Ayinla Omowura
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This book is a narrative of the life and times of one of the most profound and unarguably, one of the most original Yoruba musicians of post-colonial Nigeria. Murdered in a barroom brawl in Abeokuta, Ogun State 1980, Ayinla Omowura, forty years after his untimely passage, has refused to die, both in the consciousness of the people of South West Nigeria, even elsewhere, as well as in the hearts and on the lips of the people. Famous for his outlawry and romance with the banned substance called marijuana, Omowura exhibited a depth of musical profundity, scholarship and the captivating voice of a songbird, a troika that is rare in contemporary Nigerian music. This book is thus an attempt to properly situate and reconfigure what Omowura represented to the postcolonial society.
