(An explained Family Tree dedicated to the memory of my late mother)
By BASHIR ADEFAKA
A PREAMBLE
Let it not be strange to my already committed readers, who have been following my write-ups since the inception of this column, WAKE UP.
I hail from a combined parental background, without which I would have been nothing, and that is of my father and mother. My mother, Sifawu Oredola Falade-Adefaka (1953-2008), died on April 22, 2008 at her prime age of 55 having been born on July 15, 1953 and making her life lived mainly like that of a woman, who came, saw but was unable to conquer due to (polygamous) marital instances and other circumstances that I will not state for now.
To this end, I have owed it to her, my great mother, to show respect and honour to her – especially at this time that because of vacuum created by her death 15 years ago, standing up properly again has been virtually impossible for all of us her children of whom I am the eldest – by dedicating this edition of my all-important opinion article column to glorifying the great family she came from, the great family of her grandfather, Papa Fayeye Alagbe I, whose eldest child her father, Papa Sule Falade Fayeye II, was. I raise my hands in prayers at this time to Almighty Allah to accept this work from me as virtuous of a son, grandson and great grandson, who does not want the name of his family, especially (by this work) that of his mother of blessed memory to go into extinction.
I thank my uncle, eldest child of Falade Fayeye Alagbe II, Retired Chief Warrant Officer of the Nigerian Army, who is the current Olori Ebi of the Fayeye Alagbe Dynasty, CWO Aliyu Adekunle Falade, for holding fast in keeping the great home continuously together; my uncle, who is immediate younger brother to my mother, Mr. Lasisi Falade, and (Aunty Mi) Yemisi Folaranmi-Ayodele, surviving eldest child of fourth and last of mother of my maternal grandfather, Folaranmi Fayeye Alagbe, all of Iju in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, for their support leading to the success of this article. May Almighty Allah continue to bless and make them succeed as I pray that our great country, Nigeria, will be great again in their own life time to the glory and benefit of all of us. Amiin.
Late Sifawu Oredola Falade-Adefaka: A 55-year-old African woman – she came, she saw but was unable to conquer. (July 15, 1953-April 22, 2008).
AN ‘ORIKI’ (EULOGY) TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER: “Omo eleesun, Omo eleesun abuseji musodun, Omo eleesun bogboo amurereluluye, Omo eleesun bogboo ola limaaya’o mi, Ijidin gbodan ejiadasu j’agba ria, Eesojuun riro ria, Esidale Umu ria ni…” Remembering the circumstances that surrounded your marriage leading to my birth and that of my younger ones you left behind in the cold, alone, for 15 years now, and remembering your sufferings as a woman in a marital environment that was so unpleasant, that you worked but did not reap the sweet fruits of your labour (Allah knows best), I seek the Almighty Allah to accept this piece as honour to your memory – Our Lovely Great Mother!
THE GREAT FAYEYE ALAGBE I (1877-1950)
Once upon a time in a period between late 18th and mid 19th centuries at a serene community called Iju in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, South West Nigeria, there was a man by name Fayeye Alagbe, my maternal great grandfather that is father of the father of my mother. His father that is my maternal great great grandfather was Ogunkolaro. This article, which will definitely be updated in the course of time, addresses one of the two parts of link that I have with Iju, father’s side of my mother. Next article will surely present the second part that is the mother’s side of my mother.
But before then, by estimation, my maternal great grandfather was born in the year 1877 and was aged 77 when he died in 1950. I will explain my formula for arriving at this. If his eldest child and my maternal grandfather that is Falade was 90 years old when he died on 17th March 1987, then he (Falade) was born in the year 1897 by (Age at Death – Year of Death). From this background, it is estimated that his father (Fayeye) married and started having children at the age of 20 meaning that moving 20 years backward from 1897 when he had his first child put his year of birth at 1877. Note that this calculation with Papa Fayeye beginning to have children at age 20 is further strengthened by the fact (of what I gathered) that he was judgmentally uncomfortable with his eldest child’s delayed marriage until he eventually got married and started having children in 1947 at the age of 50.
My maternal great grandfather, Papa Fayeye Alagbe, was named obviously having come from an Ifa priest family in town but who, despite being the eyes of the gods as a spiritualist, chose farming with special interest in growing crops as profession. In his own way of contributing to food security at the community level, he grew yam of different varieties namely the Isu Funfun (white yam), Olou (yellow yam) and Ewura (water yam), cocoa yam, cassava and maize. He also grew family and national economy having been well grounded in the cultivation of cash crop known as cocoa.
