Author: tope_litcaf
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Ashimi Olawale; songwriter and rapper, known as Brymo. An only child, Brymo grew up in Okokomaiko, Lagos, a fairly nice neighbourhood and a mixed environment of peoples in different economic ladder. He spent whole days on the streets playing football, like in the ghetto. He dropped out of the Lagos State University, Ojo, where he…
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Ode-Erinje; community in Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State said to rely on nature’s defence, a swarm of bees. Aside being consumed as a food supplement in Ode-Erinje, the honeybee is believed to be a weapon of warfare. No one in the community is involved in the business of beekeeping, yet the mysterious bees…
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Taiwo Joseph Ogunjobi; Nigerian defender who later became a football administrator, born in 1953. Ogunjobi started the game of football from when he was growing up in Idi Oro in Mushin, Lagos. He attended Holy Trinity Primary School, Ebute Ero, and moved to his home town, Ilesha, where he had his secondry school education at…
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Jude Abaga, fondly called Mr Incredible or simply MI, brought enormous creativity to rap music in 2006. MI grew up in Jos where he lived with his father who was a pastor and mother who made gospel music. He had a fulfilled childhood and read a lot of books because the family had no television…
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Amos Tutuola; (1920-97) Novelist counted among a unique group of mythmakers who deployed significant aspects of oral tradition not just as a flowery tribute to literary distinctiveness, but as a culminated contribution to the Nigerian literary space with both a didactic and functional signature. Tutuola is known for novels that chronicle tales of marvels and…