Saburi Biobaku
Saburi Oladeni Biobaku (1918–2001) ya kasance masanin Nijeriya, masanin tarihi kuma ɗan siyasa wanda ke cikin sahun masana masana tarihi na Yarbawa waɗanda suka bi sahun farko na Samuel Johnson wajen kafa tushen tarihin Yarbawa da ƙirƙirar bayanan kula na asalin asalin tarihin Afirka.

Ya kasance tsohon Mataimakin Shugaban Jami'ar Legas kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin shugaban jami'ar Obafemi Awolowo.

Ilimi da aiki 
An haifi Biobaku a Igbore, Abeokuta ga dangin wani fitaccen basarake Musulmi kuma attajiri mai jigilar kayayyaki wanda ke da haruffa S.O, kamar Saburi. Yayi karatun sa a Ogbe Methodist Primary School, Abeokuta, Government College, Ibadan da Yaba Higher College. Ya kuma halarci Jami'ar Cambridge don digiri na biyu da Jami'ar London, Cibiyar Nazarin Tarihi don Ph.D. Ya dawo Nijeriya daga nan kuma ya fara aikin koyarwa, ya yi aiki a matsayin malamin makaranta a tsohuwar makarantarsa a Kwalejin Gwamnati, Ibadan. Daga baya ya zama sakataren firaminista na Yankin Yammaci, Nijeriya. Kafin ya zama sakataren Firimiya, ya koyar da shi ne tun a makarantar firamare a garin Abeokuta. Biobaku ya kuma yi aiki a matsayin mai rejista na Jami'ar Ibadan.

Sauran ayyuka 
A farkon shekarun samun 'yancin kan Najeriya, yayin da yake aiki a gwamnatin Awolowo, ya ba da shawarar a nuna kyakkyawan fata amma a yi taka tsantsan game da Pan-Africanism, yana mai imanin cewa' yancin da kasar ta yi gwagwarmaya da shi kuma ta samu tare da 'yanci ya kamata gwamnati ta yi amfani da shi da wuri. wasu don kula da daidaikun mutanen Afirka waɗanda ke zaune a cikin ƙasa musamman a cikin al'amuran da suka shafi kiwon lafiya, karatu da kuma kawar da talauci. Koyaya, ya goyi bayan inganta ƙungiyoyin yanki don manufofin tattalin arziki da zamantakewar al'umma da kuma ra'ayin Pan Africanism kamar yadda Anthony Enahoro ya bayyana, cewa kammalawa ce ƙwarai da gaske da za a so.

A shekarar 1965, an nada shi a matsayin Mataimakin Shugaban Jami’ar ta Legas a yayin da wasu zarge-zarge na nuna fifikon kabilanci a zabin mataimakan shugabanin a fadin kasar. Daga baya Kayode Adams ya caka masa wuka, wani dalibi mai tsatsauran ra'ayi wanda ya yi amannar cewa nadin Biobaku bai dace ba kuma yana da nasaba da kabilanci.

A shekarun baya, yana da hannu cikin yunkuri na inganta hadin kan Yarbawa, musamman bayan mutuwar Janar Sani Abacha, ya kuma nemi a sake duba tsarin siyasar kasar, inda ya fifita tsarin shugabanci na matakai hudu, wanda ya hada da na tarayya, yanki, jihohi da kananan hukumomi. Ya kuma yi aiki a matsayin shugaban hukumar kula da kayayyakin gargajiya ta Najeriya, da masaku ta Najeriya da kuma babban editan jaridar Encyclopedia Africana.

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