Tai SOLARIN

Educator, social activist, author (journalist) first African pilot · b. 20 August 1922

BA, educationist, administrator, social critic; assumed date of bir th: August 20, 1922, (date of birth not known), Ikenne, Ogun State; married Sheila Mary Tuer 1951, one son, one daughter; Education: St James' School, Iperu, Wesley School, Ogere, Ogun State, 1930, Otapete Wesley School, Il esa, 1931-32, Wesley College, Ibadan, 1932-36, Manchester University, England, 1956-59, University of London, England, 1959-66; member, Royal Air Force, UK, 1942-45; Principal, Moiusi College, Ijebu-igbo, 1952-55; Proprietor and Principal, Mayflower School, Ikenne, 1956-76; Public Complaints Commis sioner, Oyo, Ogun and Ondo States, 1976-77; Proprietor, Mayflower Junior School, since 1959; Chairman, Presidential ImplementationMonitoring Committee of DFRRI in Benue, Plateau, Borno and Gongola States, 1988; Political Party: member, banned Unity Party of Nigeria; Honorary Degree: Awarded Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree (Hon. D.Ltt), Alma College, Alma, Michigan, USA, 1971; Publications: Towards Nigeria's Moral Self-Government (University of Ibadan, 1959); Thinking With You (Longmans); A Message for Young Nigerians (Macmillan, 1982); To Mother With Love (Ibadan, Board Publications Limited,…