His name, Fayeye, is a clear combination from a circumstance – Fa (another simplified way of calling Ifa – the Oracle) and ye (a simplified way of Yoruba clause, ‘O ye’, meaning ‘fits’) ye (shortened form of ‘Oye’ meaning ‘chieftaincy’) – was so formed because he had two clear backgrounds of an Ifa Priest and Chieftaincy. Otherwise, the full text of the name in Yoruba would have rather been written as ‘Ifa O ye Oye’ but linguistic modernization, right from those days of 1800s, has made the pronunciation simpler as it joins those would-have-been made clumsy ‘Noun-Pronoun-Verb-Noun’ kind of a name simpler in form of ‘Fayeye’. One can only be grateful to the ancestral parents, like every other member of the family, that I have that they gave us a known home with great identity that we can be proud of – the Fayeye Alagbe Dynasty of Iju.
Another point of note about Fayeye Alagbe Family of Iju is also in the fact that it is known as the Alagbe Compound in the Umu Quarters of the town and the reason for that alias is not far-fetched. Papa was a farmer and, because a farmer is known in Yoruba Language as ‘Alagbe’ from ‘Osise’ (practitioner) of Ise Agbe (farming) and because Papa, who is my maternal great grandfather (my mother’s paternal grandfather), was a notably successful farmer in town, he was known all over the place as Alagbe. Whether then or now, no person is so known or called except him and no compound in Iju is known as Alagbe Compound except it is the Fayeye Family Compound. By the status of Papa Fayeye Alagbe I, one can comfortably and proudly say that, like others, I have a great grandfather, who was very important and rich in his own era with his hectares of arable land that full of palm trees at Atoyo farmstead along Ikere-Ekiti road and which still remain with the dynasty till today.
The Fayeye a.k.a. Alagbe Family Compound at Iju in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State is located within the Ilaje Street area, central to the seat of Umu Quarters on the way to Oju Ogbese, Ugbo Ogun, Useeri and Otu Aare Quarters otherwise known as Oke-Iju in the ancient town that has been headed by Oba Amos Farukanmi, as the Okiti of Iju for 35 years now. The Okiti of Iju was mid-2022 promoted to the First Class Obaship status by the Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN)-led Administration of Ondo State. The king of the other second-order administrative town of Ita-Ogbolu that is the Ogbolu of Ita-Ogbolu was also equally promoted to the same status. Simply put, Iju-Itaogbolu is headquarters of Akure North Local Government with the Council Secretariat situated at boundary of the two township communities.
Culturally, the Umu Quarters of which the Fayeye Alagbe Dynasty is notably counted and member has a major festival that has now attracted international attention and it is called ‘Odun Una’, Festival of Fire. The festival, which is celebrated in August of every year, is also jointly owned with Useeri Quarters where Oniseeri is High Chief. The Odun Una therefore has its starting point in Useeri Quarters where the drums (standing) known in the township’s Akure dialect as ‘Agba’ and some other big wooden beats called ‘Apoporo’ are rolled out. That done with celebrants, sons and daughters from all over the world, bearing on their respective heads bunches of dried bamboos broken into pieces and dried materials from palm tree, tied and then lit with fire as night approaches and so the festival peaks and celebrated until the daybreak. For another seven days thereafter, the Agba and Apoporo are now properly beaten at the Umu Quarters central location, but without fire added. It is a great festival in Iju but owned mainly by the Umu and Useeri people under their two Quarters High Chiefs, the Asalie and Oniseeri of Iju.
It is gratifying to note that whereas the Fayeye Alagbe Dynasty is today headed by an Olori Ebi, who incidentally is eldest child of Falade, the Fayeye Alagbe I’s eldest child, Aliyu Falade, he is also the Deputy Head of the Umu Quarters of Iju town and very close ally to the Okiti of Iju, currently. Papa Aliyu Falade, my uncle, is a retired Chief Warrant Officer (CWO) of the Nigerian Army.
There is one other culture but which is general, I think, to all the quarters in the town and that is when what is called Eegun Ogun (a masquerade festival that is not restricted to any particular quarters) is celebrated and that is usually done to mark the end of ‘Ekutu’ season when a long fruit that is kaaki-like, fetched from the farm, is prepared and is blown like a flute. It is called Ekutu – and it is blown by old and young all over the town for a period of time after which the masquerades begin and their coming out last only for three days. These masquerades are usually violent because they bear canes with which they beat and for the three days, ladies are indoor because of what they use their mouths to do to men during the period of the Ekutu blowing that is called Uke Ogun (a scream they do disparaging men especially the youth). To the best of my findings and my growing up in my mother’s town of Iju, the Umu people of my maternal great grandfather partake in this interesting annual chain of events.
