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Alfa Apalara
Alfa Bisiriyu Apalara (1918–1953) was a Yoruba Nigerian Muslim cleric from Lagos. In the early 1950s, he held a series of crusades and Dawah in Ebute Metta and Mushin with a common theme of speaking out against traditional Yoruba cults such as Oro and Egungun and drawing more adherents of traditional African religion to Islam. He was murdered on January 3, 1953 and his body was never found. Life Apalara was born in Itoko, a town in the outskirts of Abeokuta, he had Quranic studies and elementary education before he went to Lagos to work as a carpenter Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, Shipbuilding, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc. .... In Lagos, he lived in Mushin, a settlement that had a reputation as the home of street urchins. While living in Mushin, Apalara was involved in the negative aspects of life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almanac 1955 In Memory Of A Martyr (Apalara)
An almanac (also spelled ''almanack'' and ''almanach'') is an annual publication listing a set of current information about one or multiple subjects. It includes information like weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, tide tables, and other tabular data often arranged according to the calendar A calendar is a system of organizing days. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. A date is the designation of a single and specific day within such a system. A calendar is also a physi .... Celestial figures and various statistics are found in almanacs, such as the sunrise, rising and sunset, setting times of the Sun and Moon, dates of eclipses, hours of high and low tides, and religious festivals. The set of events noted in an almanac may be tailored for a specific group of readers, such as farmers, sailors, or astronomers. Etymology The etymology of the word is disputed. The earliest documented use of the word in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
