Akin mabogunje biography

          Mabogunje theory of migration

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        4. Professor Akin Mabogunje, often referred to as the Father of African Geography, passed away in August at the age of 90 years.
        5. Akin Mabogunje was born in Kano, northern Nigeria, on 18 October He completed his secondary schooling at Ibadan Grammar School in

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          Akin Mabogunje

          Nigerian geographer (1931–2022)

          Akinlawon Ladipo "Akin" Mabogunje (18 October 1931 – 4 August 2022)[1][2] was a Nigerian geographer.[3] He was the first African president of the International Geographical Union.[4] In 1999, he was the first African to be elected as a Foreign Associate of the United StatesNational Academy of Sciences.[5] In 2017, he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[6] and received the Vautrin Lud Prize.[7]

          In 1968, Mabogunje wrote Urbanization in Nigeria, about urbanization and state formation.

          In the book, Mabogunje argued that the existence of specialists is not sufficient to cause urbanization. Mabogunje describes three "limiting conditions" which are additionally required: a surplus of food production, a small group of powerful people to control the surplus and maintain peace, and a class of traders or merchants who c