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"Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it" - George Santayana // I've always wondered what life was like for those who grew up in a world before the one I knew. My curiosity led me to have these, I think, frank conversations with some exceptional people.
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Age 2 Age: Hubert Adedeji Ogunde (opens the original)
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Episode 3 of our historical strand: Hubert Adedeji Ogunde (1916–1990), policeman-turned-showman, playwright, twice banned, arrested more than once, and the man they call the father of modern Nigerian theatre. This one's a little different from our usual conversations. Ogunde passed in 1990, so instead of sitting across from him, I built this episode entirely from the record: his own recorded interviews and documentary footage, his biographer's research, and his family's own testimony. Every word
Age 2 Age: Dick Tiger (opens the original)
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He was twice champion of the world. He gave away everything he owned for a country that lasted three years. He died at 42 working as a museum guard, and his grave lies in weeds.Richard Ihetu - Dick Tiger - was born in Amaigbo in 1929. He sold empty bottles in Aba market. He fought his way to two world titles and brought the first world championship ever contested on African soil home to Ibadan. Then Biafra happened, and he chose his people over everything he had built. CHAPTERS00:00 Intro01:46 T
Age 2 Age: Herbert Macaulay (opens the original)
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What if you could sit down with a man who's been dead since 1946 and ask him anything? This is a new, slightly different, episode of the Age 2 Age Podcast where I step into the voice of the historical figures who built the Nigeria we inherited, and answer the same questions I've always asked living elders. First up: Herbert Macaulay. Grandson of Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the first African bishop in the Anglican church. Trained surveyor and engineer. Founder of the Nigerian National Democratic Party
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