Obaro ikime biography of albert einstein

Iku o mo eni’san! “Death does not know the good ones” is a Yoruba phrase to describe the indiscriminate nature of death. If character and social values were considered in the roster of who was to die, I am sure that the Nigerian historian Obaro Ikime would have lived hundreds of years.

The grave, they say, holds the greatest aggregate of wealth.

Professor Ikime died on 25 April 2023, aged 86.

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He belonged to the second generation of Nigerian scholars trained at the University of Ibadan. His PhD thesis on indirect rule became part of the cumulative contributions of African historiography, known as the Ibadan School of History, famous for projecting the African perspective of history.

Uniquely, Ikime reflected social consciousness through his scholarship to give life to history and reduce abstractive tendencies.

He understood that scholarship should not be in a vacuum, and he was able to adopt it as an instrument of social communication and building of social consciousness o