Eighty-year-old former Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, Akoka, and ex-member, National Boundary Commission, Emeritus Prof. Anthony Asiwaju, shares the story of his life withI was born on April 27, 1939 in Imeko, Ogun State.My parents were strict Roman Catholics. My father was literate in Yoruba. So, he wrote the date down. Besides, I was baptised barely two weeks after my birth on May 14, 1939. It was close enough to be able to say that what my father wrote down was correct.
The land he farmed belonged to his brother, who was my uncle, whom we came to live with. So, if you trained me as a farmer, what farmland am I going to inherit? He took that decision that both of us should go to school. That was why going to school was an afterthought of my parents, I didn’t start early enough – I started at 10.I went to school in 1949 and finished primary school at St. Joseph’s Catholic School in Ado-Odo in 1955.
By 1969, I became a lecturer at the University of Lagos. For me, it is like continuing to be a teacher and I still pride myself as a teacher. I was trained as a teacher; I taught as a Grade 2 teacher in primary, secondary, college and went to the university. After BA, PhD, I remained a teacher in a university – tertiary level and was in UNILAG for 35 years when I retired in April 2004 at 65 . But now it is 70.My career is the career of a teacher all the way.
The truth of the matter is that there was no way I could say I wanted to read medicine. The school I did my primary school, secondary school in TTC. The secondary school in TTC already put me in a profession – teaching – and I had no cause to be envious or jealous of those in medicine; so that ruled out medicine.
The National Boundary Commission was created to operate in two major functional wings – international boundaries and internal boundaries.
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