Rotimi Sankore, 6 June,1968 – 12 April, 2024, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

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Rotimi Sankore, 6 June,1968 – 12 April, 2024, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Rotimi was a precocious polymath from an early age. It was close to impossible to find a subject under the sun on which he was not reasonably informed. He could easily have been home-schooled but, Nigeria being what it is, he reluctantly got persuaded that it was useful to own a university degree. In reality, […]

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