Audrey Ajose

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.[1]

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Audrey Olatokunbo Ajose
Born1937 (1937)
Occupations
Parents
  • Omoba Oladele Ajose
  • Beatrice Spencer Roberts

Early life and education

The daughter of Omoba Oladele Ajose and Beatrice Spencer Roberts.[2] Audrey Ajose was the daughter of a foreign woman married to a Nigerian.[3] She studied journalism at the Regent Polytechnic. She studied and practiced law but still continued to work in broadcasting.[4] She also studied theology[5][6] and taught theology in the Lutheran church.[7]

Career

Ajose worked as a journalist at the Daily Times of Nigeria.[4] 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 7th September 1987 with an RC No. 5527.[3]  

Ajose was a founding member of Soroptimist International of Eko and served as its president.[5] She was a member of the Isale Eko Descendants’ Union Scholarship Fund Committee (89).[8]

Selected works
  • Yomi's Adventures, juvenile fiction (1964)[9]
  • Yomi in Paris, juvenile fiction (1966)

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References
  1. "Ajose, Audrey (Nigeria)". Literary Map of Africa. Ohio State University.
  2. "Tribute to Late Oladele Adebayo Ajose". The Sun. Nigeria. July 17, 2003.
  3. "Foreign women married Nigerians, nigerwives, foreign women in nigeria". nigeria. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  4. "Audrey Ajose | Academic Influence". academicinfluence.com. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  5. "The world of Amb. Audrey Ajose". The Sun. Nigeria. May 18, 2004. Archived from the original on November 18, 2006.
  6. "AUDREY AJOSE: How I dared soldiers who held us captive in newsroom during 1985 coup - The Nation Newspaper". 2021-12-11. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  7. "MFR Audrey Olatokunbo Ajose". Government College Ibadan Old Boy's Association.
  8. "Who we are – Isale Eko". Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  9. "National Academic Digital Library of Ethiopia". ndl.ethernet.edu.et. Retrieved 2022-05-27.


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