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Meet Adunni Oluwole, The Woman Who Knew Nigeria Would Be A Failure by SlayerofSatan: 1:22pm On Nov 11, 2022
Adunni Oluwole was a Unitarist, and anti-independence activist. Adunni, a small, almost fragile woman, was one of Nigeria’s most colorful female leaders in the decade prior to independence.

Adunni did not think Nigeria was ready to attain independence in 1956 when a date in that year was proposed, and she worked to prolong the British stay.

Adunni was born in 1905 into the family of an Ibadan warrior to whom her fearlessness is usually credited.

Her early early years were spent with Bishop Howells, the vicar of St. John’s church Aroloya, Lagos, and she grew up in Mushin, a difficult child.

As a youth, she wrote a very successful play for the Girl’s Guild of St. John’s Church in Lagos, that was directed by the Nigerian nationalist, Herbert Macaulay.

She later became the only female founder of a professional theater company in the West of Nigeria.

During the workers’ general strike of 1945, when the colonial government stopped their salaries, Adunni mobilized women in support of the workers and gave money to the workers’ Union for coping strategy.

In the same year, she founded a party that had men as its great majority and won a seat in Ikirun, Osun North of the Western Region in the 1954 House of Representatives regional election, defeating bigger parties such as the NCNC and the Action Group of Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe and Chief Obafemi Awolowo respectively.

The Nigerian Commoner’s Party that she formed opposed the rapid transfer of power to Nigerians at the price of ‘dictatorship’ of some over the others. With this shocking view she gained instant fame, and her message resonated well among the rural people who were already complaining about heavy taxation they came to be known among Yoruba-speaking groups as “Egbe Koyinbo Mailo” which translates to “The White Man Must Not Go”. The group did not stay around for long due to inadequate funding after her death.

On 25th August, 1955, Adunni carried her campaign to the palace of the Olubadan who invited chiefs and men of affairs to witness her submission. There, she was accosted by Ibadan politician, Adelabu Adegoke, who called her harlot and threatened to hit her with broom sticks. After her banishment from Ibadan, Adunni took her message to Akure where she tied ropes round her waist and had two strong men who she had hired to pull her through the streets.

She will then make speeches denouncing the Nigerian political class who she claimed, will become cheaters of common people that she symbolized.

She died of whitlow in 1957.

Her stance looked reactionary at the time but events in our country 60 years after the so-called independence show clearly that Adunni saw what this country would become in the hands of internal colonialists after the departure of the British.

She was our own Nostradamus.

She probably died before 1960 so that her eyes would not behold evil.

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Re: Meet Adunni Oluwole, The Woman Who Knew Nigeria Would Be A Failure by Naira20: 1:23pm On Nov 11, 2022
Re: Meet Adunni Oluwole, The Woman Who Knew Nigeria Would Be A Failure by madridguy(m): 1:29pm On Nov 11, 2022
R. I. P
Re: Meet Adunni Oluwole, The Woman Who Knew Nigeria Would Be A Failure by Mickykarim: 1:33pm On Nov 11, 2022
Naira20:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAsHeR-NT08

A CONFLICTED PERVERT.

"During the workers’ general strike of 1945, when the colonial government stopped their salaries, Adunni mobilized women in support of the workers and gave money to the workers’ Union for coping strategy.

SHE DID NOT WANT THE SAME PEOPLE SHE FOUGHT TO LEAVE HER PEOPLE ALONE. PEOPLE SHE CLAIMED DID NOT TREAT HER PEOPLE WELL.

The myopic pessimist also ended it ingloriously.

AND WHO IS CELEBRATING A BANISHED OUTCAST, BUT A DUNCE LIKE THE MAGGOT WORSHIPER WRITER.

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Re: Meet Adunni Oluwole, The Woman Who Knew Nigeria Would Be A Failure by FirstSon01: 1:34pm On Nov 11, 2022
This is a result of the fact of the terrible education system in Nigeria.

Adunni that was a hired British evil person to scuttle our independence move, that's who they are calling a hero.

Una dae shame me.
Re: Meet Adunni Oluwole, The Woman Who Knew Nigeria Would Be A Failure by Svoboda(m): 1:37pm On Nov 11, 2022
Reactionary tendencies have always existed even during the colonial era. Tendencies that were opposed to calls for independence and end to colonialism. They are simply known as Uncle Toms.

Have we not made significant progress since after indepemdence? I think we have.
Re: Meet Adunni Oluwole, The Woman Who Knew Nigeria Would Be A Failure by Mickykarim: 1:46pm On Nov 11, 2022
FirstSon01:
This is a result of the fact of the terrible education system in Nigeria.

Adunni that was a hired British evil person to scuttle our independence move, that's who they are calling a hero.

Una dae shame me.

BRILLIANT SUBMISSION.

You got it pretty right!

THIS FALIED SELF STYLE ACTIVIST WITH FRUSTRATED SOULS AND THEIR STUPID GOON FOLLOWERS ARE DAMN TOO DISGUSTING.
Re: Meet Adunni Oluwole, The Woman Who Knew Nigeria Would Be A Failure by Nobody: 2:01pm On Nov 11, 2022
Mickykarim:


BRILLIANT SUBMISSION.

You got it pretty right!

THIS FALIED SELF STYLE ACTIVIST WITH FRUSTRATED SOULS AND THEIR STUPID GOON FOLLOWERS ARE DAMN TOO DISGUSTING.

So did the British really ever leave?

Atiku is coming
Re: Meet Adunni Oluwole, The Woman Who Knew Nigeria Would Be A Failure by Nobody: 2:02pm On Nov 11, 2022
FirstSon01:
This is a result of the fact of the terrible education system in Nigeria.

Adunni that was a hired British evil person to scuttle our independence move, that's who they are calling a hero.

Una dae shame me.

So did the British leave?


Atiku is coming
Re: Meet Adunni Oluwole, The Woman Who Knew Nigeria Would Be A Failure by SlayerofSatan: 2:04pm On Nov 11, 2022
The only maggot I'm aware of is the one that climbed out of your mom's womb as she was giving birth to you.

Continue celebrating incompetence, insecurity, runaway corruption and hyper inflation like the born fool you are.


Mickykarim:


A CONFLICTED PERVERT.

"During the workers’ general strike of 1945, when the colonial government stopped their salaries, Adunni mobilized women in support of the workers and gave money to the workers’ Union for coping strategy.

SHE DID NOT WANT THE SAME PEOPLE SHE FOUGHT TO LEAVE HER PEOPLE ALONE. PEOPLE SHE CLAIMED DID NOT TREAT HER PEOPLE WELL.

The myopic pessimist also ended it ingloriously.

AND WHO IS CELEBRATING A BANISHED OUTCAST, BUT A DUNCE LIKE THE MAGGOT WORSHIPER WRITER.

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