Author: tope_litcaf
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Deborah Oluwaseyi Joshua, popularly known as Sheyi Shay was born 21st December, in the United Kingdom, the last of four children. Sheyi Shay grew up around music, she first started listening to her mother’s collection which included Onyeka Onwenu, Salawa Abeni, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, King Sunny Ade, her mother was a chorister with a wide range…
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Isaiah Kehinde Dairo, popularly known as I. K Dairo was born January 1931 in Offa town, Kwara State, but his family is originally from Ijebu-Ijesa , Oyo State, before they migrated to Offa. Growing up I.K Dairo attended a Christian Missionary School in Offa, but later dropped out due to financial constraints. His father was a…
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Yemisi May Odegbami, popularly known as May7ven was born on 7th May 1984 in Ibadan to one of Africa’s football legend Segun Odegbami, father and Accountant /ex-athlete mother, Jumoke Tejumola. While growing up, May spent her first six years in Nigeria, where she attended Bodija International School for primary education, before relocating with her mother, brother…
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Ijaye; sub-group of Yoruba ethnicity, whose forebears migrated from the region around Old Oyo, which comprised the present-day Kwara State, to their present site in Abeokuta and Lagos. Ijaye of old Oyo was the base of Kurunmi, the famous Aare-Ona Kakanfo or Generalissimo of Yorubaland, who, despite his widely acknowledged military exploits against invading Fulanis…
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Ogedengbe was the appellation taken by Orisarayibi Ogundamola as an adolescent. He was the 19th Century warrior and liberator of Ekiti and Ijesha people from the domineering power of Ibadan. Ogedengbe was born in 1822 c. in a small village, Atori, within the Ijesha territory. The time of his birth coincided with one predicted by…
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National Democratic Coalition, widely known as NADECO, was the pro-democracy group launched 15 May 1994 under the leadership of Micheal Adekunle Ajasin and Anthony Enahoro. This group consisted of many prominent Nigerians, including established politicians and senior military officers who shared in common, a believe that the military government in Nigeria should relinquish power to…
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Orunmila was a philosopher, and major intellectual personae of the Yoruba Ifa literary corpus which deals with subjects as diverse as history, geography, religion, or music. Orunmila together with his sixteen disciples is credited with the authorship of most of the four thousand and more verses attached to the Odu Ifa, a record of the…