In Memoriam

Paul “Skip” Beckett  (1938 – 2022)
Professor Emeritus
African Languages and Literature   

Crawford Young (1932-2020)
Professor Emeritus
Political Science

Tejumola Olaniyan (1959-2019)
Louise Durham Mead Professor of English
Wole Soyinka Professor of the Humanities

Bill Brown  (1934-2007)   
Professor Emeritus
African history and Islamic studies

Hazel Carter (1928-2016)  
Professor Emerita
African Languages and Literature 

Philip Curtin  (1922-2009)  
Professor Emeritus
African Languages and Literature  

William Hachten  (1924-2018)
Professor Emeritus
Journalism and Mass Communication   

Lyndon Harries  (1909-1980)
Professor Emeritus
African Languages and Literature   

Archibald Campbell Jordan (1906-1968)
Professor Emeritus
African Languages and Literature    

Robert Koehl (1922-2015)
Professor Emeritus
Educational Policy Studies 

Muhammad Memon  (1939-2018)
Professor Emeritus
Languages and Cultures of Asia   

Harold Scheub (1931-2019)
Professor Emeritus
African Languages and Literature

A. Neil Skinner  (1921-2015)
Professor Emeritus
African Languages and Literature

Jan Vansina (1929-2017)
Professor Emeritus
History 

Aristide Zolberg (1931-2013)
Professor
Political Science