title: Interview: Interest in pain and palliative care: an African perspective.
abstract: Olaitan A Soyannwo speaks to Roshaine Gunawardana, Commissioning Editor: Olaitan Soyannwo is a Professor of Anesthesia, Consultant and former Dean of Clinical Sciences of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is currently the head of the first hospice and palliative care unit established in Nigeria, at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, in 2007.
authors.affiliation: Hospice & Palliative Care Unit, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. folait2001@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Olaitan A
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Soyannwo