
Episode #4
S2 EP. 4 Prof Sola Oni: Teaching Like It Still Matters
Send us Fan Mail Some educators remain teachers at heart, regardless of how many titles they collect over time. Prof Sola Oni has spent decades building one of the most credentialed careers in Nigerian academia, a PhD in Information Systems, over a decade lecturing in the UK, nearly seven years as Dean at Pan-Atlantic University, a board seat at SystemSpecs, the company behind Remita and HumanManager. And through all of it, what she keeps returning to is the work of forming the people in front of her. In this conversation, Sola talks about what seven years of deanship has actually required of her, far beyond what she expected stepping into the role. She reflects on mentoring students and new faculty, and the thing she most wants them to carry with them that no syllabus can fully deliver. She speaks plainly about building a career in a field still heavily male-dominated at senior levels, and what two decades in that space have taught her about occupying it without shrinking. This is a conversation about a kind of passion for education that has mostly gone quiet in Nigerian academic life, and what it actually looks like when someone refuses to let it go quiet in her. Support the show






