SEFAGO:

As usual we dominate entertainment and sport 

How did you arrive at this conclusion?

A nice thread and posting, but the wrong title.

Michelle and the likes (Igbos) are not suppose to be part of the celebration of Egbe omo Yoruba.

it is better to rename the topic as (Celebrating our heroes)



u have a point jare, wat kind of useless heading is dis
scheeeeeeeewwwwwwww,cant stay here

Aloy~Emeka:

How did you arrive at this conclusion?

Aloy Emeka, u really dissappointed me for the first time, haba

or is it that u dont understand the word "egbe omo yoruba"

Dele Olojede[Africa's only Pulitzer Prize Winner and CEO 234NEXt]



Dele Olojede formerly served as Newsday's foreign editor, overseeing the newspapers five overseas bureaus and its daily coverage of foreign news. Prior to that assignment, he was Newsday's Asian bureau chief, based in Beijing. He also served as African bureau chief, based in Johannesburg, South Africa, and traveled extensively throughout the continent.

Olojede joined the newspaper on June 6, 1988, as a summer intern. He later became a special writer covering minority affairs when, on loan to the foreign desk in 1992, he made his first of several trips to South Africa. His coverage drew high praise and prizes. Promoted to Newsday's United Nations bureau chief, he covered a range of international stories before his posting in Johannesburg.

Prior to Newsday, Olojede was a reporter at the National Concord Newspaper in Lagos, Nigeria, from 1982-84, and a founding staff writer and assistant editor at Newswatch, a Lagos weekly newsmagazine, between 1984 and 1987. A 1986 award-winning investigative report by Olojede resulted in the freeing of an internationally known Nigerian musician, Fela Kuti, and the dismissal of the federal judge who had sentenced him to prison on trumped up charges.

After winning a $26,000 Ford Foundation Scholars grant, Olojede left Nigeria in 1987 to earn a masters degree at Columbia University in New York, where he won the Henry N. Taylor Award as the outstanding foreign student.


Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger presents Dele Olojede with a 2005 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting


Olojede's other awards include the 1995 Publisher's Award from Newsday; the 1995 Educational Press of America Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Journalism; the 1992 Unity Award from Lincoln University; the 1992 Clarion Award from Women in Communications; the Media Award the same year from the Press Club of Long Island; and several awards from the New York Association of Black Journalists.

Olojede was born in Nigeria in 1961, the 12th of 29 children. He lives with his wife, Amma, also a journalist, and their two children in Johannesburg.

Olojede left Newsday in December 2004.

Hope Olaide Wilson:

Born in the UK. Grew up between London (UK) and Lagos (Nigeria).

Grew up speaking English, French, and Yoruba.

2009 Diversity Awards Female 'Nova' Award Recipient for promising talent.

She payed Jennifer in Tyler Perry's "I CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF"

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Remi Adefarasin : A DP (Director of Photography)

Remi Adefarasin, B.S.C., (born 2 February 1948, London) is a noted British cinematographer. He is educated in Photography & Filmmaking at Harrow Art School. Started his career as camera trainee at BBC-tv's Ealing Studios. His work on Elizabeth (1998) won him awards for Best Cinematography from BAFTA and the British Society of Cinematographers, as well as a "Golden Frog" from Camerimage and an Academy Award nomination.

we are here

I'll be updating this thread in a few days, kinda busy now.

Up omo egbe Oduduwa!

[size=13pt]Omoroseonee Manigault-Stallworth aka Omarosa[/size]



when they were about to fight lol ^^^^^


Television career
Manigault-Stallworth first came into the spotlight in 2004 after becoming a participant on NBC's reality TV Series, The Apprentice, produced by Mark Burnett, and starring business mogul Donald Trump. With her controversial behavior, she soon became the "woman America loved to hate"[9] and was named by E! as reality TV's No. 1 bad girl.[10] However, Manigault-Stallworth claims the show's producers manipulated the footage to make her look like the villain, and said, "These shows are constructed. They don't happen, nor do they portray actual reality. They are constructed reality." She added, "Historically, African-Americans have been portrayed negatively on reality television. We don't come across well. You've got to start looking and saying, 'Is that really how all African-Americans are?' Because they are trying to say that this is representative of our people."[9]

Since her participation on the first season of The Apprentice, Manigault-Stallworth has gone on to appear on over 20 other reality shows, including VH1's fifth season of The Surreal Life,[7] NBC's Fear Factor and Oxygen's prank show Girls Behaving Badly.[10] She has also been a guest on nearly every major talk show on TV, including a controversial appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. It was on Oprah's show where the often contentious Manigault-Stallworth accused fellow Apprentice participant, Ereka Vetrini, of calling her the "n-word," a claim Vetrini has strenuously denied.[

[size=13pt]Akinyele AKA AK- The guy who sang the 90's hit " "Put it in Your Mouth"[/size]
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Akinyele (born Akinyele Adams) is an American emcee who recorded in the 1990s and early 2000s, known for his sexually explicit lyrics, including his 1996 underground radio hit "Put it in Your Mouth".

