1924 - 2011
Tolani Asuni
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| Birthday |
6th January, 1924
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| Died |
21st June, 2011
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| Zodiac Sign |
Capricorn
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Tolani Asuni, (January 6, 1924 – June 21, 2011) was a Nigerian medical doctor and psychiatrist. Asuni was one of the first indigenous psychiatrists in Nigeria and is credited with promoting or encouraging mental health in Africa. He was educated in Nigeria and the West but later returned to Nigeria for his professional life. Asuni became the foundation professor of psychiatry at University College Hospital Ibadan where he worked from 1957 to 1976 as the Medical Superintendent of Aro Medical Hospital. From 1979 to 1984, he was the Director of the United Nations Social Defence Research Institute in Rome, Italy. Asuni was a suicidologist and forensic psychiatrist. His 1975 textbook, Mental Health and Disease in Africa, was used for many years by undergraduates and graduate students of mental health. Asuni helped to improve global understanding of mental health in Nigeria, Africa and abroad and He promoted the universality of mental health conditions.