This is Alake of Egbaland Western Nigeria, late King Ladapo Ademola II arriving at the coronation of King Goerge VI of England in London, May 1937.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Free Hand sketch drawing: Olamide a.k.a Mr badoo Of Life - By Olawale Akinmuyiwa Afolabi
Region: West Africa
Country: Nigeria
Type: Afro Hip-Hop naija
Full Bio;
The latest addition under the management wing of Toni Payne of Toni Payne Concepts is Coded Tunes artist “Olamide” who is known for his versatile rap style, free spirited delivery and creative lyrical ability.
Born Olamide Adedeji on the 15 of March, in Bariga Lagos, Olamide fell in love with Rap music as early his primary school days. Soon, he discovered he also had the talent to Rap and began to nurture that talent in the year 2000. Since then he has featured on songs like “Im grateful” by Maiojoe, “Take me there” by Jahbless and he has dropped some nostalgic lines on the collaborative track between him, Zara, and Adol called “Naija Hail”
Born Olamide Adedeji on the 15 of March, in Bariga Lagos, Olamide fell in love with Rap music as early his primary school days. Soon, he discovered he also had the talent to Rap and began to nurture that talent in the year 2000. Since then he has featured on songs like “Im grateful” by Maiojoe, “Take me there” by Jahbless and he has dropped some nostalgic lines on the collaborative track between him, Zara, and Adol called “Naija Hail”
Free Hand sketch drawing: Mavin Boss Michael Collins a.k.a Don Jazzy - By Olawale Akinmuyiwa Afolabi
Don Jazzy
Record Producer
Michael Collins Ajereh, better known as Don Jazzy, is a Nigerian Multi award-winning record producer, singer-songwriter, musician, former CEO of Nigerian record label Mo' Hits Records founded in 2004 ...
Born: November 26, 1982 (age 30), Umuahia, Nigeria
Record labels: GOOD Music, Mavin Records, Mo' Hits Records
Free Hand sketch drawing: Wole Soyinka - By Olawale Akinmuyiwa Afolabi
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Șoyinka is a Nigerian writer, notable especially as a playwright and poet; he was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first person in Africa and the diaspora to be so honoured. Wikipedia
Born: July 13, 1934 (age 78), Abeokuta, Nigeria
Education: University of Ibadan
Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Nominations: Neustadt International Prize for Literature
Saturday, June 1, 2013
What is The Yoruba Name For Hippopotamus
Thursday, May 16, 2013
RICH CULTURE: Popular Yoruba Names And Their English Meanings
The natives of Yorubaland are in the habit of naming a child in order of place, circumstances surrounding his or her birth as well as in honour of an ancestor.
Listed below are few Yoruba names and their meanings in English Language.
Name Meaning
Ajayi——–A child born with face turned downwards
Aina——Is the female of Ojo(of the two names, Ijebu tribe uses Aina,it is proverbial that (Ijebu Kii je Ojo),”Ijebus never bear the name Ojo.”
Dada—–Children with knotted hair or dreads
Ilori——Conceived after a previous birth, before resumption of mensturation
Oke—–A child wrapped in a thin membrane at birth, (The Amniotic sac)
Taiwo—-The first to arrive of a twin
Kehinde—The last to arrive of a twin
Eta Oko—The third child in a Triplet
Ojo———-A male child that has his umbilical cord tied around his neck at birth.
Talabi——-A child born with the head and body covered with Caul like a masquerade
Oni———A baby whose incessant cry at birth suggest that he/she is in distress
Ige ——–A baby that came out of the womb with feet first
Idowu—–A child born after a set of twins.
Alaba——A child born after Idowu
Olugbodi—-A child born with the sixth finger
Erinle——–A child born with an umbilical cord around his wrist.
Sunday, May 12, 2013
PHOTOS: Artist Spends 20 Years Building Life-Size Replica Of Noah’s Ark
Inspired by Noah’s Ark from the Book of Genesis, Dutch artist Johan Huibers built a modern day replica spending a whopping $1.2 million on it. His reasons for building the vessel – he feared the effects global warming would someday have on his country, flooding included. The idea came to him in 1992, when he had a dream about his native land submerged in a flood similar to the one in the Book of Genesis. He continued to think about it until he finally did something about it. And the result is a 130m long, 29m wide, 23m high ark that he completed in 2005. Weighing almost 3000 tons and built from Swedish pine reinforced with steel, it is quite hard to believe that ark might be seaworthy at all, but this modern-day Noah assures us it does indeed float.
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