Professor Tunde Babawale To Interview Professor Ogunyemi, President of ASUU
Toyin Falola
Professor Tunde Babawale To Interview Professor Ogunyemi,
President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)
Sunday, Apr 25, 2021
05:00 PM Nigeria (GMT+1)
11:00AM Austin (CST)
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Professor Gabriel Olatunde Babawale is a Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Political Science, University of Lagos. As an undergraduate and postgraduate student at the then University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) from 1977 to 1985, Tunde Babawale distinguished himself as a versatile academic having to his credit two prestigious academic honours: Scholar, University of Ife, 1983-84, and Departmental Scholarship Grant for Best Graduate overall performance, at the Department of International Relations, 1983/84 session. After twenty-four years of distinguished scholarship, Tunde Babawale was invited in August 2006 by the Federal Government of Nigeria to serve the nation as Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC), Federal Ministry of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, Federal Republic of Nigeria. Less than four years after his appointment, Prof Tunde Babawale transformed the then twenty-four-year-old Centre into a world-class arts and culture agency with international appeal and global reckoning. He attracted to the Centre valuable institutional patronage and enormous goodwill. As an exemplary Scholar and Researcher, Tunde Babawale is prolific. His books and articles, published in reputable scholarly journals, are very topical and of contemporary significance. He has contributed to knowledge in the form of monographs, authored books, edited and co–edited books, chapter contributions to books, articles in learned local and international journals, papers presented and published in learned local and international conference proceedings, and public lectures. Professor Tunde Babawale has worked with thousands of students, at one time serving as the Dean of Students’ Affairs, University of Lagos.