Saburi Oladeni Biobaku CMG was a Nigerian scholar, a historian who was among a set of Yoruba historians who followed the pioneering effort of Samuel Johnson in setting the foundations of Yoruba historiography and creating reference notes of indigenous African historical literature.
11 Facts About Saburi Biobaku
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Saburi Biobaku was a former vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos and served as a pro-chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University.
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Saburi Biobaku was educated at Ogbe Methodist Primary School, Abeokuta, Government College, Ibadan and Yaba Higher College.
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Saburi Biobaku attended Cambridge University for his master's degree and the University of London's, Institute of Historical Research for his Ph.
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Saburi Biobaku returned to Nigeria after his first degree to start his teaching career and worked as a school master in his former school at Government College, Ibadan and Government College, Umuahia.
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Saburi Biobaku later became the Secretary to the Premier and the Executive Council of the Western Region, Nigeria.
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Saburi Biobaku returned to Nigeria after obtaining the PhD degree in 1953 to serve as the first African Registrar of the University of Ibadan.
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Saburi Biobaku focused on the position of the Egba within historical contexts and factors that effected change in Yorubaland.
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Saburi Biobaku was later stabbed by Kayode Adams, a student radical who believed Biobaku's appointment was unfair and ethnically motivated.
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Saburi Biobaku sought a re-appraisal of the country's political structure, favoring a four tier system of governance, made up of federal, regional, state and local administrations.
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Saburi Biobaku served as the chairman of the Nigerian National Antiques Commission, Nigerian Textile Mills and the editorial board of Encyclopedia Africana.