University of Ibadan

==History==
[[File:ASC_Leiden_-_NSAG_-_van_Dis_4_-_202_-_Prime_minister_of_Northern_Nigeria_Ahmadu_Bello_opens_Sultan_Bello_Hall_-_Ibadan,_Oyo_State,_South_West_Nigeria_-_1-13_February_1962.tif|thumb|The opening of Sultan Bello Hall by Alhaji Sir [[Ahmadu Bello]], University College Ibadan, on Second February 1962 ([[Kenneth Dike]] to the left, Ahmadu Bello to the right)]]
The history of the university is tied to the [[University of London]]. It was established in 1948 as the University College Ibadan (a college of the [[University of London]]), which supervised its academic programmes and awarded degrees until 1967.<ref>{{cite web |title=History: Department of Medicine |url=http://www.ui.edu.ng/deptmedicine.htm |website=UI Archive |publisher=University of Ibadan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061009145219/http://www.ui.edu.ng/deptmedicine.htm |access-date=26 May 2019|archive-date=9 October 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 |url=https://ui.edu.ng/History |title=History: University of Ibadan |date=27 February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=https://litcaf.com/author/tope_litcaf |date=2016-01-13 |title=University of Ibadan |url=https://litcaf.com/university-of-ibadan/ |access-date=2023-06-12 |website=LitCaf |language=en-US}}</ref> The establishment came as a result of a recommendation from the Asquith and the Elliot Commissions on Higher Education in the then [[Crown colony|British colonies]], that two University Colleges of the University of London be set up in [[Ghana]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ghana.GOV : The Ghana Government Official Web Portal {{!}} Ghana.GOV |url=https://www.ghana.gov.gh/ |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=www.ghana.gov.gh}}</ref> and [[Nigeria]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ug.edu.gh/content/establishment-university |title=Establishment of the University |date=27 February 2018 |access-date=2 March 2019 |archive-date=21 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921192554/https://www.ug.edu.gh/content/establishment-university |url-status=dead }}</ref> Before 1948, [[Yaba College]] had been founded in 1932 in [[Yaba, Lagos]], as the first tertiary educational institute in [[Nigeria]], focused primarily on providing post-secondary vocational education and teacher training to Africans.

However, the limited aims of Yaba College<ref>{{Cite web |last=Yabatech |date=2019-03-02 |title=Yaba College of Technology Lagos Nigeria |url=https://facebook.com/yabatech |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=facebook.com |language=en-gb}}</ref> and clamour by Nigerian nationalists for self-improvement and uninhibited education led to the establishment of University College Ibadan as the first degree-awarding institution in Nigeria in 1948.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ajayi |first=J. F. Ade |date=1975 |title=Higher Education in Nigeria |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/721685 |journal=African Affairs |volume=74 |issue=297 |pages=420–426 |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096639 |jstor=721685 |issn=0001-9909}}</ref> Staff and students from Yaba Higher College were transferred to [[Ibadan]] to form the new University College Ibadan.<ref>{{cite book
 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ms9Bs9fUmpcC&pg=PA52 |title=Serving the Common Good: an African perspective on higher education |first=Kiluba L. |last=Nkulu |page=54 |publisher=Peter Lang |year=2005 |isbn=0-8204-7626-9}}</ref>

Modelled after the [[British Universities and Colleges Sport|British university]] system, [[Kenneth Mellanby]] was appointed in 1947 as its first [[Principal (academia)|principal]], and he started the university college on 18 January 1948.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ejiogu |first1=Aloy |last2=Sheidu |first2=Sule |date=2012 |title=SIXTY-FIVE YEARS OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: SOME KEY CROSS CUTTING ISSUES |url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED567099.pdf |journal=Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Social Inclusion |issue=4 |pages=257 |via=ERIC}}</ref> The sod of its permanent site was cut on 17 November 1948, and the date is now known as Founders' Day. The university's first buildings were designed by eminent modernist architects [[Maxwell Fry]] and [[Jane Drew]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jackson |first=Iain |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/948604978 |title=The architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew : twentieth century architecture, pioneer modernism and the tropics |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |others=Jessica Holland |isbn=978-1-315-61249-2 |location=London |oclc=948604978}}</ref> Following the [[Architecture of Nigeria#Tropical modernism of the 1950s and 1960s|tropical modernist style]], the 1950s construction comprised administrative blocks, residential colleges and academic facilities.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=May 1955 |title=Recent Work by Fry, Drew & Partners and Fry, Drew, Drake & Lasdun in West Africa |journal=Architectural Design |volume=25}}</ref>

Following Nigeria's independence in 1960 and the subsequent drive to domesticate several institutions, UCI became an established full-fledged independent university in early 1962 and thus, the name changed to University of Ibadan.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History of UI {{!}} UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN|url=https://www.ui.edu.ng/uihistory|website=ui.edu.ng|access-date=2020-05-30}}</ref>

In late 1963, on the university playing fields, with a celebration marked by [[talking drum]]s, the Rt. Hon. Sir [[Abubakar Tafawa Balewa]], the first Prime Minister of independent Nigeria, became the first Chancellor of this independent university. The first Nigerian vice-chancellor of the university was [[Kenneth Dike]], after whom the university library is named.<ref>{{Citation|last=Livsey|first=Tim|title=Introduction: Nigeria's University Age|date=2017|url=https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56505-1_1|work=Nigeria’s University Age: Reframing Decolonisation and Development|pages=1–18|editor-last=Livsey|editor-first=Tim|series=Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|language=en|doi=10.1057/978-1-137-56505-1_1|isbn=978-1-137-56505-1|access-date=2020-05-26}}</ref>