7 Things You May Not Know About University of Ibadan
4. The first Indigenous Vice chancellor of UI was Kenneth Dike
The first Nigerian vice chancellor of the university was Kenneth Dike, after whom the University of Ibadan’s library is named. He is the first indigenous VC of the University. Kenneth Onwika Dike (17 December 1917 – 26 October 1983) was a Nigerian historian. He was a native of Awka, in the then eastern Nigeria.
Image Source: www.firstraven.comDuring the Nigerian civil war, he moved to Harvard University, Boston.
He was a founder of the Ibadan School that dominated the writing of the History of Nigeria until the 1970s. 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.
