{"id":13394,"date":"2017-03-02T16:31:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13394"},"modified":"2017-05-24T11:15:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T10:15:28","slug":"kujore-professor-obafemi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/kujore-professor-obafemi\/","title":{"rendered":"KUJORE, Prof. Obafemi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> BA, Ph.D, educationist, born March 9, 1931, Igbore, Abeokuta, Ogun State; married Modupe Abimbola Fagunke 1960, two sons, one daughter; Education: Olowogbowo Method ist School, Lagos, 1944-45, Methodist Boys&#8217; High School, Lagos, 1946-51, University College, Ibadan, 1955-59, University Col lege, London, England, 1963-66; Career: Appointed Clerk, Nigerian Secretariat, La gos, 1952-54; Assistant Master, Methodist Boys&#8217; High School, Lagos, 1954-55, 1959- 60; Teacher, Epe Divisional Grammar School, Epe, 1960-62; Teacher, African Church Grammar School, Abeokuta, 1962- 63; Teacher, Ebenezer Grammar School, Abeokuta, 1963; Teacher, St Paul&#8217;s Boys&#8217; PublicSchool. London, England, 1966;Lec turer, Department of Classics, University College of Cape Coast, Ghana, 1966-69; Lecturer, Department ofClassics, University of Ibadan, 1969-72; SeniorLecturer, Depart ment of Classics, Universityof Ibadan, 1972- 75; appointed Professor ofClassics, Univer sity ofIbadan, since 1975; member, Govern ing Council, University of Ibadan, 1976-78, 1983-87; Head, Department of Classics, University of Ibadan, 1978-81; 1985-87; appointed member, National Universities Commission Panel on Academic Standards for Arts, 1987; member, Classical Associa tion of Nigeria; member, TheLinguistic As sociation of Nigeria; member, The Reading Association of Nigeria; Commonwealth fel low, University of London, Institute of Clas sical Studies, 1972; member, The Philologi cal Society, London; member, The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, London; member, The Classical Association, UK; member, the Linguistic Society of America; member, The West African Lin guistic Society; Publications: Greek Poly morphic Presents: AStudy of their Devel opment and Functional Tendencies. Amsterdam, Hakkert, 1973; English Usage: Some Notable Nigerian Variations, Evans, Ibadan, 1985;Hobbies: music,tennis; Offi cial Address: Department of Classics, Uni versity of Ibadan, Ibadan; Telephone: 022- 400-550,400-614 extension 1161; Home: 5 Sankore Avenue, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State; Telephone: 022-400550, 400514 extension 1652.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13394","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13394","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20549,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13394\/revisions\/20549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13394"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}