Remembering Lalage Bown

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Professor Lalage Bown has died aged of 94. In 2016, she joined BBC Radio Shropshire's Jim Hawkins for a Cool Seat interview, which you can hear again here. Her family have paid tribute to "a giant amongst women. She was an Oxford undergraduate; a friend and mentor of UK and international students; a campaigner for liberal causes, an African university leader and pioneer in Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia, a Scottish adult educator, a community builder in Shrewsbury, a pioneer of women's development, an academic author on education and development; a promoter of museums, a Board Member of important national institutions, officer/committee member/ trustee of innumerable voluntary organisations, a warm and loyal friend, an orator and racconteur and most important to her, she was the centre of her own birth and adopted Nigerian families always guiding the next generation. She recently became a great grandmother to baby Jonathan, her legacy will live on."