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