SO SAD! Veteran Yoruba Actor, Adebayo Faleti Is Dead

Date: 23-07-2017 4:31 pm (6 years ago) | Author: kacy lee
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The news reaching GISTMANIA has claimed that veteran Nigerian Actor, Alàgbà Adebayo Faleti has just passed on to the great beyond.
 
Adebayo Faleti was born on the 26 December 1930. He died on the 22nd July 2017 at the University College hospital Ibadan.
 
He was a Nigerian poet, journalist, writer and actor. He is also known as a Yoruba translator, a broadcaster, TV exponent and a pioneer of the first television station in Africa, Western Nigeria Television (WNTV).
 
He was responsible for translating Nigeria’s National Anthem from English to Yoruba. He also translated speeches being made by military president of Nigeria Ibrahim Babangida and Chief Ernest Shonekan, Head of National Interim Government of Nigeria, from English to Yoruba. Faleti has published a dictionary containing the formal or official use of Yoruba names. He has received many awards, both locally and internationally, including the national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON), the Festival of Arts award with Eda Ko L’aropin (1995) and the Afro-Hollywood Award for Outstanding Performance in Arts (2002).
 
As at the moment of filing this report, GISTMANIA placed a call to the president of the association of Theater Practitioners in Nigeria, Dele Odule who confirmed the claim.

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You Saw It All,a Life Well Lived Into A Ripe Old Age.May God Rest Your Soul.Hoping To Meet You In Heaven On The Last Day.Hopeful And Never Hopeless.
Posted: at 23-07-2017 04:46 PM (6 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Patrioti at 23-07-2017 06:51 PM (6 years ago)
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He died good old age, happy to have honourable man like him around use,  I hope our generation will tap his wealth of experience to advance the Yoruba film industry. Adiew father...RIP.
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RIP
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