Lady Oyinkansola Abayomi co-founded the Nigerian Women’s Party and helped establish Queen’s College, Yaba, in 1927.
On 19 March 1990, Nigerian feminist, nationalist, and politician, Iyaloye Oyinkansola Abayomi died in Lagos, aged 93. Abayomi co-founded the Nigerian Women’s Party and was the former head of the Nigerian Girl Guides.
Abayomi was born in Britain’s Lagos colony on 06 March 1897, where she attended the Anglican Girls’ Seminary. She left for England in 1909 to continue her education in Gloucester and, later, at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
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