Actor Gbenga Akinnagbe from HBO's THE WIRE

FAR RIGHT- with Fellow WIRE stars




[size=13pt] ^^^^ Bow wows new Movie Lottery ticket[/size]

Gbenga Akinnagbe (born December 12, 1978) is an American actor, best known for his role as Chris Partlow on the HBO original series The Wire.

He also played "Yinka" on Barbershop: The Series and "Ben Ellis" in the episode Contenders on the TV Series Numb3rs. In the summer of 2006, Gbenga performed the role of "Zim" in the NYC Fringe Festival's "Outstanding Play" award-winning production of "Modern Missionary".[1] In 2007, Gbenga appeared in the film The Savages with Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Laura Linney, and Philip Bosco. He appeared in the remake of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, which was released by Sony in June 2009. Gbenga made a guest appearance on a Season 10 Law and Order: SVU episode entitled "Hell" as Elijah Okello, a former Ugandan child soldier living in New York, facing deportation. Gbenga's former The Wire cast mate Robert Wisdom also appeared in that episode as Father Theo Burdett. In 2010 in Seattle, WA Gbenga starred in world premiere play The Thin Place at The Intiman Theatre. He was also in this fall's movie the Lottery and is currently in The Good Wife as Pastor Isiah.

[size=13pt]UK GRIME rapper SKEPTA- from the "too many men"song[/size]




Joseph Junior Adenuga, better known as Skepta, is a British MC from Tottenham, London. Originally from and born to Nigerian parents he moved to London aged three. He is a producer and DJ commonly associated with the North London Grime scene, including Roll Deep.

He started his music career after he won a MC battle with over 300 people contesting beating Tempa T in the final. He also formed a partnership with his brother JME and became renowned throughout Greater London for his hit single (he also produced), "Private Caller" which featured many of his Meridian Crew from Meridian Walk in Tottenham.

The name Omarosa doesnt sound Yoruba, Thanks for the boobs picture anyway

LOL hahaha omarosa isnt a yoruba name because she changed it for TV like Taio LOL but her real name Omorosaonee what ever the he.ll that means.

sjeezy,

Thanks jare.
Keep them coming, I'll brb with mines.

Damnnnnnnnnnn, so fcuxxxxxxin fine!!!

John Dabiri, winner of 'Genius Grant'

A Nigerian biophysicist and Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering with the California Institute of Technology that was named among 23 new Fellows of the MacArthur Foundation for 2010, with each receiving a $500,000 "genius" grant.





http://www.saharareporters.com/sites/default/files/page_images/news/2010/dabiri.jpg?1285717889

Femi Odugbemi, managing director of Audio Visual First and the President of Independent Television Producers Association Of Nigeria, (ITPAN)

Filmmaker Femi Odugbemi’s ‘Bariga Boy’ on Wednesday, May 19, won the AfroPop Prize for Best Film at the 5th Real Life Documentary Festival in Accra, Ghana. The award is the third honour the film on Segun Adefila and the Crown Troupe of Africa has won recently. It won the Best Documentary Prize at the 2010 AMAA Awards in April and won in the same category at the Abuja Film Festival.

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Emmy Award winning News Anchor- Sade Baderinwa

Folasade Olayinka Baderinwa, known professionally as Sade Baderinwa (pronounced /ˈʃɑːdeɪ ˈbɑːdrɪnwɑː/ SHAH-day BAH-drin-wah) is currently an Emmy Award-winning news anchor at New York's WABC Channel 7. She co-anchors the weekday 5 p.m. editions of Eyewitness News alongside Diana Williams, and frequently fills in for colleague Liz Cho on the 11 p.m. broadcasts.

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I'm not sure why my post on Duro Oluwo keeps disappearing



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Tunde Kuboye


Richly bearded and glowing with energy, Tunde Kuboye strongly believes that international understanding could be promoted and achieved through music and the arts.

