{"id":10389,"date":"2017-02-13T13:26:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T12:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10389"},"modified":"2017-11-14T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T13:55:08","slug":"okedeji-professor-oiadejo-olatokunbo","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okedeji-professor-oiadejo-olatokunbo\/","title":{"rendered":"OKEDEJI, Prof. Oladejo Olatokunbo"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc (Hons), Ph.D, sociologist, born August 30, 1933, Ogbomosho, Oyo State; married Olivia Agbajoh 1987, one son, three daughters; Education: Baptist Primary School, llora, Oyo State, Baptist Boys&#8217; High School, Abeokuta, 1947-50, Columbia University. New York City, USA, 1959-66; Announcer, Nigerian Broadcasting Service (now Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria), 1954-56, Programme Assistant, NBS, 1956; Head, Vernacular Broadcasts Unit, NBS, 1957-59; Music Research and Special Project Assistant, NBS, 1959; Visiting Research fellow, Institute of Administration, University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ibadan branch, 1964-65; Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology, New York University, USA, 1965-66; Lecturer, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, City College of New York, USA, 1965-66; Lecturer in Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, USA, 1966-67; appointed Professor of Sociology, University of Lagos, since 1975; Head, Department of Sociology, University of Lagos, 1975-78; Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lagos, 1983-85; member, Nigerian Anthropological and Sociological Association; member, Nigerian Economic Society; Corresponding member, American Anthropological Association; fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute; Vice President, International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences; Publications: The Sociology of Yoruba, coeditor, (Ibadan University Press, 1970), and many scholarly articles in national and international learned journals; Hobbies: reading, music, current affairs; Official Address: Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 820311 extension 353; Home: 7. Oritshejolomi Thomas Crescent, University of Lagos Campus, Akoka, Lagos; Telephone: (01)822125 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10389","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10389"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}