{"id":13754,"date":"2017-03-03T15:30:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13754"},"modified":"2017-05-25T10:46:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T09:46:22","slug":"omotoso-dr-ajibade-bankole","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/omotoso-dr-ajibade-bankole\/","title":{"rendered":"OMOTOSO, Dr. Ajibade Bankole"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, Ph.D, university teacher, writer, born April 21, 1943, Akure, Ondo State; married Marguerita Rice 1973, two sons, two daughters; Education: Oyemekun Grammar School, Akure, King&#8217;s College, Lagos, University of Ibadan, 1964-68, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1969-72; Career: Appointed Lecturer, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies,University of Ibadan; Senior Lecturer, Department of Dramatic Arts, University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife; Vice president, West African Writers; President, Association of Nigerian Authors, 1986-88; Award: Senior Academic fellow by the British Council Senior Fellowship (to serve in the Centre for Commonwealth Studies, Stirling University, Scotland), July 1988; Publications: The Edifice, Heinemann, London, 1971; Combat, Heinemnan, London, 1972; Sacrifice, 1974; Fela&#8217;s Choice, 1975; The Scales, 1976; To Borrow a Wandering Leaf, 1978; 830 Memo ries ofOur Recent Boom, 1982;Just Before Dawn Spectrum Books, Ibadan, 1988; in addition to numerous articles in learned journals, newspapers and magazines; Official Address: Department of Dramatic Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; Home: House 11, Road 20C, Obafemi Awolowo University Campus, Ile-Ife, Osun State; Telephone: 036-230-400.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13754","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13754","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\/13754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13754"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}