With the support of the Frank Basile Emerging Stories Fellowship, artist Manón Voice researched the rich history of the Indianapolis-based Bethel AME Church and its connections with the Underground Railroad
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On Sunday, 7th February this year, all roads led to Agbowa-Sagamu, Ogun State as Brother Akinola Olumakinde Soname was formally invested with the office of Lay President, Methodist Church Diocese of Remo, Ogun State. Soname is my “egbon” and friend. A banker, financial expert and business administrator of repute, he is also a philanthropist par excellence. I did not know the Lay President of a thing was a big issue until D-Day came. I then began to search and ask questions as well as brush up on the Methodist Church as a whole.
As I left primary school in my home town of Owo in 1967, Methodist Secondary School, Owo was my favourite as the next port of call. I wrote and passed the entrance examination and promptly presented myself at the school on resumption day – but my father would have none of it. He refused to pay my school fees or sew my school uniform. I must attend Owo High School, the school founded by “the Leader,” Pa Michael Adekunle Ajasin, or nothing!