Baba ara biography of abraham
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HISTORY!
Baba Aladura Abraham Williams Onanuga - Gorah (The Anointed Successor of Saint Moses Orimolade Tunolase)
Elder Abraham Williams Onanuga was born at Atikori, Ijebu Igbo in February 1873. He attended Anglican Elementary School Ijebu Igbo. He later joined a Native Authority Police Force in Ijebu Ode. From there he left for Lagos to become a paid lay reader at Holy Trinity Ebute Ero. After a while, he pulled out of the Anglican Missionary Church to start his own Evangelistic Mission in Agege where he was preaching the gospel and healing the sick.
Not too long he became a disciple of Moses Orimolade Tunolase and by February 1926, in company of Elder D. Onanaiye, they established the Order in Agege and Egba District. Elder Onanuga was one of the first four Apostle to be ordained by the Founder on the 4th of April 1928. Just before the last days of Saint Moses Orimolade, He blessed Onanuga on 11th October, 1933 and wore him one of his garments and showed him as his able
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Baba Ara: Deportee, gospel singer who married a Muslim and whose death remains a mystery
“Bi a ba njoyin, bi a ba jadun. Bi a ba nfi itan ewure jeka o. Kama gbagbe pe atipo laje laye o”.
“As we consume honey, sweetness and even use the lap of a goat to eat Amala. We should not forget that we are sojourners in this world”.
Late Roland Olubukola Olomola with the scen name ‘Baba Ara‘ was a spirit in human form. He was a highly insightful and observant person whose lyrics were deep and philosophical.
Late Roland Olubukola Olomola (Baba Ara) wearing native
His style of singing was a clear avfärd from norms and his ability to cite betydelsefull bible verses to caution people from vagrant thought of ämne wealths while singing made him different.
Baba Ara came into music industry with different percussion, beats and sounds. He walked through fire and brimstones before he could make his beats and sounds attractive to people.
His story was not perfect nor different from the tales of
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Yusuf Olatunji
Nigerian Yoruba musician (1905–1978)
Yusuf Olatunji, also known as Baba Legba or Baba L’Egbaa (c. 1905 – 1978),[1] was a Nigerian Sakara drum player, who popularized the sakara music style.[2] He was purportedly born in 1905 or 1906 in a village called Gbegbinlawo in Ogun State in south-western Nigeria, although there are still doubts about the location of his birth. His mid-life conversion to Islam boosted his career in Yoruba music. He was born a Christian and he hailed from Iseyin in Oyo State. He was formerly known as Joseph Olatunji. He started his career in 1937 with his first record and he joined Abibu oluwa band in 1927.
Olatunji was a friend of the Lamidi Durowoju, Jimoh Ishola (who was later hanged in the late 1980s) Raji Orire and Badejo Okunsanya. They were the rich men he mostly sang for. He also sang a lot of praise songs for some numerous prominent social clubs in Southwestern part of Nigeria. A very rich woman that