Latunde Odeku

**E. Latunde Odeku** (an haife shi **Emanuel Olatunde Alaba Olanrewaju Odeku** ; 1927, Lagos, Nigeria – mutu, London, 1974) shi ne dan Najeriya na farko da ya samu horo a fannin aikin jinya a Amurka wanda kuma ya fara aikin tiyatar jijiya a Afirka.

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
Daga cikin al'adun Yarbawa,   An haifi Latunde a Legas, Najeriya. Mahaifinsa dan asalin Awe ne  yayin da mahaifiyarsa 'yar Legas ce. Ya yi makarantar sakandare ta Methodist Boys, Legas. kuma ya wuce Jami'ar Howard kuma ya kammala karatun *summa cum laude* a Zoology a 1950. Daga baya an ba shi tallafin karatu don yin karatun likitanci a Jami'ar Howard, inda ya sami MD a 1954.

## Aikin likita
Bayan da Latunde ta ci jarrabawar Licencuate Medical Canada a shekara ta gaba a Najeriya a matsayin jami'in kula da lafiya a babban asibitin Legas. A 1961, ya koma Amurka kuma an ba shi matsayin zama, horo a karkashin Dr. Kahn (daga 1956 zuwa 1960) a Jami'ar Michigan . Bayan haka, ya horar da ilimin Neurology a karkashin Dokta Webb Haymaker a Cibiyar Kiwon Lafiya ta Walter Reed da ke Washington, DC Daga bisani ya sake yin wani wurin zama na likitan yara a asibitin yara na Philadelphia karkashin Dokta Eugene Spitz, mahaliccin Spitz-Holter valve don magance hydrocephalus. . A cikin 1961, an nada shi Malamin Neuroanatomy da Neurosurgery a Kwalejin Magunguna, Jami'ar Howard .

Ko da yake Latunde daga baya an ba da alƙawura da yawa da suka haɗa da fitattun jami'o'i biyu na aikin tiyata a cikin Amurka; duk da haka ya zabi komawa Najeriya. Latunde ya zo Jami'ar Ibadan a shekarar 1962 a matsayin likitan tiyata na farko a Afirka ta Yamma. A cikin 1962, an nada shi a matsayin babban jami'in koyarwa kuma ya zama ɗan'uwan Kwalejin Likitocin Amurka. A 1965, an nada shi a matsayin Farfesa na Neurosurgery; daga 1968 zuwa 1971, ya zama shugaban sashen tiyata da kuma shugaban kwalejin likitanci na jami'ar Ibadan . Ya kuma kafa kwalejojin likitanci na kasa da Afirka ta yamma da kuma tsarin fara aiki a Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Jami'ar Ibadan, wanda a halin yanzu ake gudanarwa a duk makarantun likitancin Najeriya.
Latunde kuma mawaƙi ne kuma marubuci: Ya ba da gudummawa sosai ga wallafe-wallafen neurosurgical, inda ya buga labaran kimiyya 61 a cikin kusan shekaru 12.

An ba Latunde lambar yabo ta tsofaffin ɗaliban Jami'ar Howard don hidima na musamman.

## Rayuwa ta sirri
Latunde ta yi auren sau biyu ga likitocin likita. Aurensa na farko ya haifar da ’ya’ya biyu kafin a kashe aure. A cikin 1971 ya auri Katherine Jill Adcock, wata likitar likitancin Ingila wacce ke aiki a asibitin Kwalejin Jami'ar. Suna da 'ya'ya biyu - Alan, wanda aka haifa a watan Oktoba 1971 da kuma 'yar da aka haifa a Janairu 1973. 

A cikin rayuwarsa, duk da kasancewarsa ƙwararren likita, Latunde kawai ya buga labarai 85 da suka shafi likitanci da wasu labarai 13 da suka shafi batutuwa na gaba ɗaya. A matsayinsa na ƙwararren likita-mawaƙi, ya rubuta tarin wakoki guda biyu: *Twilight: Out of the Night* (1964), da *Whispers from the Night* (1969). 

## Bayan shekaru
Daga 1972, lafiyarsa ta fara kasawa daga rikice-rikice na Ciwon sukari . Ya mutu a ranar 20 ga Agusta, 1974, a Asibitin Hammersmith, London kuma an binne shi a cocin St Peter's Church, Burnham, Ingila.  

## Ayyukan da aka buga

* Twilight of the Night 
* Odeku, E. Latunde. (1978). *Publications of E. Latunde*  
* E. Latunde Odeku (1975) 
* Whispers from the night (1969) 
* Odeku, E. L., & Adeloye, A. (1978). *Publications of E. Latunde Odeku*. Ibadan, Nigeria: University of Ibadan.
* Beginnings of Neurosurgery at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria 
* Congenital Subgaleal Cysts over the Anterior Fontanelle in Nigerians 
* Adeloye, Adelola Odeku, E. Latunde (1971-02). *Congenital Subgaleal Cysts over the Anterior Fontanelle in Nigerians* 
* Adeloye, A.; Odeku, E. L. (1971-02-01) Epilepsy after missile wounds of the head 
* Epilepsy after missile wounds of the head (Book) 
* Perspectives in Neurosurgery  (1971-01-01)  
* Adeloye, Adelola; Latunde Odeku, E. (1971). "The radiology of missile head wounds". *Clinical Radiology*. **22** (3): 312–320. doi:10.1016/s0009-9260(71)80079-x. ISSN&nbsp;0009-9260.
* Biography - E. Latunde Odeku, an African neurosurgeon (1976) 
* Three decades of medical research at the College of Medicine, Ibadan, Nigeria 1948 - 1980 ; a list of the papers publ. by members of the College of Med. of the Univ. of Ibadan from its foundation through 1980 
* E. Latunde Odeku, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.I.C.S., 1927-1974. An African pioneer neurosurgeon.
* Letter E. Latunde Odeku  
* Obituary: Professor E. Latunde Odeku B.Sc., M.D., L.M.C.C. (Canada), D.A.B.N.S., F.I.C.S., F.A.C.S., F.M.C.S. (Nigeria) by A Adeloye Publication: Surgical neurology, 1975 Apr; 3(4): 187
* 11th E. Latunde Odeku memorial lecture given on 27 October 1987.

## Nassoshi