Adetowun Ogunsheye

Felicia Adetoun Ogunsheye
Personal details
Born Felicia Adetoun Omolara Banjo
(1926-12-05) 5 December 1926
Benin City, Edo State
Education Queen's College, Lagos
Yaba College of Technology
University of Ibadan
University of Cambridge
Simmons College
Known for Being the first Nigerian woman to attain professorial cadre

Felicia Adetoun Omolara Ogunsheye (née Banjo; born 5 December 1926) is the first female professor in Nigeria. She was a professor of library and information science at the University of Ibadan.[1]

Early life and education

Ogunsheye was born on December 5, 1926 in Benin City, Nigeria, to parents from Ogun State.[2] She is the elder sister of Lieutenant Colonel Victor Banjo and Ademola Banjo. She had her secondary education at Queens College, before becoming the only female student at Yaba College of Technology in 1946. In 1948, she received her diploma, becoming the first woman to graduate from the school.[3] She attended University College Ibadan, then went on to Newnham College, Cambridge University, UK, to study Geography on scholarship, earning BA and MA degrees in 1952 and 1956, respectively; she became the first Nigerian woman there.[1] She earned another Master's degree in Library Science from Simmons College, Massachusetts, USA in 1962.[4]

She established the Abadina Media Resource Centre Library of the University of Ibadan.[4] In 1973, she became a professor at University of Ibadan. Between 1977 and 1979, she was appointed as the dean of faculty of education at the same university. She was the first woman to become a dean in any Nigerian university.[3]

Publications

Her most cited work from Google Scholar is a 1976 for UNESCO titled Library Education at Ibadan University, Nigeria. In another 1976 study on The future of Library Education in Africa, Ogunsheye posited that African Libraries need to reinvent their foundations from their colonial masters and document oral data and cultures into the system.[5] In a 1979 study on Abadina Media Resource Centre (AMRC): A Case Study in Library Service to Primary Schools, Ogunsheye evaluated the role of Libraries in equipping information seekers in primary schools.[6] Other works include an autobiographical treatise. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 Sote, Lekan (7 December 2016). "Celebrating Prof Ogunsheye at 90". The Punch. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
  2. ↑ admin (November 29, 2016). "Prof Adetoun Ogunsheye, Nigeria's first female professor, turns 90". Tribune Online. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
  3. 1 2 admin (January 16, 2017). "FIRST WOMEN: First Nigerian Woman To Study At Cambridge Univeristy[sic] And To Female Professor In Nigeria". Woman.ng. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
  4. 1 2 Robert Wedgeworth; Mary Ellen Chijioke; Marco R. Della Cava (1993). World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services. American Library Association. p. 632. ISBN 9780838906095.
  5. ↑ De, Gruyter (September 20, 2011). "The future of Library Education in Africa". degruyter.com. Retrieved November 10, 2017.
  6. ↑ ERIC (January 1, 1979). "Abadina Media Resource Centre (AMRC): A Case Study in Library Service to Primary Schools". eric.ed.gov. Retrieved November 10, 2017.
  7. ↑ F. Adetoun Ogunṣhẹyẹ (2001). A break in the silence: a historical note on Lt. Colonel Victor Adebukunola Banjo. University of Michigan (Spectum Books Limited). ISBN 978-9-780-2928-81.
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