Prof ade adefuye biography of barack

Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye, who served as Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States, died yesterday at the age of 68 at an undisclosed hospital in Washington DC. He was Nigeria’s ambassador to the US from 2010 until his death.

Ambassador Adefuye was born in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun state in 1947. He studied History at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, where he earned his first degree in 1969 and a Ph.D in 1973. As a Fulbright scholar, he did further studies and research at Columbia University, the University of North Florida and the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Professor Adefuye, who wrote several historical texts, including Culture and Foreign Policy; The Nigerian Example (1993), was a lecturer at the University of Lagos where he rose to the position of Professor and served as head of the History Department from 1985 to 1987.

The late Adefuye was appointed an ambassador to the US by former president Goodluck Jonathan in 2010. Before then, he

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OBITUARY: Ade Adefuye, the ‘most effective diplomat’ who hated to talk about himself

Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye, a professor of history and Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States, died on Thursday without the opportunity to bid farewell to the people with whom he had worked for more than five years.

What was already slated for next week as a send-off party for the brilliant diplomat may well become a service of songs, preparatory to his funeral back in Nigeria.

IF WISHES WERE HORSES

If Adefuye had a list of wishes, it surely would have included a plea to live for at least one more week to attend that farewell party. And if that wish was granted, he would have delivered one of his trademark flowery speeches – one after the other addressing the themes that have komma to define his career and life.

He would have spoken on humility (especially of foreign-based Nigerians towards their home-based counterparts), he would have spoken of the value of the Nigeri

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Remembering Adebowale Adefuye (1947 -2015)

BACKPAGE BY REUBEN ABATI

On August 27, 2015, that is four years ago, Nigeria lost Professor Adebowale Adefuye, one of our most dedicated public servants, a fiercely patriotic, loyal and hardworking diplomat and an accomplished academic who brought to every assignment such level of energy and panache that won him the admiration of all and sundry including his critics. At the time of his death, he had just completed his tour of duty to the United States as Nigeria’s Ambassador, having been recalled along with other ambassadors, by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The general belief was that President Buhari was going to give him another assignment. Before he was asked to step down Adefuye had organized President Buhari’s first official visit to the United States as Nigerian President to much acclaim. For him, that was characteristic. He was a result-oriented diplomat who knew how to surpass the expectations of his bosses with nothing but st