1. Oloori Kofoworola "Kofo" Aina Ademola, Lady Ademola MBE, MFR, OFR was a Nigerian educationist A writer and advocate for women education and the president of the National Council of Women's Societies in Nigeria and was the head of the women's organization from 1958 to 1964.
Kofoworola Ademola was the first black African woman to earn a degree from Oxford University, studying at St Hugh's College, and an author of children's books.
Kofoworola Ademola was the first president of the National Council of Women's Societies in Nigeria, the first Nigerian graduate teacher in Queen's College, the first female member and later chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the United Bank for Africa, and a member of the Nigerian Scholarship Board.
Kofo Ademola was born on May 21,1913, to the family of the Lagos lawyer Omoba Eric Olawolu Moore, a member of an Egba royal family who was educated at Lagos Grammar School, Sierra Leone Grammar School and Monkton Combe School in England, and his wife Aida Arabella, who herself belonged to a family that was descended from Scipio Vaughan.
Kofoworola Ademola was a first cousin of Oyinkan, Lady Abayomi and a niece of Oloori Charlotte Obasa.
Kofoworola Ademola did not report overt racism while in Britain, but expressed annoyance at "being regarded as a 'curio' or some weird specimen of Nature's product, not as an ordinary human being" and at "ineffectual remarks about our 'amazing cleverness' at being able to speak English and at being able to wear English clothes".
Kofoworola Ademola returned to Nigeria in 1935 and took up appointment as a teacher at Queens College.
Kofoworola Ademola was a member of the latter and was a bridge linking both organizations and a few others to form a collective organization.
Kofoworola Ademola is a teacher, educator, director of the board of trustees of the United Bank for Africa, secretary of the Western Region Scholarship Board and she co-founded two schools: the Girls Secondary Modern School in Lagos and New Era Girls' Secondary School, Lagos.
Kofoworola Ademola was a social worker, teacher and educator, she co-founded two schools: the Girls Secondary Modern School in Lagos and New Era Girls' Secondary School, Lagos.
Kofoworola Ademola was a director of the board of trustees of the United Bank for Africa and secretary of the Western Region Scholarship Board.
Kofoworola Ademola wrote children's books, many of them based in West African folklore, including Greedy Wife and the Magic Spoon, Ojeje Trader and the Magic Pebbles, Tutu and the Magic Gourds, and Tortoise and the Clever Ant, all part of the "Mudhut Book" series.
Kofoworola Ademola was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1959, receiving the award from Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
Lady Kofoworola Ademola held the chieftaincy titles of the Mojibade of Ake and the Lika of Ijemo.