Wale Ogunyemi [SEP] date of birth
Wale Ogunyemi
Chief Wale Ogunyemi, OFR (12 August 1939–December 2001) was a Nigerian veteran seasoned dramatist, film actor, prolific playwright and Yoruba language scholar
Early life.
He was born in August 1939 at Igbajo, a city in Osun State, southwestern Nigeria.
He attended the University of Ibadan in 1967 for a year course in drama, the same year he was appointed as a research assistant at Ibadan Institute of African Studies where he later retired.
Career.
He began his acting career as
about Wole Soyinka titled "Before our very eyes : tribute to Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature" and another for Wale Ogunyemi titled "Chief Wale Ogunyemi at fifty : essays in honour of a Nigerian actor-dramatist".
Life.
Adelugba was born in Ondo, a town in Ondo State, his father Benjamin Adelugba was a native of Esa-Oke and his mother, Beatrice Adelugba was from Ibadan. Adelugba was a graduate of Government College, Ibadan from where he obtained a West African