{"id":13227,"date":"2017-03-02T10:52:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T09:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13227"},"modified":"2017-11-10T16:54:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:54:50","slug":"olusanya-professor-gabriel-olakunle","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/olusanya-professor-gabriel-olakunle\/","title":{"rendered":"OLUSANYA, Prof Gabriel Olakunle"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.A, M.A, Ph.D, historian, administrator, born July 2, 1936, Abeokuta, Ogun State; married Megan Rose Clayton 1963, one son, one daughter; Education: Yaba Methodist; School, Lagos, 1945-47, Olowogbowo Methodist School, 1948-49, Methodist Boys&#8217; HighSchool, Lagos, 1949-54, NigerianCollege of Arts, Science and Technology, Ibadan, 1955-57, University College, Ibadan, 1957-60, University of British Columbia, Canada, 1960-61, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1961-64; Lecturer in Commonwealth History, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1964-66; Lecturer, Department of History, University of Lagos, 1966-73; Senior Lecturer, Unilag, 1973; Associate Professor, 1973-76; appointed Professr of History and Head, Department of History, University of Lagos, 1976-79; Director of Studies, National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, 1979-82; Visiting Professor, University of Ibadan, 1982-83; Director, Correspondence and Open Studies Institute, University of Lagos, 1983-84; appointed Director-General, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, since April 13, 1984; member, Nigerian Museum Society; fellow, Historical Society of Nigeria, 1986; fellow, Royal Commonwealth Society; member, African Association of Public Administraton and Management; Con sultant and Member, African Association of Political Science, Vice-President, West AfricanChapter;Traditional-Title:Asiwaju of Iporo, Abeokuta; National Honours: Confer red with the Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON), 1983; Publications: TheSecond World War and Politics in Nigeria, 1939-53, (Lagos, Evans\/University of Lagos, 1973); The Evolu tion of the Nigerian Civil Service: The pro blems ofNigerianization, 1861-1960, (Univer sity of Lagos Press, 1975); A Hundred Years of the Methodist Boys&#8217; High School, co author, (Lagos, Academy Press, 1978); The West African Students Union and the Politics of Decolonization, 1925-58, (Daystar Press, 1982); Studies in YorubaHistoryand Culture, editor, (Ibadan, University Press Limited, 1983);Fifty Years of the National Bank (National Bank Press, 1983); Nigeria&#8217;s External Relations: The First Twenty-Five Years, coeditor, (Ibadan, University Press Limited, 1986); Hobbies: reading, writing, music, drama, walking, table tennis; Official Address: Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, 13\/15 Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island, GPO Box 1727, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 614309; Home: 33 Queen&#8217;s Drive, Ikoyi, Lagos. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13227","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13227","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\/13227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13227"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}