This volume presents fifty years of the University of Ibadan,
Nigeria's oldest and pre-eminent university, from its inception as
a college of the University of London. The contributors are various
existing and retired faculty professors, heads of the university's
libraries, publishing house and printing press; from the
university's administration, and former students. The essays are
diverse and specific in their handling of the university's history;
but all broadly document the common experience of the university's
decline, and the enormous gulf between the present state of the
university and the kind of institution its creators and ambassadors
believe it should be. They reflect upon the earlier role of the
university as an institutional of international renown and
influential in shaping Nigeria's history; and the present state of
depleted academic departments and inadequate libraries; and they
describe how the university is suffering from the Africa-wide
brain-drain and a chronic lack of funding. The esssays further
demonstrate how the historical development of the university has
largely rested upon the mostly detrimental and at times disastrous
attitude and actions of the Nigerian State; and that the history of
the university is inseparable from the history of the country; the
university having become the intellectual equivalent of a
marginalised Third World economy. The overall picture is not wholly
one of gloom however. The contributors also propose directions the
university may pursue to reverse the decline; and this publication
itself represents a spirited rear-guard action.
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