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This is a deeply incisive portrait of a great pioneer in the fields

of health and education. It tells of the work of a distinguished scholar and leader who served as a public

health practitioner in colonial Lagos, became the first African Professor at the University College,

(later, University of Ibadan) Ibadan, and the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ife,

( now Obafemi Awolowo University). The author of this biography has combines in-depth

scholarship with a broad range of primary source material to provide the present generation of

public health practitioners, Vice-Chancellor and other principal officers of our academic institutions, the life history of an

eminent Nigerian thats replete with useful lessons and modules that can be adapted to fit present circumstances.