Kenneth Dike, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Kenneth Dike

Nigerian historian

Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1917

Date of Death: 26-Oct-1983

Profession: historian, archivist, academic

Nationality: Nigeria

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Kenneth Onwuka Dike (17 December 1917 – 26 October 1983) was an Igbo Nigerian historian and the first Nigerian Vice-Chancellor of the nation's premier college, the University of Ibadan.
During the Nigerian civil war, he moved to Harvard University.
He was a founder of the Ibadan School that dominated the writing of the History of Nigeria until the 1970s.
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."