Jeyifo for burial tomorrow
A renowned literary scholar, Emeritus Prof. Biodun Jeyifo, will be laid to rest in Ibadan tomorrow, his family has announced. Jeyifo, the pioneer President of Academic Staff Union of Universities
A renowned literary scholar, Emeritus Prof. Biodun Jeyifo, will be laid to rest in Ibadan tomorrow, his family has announced.
Jeyifo, the pioneer President of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), was born on January 5, 1946 and died on February 11, 2026. He was 80.
He is survived by his brother, Olu Jeyifo, children, Okunola, Lekan and Ayoka.
According to an obituary notice posted by his son, Prof. Okunola Jeyifo, on behalf of the family, funeral rites will begin today with an evening of tributes at 4pm at Omolayole Hall, International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan, Ibadan.
Tomorrow, a lying-in-state will take place first at TOS funeral homes, Oke Ado, Ibadan from 9am to 10am and later at the deceased’s home, Jeyifous Street, Oke-Bola, Ibadan, from 11am to noon.
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Interment is to be held the same day at Anglican cemetery, St. James The Great Cathedral Burial Ground, Ijokodo, Ibadan, at 1pm.
Prof. Jeyifo was a renowned Marxist, a cultural theorist and a leading scholar of global post-coloniality.
The deceased, affectionately known as BJ, was an emeritus professor of African and African American Studies and Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
He was a prolific scholar, a teacher and an activist, who left an indelible mark on the fields of postcolonial studies, cultural theory and African literature.
