{"id":54262,"date":"2019-03-10T15:18:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T19:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=54262"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:38","slug":"carleton-community-mourns-the-loss-of-prof-pius-adesanmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2019\/carleton-community-mourns-the-loss-of-prof-pius-adesanmi\/","title":{"rendered":"杏吧原创 Community Mourns the Loss of Prof. Pius Adesanmi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        杏吧原创 Community Mourns the Loss of Prof. Pius Adesanmi\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The 杏吧原创 community is shocked and devastated to learn of the death of Prof. Pius Adesanmi, who was among the 18 Canadians killed in today\u2019s crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jet at the Addis Ababa airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Global Affairs Canada has confirmed that Adesanmi is among the victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPius Adesanmi was a towering figure in African and post-colonial scholarship and his sudden loss is a tragedy,\u201d said Benoit-Antoine Bacon, president and vice-chancellor. \u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with his family and all those who knew and loved him, and with everyone who suffered loss in the tragic crash in Ethiopia.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/pius-400x300-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/pius-400x300-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/pius-400x300-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/pius-400x300-1-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe contributions of Pius Adesanmi to 杏吧原创 are immeasurable,\u201d said Pauline Rankin, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. &#8220;He worked tirelessly to build the Institute of African Studies, to share his boundless passion for African literature and to connect with and support students. He was a scholar and teacher of the highest calibre who leaves a deep imprint on 杏吧原创.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A further tribute about Adesanmi&#8217;s leadership and many contributions to the 杏吧原创 community will be shared as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 杏吧原创 community is shocked and devastated to learn of the death of Prof. Pius Adesanmi, who was among the 18 Canadians killed in today\u2019s crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jet at the Addis Ababa airport. Global Affairs Canada has confirmed that Adesanmi is among the victims. \u201cPius Adesanmi was a towering figure in African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":54264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54278,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54262\/revisions\/54278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}