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BIOGRAPHY(2 of 5)

Without much education himself, Baba Olayiwola knew the importance of education and made sure the children had as much of it as he could afford. In 1957, Afolabi was enrolled at St. Jude’s Primary School to begin his educational journey. Baba Olayiwola was fun-loving and loved women. Many of them. But he didn’t consider them indispensable.

So it was on an auspicious day in the early 60s, he came back from the club singing to Haruna Ishola’s “Ina Ran.” As he was a lover of Apala Music, no one knew that in fact, a behemoth fire was going to rage in the household that night. But Baba did the unexpected: in one fell swoop, he sent all the women in the household packing. No entreaties would make him change his mind. All the neighbours tried to intervene, all to no avail. As the women were weeping and hurling all their earthly goods on their heads back to their fathers’ houses, Baba could be heard humming: B’óbìrín bá dára tí ò ní’wà Bó gba kọbọ kan àbọ̀, mi ò le fẹ… B’óbìrín bá dára tó sì tún ní’wà Mo lè fi 1,000 fẹ… Kò s’iya wèrè l’Eko, mo fẹ kẹẹ mọ̀… As the household was now cleaned out of the mothers, responsibility for shopping and cooking family meals fell squarely on the tender shoulders of Afolabi. Not only did he have to shop and cook, he had to be mother to all his younger siblings in every way. If they fell ill, he had to nurse them back to health, if they cried, he had to succor them. That began a process in the life of the young man so early in life that he grew up knowing how to cater to other people’s needs.

It was a poor family, even by the standards of the day, and Afolabi didn’t even have school shoes. His first set of foot wear came from the rubbish dump where some more fortunate folks had discarded their old shoes. But what could have been a sure preclusion from further education for him due to his responsibilities for his young ones and the financial condition of his father, was helped by his extra-ordinary brilliance in school.

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