{"id":15692,"date":"2017-03-14T17:52:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T16:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15692"},"modified":"2017-04-27T10:20:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T09:20:10","slug":"irele-professor-abiola-francis","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/irele-professor-abiola-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"IRELE, Professor Abiola Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, Ph.D, linguist, educationist, born May 22, 1936,Ora, BeninCity, EdoState;Education: StGregory&#8217;s College, Lagos, 1949-54, Nige rian College of Arts; Ibadan, 1955-57, Uni versity College (nowUniversity of Ibadan),Ibadan, 1957-60, University of Paris, France, 1960-66; Assistant editor, Presence Africaine, Paris, France, 1963-64; Career: Lecturer, Federal Advanced Teachers&#8217; Col lege, Lagos, 1966-67; research fellow, Afri can Literature, 1967-70; Senior Research fel low, University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, 1970-72; Di rector, Ethiope Publishing Corporation, Benin; Senior Lecturer, Department of Lan guages, University of Ibadan, 1973-77; ap pointed Professor of Modern Languages and Head, Department of Modern Languages, University of Ibadan, 1977; member, Nige rianSocietyfor Internationality Affairs:mem ber, Yoruba Studies Association member, Board of Judges Commonwealth Writers Prize; Publication: severalarticles in national and international journals; Hobbies: hockey, music; Address: Department of Modern Lan guages, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15692","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15692","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\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15692"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}