He was the first president of Togo after independence. He was a Yoruba man who spoke Yoruba, German, French, English& Portuguese fluently. After graduating from the London School of Economics, he worked for Unilever, eventually becoming the general manager of…
Chief Hubert Adedeji Ogunde, D.Lit. (10 July 1916 – 4 April 1990) was a Yoruba actor, dramatist, theater manager, and musician who created the African Music Research Party, Nigeria’s first current professional theatrical group, in 1945. In 1947, Hubert Ogunde…
Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, a Nigerian nationalist, politician, lawyer, statesman, and chancellor, was born on March 6, 1909 in Ogun State, Nigeria, where he began his political career. Awolowo attended a number of local schools in Ogun State, Nigeria, before…
Fela Sowande was a renowned International Classical Musicologist. He wrote many beautiful Operas by adapting Yoruba musical sounds to full classical musical operatic arrangements without using the lyrics. Incidentally when a non-Yoruba person listens to Fela Sowande’s operatic classical arrangements…
