Nigeria, March 21 -- Carleton University has announced a memorial fund in honour of Pius Adesanmi, a Nigerian-born academic whose death on March 10 has continued to elicit tributes from all corners.

Mr Adesanmi died in the Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa penultimate Sunday, all the remaining 156 passengers and crew were killed alongside the professor. He was 47.

Although Mr Adesanmi was born in Nigeria, Carleton University and Canada, where he had lived for many years, are mourning him as a national loss whose replacement would be difficult to come by.

Mr Adesanmi was the director of the Institute of African Studies at the Ottawa-based institution, which has now launched a literary fund in...