Alagba Adebayo Faleti, renowned Yoruba translator, broadcaster, TV exponent, pioneer of WNTV, first television station in Africa, who has produced Yoruba folklore full length plays. An actor and playwright in the genre of Duro Ladipo, Herbert Ogunde, featured in several landmark Yoruba plays and a great lover of Yoruba culture.
Faleti translated Nigeria’s national anthem from English to Yoruba, also speeches of military President Ibrahim Babangida and chief Ernest Shonekan, head of the National Interim Government. He has a number of unpublished Yoruba works, published a dictionary of the pronouncement of Yoruba names.
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