{"id":144,"date":"2017-06-18T21:27:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T21:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/?p=144"},"modified":"2018-08-21T10:14:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T09:14:31","slug":"professor-akin-o-adesola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/2017\/06\/18\/professor-akin-o-adesola\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Akin O. Adesola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akin <span style=\"color: #000000\">Adesola<\/span> came to Belfast in 1953 to study medicine. He graduated in 1956, did a year of\u00a0 academic surgery at the Royal Hospital, then a postgraduate course between Belfast and London. In Belfast he stayed with the Gardiner family; his mentors were Prof Harold Rodgers and Prof. Richard Welbourn; his co-students were Sam Meshida (engineering) and George Johnston (medicine).<\/p>\n<p>After returning to Nigeria, Akin Adesola became a lecturer at the University College Hospital Ibadan, then at the University of Lagos Medical School where he became Professor and head of Department in 1967.\u00a0Followed a most successful national and international carreer which led him to become, among others, the Vice-Chancellor of the university of Ilorin and of the University of Lagos. Over the years he received many awards, one of which was an Honorary Doctorate from Queen&#8217;s University Belfast in 1989 &#8211; the first such doctorate for an African.\u00a0In his later days, Prof. Adesola wrote his autobiography entitled <em>A Bridge Endowed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/06\/Graduation-Gardiners1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-166\" alt=\"Graduation Gardiners\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/06\/Graduation-Gardiners1-300x227.jpg\" width=\"381\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/06\/Graduation-Gardiners1-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/06\/Graduation-Gardiners1.jpg 609w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/06\/Adesola-biogr.jpg\">\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-145\" alt=\"Adesol and the Gardiners\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/06\/Adesola-biogr.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/06\/Adesola-biogr.jpg 309w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/06\/Adesola-biogr-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akin Adesola came to Belfast in 1953 to study medicine. He graduated in 1956, did a year of\u00a0 academic surgery at the Royal Hospital, then a postgraduate course between Belfast and London. In Belfast he stayed with the Gardiner family; his mentors were Prof Harold Rodgers and Prof. Richard Welbourn; his co-students were Sam Meshida &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/2017\/06\/18\/professor-akin-o-adesola\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prof. Akin O. 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