Good Humour, Patience & Perseverance

Author: Ikechukwu Obiaya

In Good Humour, Patience & Perseverance, The Story of Jeremy White by Ikechukwu Obiaya briefly relates the life of Jeremy White: his birth and education in England; his moving to Africa (Kenya); his love for Africans and his conversion to catholicism; most of the book then reveals his quality of hard work and passing unnoticed through his  going and living in Nigeria to start Opus Dei in 1965; his years as a lecturer in Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife and University of Lagos in the Department of History; his obtaining the Nigerian citizenship in 1985 and his death in 1990 – already during his life he enjoyed a reputation for holiness among those who knew him.