Acclaimed Geographer, Prof. Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje, has passed at the age of 90. in the later [part of the article, we will inform you of the reason for Prof Akin Mabogunje’s death and location.
The news of his death was unknown to people in the media and civil society. The sad news of Prof Akin Mabogunje’s death was broken by one of his nieces on the Social media site Twitter.
The tweet by Temilola Visser-Mabogunje
“My darling uncle, Prof. Akin L. Mabogunje, is no more. 18 October 1931 to 4 August 2022. He left us early this morning. A great man is gone. Brother, our hearts are broken, but you will forever remain in our hearts.”
Kano was the motherland of Prof Akin Mabogunje:
He took birth in kano and he started his study at a local school and then went on to Mapo central school Ibadan. he chose to move to Ibadan grammar school for his higher studies.
He was smart and intelligent, He won the Egbe Omo Oduduwa Scholarship to attend the then University College, Ibadan. Now the university is renamed “The University of Ibadan”.
He was a student of geography and he worked all his life to make it easier for students to learn about geography. He was asked to give his services in the same university due to his hard work and competence.
Prof Akin Mabogunje was awarded many big posts during his life:
He worked all his life to find publications that can publish his work and they were published eventually. his work in the geography community was seen as very important and he was awarded many things locally and globally. first African President of the International Geographical Union was given to him. He was the first African-origin professor to be elected as a Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
he has left a long line in the family. the family system in Africa is not entirely destroyed unlike in many parts of the west so he left behind his daughter, Prof. Folashade Ogunshola, a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Lagos.
