Activist and high ranking female African philosopher, Professor Sophie Oluwole has passed away. Professor Oluwole known for her pan-African stance died at the age of 82.
Madam Oluwole was the first Nigerian female doctorate degree holder in philosophy and a practitioner of Yoruba philosophy.
According to Wikipedia, Oluwole was born in Igbara-oke, Ondo State, in 1936. She went to school in Ife, and was critical of the education system in the 1940s, saying a woman’s career prospects were “not your ambition: it was your parents’ ambition.”
She studied History, Geography and Philosophy at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) but eventually settled on philosophy.
Following her first degree, she was employed in UNILAG as an assistant lecturer in 1972, and went on to complete her PhD in philosophy at the University of Ibadan.