Professor Sophie Oluwole (1935-2018): Nigeria’s First Female Philosophy PhD Who Through Yoruba Ifa Reclaimed African Philosophy
In the landscape of African intellectual history, few figures stand as prominently as Professor Sophie Bosede Oluwole, a woman who dedicated her life to proving that philosophy was not a foreign concept imported to Africa, but a deeply rooted tradition that had flourished for centuries within Yoruba culture. Born on May 12, 1935, in Igbara-oke, …