Tai Solarin Africa’s Greatest Educationist And Humanist

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TAI SOLARIN Africa’s Greatest Educationist and Humanist BOOK SUMMARY It is about life in a unique secondary school in Nigeria in the 1970s and 1980s. The principal, Dr. Tai Solarin and his British wife, Sheila, were totally dedicated to producing academically and intellectually sound students who were also trained in the practical aspects of life – farming, cooking, electrical wiring, plumbing, baking, building, man o’war and others. It was hard to find such students unemployable. They were trained to dream big and be high achievers. This is a personal account of one of the students who experienced this unique training. The school itself was built from scratch in an Ikenne town jungle in 1956, through the sweat and physical labour of Dr. Tai Solarin, his indefatigable wife, students, and paid labourers.