Obafemi Awolowo University

Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) is a federal university in Ile-Ife, Osun State, south-western Nigeria, founded in 1961 as the University of Ife and renamed after the statesman Obafemi Awolowo on 12 May 1987.奥巴费米·阿沃洛沃大学（Obafemi Awolowo University，简称 OAU）是尼日利亚西南部奥孙州伊费的一所联邦大学，1961 年以伊费大学之名创办，1987 年 5 月 12 日改以政治家奥巴费米·阿沃洛沃命名。

It opened in September 1962 with 244 students in borrowed buildings in Ibadan, moved to its permanent Ile-Ife campus in 1967, and now comprises 15 faculties, two colleges and more than 60 departments serving over 30,000 students.该校 1962 年 9 月在伊巴丹借用校舍开学，首批学生 244 人，1967 年迁入伊费永久校区，现设 15 个学院、两个学院级书院与 60 多个系，在校生超过 3 万人。

Known as "Great Ife" and long associated with radical student unionism, OAU is placed in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the 1401-1600 band of THE 2027 and 882nd in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global ranking.该校素有“伟大的伊费”（Great Ife）之称，长期以激进的学生运动闻名，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1401+ 区间，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名中处于 1401-1600 区间，在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单中位列第 882 位。

History

• Nigeria's 1951 constitution reshaped regional legislatures and premierships, and the Western Region government made the expansion of primary and secondary education a priority after 1951.尼日利亚 1951 年宪法重塑了各地区议会与总理职位，西区政府在 1951 年后把扩张中小学教育列为优先事项。
• In 1959 the federal Minister of Education appointed a commission chaired by Eric Ashby, a Cambridge lecturer and master of Clare College, to project Nigeria's graduate needs from 1960 to 1980.1959 年，联邦教育部长任命由剑桥大学讲师、克莱尔学院院长埃里克·阿什比主持的委员会，评估 1960 至 1980 年尼日利亚的毕业生需求。
• The Ashby report, submitted in October 1960, recommended new universities in the Northern and Eastern Regions and in Lagos, but none in the Western Region, which already ran free universal primary education.1960 年 10 月提交的阿什比报告建议在北部区、东部区与拉各斯设立新大学，却未建议在已推行免费普及初等教育的西区设校。
• A minority report accepted by the government called for a university in the Western Region, and the facilities of the Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology at Ibadan were offered to the region.一份获政府采纳的少数派报告主张在西区设立大学，伊巴丹的尼日利亚艺术、科学与技术学院设施被划拨给该区使用。
• The ruling Action Group and Premier Samuel Ladoke Akintola decided in 1961 to found the University of Ife as a direct response to the Ashby recommendations.执政的行动团党与总理塞缪尔·拉多克·阿金托拉于 1961 年决定创办伊费大学，作为对阿什比报告的直接回应。
• In 1961 the Western Regional Assembly passed a vote establishing the university's Provisional Council, and the people of Ile-Ife donated the land on which the permanent campus would rise.1961 年，西区议会通过决议设立大学临时理事会，伊费人民则捐出用于建设永久校区的土地。
• The first financial grant was £250,000 from the Western regional government, a sum that covered initial staffing, buildings and equipment at the temporary Ibadan site.西区政府提供了首笔 25 万英镑拨款，用于临时伊巴丹校址的初期师资、建筑与设备。
• On 22 September 1962 the university opened to 244 students at the former College of Arts and Sciences in Ibadan, with faculties of agriculture, arts, economics and social studies, law and science.1962 年 9 月 22 日，该校在伊巴丹原艺术与科学学院开学，迎来 244 名学生，设有农业、艺术、经济与社会研究、法律和理学五个学院。
• Oladele Ajose, a Glasgow graduate and Nigeria's first professor of public health, was appointed first vice-chancellor, and the new university modelled its administration on University College, Ibadan.格拉斯哥大学毕业生、尼日利亚首位公共卫生教授奥拉德莱·阿乔塞出任首任校长，新大学的治理架构仿照伊巴丹大学学院。
