Tag: first female Senior Advocate of Nigeria
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Folake Solanke is a lawyer and women activist, who in 1981 became the first female Senior Advocate of Nigeria. Folake was born in March 1932 in Abeokuta where she, among other intrigues, witnessed the unthinkable exile of the Alake to Oshogbo due to the activism of town women led by Funmi Ransome-Kuti. In 1945, Folake was…