That was the background that I was coming from, which cannot be denied by the fact that, today from the Umu Quarters like other Quarters of Iju, descendants later grew up in life eye-open to the fact that God has more spiritually connected and approved way of life for mankind, reason from among the children of Papa Fayeye Alagbe I there now exist Christians and Muslims.
In this article, I will be particular about how Papa Fayeye’s eldest child that is my maternal grandfather moved from being an Ifa believer to becoming a Muslim. His father’s (Fayeye’s) other children, especially the last born of the four children by his first of four wives, Papa Gabriel Folaranmi, also moved from that Ifa priest belief to Christianity. This write up will, however, not be able to look at all of the details. A book in honour of the great Fayeye Alagbe I will probably do that in the course of time.
HIS WIVES
My maternal great grandfather, Papa Fayeye Alagbe I, married four wives. The first wife, Yeye Omoyeni, was mother of my maternal grandfather, Falade, who was her first child and eldest child of the Fayeye Alagbe Dynasty. Yeye Omoyeni gave birth to four children (two males and two females) including Papa Falade. The three other children were Felicia Fasehun (her second born), Deborah Ayanna (third born) and Papa Gabriel Folaranmi (fourth and last born), who, sadly, died in his prime in 1977. He was survived by children who will be mentioned as the article proceeds.
His second wife was Yeye Atanleye, who gave birth to seven children among who I can only be able to mention three, Papa Ezekiel Fayeye Alagbe, Papa Amos Fayeye Alagbe and, the last of them, Mama Abiye Fayeye Alagbe who, I gathered, was married to an Edo man but settled down with all his houses built in Akure, a neighbouring community to Isolo one of the Ruling Houses, Abibiri, of which her niece, Sifawu Adefaka-Falade, also married as one of the potential Oloris of Osolo of Isolo. But his preference for performing Hajj in 1978, Sifawu’s husband, Adefaka, former banker of defunct Trust Bank and Cooperative Bank as well as Produce Officer with Ondo State Cooperative and Marketing Union (OSCMU), was to be installed as Oba Osolo of Isolo but let it go to his cousin, Oba Kayode Oluwatuyi. That was the home Papa Fayeye Alagbe’s granddaughter by first wife (Yeye Omoyeni), Sifawu Falade, married.
His third wife, Yeye Ogbebutu, had three children while the fourth wife, who had only one female child, will be revealed in the course of time as a further work detailing the history of the Fayeye Alagbe Dynasty will address more of the core areas. What can more clearly be stated here is that my maternal great grandfather, Papa Fayeye Alagbe I, had 15 children from four wives in this order: one, seven, two and one.
THE YEYE OMOYENI’S FOUR CHILDREN
Yeye Omoyeni Fayeye Alagbe, first wife of Papa Fayeye Alagbe I, had four children: two sons and two daughters in this seniority order: Falade, Fasehun, Aina and Folaranmi. Interesting! From these four children, like of the remaining 11 by other wives, a nation has already been formed in the sense that many sub-families have been formed and all of them now scattered over the two major religions of Islam and Christianity and, by marriage especially of female descendants, are now emotionally connected and inter-related with people across other states and regions of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
FAYEYE ALAGBE’S CONNECTION WITH ISLAM (THE SOKOTO CALIPHATE LINK) AND CHRISTIANITY
Permit me to state here that I will not be able to give details of this particular part of the article that is done simply in fulfillment of my opinion column publication in The DEFENDER Newspaper for this week (Friday January 27, 2023). It is an angle that will, however, be fully covered in a review that will come afterward. I can, nonetheless mention what I gathered about the co-incidence that led to how my maternal grandfather that is the eldest child of Papa Fayaye Alagbe I and heir of the entire Fayeye Alagbe Dynasty, Falade, met, mingled with and embraced Islam, a religion that has sustainably co-existed with Christianity within the ancestral home, thereby making the Falade’s nuclear family that is about the largest unit of the dynasty a predominantly Muslim Family not only within the Fayeye Alagbe Dynasty but also in Iju town today.
