Audrey Ajose

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Omoba
Audrey Olatokunbo Ajose
Born1937 (1937)
Occupations
Parents
  • Omoba Oladele Ajose
  • Beatrice Spencer Roberts

Audrey Olatokunbo Ajose (born c. 1937) is a Nigerian lawyer and writer. She served as her country's ambassador to Scandinavia from 1987 to 1991.[1]

Early life and education[edit]

The daughter of Omoba Oladele Ajose and Beatrice Spencer Roberts.[2] Audrey Ajose was the daughter of a foreign woman married to a Nigerian.[3] She studied journalism at the Regent Polytechnic. She studied and practiced law but still continued to work in broadcasting.[4] She also studied theology[5][6] and taught theology in the Lutheran church.[7]

Career[edit]

Ajose worked as a journalist at the Daily Times of Nigeria.[4] Barrister Ajose made the case for more flexible immigration laws for foreign women married to Nigerians to some of the country's top parliamentarians. She drafted the first Nigerwives-Nigeria constitution under the Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria on 7 September 1987 with an RC No. 5527.[3]  

Ajose was a founding member of Soroptimist International of Eko and served as its president.[5] She was a member of the Isale Eko Descendants’ Union Scholarship Fund Committee (89).[8]

Selected works[edit]

  • Yomi's Adventures, juvenile fiction (1964)[9]
  • Yomi in Paris, juvenile fiction (1966)

[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Ajose, Audrey (Nigeria)". Literary Map of Africa. Ohio State University.
  2. ^ "Tribute to Late Oladele Adebayo Ajose". The Sun. Nigeria. July 17, 2003.
  3. ^ a b "Foreign women married Nigerians, nigerwives, foreign women in nigeria". nigeria. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  4. ^ a b "Audrey Ajose | Academic Influence". academicinfluence.com. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  5. ^ a b "The world of Amb. Audrey Ajose". The Sun. Nigeria. May 18, 2004. Archived from the original on November 18, 2006.
  6. ^ "AUDREY AJOSE: How I dared soldiers who held us captive in newsroom during 1985 coup - The Nation Newspaper". 2021-12-11. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  7. ^ "MFR Audrey Olatokunbo Ajose". Government College Ibadan Old Boy's Association.
  8. ^ "Who we are – Isale Eko". Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  9. ^ "National Academic Digital Library of Ethiopia". ndl.ethernet.edu.et. Retrieved 2022-05-27.


Flag of NigeriaWriter icon

This article about a Nigerian writer or poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Audrey_Ajose&oldid=1219809877"