• During its foundation the university established an academic relationship with the University of Wisconsin, which helped shape curricula and staff development in the early years.建校期间，该校与美国威斯康星大学建立学术关系，这一合作在早期影响了课程设置与师资培养。
• In February 1966 Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi, the university's Visitor and first military governor of the Western Region, appointed Hezekiah Oluwasanmi vice-chancellor and ordered the move to Ife by October 1966.1966 年 2 月，大学监察人、西区首任军事总督弗朗西斯·阿德昆勒·法朱伊中校任命赫齐基亚·奥卢瓦桑米为校长，并下令在 1966 年 10 月前迁往伊费。
• Fajuyi was killed in the July 1966 military mutiny at Ibadan before he could see the relocation, and the university named Fajuyi Hall in his honour.法朱伊在 1966 年 7 月伊巴丹军事哗变中遇害，未能亲眼看到搬迁完成，学校后来以他的名字命名法朱伊宿舍。
• The move to Ile-Ife began in January 1967, and the first structure completed there was a set of three four-storey blocks that became the Humanities building.迁往伊费的行动于 1967 年 1 月开始，当地最先落成的是三栋四层大楼，后来成为人文学科楼。
• The Ife campus opened West Africa's first faculty of pharmacy, its first department of chemical engineering and its first programme in electronics components and electrical engineering.伊费校区开办了西非首个药学院、首个化学工程系以及首个电子元件与电气工程专业。
• Its medical school adopted an integrated, community-oriented curriculum that was later cited by the World Health Organization, and it required an honours BSc before entry to clinical training.该校医学院采用以社区为导向的整合课程，后来被世界卫生组织引用，并要求学生在进入临床阶段前取得理学荣誉学士学位。
• In 1975 a new military government issued decrees that converted the University of Ife into a federal university, ending its ownership by the Western Region.1975 年，新的军政府颁布法令，把伊费大学改为联邦大学，结束了西区对该校的所有权。
• On 12 May 1987 the military government of Ibrahim Babangida renamed the institution Obafemi Awolowo University to honour Awolowo, the Western Region's first premier, who had inspired its creation and died that year.1987 年 5 月 12 日，易卜拉欣·巴班吉达军政府把学校更名为奥巴费米·阿沃洛沃大学，以纪念同年去世、曾推动建校的西区首任总理阿沃洛沃。
• On 10 July 1999 the students' union secretary-general George Iwilade and several student activists were killed in the Obafemi Awolowo University massacre, an episode that remains part of its collective memory.1999 年 7 月 10 日，学生会秘书长乔治·伊维拉德与多名学生活动人士在奥巴费米·阿沃洛沃大学惨案中遇害，这一事件至今仍是该校集体记忆的一部分。
• Israeli architect Arieh Sharon led the campus plan with his son Eldar Sharon and Lagos architect Augustine Akhuemokhan Egbor, dividing the site into an academic core, dispersed staff housing and student residences.以色列建筑师阿里耶·沙龙与儿子埃勒达·沙龙及拉各斯建筑师奥古斯丁·阿库埃莫坎·埃格博共同主持校园规划，把用地分为学术核心区、分散的教职工住宅与学生宿舍。
• The university hosted the Nigerian University Games Association championships in 1970, 1984 and 2013, and staged the West African University Games from 15 to 22 December 2023.该校于 1970 年、1984 年与 2013 年三度承办尼日利亚大学体育协会锦标赛，并于 2023 年 12 月 15 日至 22 日举办西非大学运动会。
• The Faculty of Computing was accredited in July 2024 and the Faculty of Nursing in November 2025, extending a faculty structure that had remained largely stable since the 1970s.计算机学院于 2024 年 7 月获得认证，护理学院于 2025 年 11 月获得认证，延续了自 1970 年代以来基本稳定的学院架构。
• Adebayo Simeon Bamire, an agricultural economist, became vice-chancellor in 2022, succeeding Eyitope Ogunbodede, who served from 2017 to 2022.农业经济学家阿德巴约·西梅翁·巴米雷于 2022 年出任校长，接替 2017 年至 2022 年在任的埃伊托佩·奥贡博德德。