This made him, along with his late wife, Fran Kuboye and some friends, form the ‘Extended Family Band' in 1979. Even the legendary Fela Anikulapo Kuti �' the Afrobeat exponent - became featured as a tenor saxophonist of the band and later became the artistic patron of the band in 1998.

'It all started in an informal manner around 1980. A Shared dream between a man and his wife, that the whole world could be united through music and the arts as one extended family,' recalls Tunde Kuboye, the veteran Nigerian TV/film/music producer and prolific songwriter.

The Extended Family Band organised many programmes with international organisations such as the United States High Commission in Nigeria, the British High Commission in Nigeria, the British Council, Goethe Institute, the German High Commission in Nigeria and many other embassies and music patrons and musicians across world.

In conjunction with corporate bodies and many international outfits, the band sponsored laudable programmes such as musical concerts, tree planting, workshops, human rights education, HIV/AIDS campaigns, dance-drama, poetry, music sessions and other youth development initiatives.

Giving the dream a further push, Tunde Kuboye set up Jazz 38 Center for the Arts in 1985 and since its establishment; it has continued to support the development of hundreds of up and coming Nigerian artistes through regular musical creative sessions and workshops.

Many of the major players in the Jazz and contemporary Nigerian music scene have passed through his musical sessions either at the Museum Kitchen, Onikan, Lagos or at Jazz 38 on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos. Some of them are the masked man �' Lagbaja, Femi Anikulapo-Kuti, Peter Ibru, Majek Fashek, Daniel Wilson, Segun Arinze, Gloria Ibru, Tunde Ajijedidun and many others.

Kuboye says that he will be a fulfilled man when music changes the world by bridging the gap between the privileged and the less privileged in society. With his late wife, they always struggled with enviable zest to use music and the arts as tools for creating an environment that would integrate people of diverse cultures, irrespective of their differences.

Tiwa Savage


Tiwa Savage was born and bred in Lagos, Nigeria. She is a Singer/Songwriter singed to SONY USA Record Label. She graduated from the renowned Berklee College of Music in 2007 and has since then been working with music producers in the Industry.
Tiwa began her music in the UK touring as a background singer for artists such as Mary J Blige, STING, George Michael , Kelly Clarkson and Spice Girls. She participated in the X-Factor – the British competition that spawned American Idol and made it to the top 24.
She has worked with A – list artists such as Fantasia, AKON, Snoop Dogg and Babyface and shared the stage with the likes of Beyonce, Black eyed Peas and 50 Cents. She is world class artist currently working on her album and ready to take the Nigerian Music Industry to the next level” Her voice is wonderful,

Tiwa Savage – Kele Kele

Asa --->


Born Bukola Elemide, Aṣa was born in Paris, France to Nigerian parents. She was two years old when her family returned to live in Nigeria. Aṣa grew up in Lagos, in the south-western part of Nigeria. She states that the city is "buzzing with energy but also home to a deep-rooted spirituality. Islam thrives shoulder to shoulder with Christianity in an atmosphere of tolerance, and the turbulent city moves endlessly in an infernal and yet harmonious ballet of love and hate, laughter and violence, poverty and wealth." However twenty years later Aṣa returned to Paris, which is where her life as an artist took wing. Aṣa was twelve when her mother sent her to one of the best schools in Nigeria. But educational excellence had a bitter taste : five years of studies and hardship. When she came home, she discovered Erykah Badu, D'Angelo, Raphael Saadiq, Lauryn Hill, Femi Kuti and Angélique Kidjo, in whose footprints she dreamed of following. At 18, Asa was very familiar with frustration. The university was on strike, the choirs were snubbing her. During these frustrating times, Asa used to lock herself in her room and sing; this she said was very comforting. Nevertheless, she managed to get her voice heard on a few radio talent shows and her first applause brought her boundless pleasure. She then signed up, in secret, for the Peter King’s School of Music and learnt to play guitar in 6 months.

Tolulope Olumoyin, Toyin Ilesanmi and Miss Bamnam Dagu.


Nigerian students have been described as excellent scholars in their academic pursuits in the United Kingdom (UK) higher institutions. This is due to their good pedigree and sound academic background which have, to large extent, distinguished them.

The international officer, University of Wales, Newport in the United Kingdom, Mr. Glynn James, said this at the presentation of scholarships to some Nigerian

TANURE OJAIDE, Ph.D.


