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Helen Folasade Adu was born on 16 January 1959 in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. [15] Her middle name, Folasade, means "crowned with wealth" in Yoruba. [16] Her parents are Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba background, and Anne Hayes, an English district nurse; they met in London, married in 1955, and moved to Nigeria. [15]
Irene Grootboom (c. 1969 – 2008) was a South African housing rights activist best known for her victory before the Constitutional Court in 2000. [1] The Court found that the government had not met its obligation to provide adequate alternative housing for the residents of Kraaifontein ’s Wallacedene informal settlement .
In 2006, two of its oldest relatives died. The previous oldest tree in the country, known as Grootboom, was 32 m (105 ft) high, [2] but died in 2005. The tree was where the Dorsland trekkers camped in 1883 [3] and they carved the year of the visit, "1883", into the tree. In 1891 a detachment of German troops passed the tree and carved "1891 ...
Ladi Kwali or Ladi Dosei Kwali, OON NNOM, MBE (c. 1925 – 12 August 1984) [1] was a Nigerian potter, ceramicist and educator. [2]Ladi Kwali was born in the village of Kwali in the Gwari region of Northern Nigeria, where pottery was an indigenous occupation among women. [3]
Toyin Ojih Odutola (born 1985), Nigerian-born American known for her multimedia drawings and works on paper Temitayo Ogunbiyi (born 1984), contemporary artist and curator Suzanna Ogunjami , painter, printmaker, jewelry designer; first African woman to have a solo exhibit in a commercial gallery in the United States
[13] [14] Section 26(2) made it clear that the obligation imposed on the state was not an absolute or unqualified one. The extent of the state's obligation was defined by three key elements, which had to be considered separately: the obligation to take reasonable legislative and other measures; to achieve the progressive realisation of the right
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Adele Ajosun, amongst others Efunroye Tinubu ( c. 1810 – 1887), born Ẹfúnpọ̀róyè Ọ̀ṣuntinúbú , [ 1 ] was a powerful Yoruba female aristocrat, merchant, and slave trader in pre-colonial and colonial Nigeria .