Kenneth Dike

Head and shoulders of Kenneth O. Dike, formally dressed in western suit & tie.
Oil portrait of Kenneth Onwuka Dike as a young man, painted by Robert Sivell.
Kenneth Onwuka Dike
Born17 December 1917
Awka
Died26 October 1983
NationalityNigerian
Alma materDurham University
OccupationEducationist
Children5

Kenneth Onwuka Dike // (17 December 1917 – 26 October 1983[1]) was a Nigerian educationist, historian and the first Nigerian Vice-Chancellor of the nation's premier college, the University of Ibadan.[2][3]

During the Nigerian civil war, he moved to Harvard University.[4] He was a founder of the Ibadan School that dominated the writing of the History of Nigeria until the 1970s.[5] He is credited with "having played the leading role in creating a generation of African historians who could interpret their own history without being influenced by Eurocentric approaches."[6]

  1. ^ "Kenneth O. Dike Dies In a Nigerian Hospital". The New York Times. 13 November 1983. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
  2. ^ J. Gus Liebenow (1986). African Politics: Crises and Challenges. Vol. 388 of A Midland book. Indiana University Press. p. 191. ISBN 978-0-253-3027-55.
  3. ^ Richard A. Joseph (2014). Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria. Vol. 56. Cambridge University Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-107-6335-37.
  4. ^ "Kenneth O. Dike Dies In a Nigerian Hospital". The New York Times. 13 November 1983. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  5. ^ Utilisateur, Super. "Kenneth Onwuka Dike (1962 - 1967)". ias-ibadan.org. Archived from the original on 23 January 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  6. ^ Keith A. P. Sandiford, A Black Studies Primer: Heroes and Heroines of the African Diaspora, Hansib Publications, 2008, p. 151.

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