J. F. Ade Ajayi

Jacob Festus Adeniyi Ajayi, commonly known as J. F. Ade Ajayi, was a Nigerian historian and a member of the Ibadan school, a group of scholars interested in introducing African perspectives to African history and focusing on the internal historical forces that shaped African lives. Ade Ajayi favours the use of historical continuity more often than focusing on events only as powerful agents of change that can move the basic foundations of cultures and mould them into new ones. Instead, he sees many critical events in African life, sometimes as weathering episodes which still leave some parts of the core of Africans intact. He also employs a less passionate style in his works, especially in his early writings, using subtle criticism of controversial issues of the times. ^{J. F. Ade Ajayi, Nigerian historian and academic (d. 2014)}

26 May 1929

Born on the same birth date (26 May 1929): Catherine Sauvage • Ernie Carroll • Hans Freeman

Born on the same birth day (26 May): Ah Young • Al Jolson • Ba U • Caitlín R. Kiernan • Dani Stevens • Eugene Aynsley Goossens • Georgia Wareham • Jean Bernard (physician) • Jimmy Vesey • Mary of Teck • Michael Portillo • Paul Lukas • Phil Elverum • Teresa Stratas • Vilasrao Deshmukh

Born in the same month (May 1929): Adrienne Rich • Ahmed Fouad Negm • Audrey Hepburn • Betty Carter • Catherine Sauvage • Claude Morin (PQ politician) • Dick Williams • George Coe • Georges Gilson • Gilles Loiselle • Hans Freeman • Helmut Braunlich • Ilene Woods • John Stroger • Larance Marable • Menahem Golan • Miyoshi Umeki • Patrick McNair-Wilson • Ralf Dahrendorf • Richard Larter • Sam Nujoma • Sonny Ramadhin • Ulla Jacobsson