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X-Posted from Naijanet Akin Ogundiran Boston University Professor Ade Obayemi is dead. He died of complications from a last week brain tumor surgery at University College Hospital in Ibadan (Nigeria). A fervent student of cultural studies, Ade Obayemi graduated from University of Ibadan (Nigeria) and University of Legon (Ghana). Until his death, he was Professor of History and Archaeology, and the Head of the Dept. of History at University of Ilorin. He was for many years a lecturer in the Dept. of History at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he helped to establish archaeology as an academic discipline. He was the Director-General of Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments between 1984 and 1990. Professor Obayemi hailed from Ife-Ijumu in Kogi state where he established a cultural center named Akodi Afrika. May his soul rest in perfect peace, Amen.
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