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Jacob K. Olupona pays tribute to Oloruntimehin, a scholar of repute
I join hundreds of mourners at home and abroad to pay homage to our departed senior scholar, a great and experienced administrator, and a fun-loving person, Professor Oloruntimehin. I owe my first academic job as a Faculty Junior Fellow at the then University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) partly to him when he was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts (1975 to 1977). His wisdom and sagacity were on full display in the story of how I came to join the university’s Religious Studies Department in 1976 and his subsequent role in my career. Let me limit this tribute to him to just one of several episodes. ....

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