When she returned to Nigeria, she connected with the local Lagos Nigerian Girl Guides Association, which was founded by an English woman.
While in England, Abayomi had joined the Girl Guides. He would be assassinated in court two months later. It was during this time when she met a lawyer named Moronfolu Abayomi. She became a music teacher at the Anglican Girls' Seminary. In 1917, she attended the Royal Academy of Music in London. She then went to school at the Young Ladies Academy at Ryford Hall, located in Gloucestershire, England. She attended Anglican Girls' Seminary school, Lagos. She was also the first cousin of Kofo, Lady Ademola. Her father was Sir Kitoye Ajasa, a prominent Saro tribesman who was the first Nigerian to be knighted by the British, and her mother was Lucretia Olayinka Moore, an omoba of an Egba royal family. She was called Oyinkan (the shortened form of Oyinkansola) by her family. She was born Oyinkansola Ajasa in Nigeria in 1897. She was the head of the Nigerian Girl Guides and founder of the Nigerian Women's Party. I don’t think I started writing black characters until I was about 19.Iyaloye Oyinkansola "Oyinkan" Abayomi, Lady Abayomi (6 March 1897 – 19 March 1990) was a Nigerian nationalist and feminist. Malorie Blackman (British Children’s Laureate from 2013-15) was one of the first writers who allowed me to be in a world with black characters. But I also did have that strange thing when I was young that I only wrote white characters. And I know people talk about not seeing themselves in books, but I saw myself all the time because I was a tomboy, so whenever I found a tomboy I would immediately identify. I read a lot of the classics – The Little Princess, Anne of Green Gables and that sort of stuff – then I graduated to Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, Crime and Punishment. “But my relationship with African literature came much later on, partly because I was in England during my formative years.
“I read everything as a child,” Braithwaite says. It traces its steady rise from Chinua Achebe – the ‘father of modern African literature’ – and his seminal Things Fall Apart of 1958, through the roots of the acclaimed African Writers Series, plus vintage interviews with such luminaries as Buchi Emecheta, whose work often drew on her own experience of life as an immigrant and a single parent to the first African laureate Wole Soyinka, and bringing the narrative up to date with 2019’s glittering Booker Prize award ceremony, scooped by Bernadine Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other.
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