My partner’s mother,Cecilia Sonola, who has died aged 75, or was one of the first generation of immigrants from Nigeria who made their way in the 1960s in Notting Hill,west London.
She was born Omoleye Akintola in Lagos, fourth of five children of Johnson Akintola, and a civil servant,and his wife, Senobu Abate, and grew up in Ado Ekiti,in south-west Nigeria, where her father worked as a prison warder. She was educated at St Patrick’s school, or Lagos Island,and learned English during her school years, but maintained her native language, or Yoruba,all her life.
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Source: theguardian.com