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Toyin Falola, Professor of History, The University of Texas at Austin

Obaro Ikime was one of Nigeria's great scholars - he showed why history matters in building African nations

The late Obaro Ikime. The Ikime Family.

Iku o mo eni’san! “Death does not know the good ones” is a Yoruba phrase to describe the indiscriminate nature of death. If character and social values were considered in the roster of who was to die, I am sure that the Nigerian historian Obaro Ikime would have lived hundreds of years.

The grave, they say, holds the greatest aggregate of wealth.

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