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Iphigenia Efunjoke Coker

Nigerian author, educator and teacher

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ104918173 ↗
Source-derived summary

Iphigenia Efunjoke Coker (29 September 1924 – 23 December 2019) was a Nigerian educator. From 1963 to 1977, she was Principal of Queen's College, Lagos, the first person of Nigerian descent to hold the position.

Life

Iphigenia Efunjoke Coker was born in Lagos, Nigeria, on 29 September 1924, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bankole Soluade. She attended St. Mary's Convent School, St. Theresa's High School, St. Agnes's Teacher Training College and Queen's College, Lagos. In the 1940s, she taught at St.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Iphigenia Efunjoke Coker” as nigerian author, educator and teacher. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1924, 2019, 1963, 1977—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1924-09-29. The account is most persuasive where Iphigenia, Efunjoke and Coker can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as nigerian author, educator and teacher. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q104918173. VIAF identifies the subject as 19047364. The Library of Congress control number is n2002109353. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1924, 2019, 1963 and 1977.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Iphigenia Efunjoke Coker” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.