Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigeria's Magnificent Obafemi Awolowo University Campus in Urgent Need of Assistance

I love (loved) that exciting beautiful campus at ife. The first time, 1978, we went there from ibadan to see the opening of a play by soyinka, which was unaccountably canceled. We had been told not to drive from ibadan to ife in the dark: it was worth the risk to see the opening of a soyinka play! I went again not too many years ago, hosted by kayode ogunfolabi, and it was so wonderful to see him and his colleagues. I loved the art displays outdoor, the setting was incredibly beautiful up the hills. What a magnificent place, and of course i second toyin's call to maintain its beauties and splendours. Its history for nigeria is not critical and invaluable. Think of all the creators and scholars that came through those halls. Its welcoming arch signalled a new day and age. I hope its spirit can be maintained forever. 

Ken

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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigeria's Magnificent Obafemi Awolowo University Campus in Urgent Need of Assistance

 

One of the most wonderful, if not the most wonderful campus in Nigeria and certainly one of the most glorious in the world, the campus of Obafemi Awolowo University, is in great need of environmental and infrastructural regeneration.

The university is putting in effort but the scope of the task is possibly beyond the financial resources and skills available to the university.

Awesome landscape of a scope and vegetative density rare for any institution, anywhere, wonderful trees carefully preserved by the university, beautiful human created landscaping, striking physical structures.

But the structures are particularly in great need of maintenance, as testified  by absence of paint, indoor spaces drenched by rain and dilapidated signboards, and problems of access to water, among other inadequacies.

The natural landscape, superb as it is, and as the university continually works at caring for it, can be better maintained, as indicated, for example by the high levels of wild growth of grass around some houses in the staff quarters and the university cemetry.

This is a crisis of national magnitude, affecting one of, if not the country's most impressive higher education institution.

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