Academics

• OAU is organised into 15 faculties and two colleges, the Postgraduate College and the College of Health Sciences, which together administer more than 60 departments.该校设有 15 个学院以及研究生院、健康科学学院两个学院级书院，合计管理 60 多个系。
• The faculties cover agriculture, arts, basic medical sciences, clinical sciences, dentistry, education, environmental design and management, law, pharmacy, science, social sciences and technology.学院覆盖农业、艺术、基础医学、临床医学、牙科、教育、环境设计与管理、法律、药学、理学、社会科学与技术等领域。
• The original 1962 faculties were agriculture, arts, economics and social studies, law and science, and those units remain the backbone of the humanities and pure science offer.1962 年最初的五个学院为农业、艺术、经济与社会研究、法律和理学，这些单位至今仍是人文与基础理科的骨干。
• Official figures put enrolment above 30,000 students, making OAU one of the largest federal universities in Nigeria by recurrent student population.官方数字显示在校生超过 3 万人，按经常性学生规模计算，该校是尼日利亚最大的联邦大学之一。
• The Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library, named after the second vice-chancellor, has two multi-storey wings, seats 2,500 readers and holds more than 300,000 titles and 762,000 volumes.以第二任校长赫齐基亚·奥卢瓦桑米命名的图书馆由两座多层翼楼组成，设 2500 个阅览座位，藏书超过 30 万种、76.2 万册。
• The library is a depository for United Nations publications, subscribes to more than 1,000 print journals and opened an e-library in July 2008 with support from the Carnegie Corporation.该馆是联合国出版物的寄存馆，订阅 1000 多种纸质期刊，并在卡内基基金会支持下于 2008 年 7 月开设电子图书馆。
• The Information Technology and Communications Unit runs a fibre-optic backbone, 23 networked subnets and campus-wide Wi-Fi, and bandwidth rose from 39 Mbit/s in October 2011 to 183 Mbit/s.信息技术与通信部门运营光纤骨干网、23 个联网子网与全校无线网络，带宽从 2011 年 10 月的 39 兆比特每秒提升到 183 兆比特每秒。
• The Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex comprises Ife State Hospital, Wesley Guild Hospital in Ilesha, comprehensive health centres and multidisciplinary laboratories on the main campus.奥巴费米·阿沃洛沃大学教学医院联合体由伊费州立医院、伊莱沙的韦斯利公会医院、综合卫生中心与主校区多学科实验室组成。
• Surgeons at the teaching hospital performed the first separation of conjoined twins in sub-Saharan Africa, and the hospital has since repeated the procedure and carried out cochlear implants.该教学医院的外科医生完成了撒哈拉以南非洲首例连体双胞胎分离手术，此后又多次实施同类手术并开展人工耳蜗植入。
• The university pioneered undergraduate entrepreneurship education in Nigeria, a model later adopted nationally by the National Universities Commission.该校在尼日利亚率先开展本科创业教育，这一模式后来被国家大学委员会在全国推广。
• With MIT it established the first iLab in Africa south of the Sahara, a fabrication and innovation space that supports engineering students and local inventors.该校与麻省理工学院合作建立了撒哈拉以南非洲首个 iLab，这一制造与创新空间服务工程专业学生与本地发明者。
• The Institute of African Studies, directed by Stephen Adebanji Akintoye from 1974 to 1977, coordinates research on Yoruba history, art and languages and runs a museum and exhibition hall.非洲研究所于 1974 至 1977 年由斯蒂芬·阿德班吉·阿金托耶领导，协调约鲁巴历史、艺术与语言研究，并运营博物馆与展览厅。
• OAU is a partner university of the Joint Universities Preliminary Examinations Board, and its JUPEB programme admits students through a one-year advanced-level route.该校是联合大学预科考试委员会的合作大学，其 JUPEB 项目通过为期一年的高级水平课程招收学生。
• The university's medical school combines basic and clinical training in a single college, while the Postgraduate College coordinates masters and doctoral programmes across all faculties.该校医学院把基础与临床训练置于同一学院，研究生院则协调各学院的硕士与博士项目。
• The university pioneered the resuscitation and modernisation of traditional bronze casting, linking the art history of Ife with materials science and studio practice.该校率先推动传统青铜铸造的复兴与现代化，把伊费艺术史与材料科学及工作室实践联系起来。
• Its pharmacy and chemical engineering programmes remain among the oldest in Nigeria, and the pharmacy faculty was the first of its kind in West Africa.该校药学与化学工程专业属于尼日利亚历史最悠久的一批，其中药学院是西非同类学院中的第一所。

