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Akin (given Name)
Akin is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Akin Adesokan, Nigerian writer *Akin Akingbala (born 1983), Nigerian professional basketball player *Akin Akinsehinde (born 1976), Nigerian footballer *Akin Alabi, Nigerian music video director *Akin Ayodele (born 1979), former American football player *Akin Birdal (born 1948), Turkish politician *Akin Düzakin (born 1961), Turkish-Norwegian illustrator and children's author *Akin Euba (born 1935), Nigerian composer, musicologist, and pianist *Akin Fakeye (born 1936), Nigerian craftsman *Akin Famewo (born 1998), English professional footballer *Akin Fayomi (born 1955), Nigerian diplomat *Akin Gazi (born 1981), British actor of Turkish Cypriot descent *Akin Lewis (born 1957), Nigerian actor, director, and producer *Akin Mabogunje, Nigerian geographer *Akin Odebunmi, Nigerian professor *Akin Babalola Kamar Odunsi, Nigerian businessman *Akin Ogunbiyi, Nigerian businessman and politician *Akin Ogungbe, Nigerian filmmaker and ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akin Adesokan
Akin Adesokan is a Nigerian writer, scholar and novelist with research interests into twentieth and twenty-first century African and African American/African Diaspora literature and cultures. He is currently the associate professor of comparative literature at Indiana University Bloomington. He exerts influence on Nigerian cultural environment through commentary, advocacy, and writing. Education Adesokan has a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2005, an MA from the same university in 2003, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Ibadan (1990) where he emerged the best student in the Theatre Arts department. He also won the Faculty of Arts prize as well as thNational Council of Arts and CulturePrize. Arrest On November 7, 1997, while returning to Nigeria from a fellowship in Austria, Adesokan was arrested by security agents of the Sani Abacha administration and held incommunicado at one of the country's notorious detention centers, along with his friend and fellow writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akin Gazi
Akin Gazi (born 15 October 1981) is a British actor. Life and career Gazi was born in North London, in 1981, to Turkish Cypriot parents. He attended Queen Mary, University of London studying English and Drama graduating in 2003. He is married to economist and activist Faiza Shaheen Faiza Shaheen (born 1982/1983) is a British academic in the field of economic inequality. Early life and education Shaheen was born in Leytonstone, in East London. Her father was a car mechanic from Fiji and her mother was a lab technician fro .... Filmography Film Television References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gazi, Akin 1981 births 21st-century English male actors British people of Turkish Cypriot descent English male film actors English male television actors English people of Turkish Cypriot descent Living people Male actors from London People from Edmonton, London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akin Omoboriowo
Akinwole Michael Omoboriowo (12 January 1932 – 10 April 2012) was a Nigerian lawyer and politician who was Deputy Governor of Ondo State, later switching parties and contested for the governorship election of 1983 in Ondo State during the Nigerian Second Republic. He was initially declared the winner but was disputed and later reversed by a court of appeal before he could take office. Omoboriowo was elected deputy governor on the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) platform, running with Michael Adekunle Ajasin, who became governor. He claimed that he should have been UPN candidate for governor, since he had won more votes that Ajasin in the primaries, but that the UPN leaders had rigged the results. During his period as deputy governor, he fell out with Governor Ajasin, who refused to swear him into power as acting governor when Ajasin was away from the state. Omoboriowo switched to the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) and ran against his old boss in the 1983 elections. This came o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akin Ogungbe
Christopher Akintola Ogungbe (1934 – November 2012) was a Nigerian film actor, filmmaker, producer and director. Early life and career He was born in 1934 at Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State, southwestern Nigeria where he later died on November 2012. His mother took him to live with his grandmother after he stopped schooling, at first he went to learn to tailor He started by watching Baba GT Onimole as an apprentice, according to his brother his first play was title "a terrible life"and his stage name is Baba Ibeji. He had featured, directed and produced several Nigerian films such as ''Ireke Onibudo'' and ''50-50'', a movie produced in 1990 that featured the veteran comic actor Bolaji Amusan. Personal life He had 20 wives and 50 children, among his children is a Nigerian film actor, director and producer, Segun Ogungbe. Selected filmography *''50-50 (1990) *''Ireke Onibudo'' *Asiri Baba Ibeji *Ologbo Jigolo *Lisabi *Igba funfun See also * List of Nigerian film producers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akin Ogunbiyi
Akinlade Ogunbiyi is a Nigerian businessman and former political candidate. He is the chairman of Mutual Benefits Assurance PLC. Early life Akin Ogunbiyi was born in Ile-Ogbo, Osun State. His parents were farmers and his father served as chairman of the Trade Association. Akin Ogunbiyi attended primary school at A.U.D Primary School. He graduated with a degree in Agricultural Economics from Obafemi Awolowo University in Ife. He studied at the International Graduate School of Management, University of Navarra (IESE) Barcelona in Spain where he earned an Executive Masters in Business Administration. Ogunbiyi attended Lagos Business School. He earned a degree in History and an M Sc in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management from UNILAG. He is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute in London. Career Business Akin Ogunbiyi is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, London. He trained in insurance in NICON. He then joined the Finance and Insuran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akin Babalola Kamar Odunsi
