Eleventh Foundation Day anniversary at University College, academic procession going into Trenchard Hall for the graduation ceremony, Ibadan, Nigeria

Original title reads, "Scene outside Trenchard Hall at University College, Ibadan, part of the Foundation Day celebrations on November 17, 1959. We would call it a graduation ceremony. This was the Eleventh Foundation Day anniversary, and 136 students graduated. In the pictures, before the academic procession goes into Trenchard Hall for the graduation ceremony at University College, Ibadan. First group to file is made up of assistant lecturers; second column is headed by the registrar and bursar followed by members of the Senate; then the council members go in; then the mace, then the Governor General and the principal walking together." [Elisofon field notes, August 1959-December 1959]

This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.