Miss E.A. Adebonojo, a Nigerian student studying at the University of London, enters a Marlborough Senior Girls School geography classroom in Isleworth in 1946.
During a geography lecture at Marlborough Senior Girls School, Isleworth, Miss E A Adebonojo (from Ijebu-Ode, Yoruba Land, Western Nigeria) points to a map she drew on the whiteboard depicting Yoruba land in Nigeria. Miss Adebonojo has taught at a ladies’ boarding school and completed teacher preparation at the United Missionary College in Ibadan.
The Nigerian Teacher’s Higher Elementary Certificate has been won by her.
Yoruba was in the early 20th century, when Nigeria’s regional structure was still in place. Yoruba country, a West African ethnoregion inside Africa, was first described in writing to the West in the 19th century by travelers who wrote about their travels through the continent, especially by those who visited the region’s boundaries. It was a federation of three regions—northern, western, and eastern—ruled by a constitution that established a parliamentary system of government.
Each of the three regions was allowed to maintain a significant amount of self-government under the constitution. There were then regional leaders in every region. Among the leaders are Michael Okpara in Eastern Nigeria (1960–1966), Obafemi Awolowo in Western Nigeria (1959–1960), Samuel Akintola in Western Nigeria (1960–1966), and Ahmadu Bello in Northern Nigeria (1959–1966), and Dennis Osadebay Mid-Western Nigeria 1964 -1966
