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Kunle Mwanga
Kúnlé is a male Yoruba given name, meaning "to fill the house." It is normally a diminutive of longer names like "Olukunle" (The Lord fills the house) or "Adekunle" (Royalty fills the house), "Fákúnlé" (Ifa has filled the house), and others. Notable people with the given name include: *Kunle Adejuyigbe (born 1977), Nigerian sprinter *Kunle Afolayan (born 1974), Nigerian actor, film producer and director *Kunle Ajayi (born 1964), Nigerian gospel singer, songwriter, saxophonist and televangelist *Kunle Ajibade (born 1958), Nigerian journalist, editor and author *Kunle Dada-Luke (born 2000), Canadian footballer *Kunle Filani (born 1957), Nigerian educator and artist *Kunle Olukotun, American electrical engineer *Kunle Remi Kunle Remi, birth name Oyekunle Opeyemi Oluwaremi (born 18 October 1988) is a Nigerian actor, producer, filmmaker, content creator, host, motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and model. He has appeared in '' Falling'', ''Family Forever'', ''Ti ..., Nigeria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoruba People
The Yoruba people (, , ) are a West African ethnic group that mainly inhabit parts of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo. The areas of these countries primarily inhabited by Yoruba are often collectively referred to as Yorubaland. The Yoruba constitute more than 42 million people in Africa, are a few hundred thousand outside the continent, and bear further representation among members of the African diaspora. The vast majority of the Yoruba population is today within the country of Nigeria, where they make up 21% of the country's population according to CIA estimations, making them one of the largest List of ethnic groups of Africa, ethnic groups in Africa. Most Yoruba people speak the Yoruba language, which is the Niger–Congo languages, Niger-Congo language with the largest number of native or L1 speakers. In Africa, the Yoruba are contiguous with the Yoruboid languages, Yoruboid Itsekiri to the south-east in the northwest Niger Delta, Bariba people, Bariba to the northwest in Benin a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunle Adejuyigbe
Kunle Adejuyigbe (born 8 August 1977) is a Nigerian sprinter. Adejuyigbe won a bronze medal in 4 x 400 metres relay 4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest c ... at the 1995 World Championships, together with teammates Udeme Ekpeyong, Jude Monye and Sunday Bada. External links * 1977 births Living people Nigerian male sprinters World Athletics Championships medalists Yoruba sportspeople 20th-century Nigerian people {{Nigeria-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunle Afolayan
Kunle Afolayan (born 30 September 1975) is a Nigerian actor, producer and director. He is widely credited for elevating the quality of Nollywood movies though larger budgets, shooting on 35mm, releasing in cinemas, and improving cliché Nollywood storylines. After starting his film career as an actor in the 1999 political drama '' Saworoide'', Afoloayan made his directorial debut in 2006 with '' Irapada'', a Nigerian supernatural thriller, which won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Film in an African Language. His follow-on directing credits include ''The Figurine'', ''Phone Swap'', ''October 1,'' and ''Citation. October 1'' was the winner of 16 major African movie awards in 2015 and the second highest grossing Nigerian film in Nigerian cinemas at the time of its release, a feat Afolayan was to repeat two years later with '' The CEO''. In 2021, the director signed a three-picture deal with Netflix. ''Swallow'', the screen adaption of Sefi Atta's book of the same name w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunle Ajayi
Kunle Ajayi (June 16, 1964) is a Nigerian gospel singer, songwriter, saxophonist, televangelist and Director of Music at the Redeemed Christian Church of God. Early life He was born in June 1964 in Mushin, a local government area of Lagos State, the administrative division of Nigeria, located in the southwestern part of the country. . Formed a band called 'The Ambassador' with his group of friends and produced his very first album. He later married his wife at The Apostolic Church Idioro, Mushin. He was ordained as an assistant pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in 1991 and later became a full pastor in 1997 having completed a one-year program at Faith Bible College. He later studied music at Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, ijanikin. He later proceeded to the Royal College of Music in London where he obtained a certificate in music. Education He attended Mushin local council primary school Idioro for his primary education before he proceeded to Eko Boys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunle Ajibade
