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Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by PrincessGift(f): 9:15am On Oct 31, 2019
kestolove95:
If na drug now, na igbo
you no get sense,ode

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Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by Jordan97: 9:16am On Oct 31, 2019
Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by olasaad(f): 9:17am On Oct 31, 2019
FactBoyz:
Please can someone tell me the meaning of Yoruba Amaka in Yoruba.. This woman is a legend.. Slay queens behold who you should emulate.. Beauty. Class. Dilligence. Wife Material. grin

Well there is nothing like Yoruba Amaka. We are Omoluabi

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Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by FactBoyz: 9:18am On Oct 31, 2019
olasaad:


Well there is nothing like Yoruba Amaka. We are Omoluabi
wow.. Interesting
Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by opribo(m): 9:19am On Oct 31, 2019
Refreshing news, not like the dundie united we have up there a celebrated certificate forger.

When we have people like these what then shall we tell our children of how we all gathered and allowed the certificateless one to Lord over us. God forbid such.
Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by eternityk: 9:19am On Oct 31, 2019
FactBoyz:
Meet The First African And Nigerian Woman To Earn A Degree In Oxford University

It is good to be the first to accomplish a feat and it feels really good to be recognised for it. Today, Nigerian blog Factboyz wants to recognise a hero who should be known by all as she accomplished a great feat setting an example for African and Nigerian women.

Kofoworola Ademola was born in 1913 to the well renowned Lagos lawyer Omoba Eric Olawolu Moore, a member of an Egba royal family, and his wife Aida Arabella (née Vaughan), who descended from Scipio Vaughan (through whom she also had Cherokee ancestry.

She studied at the CMS Girls school in Lagos before proceeding to New York USA where she was admitted into the Vasser College. She moved to Portway College Reading, United Kingdom and St. Hugh's college Oxford where she studied from 1931 to 1935.

Due to her determination and sheer ruggedness to pursue her dreams, she earned a degree in education from Oxford while at Oxford she wrote a 21-page autobiography at the insistence of Margery Perham, a British historian and a scholar on African affairs to challenge British stereotypes about Africans, she wrote of her childhood as a mixture of western cultural orientation and African orientation.


In 1939, she married Adetokunbo Ademola, a renowned Nigerian lawyer who went on to become the Chief Justice of Nigeria from 1958 to 1972. He also doubled as the Chancellor of the University of Benin. The union was blessed with 5 children.

Lady Ademola as she is often called helped to pioneer women affairs in Nigeria. In 1958, when the National Council of Women Societies was formed she was chosen as the first president. As president, she became a board member of the International Council of Women.
Ademola was also a social worker, teacher and educator, she co-founded two schools: the Girls Secondary Modern School in Lagos and New Era Girls' Secondary School, Lagos. She was a director of the board of trustees of the UBA (United Bank For Africa) and secretary of the Western Region Scholarship Board. She also wrote children's books, many of them based in West African folklore,

including

Greedy Wife and the Magic Spoon, Ojeje Trader and the Magic Pebbles, Tutu and the Magic Gourds, and Tortoise and the Clever Ant, all part of the "Mudhut Book" series.
She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1959, receiving the award from Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

Abubakar Tafawa Balewa's government in the 1960s awarded her the honour of membership of the Order of the Federal Republic.

She holds the traditional chieftaincy title She held the chieftaincy titles of the Mojibadeof Ake and the Lika of Ijemo

History From Factboyz

https:///2019/10/meet-the-first-african-and-nigerian-woman-to-earn-a-degree-in-oxford-university.html

U think we don't know about your stupid blog and the fake information u post
U this guy
Writing stupid information to b favouring ur region
Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by ahahnow: 9:20am On Oct 31, 2019
nairalandposter:
I was thinking she looks AA, turns out she actually was, through her mum.

How can you tell just by looking at some one.

