Benjamin Akande: The First African-Born President of a US Liberal Arts College
Benjamin Ola Akande was born in 1962 in Nigeria, the only son among five children of Rev. Dr. Samuel T. Ola Akande, a widely respected Baptist minister with ancestral ties to Awe town in Oyo state, and Comfort Olalonpe Akande, in a household that prized ambition long before Akande had the means to reach for …
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