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Akin Mabogunje Quotes

1931–2022

Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje (18 October 1931 – 4 August 2022) was a Nigerian geographer, academic and urban planner. He was the first African President of the International Geographical Union and was widely regarded as the father of modern urban geography in Africa.

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"People started to see geography in a slightly different light, that it's not just a teaching subject, but it's a subject that really affects the day-to-day development."

"It was the appeal to the situation of governance in my country that made me accept."

"The instruction from the federal government was that every inhabitant of the area must be moved out... we said you don't have to move people out, you have to compensate them."

"I chose to launch my autobiography because it shows the different areas of public life apart from academics in which I have had to serve the government."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Akin Mabogunje (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.