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University of Ibadan & the Museum of Natural History

Nigeria's oldest university — founded 1948 — has a beautiful colonial campus, a Museum of Natural History with Nigerian biodiversity collections, and a botanical garden of regional importance

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Trenchard Hall Colonial Architecture
The grand Colonial Assembly Hall—designed by Maxwell Fry—is the centerpiece of the UI's elegant campus, where Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and other Nigerian greats graduated
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The Museum of Natural History
The museum has collections of Nigerian flora and fauna – including Nigerian bird specimens, geological specimens and ethnographic objects from the surrounding Yoruba culture
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Botanical Garden of UI
One of the oldest botanical gardens in West Africa — the UI Gardens grow Nigerian medicinal plants, rare timber species and ornamental trees in a formal colonial-era layout
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Kenneth Dike Library Archives
Africa's largest university library holds Nigerian colonial records, independence-era documents and rare books collected since 1948 — a scholar's paradise
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UI Zoo and Wildlife Education
The small on-campus zoo houses Nigerian wildlife including porcupines, rock pythons and birds - used for veterinary and biological science education
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University of Ibadan Teaching Hospital
UCTH is one of Nigeria's most important medical institutions — a reminder of the civic role that the University of Ibadan has played in Nigerian health, law and culture since independence