Tekena Nitonye Tamuno (28 January 1932 – 11 April 2015) was a Nigerian
historian
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and
Vice-chancellor
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of the
University of Ibadan
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. He was the President of the
Board of Trustees
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Tamuno attended St Peter's School in his hometown of
Okrika
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for
primary education
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. Upon completion he attended Okrika Grammar School. From 1953 to 1958 he studied history at the University of Ibadan before leaving the country in 1960 to continue his studies at
Birkbeck, University of London
, mottoeng = Advice comes over nightTranslation used by Birkbeck.
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, type = Public research university
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and
Columbia University
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. In 1962 he joined the Department of History at the University of Ibadan where he remains as
professor emeritus
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.
In addition to his
administrative
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and teaching career, he is an author and has chaired public service commissions.
Tamuno died on 11 April 2015 in
Ibadan
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, aged 83.
University of Ibadan timeline
*Lecturer, 1963
*Senior Lecturer, 1967
*Professor, 1971
*Head, department of History, 1972–1975
*Dean, Faculty of Arts, 1973–1975
*Vice Chancellor, 1975–1979.
Selected books
Nigeria and Elective Representation, 1923–1947.Heinemann (1966)
*The evolution of the Nigerian state: The Southern phase, 1898–1914. Humanities Press, 1972.
*Abebe: Portrait of a Nigerian leader. ALF Publications, 1991.
*Herbert Macaulay, Nigerian patriot. Heinemann Educational, 1975.
*Nigeria: Its people and its problems.
*Nigerian universities, their students and their society: Factors of leadership, time, and circumstance.
*The police in modern Nigeria, 1861–1965: Origins, development, and role.
*Nigeria Since Independence. Heinemann Educational Books.
*Nigerian federalism in historical perspective. ''Federalism and Political Restructuring in Nigeria. Ibadan: Spectrum''.