Audrey Ajose
{{short description|Nigerian lawyer and writer|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = Omoba
| name = Audrey Olatokunbo Ajose
| birth_date = {{Birth date text|1937}}
| occupation = {{hlist|Lawyer|writer}}
| parents = {{unbulleted list|Omoba Oladele Ajose|Beatrice Spencer Roberts}}
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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.{{cite web |url=https://library.osu.edu/literary-map-of-africa/authors/ajose-audrey |title=Ajose, Audrey (Nigeria) |work=Literary Map of Africa |publisher=Ohio State University}}
Early life and education
The daughter of Omoba Oladele Ajose and Beatrice Spencer Roberts.{{cite news |url=http://news.biafranigeriaworld.com/archive/2003/jul/17/0074.html |title=Tribute to Late Oladele Adebayo Ajose |newspaper=The Sun |location=Nigeria |date=July 17, 2003}} Audrey Ajose was the daughter of a foreign woman married to a Nigerian.{{Cite web |title=Foreign women married Nigerians, nigerwives, foreign women in nigeria |url=https://nigerwives.wixsite.com/nigeria |access-date=2022-05-27 |website=nigeria |language=en}} She studied journalism at the Regent Polytechnic. She studied and practiced law but still continued to work in broadcasting.{{Cite web |title=Audrey Ajose {{!}} Academic Influence |url=https://academicinfluence.com/people/audrey-ajose |access-date=2022-05-27 |website=academicinfluence.com |language=en}} She also studied theology{{Cite web |date=2021-12-11 |title=AUDREY AJOSE: How I dared soldiers who held us captive in newsroom during 1985 coup - The Nation Newspaper |url=https://thenationonlineng.net/audrey-ajose-how-i-dared-soldiers-who-held-us-captive-in-newsroom-during-1985-coup/ |access-date=2022-05-27 |language=en-US}} and taught theology in the Lutheran church.{{cite web |title=MFR Audrey Olatokunbo Ajose |url=http://www.gciendo.com/usa2010/keynote_speaker.html |publisher=Government College Ibadan Old Boy's Association}}
Career
Ajose worked as a journalist at the Daily Times of Nigeria. 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.
Ajose was a founding member of Soroptimist International of Eko and served as its president.{{cite news |url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/womanofthesun/2004/may/18/womanofthesun-may18-001.htm |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061118132534/http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/womanofthesun/2004/may/18/womanofthesun-may18-001.htm |title=The world of Amb. Audrey Ajose |newspaper=The Sun |date=May 18, 2004 |location=Nigeria |url-status=dead|archivedate=November 18, 2006}} She was a member of the [https://www.omoisaleeko.org/who-we-are/ Isale Eko Descendants’ Union Scholarship Fund] Committee (89).{{Cite web |title=Who we are – Isale Eko |url=https://www.omoisaleeko.org/who-we-are/ |access-date=2022-05-27 |language=en-US}}
Selected works
- Yomi's Adventures, juvenile fiction (1964){{Cite web |title=National Academic Digital Library of Ethiopia |url=http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/ |access-date=2022-05-27 |website=ndl.ethernet.edu.et}}
- Yomi in Paris, juvenile fiction (1966)
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Category:Alumni of the Regent Street Polytechnic
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