RISING BEYOND OBSCURITY…THE STORY OF A YOUNG NIGERIAN PROFESSOR IN DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA Femi Ojo
There are few people who motivate us by their boldness, courage, intellect, humility, grit, smartness, unmatched energy, multiple skills, and boundless love for humanity, compassion, composure, wisdom, comradeship, honesty, braveness and selfless service in our society today. One of such young Nigerians, who is an embodiment of all those characteristics above is Prof. Josiah Adeyemo, a professor of Civil Engineering in faraway Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa and an Adjunct Professor of Water Engineering at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya. He is one of the few intellectuals in the world that National Research Foundation (NRF) has rated so high and has about 158 citations from 2009 to 2015 and h index of 7 from Google Scholar and globally quoted in the academic and civil engineering industries respectively. There are many things that make Prof. Josiah Adeyemo thick, a trail blazer and difficult to ignore in t...