{"id":5510,"date":"2016-10-06T11:22:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T10:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=5510"},"modified":"2020-09-15T13:42:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T12:42:54","slug":"akinwale-prof-ayobami-olubunmi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/akinwale-prof-ayobami-olubunmi\/","title":{"rendered":"AKINWALE, Prof. Ayobami Olubunmi(Late)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayo Akinwale also known as Ayobami Akinwale[1] (1946 \u2013 September 13, 2020) was a Nigerian actor, producer and academic.He was born in Ibadan and attended Methodist High School and the University of Ibadan before commencing academic work as a lecturer at the Polytechnic Ibadan.[2] He was the Dean, Faculty of Arts and Culture of University of Ilorin.[3][4] He was also the chairman of Oyo State Council for Arts and Culture. He has been a judge on several cultural festivals across Nigeria. He began his acting career in the 1970s featuring in television and drama productions.[2] He won the Best Indigenous actor award at the 4th Africa Movie Academy Awards.<br \/>\nHe died due to a brief illness in the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital at the age of 74.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5377,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-5510","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academia","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/5510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/5510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5510"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=5510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}