126th Posthumous Birthday of Isara Monarch, Odemo Samuel Akisanya
IN MEMORY OF ODEMO SAMUEL ADETAYO AKISANYA, AFONLADE II ODEMO OF ISARA REMO (1941 - 1985) 126TH BIRTHDAY IN POSTHUMOUS - The attached video is 56 years old. When the palace of Great Saki Oba Samuel Akisanya, The late Odemo of Isara was razed down by an irate mob in 1968. - He was one of the great Nigerian Nationalists and that was his palace where the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo was a regular visitor. - Odemo Samuel Adetayo Akisanya was born in Isara on the 1st of August, 1898 (126 years ago today)... - HRH S.A Akisanya was a member of the Nigerian Youth Movement. Other members of the Movement which was at that time a quasi-political/pressure group were Nnamdi Azikiwe, Ernest Ikoli, Alvan Ikoku, Akinola Maja, H.O. Davies, Bode Thomas, Herbert Macaulay, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, etc. - He was a person very revered by his colleagues for his boldness, sequential presentation of facts, impeccable English, high intelligence quotient, and nonpareil political sagacity. - Awolowo in one of h