Kenneth Dike
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1917 – 1983
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Who was Kenneth Dike?
Kenneth Onwika Dike was a Nigerian historian and the first Nigerian Vice-Chancellor of the nation's premier college, the University of Ibadan. During the Nigerian civil war, he moved to Harvard University, Boston. He was a founder of the Ibadan School that dominated the writing of the History of Nigeria until the 1970s. He is credited with "having played the leading role in creating a generation of African historians who could interpret their own history without being influenced by Eurocentric approaches."
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- Born
- Dec 17, 1917
Awka - Also known as
- K. Onwuka Dike
- Nationality
- Nigeria
- Education
- Fourah Bay College
- Died
- Oct 26, 1983
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on July 23, 2013
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