PHILADELPHIA--The University of Pennsylvania has established an academic exchange program with a university in Nigeria, marking the first time an American university has entered into an exchange with a Black African institution.
The agreement with the University of Ibadan, signed two weeks ago, enables mutual research programs, visiting appointments for both faculties, and student exchanges.
Olajuwan Olayide, vice chancellor of the university of Ibadan, spent a week in Philadelphia to get acquainted with the academic programs at the University of Pennsylvania. He said that the University of Pennsylvania's holdings in the First Pennsylvania Bank--which participated in a loan to South Africa-was not considered in making the agreement, adding that "we're going to remove the political aspect of our relationship and concentrate on the academic."
Four Penn students will study in Ibadan next semester.
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