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BOLA BAMIGBOLA
Tell us about your childhood and growing up days.
I was born on March 5, 1938 to the Omodeleola dynasty in Modakeke, Osun State and I grew up in the same environment. Because of my family’s situation and other circumstances, I did not start school until I was 10 in 1948. I left primary school in 1954.
Because I was a very brilliant student, our headmaster at St. Stephen’s School, Modakeke, employed me and some other classmates to teach in that same school and I was there till 1956 before I went for my Teachers Grade 3 Course at St. Peter’s College, Ilesha from 1957 to 1958. After the Grade 3 Teachers Course, I went back to St. Stephen’s School, Modakeke to teach. The system then was that after Grade 3, you had to teach for two years before you could advance to Grade 2. After teaching for two years at St. Stephen’s School, Modakeke, I sought admission to St. Luke’s College, Ibadan and I studied for another two years there. When I finished from St. Luke’s College, I came back to teach but this time, I worked for only one year before I went for my Grade 1 Course in Akure, Ondo State. That ended in 1964 and all the time, I was playing football in all the places where I worked.