{"id":6907,"date":"2016-11-22T15:48:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6907"},"modified":"2017-11-27T12:25:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T11:25:29","slug":"babalola-prof-solomon-adeboye-oladele","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/babalola-prof-solomon-adeboye-oladele\/","title":{"rendered":"BABALOLA, Prof. Solomon Adeboye Oladele"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA MA, Ph.D; linguist, educationist, Professor of African Languages and Literature, University of Lagost; b: December 17, 1926; ht: Ipetumodu; so: Oyo; m: Modupe Olayinka George; 1955; nc: one s, three d; ed: Christ&#8217;s Primary School, Ipetmodu, 1931-37; Igbobi College, Lagos, 1938-43; Achimota College, Ghana, 1944-46; Queen&#8217;s College, Cambridge, England, 1948-51; Institute of Education, University of Cambridge, England, 1955-56; School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, England, 1961-63; cr: Principal, Igbobi College, Lagos, 1958-61; Dean, School of African and Asian Studies, University of Lagos, 1969-73; prof. African Languages and Literature, University of Lagos, 1969-87; Head, Department of African Languages and Literature, University of Lagos, 1974-77; Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, 1977-79; prof. Emeritus, African Languages and Literature, Univeristy of Lagos, 1987; v-presd. for Africa, Inter national Society for Folk Narrative Research, 1969-84; Council mem. West African Linguistic Society, 1983-86; ah. Scored Al Distinction in Nine Subjects,. Cambridge School Certificate Examination, 1943, Amaury Talbot Prize (Doctoral Thesis) for the Best Work on West Africa, 1996; nh. Nigerian National Merit Award, October 1, 1982. publ: Iwe Ede Yoruba, Longman, London, 1963, 1965; The Content and Form of Yorbba Ijala, Oxford University Press, 1996; Awon Qriki Orile, William Collins, Glasgow, 1967; Orin Ode Fun Aseye, Oxford University Press, Ibadan, 1974; Akojopo alo Ijapa, University Press Ltd. Ibadan, 1974. bob: walking, music, table tennis, ayo. off: Department of African Languages and Literature, University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, tel: 01-831674.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6907","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6907","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19262,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6907\/revisions\/19262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6907"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}