Recently, I found myself in the office of the first female Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos. It was a significant moment, but for an entirely different reason than I expected. It transported me back to my childhood.
I was raised by an academic. Our home housed what remains the largest personal library I have ever seen. Knowledge was almost treated as art. Bookshelves lined the walls, and while dusting and arranging books felt like an endless chore as a child, those shelves shaped the way I saw the world. Books were not simply objects; they represented ideas, discovery, and, more importantly, possibility.
Standing in that office years later, those memories returned with a fresh perspective. I found myself counting the portraits of former Vice-Chancellors. One after another, they were men. Then came this one woman. I paused and wondered, how did we get here?
But an even bigger question
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