Professor Sophie Oluwole popularly called Mamalawo- a female version of the Yoruba word Babalawo died at the age of 83.
She was born at Igbara-Oke in Ondo state in 1985.
She had her primary and secondary education in Ife and during this time, she criticized the educational system. Then she proceeded to the University of Lagos to study History, Geography and Philosophy before she finally focused on philosophy.
After her first degree, she got employed as an assistant lecturer in 1972 in the University of Lagos, then went ahead to get her PhD in philosophy at the University of Ibadan.
A phenomenal accomplishment that got her to be known as the Mamalawo.
She was a Yoruba philosophical thinker and author whose work was influenced largely by African and western trado-religious beliefs.
She believed that the African philosophy predates western philosophy, as the ancient African philosopher Orunmila predates Socrates by her estimate. She did a wide comparative of the two in her book- Orunmila and Socrates.
This scholar during her days also played the role of an activist by calling for the abolition of some anti-women laws.
Until her death, she was a senior lecturer at the University of Lagos and the Chief Executive Officer of Centre for African Culture and Development.
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