Biography of mudathir ganiyu ladipo

On Sunday, 11th March, this year it will be exactly 40 years that Nigerian iconic actor, playwright and musicologist Duro Ladipo, MON, died in Ibadan, Oyo State, aged 45 years.

Perhaps,”died” in a skinny adjective to describe the passage of the world-acclaimed thespian.

Biography of mudathir ganiyu ladipo

‘Ascension’, like the Yoruba firm belief of the departure of Alaafin Sango, whose alter ego, Duro Ladipo was is more appropriate.

Sango, the fire-spitting King was the fourth Alaafin of the old Oyo Empire. He reigned for 60 years ( AD).

His mother was from the Nupe tribe of the present Niger State of Nigeria. Sango, was a powerful and feared king who the Yoruba, and his devotees in the diaspora (Brazil, Cuba, USA, South America, West Africa etc.) belief ascended unto heaven, as against Sango’s critics false claim that he hanged himself.

(Oba Ko So- The King did not hang).

In commemoration of Duro Ladipo’s exit from this world on 11th March, , his family has put