Lady Oyinkansola Ajasa, also known as Lady Oyinkansola Abayomi, was born in Colonial Lagos on March 6, 1897. She was the daughter of Sir Kitoye Ajasa, a Yoruba aristocrat who was the first Nigerian to receive a knighthood from the British, and Lucretia Olayinka Moore, a princess of the Egba royal dynasty. She completed her education in 1909 at the Anglican Girls’ Seminary in Lagos.
From there, go to the Gloucestershire Young Ladies Academy at Ryford Hall. She studied at the London-based Royal Academy of Music in 1917. In 1920, she returned to Lagos and took a job at the Anglican Girls’ Seminary as a music instructor. She met the love of her life at this time, a lawyer by the name of Mr. Moronfolu Abayomi, whom she married in 1923.
When Mr. Moronfolu Abayomi was assassinated in court two months later, she was devastated and decided she would never marry again. Dr. Kofoworola She told John that if he wanted to marry her, he would have to take her late husband’s name, Abayomi. Observe what transpired. He consented, was married to her, and adopted the name Dr. Kofoworola Abayomi.
Born in Lagos on July 10, 1896, Sir Kofoworola Adekunle “Kofo” Abayomi, KBE, was of Egbe-Yoruba descent. He was a politician from Nigeria who went on to have a notable career in public service. He was one of the founders of the nationalistNigerian Youth Movement in 1934. His most recent significant position in the public eye was as the Lagos Executive Development Board’s chairman from 1958 until 1966
