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This is probably the first time any of us would be gathering to witness the launch of a book by a 95-year old. It is an event we all will remember for a long time.

— Adetoun Ogunsheye

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My father was a missionary teacher, first in Benin, and it was at the same time he became a civil servant.

I have a baptismal certificate signed by the mission. The date of my birth was in that baptismal certificate.

I obtained BSc and MSc degrees in Geography from Cambridge, before attending Simmons College in America, for a master’s degree in Library Science.

I was a foundation student of University College Ibadan, from where I got a scholarship to Cambridge University as the first Nigerian female student.

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