death_date death_place birth_place nationality ethnicity fields workplaces birth_date known_for image article_title name alma_mater
09 march 2009 enugu , enugu state , nigeria ihube , okigwe , nigeria nigerian igbo african history university -rrb- university of nigeria nsukka -lrb- 1966 -- 1992 -rrb- of alvan ikoku college of education , owerri , -lrb- 1993 ibadan -- 1998 -rrb- abia state university , uturu , -lrb- , 1998 -- 2003 -rrb- ebonyi state university , abakaliki , ibadan -lrb- 2004 -- 2009 -rrb- -lrb- 1964 -- 1966 22 november 1937 history and historiography of africa aeafigbo.jpg adiele afigbo
 adiele eberechukwu afigbo university of ibadan
adiele afigbo

adiele eberechukwu afigbo -lrb- 22 november 1937 -- 9 march 2009 -rrb- was a nigerian historian known for the history and historiography of africa , more particularly igbo history and the history of southeastern nigeria .
themes emphasised include pre-colonial and colonial history , inter-group relations , the aro and the slave trade , the art and science of history in africa , and nation-building .
afigbo took up his career as a historian in the 1950s with the celebrated ibadan school of history , which for about three decades was the most prominent school of history in africa .
he become a prominent member of that school , which devoted its time to demonstrating the need for african history and historiography as specific genres of the world history .
in pursuing the mission of this school through teaching and scholarly work , afigbo produced works that established reconstructionist history , of african historical methodologies , and links between history and statecraft .
he gave rein to eclecticism of sources and methods , using as the occasion demands and warrants elements from myth , oral sources , from archaeology , linguistics , material artefacts and written sources .
in the last analysis he defined a historian as a clinical student of human experience who seeks to tell the story as it is and to explain it .
