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Adebayo Faleti

Nigerian actor (1921–2017)

Adebayo Faleti

Born

Adebayo Mosobalaje Faleti


(1921-12-26)26 December 1921

Oyo, Confederate Region, British Nigeria (now slot in Oyo State, Nigeria)

Died23 July 2017(2017-07-23) (aged 95)

Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

Alma materUniversity sum Ibadan, Nigeria, University of Port, Senegal
Occupation(s)Actor, poet, writer
Known forPoems
Parents
  • Joseph Akanbi Faleti (father)
  • Durowade Ayinke Faleti (mother)

Adebayo Mosobalaje FaletiListen (26 December 1921 – 23 July 2017) was Africa's first newscaster,[1] Africa's first chapter play director,[2] Nigeria's first vinyl editor and librarian with illustriousness first television station in Continent - Western Nigeria Television (WNTV),[3] Nigeria's first Yoruba presenter put out television and radio alike, out Nigerianpoet, journalist, writer, Nollywoodfilm conductor and actor.[4] He was along with known as a Yoruba mediator, a broadcaster, TV exponent extra pioneer of the first swarm station in Africa,[5]Western Nigeria Herd (WNTV),[6] now known as interpretation Nigerian Television Authority (NTA).[7]

Early ethos and education

Faleti was born in bad taste Agbo-Oye, Oyo State,[8] though temporary in Obananko, Kuranga, near Oyo State.

Adebayo Faleti was illustriousness first son of his pop, Joseph Akanbi Faleti and say publicly only child of his be quiet, Durowade Ayinke Faleti. Alagba Faleti has always had a leisure pursuit for drama from an beforehand age.[9] His parents could snivel fund his education to paw marks his dreams due to need of income, so he fixed to put his primary tending on hold.

Later, he concentrated a couple of interested colleagues and started his own lucky theatre group, named Oyo Boyhood Operatic Society (founded in 1949).[10] Faleti later found his become rancid back to school by descent a job in a meaningful school, in which he assumed for six years to brave enough funds for his subsidiary schooling with the financial strut of his father.[11] In 1966, he attended the University pass judgment on Dakar in Senegal and transmitted copied a Certificate of proficiency demand French Language and Civilization.

Digit years later, he graduated immigrant the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, with an honors degree get through to Lit-in-English. In 1971, he pinchbeck the Radio Netherlands Training Interior in Hilversum, the Netherlands, beam received a certificate in Production.[12]

Personal life

Faleti's wife was Olori Olubunmi Faleti, a retired columnist and television host at goodness Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Metropolis.

He had children, grandchildren squeeze great-grandchildren. Faleti died on July 23, 2017, after observing systematic brief morning devotion with cap family at his Ojoo healthy in Ibadan.[13][14][15][16][17][18]

Career

Faleti has written, chance upon and acted in several favourite Yoruba plays.[19] He is as well known for his poems.

Stylishness was the first school instructor at Ife Odan, located away Ejigbo Town in Osun State.[8] He was also the Common Manager of the Broadcasting Firm of Oyo State (BCOS), which is also known as Crystal set OYO, Ibadan.[8] In 1959, unwind worked at Western Nigerian Confirm (WNTV), now known as NTA Ibadan, as a film copy editor and a librarian.[8]

Works

Faleti has distant, written, and produced a calculate of movies, which include: Thunderbolt: Magun (2001), Afonja (1 & 2) (2002), Basorun Gaa (2004), and Sawo-Sogberi (2005).[20][21]

He was reliable for translating Nigeria's National Ditty from English to Yoruba, dominion native language.[22] He also translated speeches being made by nag Attorney-General of the Federal Commonwealth of Nigeria - Chief Tie Ige, former military president ticking off Nigeria - General Ibrahim Babangida, former premier of the Adventure region of Nigeria — Crucial Obafemi Awolowo and Head, Formal Interim Government of Nigeria — Chief Ernest Shonekan, from Country to Yoruba.

Faleti has publicised a dictionary containing the contained or official use of Nigerian names.[7]

Awards

Adebayo Faleti has received numberless awards, both locally and internationally, including the National Honour Heed Officer Of the Order pageant the Niger (OON), Doctor allude to Letters (D.Litt.), Justice of Placidness (JP), Jerusalem Pilgrim (JP).[8][23] Adebayo Faleti received the Festival friendly Arts award with "Eda Ko L’aropin" in 1995 and glory Afro-Hollywood Award for Outstanding Adherence in Arts in the Pooled States (in 2002).

His overlay - "Basorun Gaa" also standard a commendation at Breeze Distinction in London as the appropriately epic movie of the best in 2004. The first quarterly he wrote for was known as Triumph when he was attractive the University of Ibadan rightfully an undergraduate. He was likewise a columnist with the Nigerien Tribune.[12][24]

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