Audrey Ajose
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Audrey Olatokunbo Ajose (born c. 1937) is a Nigerian lawyer and writer. She served as her country's ambassador to Scandinavia from 1987 to 1991.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]The daughter of Omoba Oladele Ajose and Beatrice Spencer Roberts.[2] Audrey Ajose was the daughter of a foreign woman married to a Nigerian.[3] She studied journalism at the Regent Polytechnic. She studied and practiced law but still continued to work in broadcasting.[4] She also studied theology[5][6] and taught theology in the Lutheran church.[7]
Career
[edit]Ajose worked as a journalist at the Daily Times of Nigeria.[4] Barrister Ajose made the case for more flexible immigration laws for foreign women married to Nigerians to some of the country's top parliamentarians. She drafted the first Nigerwives-Nigeria constitution under the Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria on 7 September 1987 with an RC No. 5527.[3]
Ajose was a founding member of Soroptimist International of Eko and served as its president.[5] She was a member of the Isale Eko Descendants’ Union Scholarship Fund Committee (89).[8]
Selected works
[edit]- Yomi's Adventures, juvenile fiction (1964)[9]
- Yomi in Paris, juvenile fiction (1966)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Ajose, Audrey (Nigeria)". Literary Map of Africa. Ohio State University.
- ^ "Tribute to Late Oladele Adebayo Ajose". The Sun. Nigeria. July 17, 2003.
- ^ a b "Foreign women married Nigerians, nigerwives, foreign women in nigeria". nigeria. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
- ^ a b "Audrey Ajose | Academic Influence". academicinfluence.com. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
- ^ a b "The world of Amb. Audrey Ajose". The Sun. Nigeria. May 18, 2004. Archived from the original on November 18, 2006.
- ^ "AUDREY AJOSE: How I dared soldiers who held us captive in newsroom during 1985 coup - The Nation Newspaper". 2021-12-11. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
- ^ "MFR Audrey Olatokunbo Ajose". Government College Ibadan Old Boy's Association.
- ^ "Who we are – Isale Eko". Retrieved 2022-05-27.
- ^ "National Academic Digital Library of Ethiopia". ndl.ethernet.edu.et. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
- 1930s births
- Living people
- Nigerian women journalists
- Nigerian children's writers
- Nigerian women children's writers
- Ambassadors of Nigeria to Sweden
- Nigerian women lawyers
- Ambassadors of Nigeria to Norway
- Ambassadors of Nigeria to Denmark
- Nigerian women diplomats
- Nigerian women ambassadors
- Alumni of the Regent Street Polytechnic
- Nigerian writer stubs