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Ladipo Johnson
Ladipo (alternatively spelled Ọládípọ̀) is both a Yoruba surname and a given name meaning "Wealth and Prosperity becomes plenty". Notable people with the name Surname *Duro Ladipo (1931–1978), Nigerian dramatist * Kehinde Oluwatoyin Ladipo, Nigerian geologist * Margaret Ladipo (born 1961), Nigerian academic *Sarah Ladipo Manyika (born 1968), Nigerian-British writer *Sule Ladipo (born 1974), Nigerian tennis player Given name: * Ladipo Oluwole (1892-1953), Nigerian physician * Ladipo Adamolekun (born 1942), Nigerian academic *Ladipo Solanke Ladipo Solanke (c. 1886 – 2 September 1958) was a political activist born in Nigeria who campaigned on West African issues. Biography Birth and education Born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, as Oladipo Felix Solanke, he studied at the Fourah Bay Col ... (c. 1886–1958), Nigerian activist References {{given name, type=both Yoruba given names Yoruba-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oladipo
Oladipo (alternatively spelled " Ladipo"; variant: Oládipúpọ̀) is both a Yoruba language surname and a given name meaning "more wealth". Notable people with the name include: *Victor Oladipo (born 1992), American basketball player * Divine Oladipo, British Athlete * Oladipo Agboluaje (born 1968), British playwright *Oladipo Diya (born 1944), Nigerian general *Oladipo Jadesimi, Nigerian oil businessman *Adebukola Oladipupo Adebukola Oladipupo or Bukola Oladipupo (born May 23, 1994) is a Nigerian actress who debuted on '' MTV Shuga''. Life Oladipupo was born in London and educated in Lagos. She has two siblings. Oladipupo had her primary education in Bellina Nurse ..., Nigerian actress References {{given name, type=both Yoruba-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoruba Language
Yoruba (, ; Yor. ) is a Niger–Congo languages, Niger-Congo language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily in South West (Nigeria), Southwestern and Middle Belt, Central Nigeria, Benin, and parts of Togo. It is spoken by the Yoruba people. Yoruba speakers number roughly 50 million, including around 2 million second-language or L2 speakers. As a pluricentric language, it is primarily spoken in a dialectal area spanning Nigeria, Benin, and Togo with smaller migrated communities in Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone and The Gambia. Yoruba vocabulary is also used in African diaspora religions such as the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomblé, the Caribbean religion of Santería in the form of the liturgical Lucumí language, and various Afro-American religions of North America. Most modern practitioners of these religions in the Americas are not fluent in the Yoruba language, yet they still use Yoruba words and phrases for songs or chants—rooted in cultural traditions. For such pra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duro Ladipo
Durodola Durosomo Duroorike Timothy Adisa Ladipo (18 December 1926 – 11 March 1978), more commonly known as Duro Ladipo, was one of the best known and critically acclaimed Yoruba people, Yoruba dramatists who emerged from postcolonial Africa. Writing solely in the Yoruba language, he captivated the symbolic spirit of Yoruba religion, Yoruba mythologies in his plays, which were later adapted to other media such as photography, television and cinema. His most famous play, ''Ọba kò so'' (The King did not Hang), a dramatization of the traditional Yoruba story of how Shango, Ṣango became the Orisha of Thunder, received international acclaim at the first Commonwealth Arts Festival in 1965 and on a Europe an tour, where a Berlin critic, Ulli Beier, compared Ladipọ to Herbert von Karajan, Karajan. Ladipo usually acted in his own plays. Early life Durodola Durosomo (or Durosinmi) Duroorike Timothy Adisa Ladipo was born on 18 December 1926 to Joseph Oni Ladipo and Dorcas Towobola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kehinde Oluwatoyin Ladipo
Kehinde Oluwatoyin Ladipo is a Nigerian geologist. He is a fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science, elected into the Academy's Fellowship at its Annual General Meeting held in January 2015. Biography Ladipo spent over fifteen years working at Shell Nigeria Shell Nigeria is the common name for Shell plc's Nigerian operations carried out through four subsidiaries—primarily Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC). Royal Dutch Shell's joint ventures account for more than 21% of .... After retiring from Shell, Ladipo helped set up a postgraduate school of geoscience at the University of Benin. References Living people Nigerian geologists Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Nigerian scientists {{Nigeria-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Ladipo
Margaret Kudirat Ladipo (born April 16, 1961) is a Nigerian academic and researcher who served as the Rector of Yaba College of Technology from 2009 to 2017. Early life and education Margaret is a native of Kwara State but she was born in Kaduna, Kaduna State, Nigeria. She completed her primary and secondary school education at Anglican Girls School, Kaduna, and Government Secondary School, Kaduna respectively. Margaret holds a B.Sc certificate in Chemistry, an M.Sc certificate in Polymer Science and Technology, and a Ph.D in Analytical Chemistry from Ahmadu Bello University. Career Margaret Ladipo's career first saw her gain employment as a Graduate Assistant at Ahmadu Bello University in 1982 before she proceeded to work as Lecturer III at Kaduna Polytechnic in 1984. In 1986, she joined Yaba College of Technology Yaba College of Technology, popularly known as YABATECH, was founded in 1947, and is Nigeria's first higher educational institution. It is located in Yaba, Lago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Sarah