Dear Otunba(Dr.)Sunday Isola Adeniyi Adegeye,MFR,better known all over the world as King Sunny Ade (KSA,)I wish you a happy 74th birthday today,as I pray that you continue to receive God’s blessings.Amen. Since our paths first crossed each other’s,46 years ago,when I was the 24-year old social page editor of the popular Sunday Sketch(please,read my review page in the Sunday Sketch newspaper issue of Sunday, 30th December,1974),titled “1974,THE GROOVIEST YEAR EVER”,it’s been a friendship/brotherhood of mutual respect and unfailing accord. Egin,wa a gbo,wa a to.Amin.
PHOTOGRAPH CAPTION My humble self,Oloye ‘Lekan Alabi,Ekefa Olubadan of Ibadanland and the first Culture Ambassador of the National Museum and Monument,Ile If e,appreciating KSA at a public function in the 1990s. I first appeared at KSA’s live(actually on television)performance,52 years ago,on Africa’s first television,the WESTERN NIGERIA TELEVISION SERVICE(WNTV,IBADAN)popular weekly(Wednesdays)live musical show,”COME,LET’S DANCE”,hosted by the late queen-of-the-tube-turned-lawyer,the pretty Toun Adeyemi.I was then a member of the jet-setting circle led by the late haulage/property development businessman,Chief Afolabi Majekodunmi,alias “KING OF BOYS”.
