Tunji Oyelana

Biography

Tunji Oyelana is a native of Nigeria, and is of the Yoruba ethnic group. He is a folk singer, social crusader, renowned actor and was once a lecturer at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Most of Tunji Oyelana's songs are in Yoruba. In the early 1980s, he teamed up with Nigeria's Nobel Literature prize winner, Professor Wole Soyinka, to record a musical album that satirized the corruption of the Nigerian political elite. Tunji Oyelana currently lives in the United Kingdom.

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Discography (5)

Double Face

EP2014

6 tracks

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A Nigerian Retrospective 1966-79

compilation2012

24 tracks

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Ifa

single2011

1 tracks

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Which Way, Africa?

EP1974

6 tracks

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Tunji Oyelana & the Benders

EP1974

6 tracks

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