{"id":6708,"date":"2016-11-16T10:32:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T09:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6708"},"modified":"2017-04-18T17:47:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T16:47:39","slug":"awe-prof-bolanle-alake","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/awe-prof-bolanle-alake\/","title":{"rendered":"AWE, Prof. Bolanle Alake"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> OFR, BA, MA, Ph.D; historian, academic, administrator; b: January 28, 1933; p: llesa, Osun State; m: Professor Olumuyiwa Awe, 1960; nc:three s,two d; cd:CMSGirls&#8217; School, Lagos, 1946-50; St. Anne&#8217;s School, Ibadan, 1950-51; Perse School for Girls, Cambridge, England, 1952-54; University ofSt.Andrew&#8217;s, Scotland, 1954- 58; UniversityofOxford, England, 1958-60. cr: LecturerinHistory, University oflbadan, 1960-66; Lecturer, School ofAfrican andAsian Studies, University ofLagos, 1966-69; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of African Studies, University oflbadan, 1969-76; appointed Commissioner for Educa-tion, and laterCommissioner forTrade,In-dustries andCooperatives,OyoState, 1975- 78;dir.andResearch Professor ofOral History, InstituteofAfrican Studies, University oflbadan; chairperson, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation Con-fercnceonWomen inIndustry, Vienne Austrie 1978; mm. former Western State Scholarship Board; National sec, Nigerian Association ofUniversity Women, 1962-63; former Western State Economic Advisory Council, 1966; sec, Western State Branch, National Council of Women&#8217;s Societies, 1971; former Western StateTourism Board, 1972; ch.OyoState Committeeon the SouthernAfrican ReliefFund,1977-78; mem. Gover-ning Council,Nigerian Iiistituteoflntema-tioralAffairs, 1978;chairpersoeAcademic StaffUnion of Universities, Universityoflbadan, 1982-83; mem:Governing Council,OndoState University, Ado-Ekiti, 1988; Board ofTrustees, Nigerian National MeritAward, 1989; f: Nigerian Academy of Letters, 2005; nh: Officer oftheOrderoftheFederal Republic 1982; publ:Unhersi-ty Education ofWomen in Nigeria, 1964; The AjeleSystem:AStudyoflbadan&#8217;slm-perialism In The 19th Century, 1964; 77m? Cityoflbadan, 1967; The Ancient Kingdom ofThe Western Sudan: Ghana, Mali andSonghai, 1965; Place Names AsA SourceForHistorical Reconstruction: The-lbadan Exam-pie. 197&#8217;I; Militarism andEconomicDevelop-mentinl9thCenmry Yorubaland, The Ibadan Example. 1973; Antiquities In Nigeria, 1973; Praise PoemsAsHistorical Data. The Exam-pie ofThe Yoruba Oriki. 1974; 77\u00bbe Economic Role ofWomen In A Traditional African Society.The Yoruba Example, 1975. hob: reading, gardening, drama, swimming, travelling, off:c\/oInstituteofAfrican Studies, Universityoflbadan, Ibadan, Oyo State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6708","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6708","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\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6708"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}