JF Ade Ajayi

Jacob Festus Ade Ajayi (born May 26, 1929 in Ikole-Ekiti , today Ekiti State, Nigeria , † August 9, 2014 in Ibadan , Oyo , Nigeria) was a Nigerian historian and university professor .

Life

Ajayi was the son of the assistant to a Yoruba dignitary , an Oba , his hometown at the time of the colonial administration of the country. There he attended elementary school and later, supported by a scholarship from the local administration of Ikole-Ekiti, went to Lagos , where he attended Igbobi College until he finished school. He then studied history at the University of Ibadan . He deepened his studies in this subject in England at the University of Leicester . He graduated from the Historical Research Institute of London University as a Bachelor of Arts and received his doctorate there from 1957 to 1958.

Ajayi returned to the University of Ibadan's Historical Institute in 1964, where he taught until 1989. In 1972 he was appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Lagos , but had to leave this post after student unrest in 1978 at the instigation of the then ruling military regime under Olusegun Obasanjo . From 1984 to 1988 he was Vice Chancellor of Ondo State University in Ado-Ekiti .

Publications

• Milestones in Nigerian History. Ibadan University College, Ibadan 1962. New edition: Longman, London 1980, ISBN 0-582-60363-3 .
• Yoruba Warfare in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1964.
• Christian Missions in Nigeria, 1841–1891. Dissertation. University of London 1958. Longmans, London 1965.
• with Michael Crowder (Ed.): History of West Africa. 2 volumes. Longman, London 1971, ISBN 0-391-00217-1 . Multiple editions.
• with Tekena N. Tamuno (Ed.): The University of Ibadan, 1948-1973. A History of the First Twenty-Five Years. Ibadan University Press, Ibadan 1973.
• (Ed.): Evolution of Political Culture in Nigeria: Proceedings of a National Seminar organized by the Kaduna State Council for Arts and Culture. University Press, Lagos 1985, ISBN 0-19-575865-X .
• (Ed.): People and Empires in African History: Essays in Memory of Michael Crowder. Longman, London 1992, ISBN 0-582-08997-2 .
• Historical Atlas of Africa. Longman, London 1992, 0-582-64335-2.
• (Co-author): The African Experience with Higher Education. Currey, London 1996, ISBN 0-8214-1160-8 .
• General History of Africa. Volume 6: Africa in the Nineteenth Century Until the 1880s. Currey, London 1998, ISBN 0-85255-096-0 .
• with Toyin Falola (Ed.): Tradition and Change in Africa: The Essays of JF Ade Ajayi. Africa World Press, Trenton , New Jersey, 2000, ISBN 0-86543-769-6 .
• A patriot to the core. Bishop Ajayi Crowther . Spectrum, Ibadan 2002, ISBN 978-029-286-1 .
• Kayode Eso: The Making of a Judge. Spectrum, Ibadan 2002, ISBN 978-029-312-4 .
• with Okon Uyo : Slavery and Slave Trade in Nigeria: From the Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century. Safari, Ibadan 2010, ISBN 978-978-4908962 .

Web links

• Literature by and about JF Ade Ajayi in the catalog of the German National Library