Campus

• The permanent campus stands on land donated by the people of Ile-Ife, and its layout preserves the rocky topography and the two hills that frame the main approach.永久校区建在伊费人民捐赠的土地上，布局保留了岩石地形以及构成主入口景观的两座小山。
• Road One, the 2.5-kilometre main entrance road, leads from the gate to the academic core and frames views of the two rocky hills.全长 2.5 公里的主入口道路“一号路”从校门直通学术核心区，并把两座岩石小山的景观纳入视野。
• The core is a quadrangle formed by the Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library, the Secretariat, the University Bookshop, Oduduwa Hall and the faculties of arts, education, law, administration and social sciences.核心区是由奥卢瓦桑米图书馆、行政秘书处、大学书店、奥杜杜瓦礼堂以及艺术、教育、法律、管理与社会科学学院围合的方院。
• The first completed teaching blocks of January 1967 were three four-storey structures with interconnecting walkways, designed as inverted pyramids so that each floor shades the one below in the tropical climate.1967 年 1 月落成的首批教学楼是三栋四层建筑，以连廊相接，采用倒金字塔造型，使热带气候下每层楼都能为下一层遮阳。
• Pedestrian walkways, pergolas, piazzas, gardens and terraces knit the quadrangle together and keep most daily movement separate from vehicle roads.步行道、藤架、广场、花园与露台把方院连成整体，使大部分日常通行与机动车道分离。
• Road Two along the southern edge of the core serves the student union building, the computer science building and the faculties of pharmacy and health sciences.沿核心区南侧的“二号路”连接学生会大楼、计算机科学楼以及药学与健康科学学院。
• Road Five on the north-western edge leads to the modern languages building and to an African traditional-designed structure housing the African studies department, a museum and an exhibition hall.西北侧的“五号路”通往现代语言楼，以及一座采用非洲传统造型、容纳非洲研究系、博物馆与展览厅的建筑。
• The halls of residence include Awolowo, Angola, Alumni, Education Trust Fund, Fajuyi, Ladoke Akintola, Moremi and Mozambique, with Murtala Muhammed Hall reserved for postgraduate students.学生宿舍包括阿沃洛沃、安哥拉、校友、教育信托基金、法朱伊、拉多克·阿金托拉、莫雷米与莫桑比克等宿舍，穆尔塔拉·穆罕默德宿舍则供研究生使用。
• The sports centre on the central campus has an IAAD-compliant swimming pool, a tartan track, volleyball, tennis, squash and hockey facilities, two football pitches and an indoor multipurpose court.中央校区体育中心设有符合国际田联标准的游泳池、塔当跑道、排球、网球、壁球与曲棍球场地、两块足球场以及室内多功能球场。
• Ile-Ife itself is a Yoruba cultural and religious centre, home to the Ooni's palace and the Oranmiyan staff, and the campus sits within a city that predates the university by centuries.伊费本身是约鲁巴文化与宗教中心，拥有奥尼王宫与奥兰米扬石杖，校园所在的城市比大学早存在数百年。

