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Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (21 April 1943 – 19 July 2023), also known as Kole Omotoso, was a Nigerian writer and intellectual best known for his works of fiction and in South Africa as the "Yebo Gogo man" in adverts for the telecommunications company Vodacom.
Jul 19, 1998 · Kole Omotoso (born April 21, 1943, Akure, Nigeria—died July 19, 2023, Johannesburg, S. Afr.) is a Nigerian novelist, playwright, and critic who writes from a Yoruba perspective and couples the folklore he learned as a child with his adult studies in Arabic and English.
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Jul 31, 2023 · Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso, better known as Kole Omotoso, the Nigerian novelist, playwright, journalist, scholar and actor, died on 19 July 2023. His son Akin Omotoso, a filmmaker,...
Professor Kole Omotoso is a scholar, a critic, and a playwright; through his words and thought, he strives to push the boundaries of African being and possibility. He writes with a moral, social, and political responsibility to the African continent.
Jul 20, 2023 · Vodacom’s Yebo Gogo man, Professor Kole Omotoso, popularly known for his iconic role in Vodacom’s commercials in the 1990s, died in Johannesburg on Wednesday, 19 July 2023. This is according to the telecommunication giant which paid tribute to the actor.
Jul 19, 2023 · A Nigerian author and professor, Kole Omotoso, is dead. He died at the age of 80 in South Africa where he had been sick for a while, a family source told PREMIUM TIMES. Mr Omotoso’s family...
Jul 26, 2023 · Born Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso, but known as Kole Omotoso, he was a renowned writer, university teacher, actor, columnist, literary critic and known in South Africa as the Yebo Gogo...
