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Ayinla Omowura: Life And Times Of An Apala Legend

Brains & Noble

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Last updated on Jun 13, 2026 05:11 PM

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Category Brains & Noble > TS

Condition new

SKU BN-47237

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The book plots the graph of Omowura’s youth, his musicality, family, the fatality of his early departure and the events that led to his death. From the lens of family, friends, his songs and relics of people who interfaced with him while alive, a narrative is constructed here about the short life of music and society that Ayinla lived. He was a lay scholar, an ombudsman, autodidact and carrier of the cultural burden of his Yoruba people. Having tasted the pre and post-colony life, the latter being a time when noticeable conflicts were beginning to appear between traditional life and modernity, Ayinla taught with his music that the latter could only exist if the values of the former are embedded into it.

Having lived a rough life at youth and the top of society that fame and wealth placed him in his latter life, Ayinla never recovered from the conflict these extremes posed. He never really realised the enormous roles expected of his rise to the top of high society. This, in part, was responsible for his murder. This sad reality and many more were engaged in this book.