Akin Babalola Kamar Odunsi is a Nigerian businessman who was elected Senator for the Ogun West constituency of Ogun State, Nigeria in the April 2011 to May 2015 national elections. He ran on the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) platform. Background Chief Kamardeen Akinola Babalola Odunsi (KABO) attended the CMS Grammar School, Bariga, then the University of Lagos where he obtained a BA degree in 1972. He went on to the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States, graduating with an MS in advertising in July 1973. He worked with Vince Cullers Advertising in Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ... before returning to Nigeria in 1974 to join Grant Advertising, later moving to Admark Advertising where he became the first Nigerian Chief Executive in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akin Odebunmi
Akin Odebunmi is a Yoruba Nigerian Professor of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis in the Department of English, University of Ibadan. Born on December 21, 1967, he is a widely traveled scholar in pragmatics and intercultural studies. Professional life As an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Georg Foster Experienced Research Fellow, he worked with Prof. Dr Peter Auer at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, an international research centre of excellence of the University of Freiburg, Germany between April 2010 and March 2011.He has also worked and is still working with the Peter Auer Research group at the Hermann Paul Centre of Linguistics, University of Freiburg. He is a member of professional bodies such as the English Scholars Association of Nigeria (ESAN) (formerly Nigerian English Studies Association - NESA), the Reading Association of NigeriaRAN and the International Pragmatics Association, Belgium. He had supervised several undergraduate and postgraduate researc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akin Mabogunje
Akinlawon Ladipo "Akin" Mabogunje (18 October 1931 – 4 August 2022) was a Nigerian geographer. He was the first African president of the International Geographical Union. In 1999, he was the first African to be elected as a Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences. In 2017, he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received the Vautrin Lud Prize. In 1968, Mabogunje wrote ''Urbanization in Nigeria'', about urbanization and state formation. In the book, Mabogunje argued that the existence of specialists is not sufficient to cause urbanization. Mabogunje describes three "limiting conditions" which are additionally required: a surplus of food production, a small group of powerful people to control the surplus and maintain peace, and a class of traders or merchants who can provide materials to the specialists. He was the Chairman of Ibadan School of Government and Public Policy and mentor to its founder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akin Lewis
Akin Lewis (born 1957) is a Nigerian film actor, director, and producer. Early life and career Lewis was born on 1957 in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, and grew up in Zaria Kaduna State He began his acting career in 1973, the same year he joined a drama group led by Professor Bode Sowande, a Nigerian writer and dramatist. Lewis came into limelight when he played the lead role in ''Why Worry'', a 1980 comedy sitcom on NTA Ibadan, but gained more popularity for his role as local playboy Emeka in the sitcom ''Koko Close''. He won best actor in 1982 based on the series and national limelight in ''Madam Dearest'', a 2005 Nigerian film produced and directed by Tade Ogidan. Over the years, he has featured, produced and directed several films. He featured in ''Tinsel'', a Nigerian soap opera that began airing in August 2008 and Heroes and Zeroes, a 2010 Nigerian film written and directed by Niji Akanni. In October 2010, he won the Audio Visual Awards (TAVA) for best actor. He celebrated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akin Fayomi
Ambassador Akin Fayomi (born 8 November 1955) is a Nigerian career diplomat who was the Minister/Head of Political Affairs at the High Commission of Nigeria, London from July 2004 to March 2007. Later he was Ambassador and Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) to Liberia from January 2010 to July 2011. He was then appointed as Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from July 2011 to July 2012, before his appointment as The Ambassador of Nigeria to France from July 2012 to December 2013. He was also appointed as the first Nigerian Ambassador to the Principality of Monaco during the same period. Early life and education Akinyele O. Fayomi was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria. He attended Loyola College and The International School both in Ibadan for his secondary and higher secondary education. He studied history at the University of Ibadan and received his BA Honours in 1977. He later studied International Relations at the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akin Akingbala
Akinlolu Akinayi Akingbala (born 25 March 1983) is a Nigerian professional basketball player who last played for Sáenz Horeca Araberri of the LEB Oro. He played college basketball for Clemson University. He is 2.09m (6 ft 10) tall and he can play both power forward and center positions. College career After playing high school basketball at Brunswick School in Greenwich, Connecticut, Akingbala played college basketball at Clemson University, with the Clemson Tigers. A highlight of his college career was a 21-point, 16-rebound performance, in an 86–81 win over Virginia Tech, on 1 March 2006. Professional career Akingbala went undrafted in the 2006 NBA draft. In July 2006, he joined the Boston Celtics for the 2006 NBA Summer League. He later signed with the Celtics, but they waived him in October 2006. He then joined the Los Angeles D-Fenders of the NBA D-League. In December 2006, he moved to Spain and signed with Plus Pujol Lleida of the LEB Gold for the rest of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akin Famewo
Akinlolu Richard Olamide Famewo (born 9 November 1998) is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for EFL League One club Sheffield Wednesday. Coming through the youth academy at Luton Town, he turned professional with The Hatters in 2016 and went on to spend time on loan with Grimsby Town, before signing with Norwich City where played in the Premier League. He went on to feature for St Mirren F.C., St Mirren and Charlton Athletic F.C., Charlton Athletic before signing for Wednesday in 2022. Career Luton Town Born in Lewisham, Greater London, Famewo joined Luton Town as an under-10 and progressed through the club's youth system. He was a member of the under-18 team that won the Football League Youth Alliance#South East Conference, Youth Alliance South East title and the Football League Youth Alliance#Youth Alliance Cup, Youth Alliance Cup in 2015–16, and also reached the quarter-finals of the FA Youth Cup, in which they lost 1–0 to Blackburn Rovers F. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |