Ladipo Ayodeji Banjo, CON (Born 2 May 1934) is a Nigerian Emeritus
professor of English language, educational administrator, former vice
chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria as well as former
pro-chancellor of Ajayi Crowther University.
This autobiography, Morning by Morning, takes on a cultural
significance beyond its account of the author's life and times. It is
representative of the autobiography as a key document of modern
Nigeria's literary culture. The Nigerian autobiography is authorized by
the educated middle class in the sense that its author, its subject and
its readers belong to the same educated middle class. That class was the
modernizing agent that shaped the emergent literary culture of Nigeria
and became an organ of national development. So, the autobiographer's
personal account of his life and times is valuable material for the
professional historian.