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Prof. Kenneth Onwuka Dike was an educationist and historian.
He was known as the "Pioneer Historian"
He is credited with "having played the leading role in creating a generation of African historians who could interpret their own history without being
influenced by Eurocentric approaches.

A native of Awka in Anambra state, Dr Kenneth Dike has been referred to as ‘The Father of West African Historiography’
He Was the first Nigerian Professor of History, the first indigenous Vice Chancellor of University of Ibadan,
the first Professor of African history at Harvard.

He created the National Archives of Nigeria, headed a reformation of the Nigerian history curriculum and founded the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ibadan in 1962.

He is still remembered as the founder of the
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