Ladipo Manyika FRSL is a British-Nigerian writer of novels, short stories and essays and an active member of the literary community, particularly supporting and amplifying young writers and female voices. She is the author of two well-received novels, '' In Dependence'' (2009) and ''Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun'' (2016), as well as the non-fiction collection ''Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora'' (2022), and her writing has appeared in publications including ''Granta'', '' Transition'', '' Guernica'', and '' OZY'', and previously served as founding Books Editor of ''OZY''. Manyika's work also features in the 2019 anthology '' New Daughters of Africa'', edited by Margaret Busby. Early life Sarah Manyika was born and raised in Nigeria. She has also lived in Kenya, France, Zimbabwe, the United States, and Britain. Her father is Nigerian and her mother is British. Career Manyika studied at the Universities of Birmingham (UK), Bord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sule Ladipo
Suleiman ("Sule") Ladipo (born 9 April 1974 in Enugu) is a male former tennis player from Nigeria, who turned professional in 1993. The right-hander represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated in the first round by Australia's Jason Stoltenberg Jason Stoltenberg (born 4 April 1970) is an Australian former professional tennis player. Tennis career Stoltenberg began playing tennis at age ten on an antbed (crushed termite mound) court where his father owned a cotton farm in the Far Wes .... He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 3 April 1996, when he was ranked 245th in the world. External links * References 1974 births Living people Sportspeople from Enugu Nigerian male tennis players Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic tennis players for Nigeria Nigerian emigrants to the United States {{Nigeria-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Ladipo Oluwole
Isaac Ladipo Oluwole (1892–1953) was a Nigerian medical doctor who made important improvements to the public health services in Nigeria. Early years Isaac Ladipo Oluwole was born around 1892, son of the Anglican bishop Isaac Oluwole and Abigal Johnson, a music teacher. His father was principal of CMS Grammar School, Lagos at the time he was born. He was raised in a Christian household which was also influenced by the Victorian lifestyle of Lagos in the eighteenth century. He briefly attended CMS Grammar School before moving to King's College. He and James Churchill Vaughan were both among the pioneer students at King's College, Lagos when it opened in September 1909. Oluwole was the first Senior Prefect of the School. Later Oluwole and Vaughan both went to the University of Glasgow in 1913 to study Medicine. The two students were conspicuous by their colour, and were subject to racial prejudice. Oluwole was called "Darkness visible" after the phrase from Milton's ''Paradise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladipo Adamolekun
Ladipo Adamolekun (born July 20, 1942) is a Nigerian public administration scholar, former dean of the Faculty of Administration at Obafemi Awolowo University and was a lead public sector management specialist at World Bank. Life He was born in Iju, a town close to Akure and Idanre in Ondo State to the family of Joshua Famutimi Adamolekun, a farmer and Juliana Bamo (née Falade). His mother was born to David Bamidele Falade and Comfort Ojubutu, and was born a few months before Juliana was born. Educated at Oyemekun Grammar School and Christ's School Ado Ekiti. He earned a first class degree in French at the University of Ibadan, a master's degree in Public Administration at Ife and a doctoral degree in politics at Oxford University. He joined the faculty of Administration at the Obafemi Awolowo University of Ife, in 1968, and from 1979 to 1982, he was dean of the faculty. During his tenure at Ife, he focused on the institutions of administration in Africa especially the trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladipo Solanke
Ladipo Solanke (c. 1886 – 2 September 1958) was a political activist born in Nigeria who campaigned on West African issues. Biography Birth and education Born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, as Oladipo Felix Solanke, he studied at the Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone before moving to study law at University College, London, in 1922.Solanke, Oladipo Felix, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. In Britain, Solanke joined the Union of Students of African Descent. In 1924, he wrote to ''West Africa'' to complain about an article in the '' Evening News'', which had claimed that cannibalism and black magic had been common in Nigeria until recent years. His protest received the support of Amy Ashwood Garvey, who became a close friend, while Solanke began studying British papers for other derogatory reports. Hakim Adi, ''West Africans in Britain: 1900–1960''. Teaching Finding himself living in poverty, Solanke began teaching Yoruba and was annoyed by the lack of interest in tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoruba Given Names
Yoruba may refer to: * Yoruba people, an ethnic group of West Africa * Yoruba language, a West African language of the Volta–Niger language family * Yoruba alphabet, a Latin alphabet used to write in the Yoruba language * Yoruba religion, West African religion * Yorubaland Yorubaland () is the homeland and cultural region of the Yoruba people in West Africa. It spans the modern-day countries of Nigeria, Togo and Benin, and covers a total land area of . Of this land area, 106,016 km2 (74.6%) lies within Niger ..., the region occupied by the Yoruba people * ''Yoruba'' (spider), a genus of ground spiders See also * {{Disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
