Leaders

OUR HISTORY ODUDUWA ODUDUWA. BEFORE OYO The people who lived in Yorubaland, at least by the seventh century BC, were not initially known as the Yoruba, although they shared a common ethnicity and language group. The historical Yoruba develop in situ, out of earlier (Mesolithic) Volta-Niger populations, by the 1st millennium BC. Archaeologically, the settlement

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MAJOR FRANCIS ADEKUNLE FAJUYI MAJOR FRANCIS ADEKUNLE FAJUYI DIED JULY 29 1966 Fajuyi was born in Ado-Ekiti, now capital of Ekiti State. He was raised with twelve other siblings in a working class household, Fajuyi attended St George's Catholic Primary School, Ado Ekiti. Upon completing primary education, he was qualified to be a pupil-teacher, a

FUNMILAYO RANSOME-KUTI FUNMILAYO RANSOME-KUTI OUR HEROES Francis Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas was born on 25 October 1900, in Abeokuta, to Chief Daniel Olumeyuwa Thomas and Lucretia Phyllis Omoyeni Adeosolu of the Jibolu-Taiwo family. Her father was a son of a returned slave from Sierra Leone who traced his ancestral history back to Abeokuta in what is

LADOKE AKINTOLA LADOKE AKINTOLA DIED 15 JANUARY 1966 Akintola was born in Ogbomosho to the family of Akintola Akinbola and Akanke, his father was a trader and descended from a family of traders. At a young age, the family moved to Minna and he was briefly educated at a Church Missionary Society school in the

HERBERT OLAYINKA MACAULAY HERBERT OLAYINKA MACAULAY 14 NOVEMBER 1864 - 7 MAY 1946 Herbert Macaulay was born in Broad St., Lagos on 14 November 1864 to the family of Thomas Babington Macaulay and Abigail Crowther. His parents were children of people captured from what is now Nigeria, resettled in Sierra Leone by the British West

CHIEF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO CHIEF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO 6 MARCH 1909 - 9 MAY 1987 AGE 78 Obafemi Awolowo was born on 6 March 1909 in Ikenne, in present-day Ogun State of Nigeria. His father was a farmer and sawyer who died when Obafemi was about seven years old. He attended various schools, including Baptist Boys' High