Nigerian historian
Kenneth Onwuka Dike
Oil portrait of Kenneth Onwuka Dike as a young man, painted by
Robert Sivell Born (1917-12-17 ) December 17, 1917Awka
Died October 26, 1983(1983-10-26) (aged 65) Nationality Nigerian Alma mater Durham University Occupation Educationist Children 5
Kenneth Onwuka Dike (17 December 1917 – 26 October 1983[ 1] ) was a Nigerian educationist, historian and the first Nigerian Vice-Chancellor of the nation's premier college, the University of Ibadan .[ 2] [ 3]
During the Nigerian civil war , he moved to Harvard University .[ 4] He was a founder of the Ibadan School that dominated the writing of the History of Nigeria until the 1970s.[ 5]
Dike was a pioneer in the movement towards utilising oral traditions in a multi-disciplinary approach in African historiography .[ 6] : 212 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."[ 7] He has been called the "father of modern African historiography".[ 8]
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^ Richard A. Joseph (2014). Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria . Vol. 56. Cambridge University Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-107-6335-37 .
^ "Kenneth O. Dike Dies In a Nigerian Hospital" . The New York Times . 13 November 1983. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 31 May 2020 .
^ Utilisateur, Super. "Kenneth Onwuka Dike (1962 - 1967)" . ias-ibadan.org . Archived from the original on 23 January 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2020 .
^ Horáková, Hana; Werkman, Katerina (2016). "African historians and the production of historical knowledge in Africa: Some reflections" . Knowledge Production in and on Africa . LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 978-3-643-90798-1 .
^ Keith A. P. Sandiford , A Black Studies Primer: Heroes and Heroines of the African Diaspora , Hansib Publications, 2008, p. 151.
^ Chuku, Gloria (2013), Chuku, Gloria (ed.), "Kenneth Dike: The Father of Modern African Historiography" , The Igbo Intellectual Tradition: Creative Conflict in African and African Diasporic Thought , New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 137–164, doi :10.1057/9781137311290_6 , ISBN 978-1-137-31129-0 , retrieved 18 November 2024