Did you know that Adetokun Ogunsheye was the only female student to attend Yaba Higher School (now Yaba College of Technology) in 1946, and also the first woman to become a dean in any Nigerian university?

Felicia Adetokun Omolara Ogunsheye (née Banjo) was born on the 5th day of December 1926 in Benin City, Edo State, in the southern part of Nigeria, to parents from Ogun State. She is the first female professor in Nigeria and was a professor of library and information science at the University of Ibadan. She is the elder sister of Lieutenant Colonel Victor Banjo and Ademola Banjo.

She had her secondary education at Queens College, before becoming the only female student to attend Yaba Higher School, now Yaba College of Technology, in 1946. In 1948, she received her diploma, becoming the first woman to graduate from the school.

Adetokun attended University College Ibadan, and then went on to Newnham College, Cambridge University, United Kinhdom to study Geography on scholarship, earning BA and MA degrees in 1952 and 1956, respectively. She became the first Nigerian woman there, and earned another master's degree in Library Science from Simmons College, Massachusetts, United States of America, in 1962.

Adetokun later established the Abadina Media Resource Centre Library of the University of Ibadan. In 1973, she became a professor at the University of Ibadan. Between 1977 and 1979, she was appointed as the dean of faculty of education at the same university. She was the first woman to become a dean in any Nigerian university.

She served as a consultant to various organisations including the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (lFLA); United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO; International Association of School Librarianship (IASL); the International Federation of Documentalists (FID); the British Council and the World Bank.

Adetokun has been honoured with the Ford International Fellow, 1961; the Hon. D.L.S. of Simmons College, 1969; the Simmons College International Alumnus Award, 1979; the Fulbright Fellowship for Senior African Scholars, 1980; the Decade of Women Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Achievement, 1985; Fellow, Nigerian Library Association, 1982 and Nigerian Academy of Education, 1985; Hon. Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) University of Maiduguri, 1990; and the International Education Hall of Fame, Nigeria, 2000.

She holds the chieftaincy title of Iyalaje of Ile-Oluji 1982. The University of Ibadan named a female postgraduate hall after her under the administration of Prof. Abel Idowu Olayinka.

Source: Wikipedia 

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