Adeyemo Alakija KBE (May 25, 1884-1952) was a Nigerian lawyer, politician, and businessman. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. Events 1085 - Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo Spain back from the Moors. Year 1884 ( MDCCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Nigeria, officially named the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal Constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and one Federal A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law as an attorney, Counsel or Solicitor; a person A politician (from Greek " Polis " is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of Politics or a person He was a newspaper entrepreneur who co-founded the Daily Times of Nigeria. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. The Daily Times is a Nigerian Newspaper. It has its headquarters in Lagos, Lagos State. He was also a member of the governor's executive council, the legislative council of Nigeria and was president of the Nigerian Youth Movement. The Nigerian Youth Movement was founded by Dr James Churchhill Vaughan in 1933 but was not known under this name until 1936. [1]
He was heavily influenced by the tidal waves of cultural nationalism in Nigeria during the early twentieth century.
Life
Alakija, whose first name originally was Plasido, was of Afro-Brazilian descent like many freed slaves resident in Lagos. An afro, sometimes called a "natural" or shortened to "fro", is a Hairstyle in which the Hair extends out from the Head Brazilians ( brasileiros in Portuguese) are all people born in Brazil Slavery is a social-economic system under which certain persons — known as slaves — are deprived of personal freedom and compelled to perform labour or services Lagos ( pron ˈleɪgɒs or /ˈlɑːgoʊs/ overseas is the most populous Conurbation in Nigeria with The groups were sometimes called Amaros. The Alakija family for a while were the most prominent Amaros in Nigeria.
Alakija studied at Oxford University in the early 1930, and became an ardent proponent for the provision of tertiary education to Nigerians during the colonial period. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the In Nigeria, he embraced some traditional elements of Yoruba socio-political and religious history when he co-founded the reformed Ogboni society and became the Olori Oluwo (Lords of Lords) of society. The word tradition comes from the Latin traditionem acc of traditio which means "a giving up delivering up surrendering" and is used in a number of Politics Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions Ogboni (also known as Osugbo in Ijèbú) is a Fraternal institution indigenous to the Yoruba language -speaking polities of Nigeria, Republic As a member of the Ogboni confraternity, he introduced the use of masonic symbols inside the organization, such as the unblinking eye on an inverted V and three vertical shapes. [2]
References
- ^ Richard L. Sklar, Nigerian Political Parties: Power in an Emergent African Nation, Africa World Press. 2004. p 48. ISBN 1592212093
- ^ James Lorand Matory, Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian, Princeton University Press. p 46-50, 68-70. ISBN 0691059446
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