Africana Studies Department
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Awards/Honors:


# Invitation to and participation in PAWA World Poetry Festival, Accra, Ghana (November 2—8, 2008).
# Distinguished Visiting Professor of English, IUUM, Kuala Lumpur, September 2008.
# Second Tanure Ojaide International Conference, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria (July 9—12, 2008).
# Senior Faculty Grant, UNC Charlotte, 2008.
# COAS Small Grant, 2007/2008.
# Received (with Dr. Rosemary Traore) UNC Charlotte’s Chancellor’s Diversity Grant (2007).
# Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA (May 2007).
# Appointed Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies in 2006.
# Winner, UNC Charlotte’s First Citizens Bank Scholar Medal Award for 2005.
# North Carolina Poet of the Week: February 25-March 3, 2006.
# Invitation to and participation in Poetry Africa 2005, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa (October 10—15, 2005).
# First International Conference on Tanure Ojaide, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria (July 7-10, 2005).
# UNC Charlotte Senior Faculty Research Grant (2005).
# Fellow, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY (August 2004).
# Fellow, Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (May/June, 2004).
# Southern Regional Education Board Small Grant (2004).
# UNC Charlotte Senior Faculty Research Grant for 2004.
# Winner, Association of Nigerian Authors/NDDC Gabriel Okara Poetry Prize (2003).
# Fulbright Lecturing/Research Fellowship for 2002/2003.
# UNC Charlotte Curriculum/Instructional Development Grant for 2002/2003.
# Residency at the Rockefeller Bellagio Center for Scholars and Artists, Bellagio, Italy (July, 2001).
# UNC Charlotte Summer Research Grant (2001).
# Elected Member of the International Association of University Professors of English, Lausanne, Switzerland (2000).
# Juror, 16th Neustadt Literary Prize, U. of Oklahoma, Norman (2000).
# Won National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for research on Nigeria’s Udje Dance Songs (1999/2000).
# Fundacion Valparaiso fellowship, Mojacar, Spain (November 1999).
# UNC Charlotte Summer Research Grant (1999).
# UNC Charlotte Faculty Research Support Grant (1998/99).
# Winner, All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry (November 1997).
# National Endowment for the Humanities Professorship, Albright College, Reading, PA (1996/97).
# UNC Charlotte Summer Research Grant (1997).
# UNC Charlotte Faculty Research Support grant (1996/97).
# UNC Charlotte Research Grant (1995/96).
# Winner, Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Award (1994).
# Fellow, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (1994).
# Southern Regional Education Board Small Grant (1994).
# UNC Charlotte Curriculum/Instructional Development Grant (1993/94).
# UNC Charlotte Research Grant (1993/94).
# UNC Charlotte Research Grant (1992/93).
# Southern Regional Education Board Small Grant (1992).
# Honorable Mention for The Endless Song by the Noma Award Committee (1990).
# Nominated for Nigeria's National Merit Award (1989)


All for one man? Na wa o!

Obba Babatundé (born December 1, 1951) is an American actor of stage and screen, known for his Emmy-nominated performance in the television movie Miss Evers' Boys, a NAACP Image Award-nominated performance in the TV movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, and a Tony Award-nominated role for his performance as C.C. White in the original cast of the 1981 Broadway musical Dreamgirls.

His TV roles have often portrayed authority figures, such as a recurring guest-starring role as a high school principal on Dawson's Creek, an appearance as a judge in a two-part episode of Any Day Now, and as the father of the main characters on Half & Half. He also played Harvard college Dean Cain in the movie How High, as well as the role of Willie Long in the movie Life, and co-starred as an attorney in Philadelphia and as a senator in the 2004 reprise of The Manchurian Candidate. He also played the director in season 3 of Friends in an episode titled "The One with All the Jealousy". Other TV shows he has had recurring roles on include The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Chicago Hope, Rocket Power, Static Shock, and Karen Sisco. He played a small but pivotal role as a doorman/bellhop in the film That Thing You Do! and also appeared in The Wild Thornberrys Movie as the voice of Boko. He played a famous producer known as Gordy Berry on two episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. In the 1998 miniseries, The Temptations, he played the founder of Motown Records Berry Gordy.


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Olu Oguibe Olu Oguibe is Interim Director of the Institute for African American Studies and Professor in the Department of Art and Art History where he teaches studio practices and art theory. He graduated summa cum laude and valedictorian at the University of Nigeria in 1986, and received his PH.D. in the history of contemporary art from the University of London in 1992. Since then he has taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and Goldsmiths College, both of the University of London, as well as the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of South Florida where he held the Stuart Golding Endowed Chair in African art. His last position was as a senior fellow of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, New York.