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Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by Skmoda360(m): 9:20am On Oct 31, 2019
kestolove95:
If na drug now, na igbo
Stop looking for trouble, son....
Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by FactBoyz: 9:21am On Oct 31, 2019
eternityk:

U think we don't know about your stupid blog and the fake information u post
U this guy
Writing stupid information to b favouring ur region
What do you mean by region.. I am not from South West

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Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by Nobody: 9:21am On Oct 31, 2019
We were formally traveling abroad to be known for good things....

But now, it’s all sad tales of drug trafficking, internet fraud and other crimes..
Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by Ayomarcel(m): 9:21am On Oct 31, 2019
All these ones like book ohh.
Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by Bigboy911: 9:22am On Oct 31, 2019
Yaribah ajoka
Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by FactBoyz: 9:28am On Oct 31, 2019
eternityk:

Stop playing dumb
Weren't u the one writing about nnewi the highest billionaire town
Didn't u also write other articles favouring the se
I knew u were Igbo either from anambra or abia
Before we know it,u are going to post about your billionaires
Stupid blogs
For saying this, knowing I did nothing to you, I leave you over to God.

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Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by juman(m): 9:29am On Oct 31, 2019
Government should be serious with studying of history by students.

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Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by dominique(f): 9:30am On Oct 31, 2019
So Eric Moore was Nigerian, didn't know that

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Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by juman(m): 9:32am On Oct 31, 2019
Great egba woman celebrated.

Obasanjo is also an egba, but he is a disgrace to humanity. The cronic election rigger, heavily corrupted man, clueless to the core.

The military armed robbers.
Nigeria became destroyed.

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Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by tellwisdom: 9:33am On Oct 31, 2019
Not interested
Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by Menance: 9:34am On Oct 31, 2019
See conifers chest beating grin..
Can only believe this news if i see it on Linda Ikeji or yabaleft not NL.. Wasn't this the same lame forum that said Tacha's account was DELETED by Instagram?

No Be only 1st Nigerian..
Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by wasiudvd(m): 9:36am On Oct 31, 2019
franchasng:
Another wonderful Yoruba Christian woman, they are so adorable......keep flying the flag.....we all are proud of you Yoruba Christians, you are the light and you must defeat the darkness amongst you to make Yoruba land great again wink
Defeat the darkness.... Blah blah blah.
You type of mindset is the first darkness that need to be defeated.
To you people, everything must be from religion angle. Chai!

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Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by Judybash93(m): 9:48am On Oct 31, 2019
Still waiting for the first British or American that'll graduate from the university of Ibadan

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Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by Umarzy(m): 9:52am On Oct 31, 2019
God bless Africa. God bless Nigeria, God bless Yoruba

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Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by Pantoo: 9:55am On Oct 31, 2019
Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by naijadrivablog: 10:04am On Oct 31, 2019
Jordan97:
Dont be a dunce.. If a woman deserved to be praised, so be it irrespective of the tribe.. Dont advertise your local ideals here..


Meanwhile, she is Our real slay queen

So says Factboyz grin

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Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by Originalsly: 10:06am On Oct 31, 2019
Boringdraw1:


But las las brown roofers sabi book ooo


What your mom sabi?....we know it wasn't book.

@ topic.... had to be a great achievement back then..... being Black and being a woman.
Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by Omoslim26: 10:11am On Oct 31, 2019
I can tell you with assurance dat yorubas dey finish work for education



bt my state still remains the undisputed most educated state in Nigeria

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Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by Omoslim26: 10:11am On Oct 31, 2019
I can tell you with assurance dat yorubas dey finish work for education



bt my state still remains the undisputed most educated state in Nigeria;-)
Re: Meet Kofoworola Ademola, First African Woman To Graduate From Oxford University by Omoslim26: 10:18am On Oct 31, 2019
efighter:


Can any Flattino drug pusher break this record? Well, maybe in another world. There can be only one FIRST and here she is, an Amala and Gbegiri and Ewedu eating Omo Oduduwa.

oga na human being like you she be and she doesnt have 2 heads use your mind positively nd shun dis your mumu childish bigotry on dis forum

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