She was the Nigerian equivalent of the British feminist Germaine Greer who holds only a first degree. A 1998 profile showed that Greer earned half a million pounds sterling that year. Just under 100 thousand of that amount came from Oxford where she teaches. The rest came from lecturing around the world.
OAA
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From: Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com>
Date: 21/06/2019 07:38 (GMT+00:00)
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Omolara Leslie Ogundipe
how true?
'After Queen's School, she attended University College, Ibadan, then a college of the University of London, where she made a first class in the Department of English. She was the first woman to do so. For a long time, she taught English and Comparative Literature in several universities in Nigeria, Africa and America with only her first degree. She only got a PhD much later at Leiden University.'
from Molara Ogundipe, frontline Nigerian Feminist dies
On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 at 04:51, Ibrahim Abdullah <ibdullah@gmail.com> wrote:
Don't think Ms. Leslie ever did graduate work anywhere. I stand to be corrected.--On Jun 20, 2019, at 11:18 PM, OLAYINKA AGBETUYI <yagbetuyi@hotmail.com> wrote:Sad, sad loss! She inspired a whole tribe of African feminists. A truly first class scholar... A loss that is a deep wound in the heart....OAASent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.-------- Original message --------From: "Assensoh, Akwasi B." <aassenso@indiana.edu>Date: 20/06/2019 15:59 (GMT+00:00)Cc: rigodan@yahoo.com, Godwin Ohiwerei <drohiwerei@gmail.com>, ovaughan@amherst.edu, philip_aka@hotmail.com, doyinck@gmail.comSubject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Omolara Leslie Ogundipe
SIR Toyin:
Please, please, what do you mean by "We lost her"? That dynamic scholar?
Many are wondering: Has wicked death laid its icy hands on her, just as James
Shirley penned in his poem, "Death the Leveller." But what actually happened?
Sadly, it has been confirmed that Professor Omolara Leslie Ogundipe (1940-2019)
has passed away, aged 78. Again, what was the cause? As my spouse and I
still recall, at an International P.E.N. writer's Annual Congress in Mexico in 1996,
our Sister Molara made us -- as Black members and participants-- really proud: very
articulate, no nonsense and simply brilliant!
It was, in fact, at the Mexico writers' conclave that we also heard from a major British
writer that while many Africans earned their degrees from University of London (often
through their local or indigenous constituent university affiliations, that Dr. Ogundipe was
the first one to earn a First Class degree! She later earned a doctorate in Narratology
(the theory of narrative).
A.B. Assensoh.
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Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 3:17 AM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Omolara Leslie Ogundipe
We lost her.
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> On Jun 20, 2019, at 6:08 AM, Segun Ogungbemi <seguno2013@gmail.com> wrote:
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> TF,
> What happens to Prof. Molara Ogundipe? We were together at Ogun State University in the 80s.
> Segun Ogungbemi.
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> On Jun 19, 2019, at 8:28 PM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
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> ???????
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