J.F. Ade Ajayi
Subtitle: his life and career
By: edited by Michael Omolewa, Akinjide Osuntokun; with a foreword by General Yakubu Gowon, GCFR
Publisher: Bookcraft
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ibadan, Nigeria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9789788457152
Subjects: Biography; Historians; Community activists; Lecturers
Description: This is a book on the life and career of Professor J. F. Ade Ajayi, a distinguished historian, administrator, intellectual and builder of institutions; a renaissance man and a gentleman. Written by a collection of Professor Ajayi's former students, academic colleagues, members of his family, his associates and friends, contributors approach the subject from different perspectives and angles, without sacrificing the focus on the man and his career.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Birth and childhood (1929-1940); title: Secondary education (1940-1946); title: Post-secondary education (1947-1958); title: Courtship, marriage and home building (1952); title: Career at Ibadan (1958-1972); title: The University of Lagos chapter (1972-1978); title: Post-University of Lagos and a new beginning (1978); title: Ade Ajayi and religion; title: The scholarship of Ade Ajayi; title: Ajayi and the wider world; title: Ade Ajayi and community service; title: Ajayi as colleague, family and friend; title: Epilogue.