Nigeria: Dele Giwa - the Flaming Journalist

19 October 2018

Today marks the day Dele Giwa died.

Sumonu Oladele "Baines" Giwa was born in 1947 to a family who worked in the palace of Oba Adesoji Aderemi, the Ooni of Ife. After his secondary school education in Ile Ife, he headed to Brooklyn College, USA to study English. In 1974, he married an American nurse. After his graduation in 1977, he proceeded to Fordham University for his graduate school.

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