My father was a missionary teacher, first in Benin, and it was at the same time he became a civil servant. - Adetoun Ogunsheye

Yes, it is true. There is no doubt about it because I made the first professorship and I sat on the Senate for the appointment of subsequent professors. The first two professors came from Ibadan and I was the first female professor in Nigeria in any discipline at all. I got it in Library Studies.

When I finished at Yaba Higher College, one of my teachers had recommended me to take the entrance examination to Cambridge University, London. I took the entrance exam to read Geography at Cambridge but I had a problem because I did not do Latin in secondary school.

I have a baptismal certificate signed by the mission. The date of my birth was in that baptismal certificate.