Babs Fafunwa
Academic
1923 – 2010
Who was Babs Fafunwa?
Aliu Babatunde Fafunwa was a Nigerian educationist, scholar and former minister for Education. As minister, he was in charge of the biggest school system in Africa. He is known for his early writings on the need to re-appraise the inherited colonial epistemological system in Nigeria and to introduce relevant cultural goals, subjects and local languages into the system, in order to accommodate the developmental and cultural pattern of the country. He is also a notable authority on the history of educational planning in Nigeria. Babs Fafunwa died in the early hours of 11 October 2010, at a hospital in Abuja, the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory.
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- Born
- Sep 23, 1923
Lagos - Religion
- Islam
- Ethnicity
- Yoruba people
- Nationality
- Nigeria
- Education
- New York University
- Died
- Oct 11, 2010
Abuja
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on July 23, 2013
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