Forgotten Days – from mission to medicine is a memoir that describes the author’s experience of growing up in southern Nigeria between 1930 and 1940.  Anecdotes from his childhood give a sense of what it felt like to live through two decades of phenomenal change including the arrival of electricity, aeroplanes, the box camera and much more. This memoir provides an  insight into life in the well-known Government College Ibadan (GCI) at its temporary location during the Second World War – a period of history that is not well recorded in Nigeria. Similarly we learn of the early days of medical training in Nigeria and the challenges faced by those who wanted to become doctors. In 1951, some of these challenges resulted in his entire class at the University of Ibadan being sent to England to complete their studies and so the author found himself quite unexpectedly going to London.  Forgotten Days ends with his return to Lagos, Nigeria shortly after Independence. The city he describes is hardly recognisable bearing little comparison to the vast frantic, hustle of today.

Forgotten Days will delight those who want to broaden their knowledge of mid-20^th Century Nigeria from the perspective of someone who lived through it.

The book includes photographs of the author’s contemporaries and sketched maps of GCI and other places.