Oyinkansola Abayomi
Lady Oyinkansola Abayomi was a Nigerian nationalist and feminist. She is the former head of the Nigerian Girl Guides and founder of the Nigerian Womens Party.
Oyinkansola Abayomi was born in Nigeria in 1897. She was nicknamed Oyinkan, by her family. She had a younger brother, Akuisola. He died when he was two. Her father was Kitoye Ajasa and her mother was Oyinkan Bartholomew. She went to school at the Anglican Girls Seminary in Lagos. She graduated in 1909. She then went to school at the Young Ladies Academy at Ryford Hall, located in Gloucestershire, England. She joined the Girl Guides. In 1917 she attended the Royal Academy of Music in London. She moved back to Lagos in 1920. She became a music teacher at the Anglican Girls Seminary. It was during this time when she met at lawyer named Moronfolu Abayomi. They married in August 1923. He would be assassinated in court two months later.
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