Abiola Irele
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| Death | 8 years ago |
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| Date of birth | May 22,1936 |
| Zodiac sign | Gemini |
| Born | Nigeria |
| Date of died | July 2,2017 |
| Died | United States |
| Other name | Francis Abiola Irele |
| Education | Paris-Sorbonne University |
| University of Ibadan | |
| University of Paris | |
| Awards | Nigerian National Order of Merit Award for Humanities |
| Books | The Cambridge history of African and Caribbean literature |
| The African imagination | |
| The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel | |
| The African experience in literature and ideology | |
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| ID | 1083869 |
Abiola Irele Life story
Francis Abiola Irele was a Nigerian academic best known as the doyen of Africanist literary scholars worldwide. He was Provost at Kwara State University, founded in 2009 in Ilorin, Nigeria.