of Education and further broadened the acceptance of Colleges of Education in the university system; today a lot of the colleges are affiliated with universities. He also continued an innovative tradition, already in existence at Nsukka, when he began to implement a curriculum for granting a bachelor's degree in education, the first faculty in the country to do so. A process which will further expand the career potential of many teachers. In 1977, a long time proposal of his to incorporate native languages into pedagogy was finally accepted. Today, most Nigerians learn at least one Nigerian language. Fafunwa and a few other African educationists, had argued that embracing whole heartedly without evaluation foreign systems of education and epistemology, can create the potential for epistemological dis-orientation. Introducing, cultural objectives and environmental familiarity will provide a continuity and balance into the educational advancement of a child and his place in his community. Babs Fafunwa died in the early hours of 11 October 2010, at a hospital in Abuja, the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory and was buried in Lagos. Selected works A History of Nigerian Higher Education, Macmillan. History of Education in Nigeria, 1970. New Perspectives in African Education, 1967 Education in Mother Tongue: The Ife Primary Education Research Project, 1970-1978 (Editor) Up and On: A Nigerian Teacher's Odyssey, 1991. Memoirs of a Nigerian Minister of Education, Macmillan (Nigeria), 1998. Sense and non-sense in Nigerian Education, 1998 References Further reading Aliu Babatunde Fafunwa Aliu Babatunde Fafunwa's Philosophy of Education Child education in Nigeria: Hindrances and legal solutions Teachers and Teaching in Africa 1923 births 2010 deaths Educators from Lagos Academic staff of the University of Nigeria Academic staff of Obafemi Awolowo University Education ministers of Nigeria CMS Grammar School, Lagos alumni Bethune–Cookman University alumni Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development alumni Burials in Lagos State University of Calabar people 20th-century Nigerian educators