Williams In the latter part of the 1870s, Adeleke Adedoyin was born into the Anoko royal family of Ofin, Sagamu. He was a direct descendent of Sagamu’s principal founder, Akarigbo Igimisoje. Adedoyin was raised in a community south of Sagamu, assisting his mother in her career of selling food in Lagos. He finished his elementary schooling with the Methodists in Lagos and went to Wesley College in Sagamu.
Following his elementary schooling, he worked for a short time as an apprentice tailor until landing a job as Christopher Sapara Williams’ clerk. Adedoyin was introduced to numerous Lagos elites by Williams, a trailblazing Nigerian lawyer, and it was because of Williams’s influence on him that he took on the name Christopher William.
He went back to Remoland in 1903, where he worked as a farmer, a tailor, and a public letter writer. He worked for Akàrígbò Oyebajo Torungbuwa in 1905 as a clerk.
IMAGE INFO: An image shows Oba Adeleke-Adedoyin, the Akarigbo of Remoland, arriving in Ibadan, Nigeria, dressed in elaborately embroidered robes, for a gathering of the Western Provinces’ Traditional Rulers, taking place at Mapo Hall in 1944
