Adetoun Ogunsheye

Felicia Adetowun Ogunsheye
Personal details
Born	Felicia Adetowun Omolara Banjo (1926-12-05) 5 December 1926 Benin City, Edo State
Education	Queen's College, Lagos Yaba College of Technology University of Ibadan University of Cambridge
Known for	Being the first Nigerian woman to attain professorial cadre

Felicia Adetowun Omolara Ogunsheye (née Banjo; born 5 December 1926) is the first female professor in Nigeria. Consequently, she is also the first female professor of Library and Information Science in Nigeria.

Early life and education

Ogunsheye was born on 5 December 1926 in Benin City, Nigeria, to parents from Ogun State. She is the elder sister of Lieutenant Colonel Victor Banjo and Ademola Banjo. She had her secondary education at Queens College, before becoming the only female student at Yaba College of Technology in 1946. In 1948, she received her diploma, becoming the first woman to graduate from the school. She attended University College Ibadan, then went on to Cambridge University, UK, to study Geography on scholarship, becoming the first Nigerian woman there.

In 1973, she became a professor at University of Ibadan. Between 1977 and 1979, she was appointed as the dean of faculty of education at the same university. She was the first woman to become a dean in any Nigerian university.

Publications

Her most cited work from Google Scholar is a 1976 for UNESCO titled Library Education at Ibadan University, Nigeria. In another 1976 study on The future of Library Education in Africa, Ogunsheye posited that African Libraries need to reinvent their foundations from their colonial masters and document oral data and cultures into the system. In a 1979 study on Abadina Media Resource Centre (AMRC): A Case Study in Library Service to Primary Schools, Ogunsheye evaluated the role of Libraries in equipping information seekers in primary schools. Other works include an autobiographical treatise.