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Filmmaker · Nigeria

Segun Olusola

Died in 2012

Segun Olusola was born in 1935 in Ijebu-Ode, in Yoruba country. In 1959 he joined Western Nigeria Television, which opened that year in Ibadan, and became its leading producer. There he created a village serial followed for twenty years across the whole country, and trained a generation of actors and technicians. As Nigeria's ambassador to Ethiopia, he later founded a foundation for African refugees, to which he devoted the end of his life. He died in Lagos in 2012.

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