Wale Idowu and Isiaka Raifu; title: The abuse of a national symbol and its designer : an exploratory analysis of the travails of Taiwo Akinkunmi  -- Sunday Akande; title: The making of a "forgotten" national hero : C.C. Adeniyi-Jones, 1876-1957  -- S.O. Arifalo and Olukoya Ogen; title: J.S. Olawoyin : a Middle Belt political icon  -- E.O. Ibiloye; title: Militant nationalism and the struggle for Nigeria's independence : an appraisal of the political career of Joseph Kolawale Balogun, 1926-2002  -- Adewole Adeleke; title: Oba Mohammed Sanusi Matiku Olusi and the colonial manipulations of of the obaship institution in Lagos, 1865-1945  -- Siyan Oyeweso; title: Remembering Ameh Oboni, 1911-1956 : a martyr of Nigerian cultural nationalism  -- Noah Echa Attah; title: Brigadier-General Babafemi Ogundipe : a study in military professionalism par excellence  -- Oluranti Afowowe; title: Sola Akinranade : understanding the nexus between excellence in scholarship and university administration -- Olukoya Ogen.