Reputation

• QS places OAU in the 1401+ band for 2027, the shared final segment that QS uses for institutions outside its individually numbered positions.QS 将该校列入 2027 年 1401+ 区间，这是 QS 为未进入单独编号名次的院校设置的并列末段。
• THE's 2027 ranking puts it in the 1401-1600 band, while U.S. News places it 882nd globally in its 2026-2027 edition.泰晤士高等教育 2027 年排名将其列入 1401-1600 区间，U.S. News 则在 2026-2027 年度全球榜单中把它排在第 882 位。
• OAU is absent from the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities main list, so its documented standing rests on the QS, THE and U.S. News results.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，其有据可查的国际位次主要来自 QS、泰晤士高等教育与 U.S. News。
• Its staff has included one Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, and six winners of the Nigerian National Merit Award, the country's highest academic honour.该校师资中包括诺贝尔奖得主沃莱·索因卡以及六位尼日利亚国家功绩奖获得者，后者是该国最高学术荣誉。
• The university pioneered kidney transplantation in Nigeria and its teaching hospital is a referral centre for complex surgery, including twin separation and cochlear implantation.该校在尼日利亚率先开展肾移植，其教学医院是复杂外科手术的转诊中心，包括连体婴分离与人工耳蜗植入。
• "Great Ife" is shorthand for both the university and its reputation for combative, intellectually framed student politics, which Nigerian commentators treat as a distinct political tradition.“伟大的伊费”既是校名简称，也指该校以思想论证为框架、风格强硬的学生政治，尼日利亚评论界将其视为一种独特的政治传统。
• As a first-generation federal university, OAU belongs to the group created in the early 1960s that includes the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Ahmadu Bello University.作为第一代联邦大学，该校属于 1960 年代初创建的一批高校，同批还包括恩苏卡的尼日利亚大学与艾哈迈杜·贝洛大学。
• Its early links with the University of Wisconsin, Loma Linda University and MIT gave it a more international research orientation than many Nigerian universities of its generation.该校早期与威斯康星大学、洛马林达大学及麻省理工学院的合作，使其研究取向比同代许多尼日利亚大学更为国际化。
• The university's hosting of NUGA in 1970, 1984 and 2013 and of the 2023 West African University Games underpins its standing in university sport.该校在 1970 年、1984 年与 2013 年承办尼日利亚大学体育协会锦标赛，并于 2023 年承办西非大学运动会，这奠定了其在大学体育中的地位。

Student life

• The university motto is "For learning and culture", a phrase that appears on its crest and frames its self-description as a centre of scholarship and African civilisation.该校校训为“为了学问与文化”（For learning and culture），这句话出现在校徽上，并构成其作为学术与非洲文明中心的自我定位。
• Students call the campus "Great Ife" and its protest culture the "Jerusalem of Aluta", with "aluta" meaning struggle in Nigerian student slang.学生称校园为“伟大的伊费”，把其抗议文化称为“阿卢塔的耶路撒冷”，其中“阿卢塔”在尼日利亚学生俚语中意为斗争。
• The students' union historically practised "scientific aluta", a style of protest that avoided destruction of property and emphasised negotiation and public argument.学生会历史上奉行“科学阿卢塔”，这种抗议风格避免破坏财产，强调谈判与公开辩论。
• The union has produced lawyers and politicians such as Femi Falana, and its electoral commission and representative council remain active training grounds for student politicians.学生会走出了费米·法拉纳等律师与政治人物，其选举委员会与代表理事会至今仍是学生政治人物的训练场。
• Residence life is organised around named halls with their own dining halls, common rooms and inter-hall competitions in football, athletics, debate and cultural performance.宿舍生活围绕具名宿舍展开，各宿舍拥有自己的食堂、公共活动室，并在足球、田径、辩论与文化表演方面开展舍际竞赛。
• Oduduwa Hall hosts convocations, concerts and public lectures, while the African Studies museum gives students access to Ife's bronze-casting and beadwork collections.奥杜杜瓦礼堂承办毕业典礼、音乐会与公开讲座，非洲研究博物馆则让学生接触伊费的青铜铸造与珠饰收藏。
• Ile-Ife's markets, the Ooni's palace and festivals such as Olojo draw students into the city, and the campus is linked to the town by the same road network that serves its gates.伊费的市场、奥尼王宫与奥洛乔节等活动把学生带入城市生活，校园与城区由通往各校门的同一道路网络相连。
• The university health centre runs a 24-hour service with 16 beds, referring serious cases to the teaching hospital, and it also provides health education to surrounding communities.校卫生中心提供 24 小时服务，设有 16 张病床，重症转往教学医院，同时向周边社区提供健康教育。
• The JUPEB programme brings a cohort of pre-degree students onto campus each year, and their advanced-level classes feed directly into OAU's undergraduate admissions.JUPEB 项目每年把一批预科学生带入校园，其高级水平课程直接对接该校本科招生。

