Moses Olaiya Adejumo

Moses Olaiya Adejumo was born on 18 May 1936 in Ilesha, in Yoruba country. In 1965 he founded his travelling theatre company, the Alawada, with which he staged forty-three plays, and under his stage name established himself as the foremost entertainer of his time. Starting out in village squares, he moved on to the stage, then the screen: five films between 1982 and 1990, in which he played the lead as well as producing them. He taught his people to laugh at their own failings, and died on 7 October 2018.

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• CinemaOrun MooruMoses Olaiya Adejumo · 1982Cinema