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Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States, Prof
Adebowale Adefuye is dead.
Adefuye, whose tenure as ambassador ends on August 31,
2015 died after suffering from an heart attack in a
Washington, DC hospital.
Born in Ijebu-Igbo, in 1947, Adefuye received his First
Degree in History at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in
1969, and in 1973 earned a Ph.D. in History there, with a
dissertation on “The Political History of the Palwo,
1400-1911.” As a Fulbright scholar he studied at Columbia
University, the University of North Florida and the
University of Florida in Gainesville.
Adefuye was a one time ambassador to Jamaica, with
concurrent accreditation to Haiti and Belize, a job he kept
from 1987 to 1991. From 1991 to 1994, he served as Deputy
High Commissioner at the Nigerian Embassy in London,
U.K.,when he was hired by the Commonwealth (formerly
the British Commonwealth of Nations) as Deputy
Director of Strategic Planning.
After fourteen years with the Commonwealth, Adefuye
took a job with the Economic Community of West African
States, where he served as an Advisor from 2008 to 2010.
He became the Nigerian Ambassador to the United States
in 2010.
With his death coming just a few days to the end of his
tenure, officials at the Nigerian embassy in the US had
already planned a send-forth party for him, scheduled to
hoold next week.
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