Updated: Jan 31, 2021
Olupona is featured in the Great Ife Alumni Magazine, a publication from the Obafemi Awolowo University Alumni Association, to discuss his ties to the city of Ile-Ife, Nigeria, his pride to be an Ife alumni, and his vision to create an Institute of Advanced Studies for the training of African postdoctoral scholars.
Eve Kushner provides a detailed Life History of Professor Olupona covering many important events and topics from his early life in Niegria to the challenges of immigrating from Africa. Read the full a
On May 12, 2014, Professor Olupona reacted to the kidnapping by the jihadist group Boko Haram of hundreds of girls from a school in northeastern Nigeria mentioning that “in order to save the girls, th
