Tanimowo Ogunlesi was a women’s rights activist, teacher, and founding member of the women’s section of Obafemi Awolowo’s, Action Group (AG).
Tanimowo Ogunlesi was a women’s rights activist, teacher, and founding member of the women’s section of Obafemi Awolowo’s, Action Group (AG). She founded the Children’s Home School, Ibadan, one of the first Nigerian-owned boarding schools, and was the only female member of the Nigerian delegation to the United Kingdom to discuss the country’s independence in July 1953.
Ogunlesi was born on 01 December 1908. She attended Saint James Primary School in Iperu, and Kudeti Girls School in Ibadan. In 1925, she joined CMS Girls’ Seminary School in Lagos to train as a teacher and in 1934 married her husband J.S. Ogunlesi, who was also a teacher...
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