Professor Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (better known as Kole Omotoso), novelist, playwright, journalist, scholar and actor, was born on 21 April 1943 in Akure, Ondo State, south-west Nigeria.
He was educated at Oyemekun College and King’s College, Lagos. He attended the University of Ibadan, where he studied Arabic literature, and obtained a PhD in Arabic at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland
In 1989, during the military rule at the time, he fled Nigeria.
After a spell in Europe, Omotoso settled in South Africa, where he was popularly known for his role in commercials for a cellphone company in the 1990s.
Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (Kole Omotoso) passed away on 19 July 2023 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
