He Leadeth Me

The autobiography is of the celebrated medical scholar Professor Allen Bankole Oladunmoye Olukayode, who was Vice Chancellor at The University of Ibadan from 1991 to 1995. Studying Medicine first at at Guy’s Hospital Medical School, London he went on to higher degrees at Edinburgh University in 1969; London University (School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene) in 1970 and Nigerian’s premier university, University of Ibadan in 1975. He was awarded the Commonwealth scholarship for Medicine from 1968 to 1970. As a professor of Preventive and Social Medicine at the University of Ibadan Oyediran had a significant contribution to the area of tropical and preventive health in Nigeria before attaining the zenith of academic ambition by being appointed the Vice Chancellor of one of Africa’s finest universities and Nigeria’s first, University of Ibadan.