SEGUN, Mabel Dorothy

College, Yaba, Lagos, 1971-73, 1977-79; Founding Secretary, Nigerian Book Development Council, Lagos, 1974-76; Deputy Permanent Delegateof Nigeria to UNESCO,Paris, France, 1979-81;Chief Federal Inspector of Education, 1982; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of African Studies, University of lbadan, 1982-89;retired from University of lbadan; dir. Children's Literature Documentation and Research Centre, lbadan; executive mem. Nigerian Table Tennis Association, 1965-67, co-opted member, 1967-71; associate mem: Institute of Public Relations, London, 1965-66; executive mem. National Sports Commission and ch: Publicity and Public Relations Committee, 1971- 75, Nigerian Amateur Women's Basketball Association, 1972; founder/ president, Children's Literature Association of Nigeria, since 1978; resident, Nigerian National Section, International Board on Books for Young People, 1978-79; honorary life member, Lagos State Table Tennis Association, since 1979; v-presd. UNESCO World Congress on Disarmament Education, Paris, 1980; mm: University of lbadan Sports Council, 1984-87; winner, Women's National Table Tennis Singles, 1957; Coca-Cola All-Nigeria Women's Table Tennis Singles/ Mixed Doubles, 1967; All-Nigeria Table Tennis Mixed Doubles Open Championships, 1970; winner, Radio Nigeria Artist of the Year, 1977; winner, Hall of Fame Award by the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, Lagos State Branch, 1981. publ: My Father's Daughter, African Universities Press, Lagos, 1965; Friends, Nigerians, Countrymen. Oxford University Press, lbadan, 1977; co-editor, Under The Mango Tree. Books I and II. Neville Grant, Longman Group, 1980; Youth Day Parade, DUCA, lbadan, Accra, Nairobi, Kampala, 1983; Olu and The Broken Statue, New Horn Press, lbadan, 1983; Sorry No Vacancy, University Press, lbadan, 1985; Conflict and Other Poems. New Horn Press, lbadan, 1986; My Mother's Daughter. African Universities Press, lbadan, 1987; Ping Pong: Twenty-Five Years of Table Tennis, Day Star Press, lbadan, 1989; 77/e Surrenderand Other Stories, Longman, United Kingdom, 1995. hob; reading, writing, table tennis, badminton, dress-making, cooking, learning languages, off: Institute of African Studies, University of lbadan, lbadan. res: Block 4, Flat 4, Saunders Road, University of lbadan, lbadan, Oyo State.