Dr. Oguibe has published several books and articles on art, among them The Culture Game (University of Minnesota Press, 2004), Uzo Egonu: An African Artist in the West (1995), and the edited volumes Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace (1999) and Authentic/ Ex-Centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art (2000). His contributions have also appeared in key volumes such as the Art History and its Methods, The Visual Culture Reader, The Third Text Reader on Art, Culture and Theory, and Art in Theory 1900 - 2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas . In addition he has organized art exhibitions for major museums and galleries including the Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London and the municipal museum of Mexico City. His own art has also been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Oguibe was a senior fellow of the Smithsonian Institution in 2006, and a resident scholar at the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy in 1999. His hobbies include music, architectural and industrial design, and collecting articles of modern design, 19th centur Connecticut mantle clocks, as well as classic British sports cars.


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Ileke-IdI:

TANURE OJAIDE, Ph.D.


Africana Studies Department
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Awards/Honors:


# Invitation to and participation in PAWA World Poetry Festival, Accra, Ghana (November 2—8, 2008).
# Distinguished Visiting Professor of English, IUUM, Kuala Lumpur, September 2008.
# Second Tanure Ojaide International Conference, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria (July 9—12, 2008).
# Senior Faculty Grant, UNC Charlotte, 2008.
# COAS Small Grant, 2007/2008.
# Received (with Dr. Rosemary Traore) UNC Charlotte’s Chancellor’s Diversity Grant (2007).
# Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA (May 2007).
# Appointed Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies in 2006.
# Winner, UNC Charlotte’s First Citizens Bank Scholar Medal Award for 2005.
# North Carolina Poet of the Week: February 25-March 3, 2006.
# Invitation to and participation in Poetry Africa 2005, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa (October 10—15, 2005).
# First International Conference on Tanure Ojaide, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria (July 7-10, 2005).
# UNC Charlotte Senior Faculty Research Grant (2005).
# Fellow, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY (August 2004).
# Fellow, Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (May/June, 2004).
# Southern Regional Education Board Small Grant (2004).
# UNC Charlotte Senior Faculty Research Grant for 2004.
# Winner, Association of Nigerian Authors/NDDC Gabriel Okara Poetry Prize (2003).
# Fulbright Lecturing/Research Fellowship for 2002/2003.
# UNC Charlotte Curriculum/Instructional Development Grant for 2002/2003.
# Residency at the Rockefeller Bellagio Center for Scholars and Artists, Bellagio, Italy (July, 2001).
# UNC Charlotte Summer Research Grant (2001).
# Elected Member of the International Association of University Professors of English, Lausanne, Switzerland (2000).
# Juror, 16th Neustadt Literary Prize, U. of Oklahoma, Norman (2000).
# Won National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for research on Nigeria’s Udje Dance Songs (1999/2000).
# Fundacion Valparaiso fellowship, Mojacar, Spain (November 1999).
# UNC Charlotte Summer Research Grant (1999).
# UNC Charlotte Faculty Research Support Grant (1998/99).
# Winner, All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry (November 1997).
# National Endowment for the Humanities Professorship, Albright College, Reading, PA (1996/97).
# UNC Charlotte Summer Research Grant (1997).
# UNC Charlotte Faculty Research Support grant (1996/97).
# UNC Charlotte Research Grant (1995/96).
# Winner, Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Award (1994).
# Fellow, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (1994).
# Southern Regional Education Board Small Grant (1994).
# UNC Charlotte Curriculum/Instructional Development Grant (1993/94).
# UNC Charlotte Research Grant (1993/94).
# UNC Charlotte Research Grant (1992/93).
# Southern Regional Education Board Small Grant (1992).
# Honorable Mention for The Endless Song by the Noma Award Committee (1990).
# Nominated for Nigeria's National Merit Award (1989)


All for one man? Na wa o!

Not Yoruba.lol.

TewMuch:

Not Yoruba.lol.

se o sure? tori o jo yoruba simi.


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Lil' O is a southern rapper, born in Lagos, Nigeria and raised in Southwest Houston, Texas. He is an original member of DJ Screw's Screwed Up Click. He was also known as O or Da Fat Rat Wit Da Cheeze. His name references his height, at 5 feet tall