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Isaac Fadoyebo
Isaac Fadoyebo (5 December 1925 – 9 November 2012) was a Nigerian soldier who served in the British Royal West African Frontier Force during Britain's World War II campaign in Asia.
Early life.
Fadoyebo was born on 5 December 1925 in Emure-Ile village, Ondo state in south west Nigeria.
In 1942, Fadoyebo voluntarily joined the British Army at the age of 16, an act which he characterised in his writings as ""youthful exuberance"". In January 1942 he was
Iraq border, and on the general elections in the United States (2008) and India (2009). He moved to London in December 2010, after Al Jazeera closed its Athens bureau, to continue reporting on European news stories.
In 2011, Phillips directed and presented the documentary "Burma Boy", for Al Jazeera's Correspondent series. The documentary, tracing the extraordinary life of a Nigerian veteran of a Burma campaign, Isaac Fadoyebo, won a CINE Golden Eagle Award in 2012. His book "Another Man