Michael Omolewa
Historian and UN official
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Michael Omolewa's Degrees
- PhD History University of Ibadan
- Masters History University of Ibadan
- Bachelors History University of Ibadan
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Michael Abiola Omolewa is a Nigerian diplomat, scholar, education historian, and civil servant. From September 2003 to October 2005, he served as the 32nd president of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization . While president, Omolewa led UNESCO to adopt the International Declaration on Human Genetic Data and the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. From January 2000 to August 2009, Omolewa served as permanent delegate and ambassador of Nigeria to UNESCO. At University of Lagos, on Wednesday 6 February 2019, Omolewa delivered the 5th Enoch Adeboye Annual Birthday Public Lecture; titled: Peace: The Global Quest.
Michael Omolewa's Published Works
Published Works
- Traditional African modes of education: their relevance in the modern world (2007) (135)
- Adult Literacy in Africa: The Push and Pull Factors (2008) (28)
- Educating the "Native": A Study of the Education Adaptation Strategy in British Colonial Africa, 1910-1936 (2006) (26)
- Widening Access to Education as Social Justice: Essays in Honor of Michael Omolewa (2006) (17)
- The Adaptation Question in Nigerian Education, 1916-1936 (1976) (13)
- The practice of lifelong learning in Indigenous Africa (2002) (11)
- UNESCO as a Network (2007) (11)
- Educational Evaluation in Africa (2003) (11)
- The Teaching of French and German in Nigerian Schools 1859-1959. (1978) (9)
- Programmed for failure? The colonial factor in the mass literacy campaign in Nigeria, 1946–1956 (2008) (9)
- Rethinking Open and Distance Learning for Development in Africa (2008) (6)
- UNESCO/OECD Guidelines on "Quality Provision in Cross-border Higher Education" Drafting Meeting 1 (2004) (5)
- OXFORD UNIVERSITY DELEGACY OF LOCAL EXAMINATIONS AND SECONDARY EDUCATION IN NIGERIA, 1929 ‐1937 (1978) (5)
- London University's earliest examinations in Nigeria, 1887-1931 (1976) (5)
- The Promotion of London University Examinations in Nigeria, 1887-1951 (1980) (4)
- A decade of university adult education in Nigeria 1945–1955: An examination of British influence (1975) (3)
- Towards a global response to teacher preparation, recruitment and migration (2012) (3)
- Periodicals on educational matters in nigeria, 1927-1957: a survey of historical antecedents of the West African Journal of Education (1982) (3)
- Long distance learning and the development of higher education in West Africa, 1887-1934 (1981) (3)
- International Aid and Private Schools for the Poor: Smiles, Miracles and Markets (2014) (3)
- Facilitator's manual on real literacy and learner generated materials (1997) (2)
- Africans, the Bible, and Christianity (2009) (2)
- Background issues relating to the proposed Mass Literacy Campaign in Nigeria (1982) (2)
- Educational assessment and its reform: The Nigerian experience (1982) (2)
- The Education Factor in the Emergence of the Modern Profession of the Historian in Nigeria, 1926-1956 (1980) (2)
- University Continuing Education 1981-2006: Twenty-five turbulent years (2012) (2)
- British Universities' Response to Colonial Rule in Africa: The Nigerian Example (1995) (2)
- Mass Literacy Campaigns in Nigeria: 1940-1960. (1980) (2)
- The History of Colonialism in Africa—Revisited (2009) (1)
- The question of university leadership in the development of secondary education in Nigeria (1978) (1)
- Crusade against illiteracy: the Nigerian experience (1983) (1)
- The Impact of U.S.-Educated African Students on Educational Developments in Africa, 1898–1955 (2015) (1)
- Correspondence education in Nigeria, 1915-75 (1978) (1)
- Neglected themes in adult education historical research in Canada (1979) (1)
- The First Year of Nigeria's Mass Literacy Campaign and New Prospects for the Future. (1984) (1)
- OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND THE PLANTING OF ADULT EDUCATION IN NIGERIA, 1945‐50 (1975) (1)
- J.F. Ade Ajayi: his life and career (2014) (1)
- A historiography of adult education research in Africa (1995) (1)
- Post literacy material development in Africa (1998) (0)
- A critique of mass literacy education in Nigeria. (1980) (0)
- Book Reviews:BALA, HEIKE CATRIN. 2003. “Remember for the Future”. A Seminar on Methods of Handling History(International Perspectives on Adult Education 40). Bonn: IIZ-DVV. 120 pp. ISBN 3-88513-823-9 (2005) (0)
- Narrative and the Practice of Adult Education, by Marsha Rossiter and M. Carolyn Clark (2009) (0)
- The Foundation of Adult Education Institutions in Nigeria, 1923-1960: A Study of the Objectives of Adult Education in Colonial Nigeria. (1974) (0)
- The challenges of teaching french and german in english-speaking colonial Africa: the nigerian experience, 1859- 1960 (2014) (0)
- AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY:ATTAINING GLOBAL RELEVANCE (2008) (0)
- The tribulations of the adult education personnel in Nigeria. (1986) (0)
- Dahomean immigrants in Nigeria (1978) (0)
- Book reviews (2010) (0)
- The Cambridge University Local Examinations syndicate and the development of secondary education in Nigeria, 1910-1926 (1977) (0)
- Book Reviews (2007) (0)
- Determining the scope and programmes of a university department of extra-mural studies in developing countries : a case of Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone, 1950-1980 (1982) (0)
- Reports and reflections: Africa. (1982) (0)
- Prelude to the 1938 International Conference on Correspondence Education, Victoria, BC (1983) (0)
- Liberal education and the Nigerian workers, 1942-75: a study of the priorities of workers' education in Nigeria (1975) (0)
- Lucy Maddox, The Parker Sisters: A Border Kidnapping. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2016. Pp. 256. $28.95 (cloth). (2018) (0)
- Adult Education Research in Africa: A Discourse on West African Initiatives Since 1949 (1998) (0)
- ADVANCES IN THE WRITING OF THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA (1985) (0)
- Global Coloniality of Power in Guatemala: Racism, Genocide, and Citizenship (2013) (0)
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