Renowned culture icon and folklorist, Jimi Solanke, is dead.
According to available information as at press time, the artist, popular for: “Tales By Moonlight,” died on Monday.
Solanke, 82, was reported to have been ill and was being transported to Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital in Ogun State when he died.
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He was born on July 4, 1942, in Ipara Remo, Ogun State and served as a pioneer member of the Orisun Theatre Group, founded by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, in 1961.
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