Afolabi Olabimtan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Nigerian politician
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Place of Birth: Ogun State, Nigeria
About Afolabi Olabimtan
- Afolabi Olabimtan (June 11, 1932 – August 27, 2003) was a Nigerian politician, writer, and academic.
- He was born in Ogun State and was later the senator for Ogun West from 1999 to 2003.
- He died in a motor accident in August 2003.Olabimtan achieved a PhD at the University of Lagos in African Languages.
- He became an expert in the Yoruba language, and wrote a number of novels in the tongue, such as Kekere Ekun in 1967 and Ayanmo in 1973. In 1999, Olabimatan was elected as a senator for the Alliance for Democracy party for Ogun West.
- He served just one term, standing down in 2003 in order to allow a younger successor to take his place.
- Later in the same year he was killed in a motor accident.
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