Admin l Tuesday, July 31, 2018
OSUN, Nigeria – Obafemi Awolowo University(OAU), Ile-Ife has joined institutions working to immortalise notable Nigerians that have dealt with the university in one way or the other.
The house the Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka lived in the university as a lecturer has been transformed into museum, courtesy, the Ogun State Government.
Wole Soyinka’s residence is one of the residence of icons of Ogun State origin that the state government is working on in the quest to boost the tourism potential of the state.
The state government has also picked the residence of the late father of the late Afrobeat King, Fela Anikulapo Kuti in Ogun State for transformation into a tourist centre.
Remi Sonaiya, made the revelation on his the social media when she tweeted photograph of the building.
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“The house in which Prof. Wole Soyinka lived on the campus of OAU Ife has been commissioned as a museum, with Ogun State partnering. This is honour well deserved. Glad we did it in his lifetime too”, she said.