Kunle Ajibade (born 28 May 1958) is a Nigerian journalist, editor and author. In 1995, along with General Olusegun Obasanjo, and three other journalists, was jailed for life on charges of treason. In 1998/1999, he was a Feuchtwanger fellow at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. Education and early career Ajibade holds a Bachelor's in English Studies and a Masters in Literature-In-English from the Obafemi Awolowo University. He has worked as Senior Correspondent at The African Concord, Assistant Editor at The African Guardian, and as Executive Editor of TheNEWS and P.M. News. Arrest, imprisonment, and release In 1995, the military administration of Sani Abacha announced the arrest of a number of Nigerians on suspicion of participating in a coup attempt. The list included former head of state Olusegun Obasanjo, his deputy Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, among others. During the trial of the coup plotters, TheNews, one of Nigeria's prominent investigative and combative news magazines publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunle Dada-Luke
Olakunle Olumide Dada-Luke (born January 12, 2000) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a full-back for Pacific FC in the Canadian Premier League. Early life Dada-Luke began playing youth soccer with West Toronto SC at age of three. After ten years with West Toronto, he joined the Toronto FC Academy in 2013. On March 15, 2017, he scored in a 1-1 draw at the Viareggio Cup against the Juventus academy team. Club career From 2016 to 2018, he played with Toronto FC III in League1 Ontario. In 2018, he was named co-Young Player of the Year and was named to the league 2nd all-star team. In 2018, he began playing for Toronto FC II in the USL, making five total appearances. In July 2019, Dada-Luke joined Danish club FC Helsingør on a three-year contract after a successful trial. While at Helsingør, he converted from playing winger to becoming a defender at right-back. On January 14, 2020, they announced he had left the club, after not making any appearances. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunle Filani
Emmanuel Olakunle Filani (born 8 September 1957) is a Nigerian educator and artist. His works are closely identified with the school of thought named Onaism, an art movement that is based on the fusion of the designs, ornamentation and motifs found in traditional Yoruba carvings and textiles with modern art pieces such as drawings and paintings. Filani is also a lecturer and an administrator – he was a provost of the Federal College of Education, Osiele, Abeokuta. Early life and education Filani was born 8 September 1957 to a polygamous family,Ademuleya, B., Onipede, A., Azeez, A., & Culture and Creative Art Forum. (2007). Kunle Filani: Artist, critic and art administrator. Lagos: Culture and Creative Art Forum (CCAF) his father Jacob Ogunmoroti Filani was a native of Ikole-Ekiti in Ekiti State, he was a civil servant who worked in the municipal government council while his mother was a teacher. His father died in 1975 when Filani was 17 years old. Due to his father's job, the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunle Olukotun
Oyekunle Ayinde "Kunle" Olukotun is a British-born Nigerian computer scientist who is the Cadence Design Systems Professor of the Stanford School of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab. Olukotun is known as the “father of the multi-core processor”, and the leader of the Stanford Hydra Chip Multiprocessor research project. Olukotun's achievements include designing the first general-purpose multi-core CPU, innovating single-chip multiprocessor and multi-threaded processor design, and pioneering multicore CPUs and GPUs, transactional memory technology and domain-specific languages programming models. Olukotun's research interests include computer architecture, parallel programming environments and scalable parallel systems, domain specific languages and high-level compilers. Education Olukotun did his undergraduate studies at Calvin College, in Grand Rapids, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunle Remi
Kunle Remi, birth name Oyekunle Opeyemi Oluwaremi (born 18 October 1988) is a Nigerian actor, producer, filmmaker, content creator, host, motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and model. He has appeared in '' Falling'', ''Family Forever'', ''Tinsel'', and '' Aníkúlápó'' He won the 7th edition of Gulder Ultimate Search in 2010. While studying at the New York Film Academy, he was simultaneously hosting an Internet TV Channel, Celebville 360. As a successful venture, he made an appearance at the Academy Awards nomination event in Beverly Hills, his first significant hosting appearance. By 2012, he was already cast in his first movie ''Heavy Beauty'' produced by Grace Edwin Okon and directed by Stanlee Ohikhuare. Though he graduated in 2014, he returned and studied filmmaking and directing, which he graduated from in 2015. Early life and education The Nollywood actor was born in Benue State on 18 October 1988. His family relocated to Ibadan when he was a child. His parents r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
