Olajire Olanlokun
, 1944 - 2006
He was born in Okemesi, Ekiti Nigeria on September 24, 1944. He attended two Nigerian Universities: Ibadan and Lagos. The first gave him a postgraduate diploma in librarianship in 1973 while the second gave him a degree in history in 1980. He continued to the University of Pittsburgh in the USA where he specialised in Library. He is noted for children’s fiction such as Little Joe, Femi and his Dog, City Boy, and Second to None. As concerns recognitions, he was awarded The Federal Government Scholar (1981-82), Association of Nigerian Authors and the NNMC Literary Prize for Children’s Books in 1991. He has written over 30 books in all. Some of his other titles are: Children of the Valley (1992), Mammy Water and Other Stories (1993), The King’s Daughter (1994), The Dishonest Servant (2002), and The Strange Bird (2006). He died in March, 2006, while still serving as librarian in the University of Lagos.
Sources:
memory-of.com (accessed: 28 August 2020).
Biography at Booknook.store (accessed: August 31, 2021).
Bio prepared by Eleanor A. Dasi, University of Yaounde I, wandasi5@yahoo.com
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