Notable people

• Wole Soyinka, Nigeria's first Nobel laureate in Literature in 1986, was Professor of Comparative Literature at Ife from 1975 to 1999 and became emeritus Professor of Dramatic Arts in 1999.沃莱·索因卡于 1986 年成为尼日利亚首位诺贝尔文学奖得主，1975 至 1999 年任伊费大学比较文学教授，1999 年获授戏剧艺术荣休教授。
• Oladele Ajose, a Glasgow-trained physician and Nigeria's first professor of public health, was the university's first vice-chancellor from 1962 to 1966.奥拉德莱·阿乔塞是格拉斯哥培养的医生、尼日利亚首位公共卫生教授，1962 至 1966 年担任该校首任校长。
• Hezekiah Oluwasanmi, the second vice-chancellor from 1966 to 1975, oversaw the move from Ibadan to Ile-Ife and gave his name to the central library.赫齐基亚·奥卢瓦桑米于 1966 至 1975 年任第二任校长，主持从伊巴丹迁往伊费的工程，中央图书馆即以他命名。
• Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank since 2015 and a former Nigerian Minister of Agriculture, is an OAU alumnus.阿金武米·阿德西纳自 2015 年起任非洲开发银行行长，曾任尼日利亚农业部长，是该校校友。
• Kayode Fayemi, former governor of Ekiti State and a scholar of security studies, and Olusegun Mimiko, former governor of Ondo State, are both counted among its political alumni.埃基蒂州前州长、安全研究学者卡约德·法耶米与翁多州前州长奥卢塞贡·米米科，均被列为该校政治界校友。
• Lai Mohammed, Nigeria's Minister of Information and Culture from 2015 to 2023, and Remi Tinubu, the country's First Lady since 2023, also studied at the university.2015 至 2023 年任尼日利亚新闻与文化部长的莱·穆罕默德，以及 2023 年起任第一夫人的雷米·蒂努布，也曾在该校就读。
• Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court from 2012 to 2021, studied law at OAU before building a career in international criminal justice.法图·本苏达于 2012 至 2021 年任国际刑事法院首席检察官，她曾在奥巴费米·阿沃洛沃大学学习法律，后投身国际刑事司法。
• Femi Falana, a leading Nigerian human rights lawyer and former student unionist, is one of the union leaders the university most often cites.费米·法拉纳是尼日利亚著名人权律师、前学生运动领袖，也是该校最常提及的学生会领导人之一。
• Ibukun Awosika, the first woman to chair First Bank of Nigeria, and Femi Otedola, an oil-sector billionaire, represent the university's business alumni.伊布昆·阿沃西卡是尼日利亚第一银行首位女性董事长，费米·奥特多拉是石油业亿万富翁，两人代表该校商界校友。
• Funke Opeke, founder and chief executive of MainOne, the cable and data-centre company, graduated from OAU before working in the United States telecommunications industry.海底光缆与数据中心企业 MainOne 的创始人兼首席执行官芬克·奥佩克毕业于该校，此后进入美国电信行业工作。
• Toyin Falola, a historian of Africa at the University of Texas at Austin, and Karin Barber, an anthropologist of Yoruba popular culture at Birmingham, are prominent academic alumni.在得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校任教的非洲史学家托因·法洛拉，以及在伯明翰大学研究约鲁巴流行文化的人类学家卡林·巴伯，都是该校知名学术校友。
• Stephen Adebanji Akintoye, a historian and director of the Institute of African Studies from 1974 to 1977, and Arieh Sharon, the campus's Israeli planner, represent its scholarly and architectural lineage.1974 至 1977 年任非洲研究所所长的历史学家斯蒂芬·阿德班吉·阿金托耶，以及校园规划者、以色列建筑师阿里耶·沙龙，代表该校的学术与建筑传承。