Going forward, it will be recalled that in those days, people became Christians either through schools or evangelical activities of colonial masters who brought their ideology into Nigeria using Christian Missionary as a vehicle. Asides establishing schools, they also embarked on slave trade taking people by slave trade in exchange for a mere bottle because most Africans never saw bottle in their lives. Those taken by slave trade were then converted into Christianity and taken into the plantation in Europe. It was not a sweet story to tell of the days of yore among Africans with regard to the activities of the West towards the black. Some of the enslaved back, who returned, among them, Bishop Ajayi Crowder, continued the religious practice brought by the West and Christianity had followers. This work has, however, provided me with the opportunity to make a clarification that, whereas the intention of the West was hypocritical and unhelpful towards African continental growth and development, Nigeria inclusive, the religion they used as cover for all of those things they did is innocent of their misdeeds. God, to whom Jesus Christ (peace be upon him) and Christians who accepted him and still belong to Christianity lay their claims of divinity through the Holy Bible, is pure, sincere, just and hates iniquity as activities of the West glaringly showed against Africa, for example slave trade and persistent effort to ensure that Africa including Nigeria would remain exporters of raw material only for their lifetime and not be known for economy, industry and technology giants.
The coming of Islam into West Africa, whereas Christianity came via the waterways of Lagos, came through the Gobir Empire under the control of Sokoto Caliphate. Gobir Empire extends beyond the borders of Nigeria to as far as the Republic of Senegal but all of that has, politically, changed as the Gobir Empire is split into nations but the traditional control remains under the Sokoto Caliphate with the Sultan of Sokoto as the Head. Credit of Islamic religion reform in sub-Saharan Africa should, at this point, go to Sheikh Usman Dan Fodio. No wonder my heart is emotionally connected to Sheikh Usman Dan Fodio’s Sokoto Caliphate to the extent that I, from Ifa Priest Family of the old, cannot explain how I became easily publicly declared as “Our Son” by his descendant currently on the throne, As-Sultan Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, CFR, mni, of the Sokoto Caliphate and have comfortably been offered the rare unofficial position of a spokesman to the world class leader in that Nigeria’s most peaceful state community. Nature always has a way to rediscovering its bearings.
Among the parts of Nigeria that received the flag of Islam from Sheikh Usman Dan Fodio in the Sokoto Caliphate was Ilorin, which then became the Ilorin Emirate in the present day Kwara State. It can, therefore, be comfortably said that Ilorin is the nearest source of Islam to Iju, a second-order administrative headquarters (other being Itaogbolu) of Akure North Local Government in the present day Ondo State. Coming from this background, as it was customary that people moved from one place to another either for reason of war expedition or trade like the white came using missionary in advancing their slave trade, some members of the Ilorin Emirate visited or migrated to the ancient town of Iju in the then Akure Division with some of them into trade such as Jakan known in English as embroidery, branch of a vocation of fashion designs. Among them was Alfa Babatunde, who could be best be described as ceremonial Imam of the town, and there was an equally indigenous farmer and friend of my grandfather. He had earlier embraced Islam and became known as Alfa Yesufu. Meanwhile, Baba Buraimo (Ibrahim, father of sitting Chief Imam of Iju, Alhaji Yakubu), who went to Ilorin, had returned now not only as having embraced Islam from there but had also received Islamic education. He became the first from Iju to do so and later became the first indigenous Chief Imam of the town.
Alfa Yesufu and Papa Falade Fayeye Alagbe II, like I said earlier, were friends, equally big time cocoa and yam farmers, and they among others would go to farm together as they farmed in the same location. Traditionally, like to serious minded Muslims, each of five times daily prayers mattered to Alfa Yesufu who had already known Islam before my grandfather and when it was time to pray, right there inside the Egan (virtually reserve forest) farm, he would perform ablution and used leaves from plantain tree as mat, call to prayer and do iqamat (that is standing for the start of prayer). Papa Falade, eldest child of an Ifa Priest, became interested and he, one day, challenged Alfa Yesufu: “What is it about this your Leleu-Leleu? (his own understanding of the call ‘Allahu Akbar’)”. He was curious to know and he was convincingly told. He demanded to be taught and he was taught. That was how Alfa Yesufu, an indigenous friend and fellow farmer, who embraced earlier before him, and of course with support of Alfa Babatunde Al-Ilory, became the tool for my grandfather, Falade Fayeye Alagbe II’s embracement of Islam and he became so committed to Islam (according to what my father, Alhaji Kazeem Adefaka Yesufu who married his first daughter and third child Sifawu, told me) that he became the Seriki Musulumi of Iju even though it is not clear whether there was any occasion that saw him being so installed.
My grandfather, Falade Fayeye Alagbe II’s commitment was so great that he was the one that roofed the Iju Central Mosque at Oke-Iju on the vicinity of the Oba Okiti’s Palace. At the time there was hardly the poor class as all were successful farmers. Only the lazy could be poor and there was hardly one. Materials fetched from palm tree were used to roof a house and my grandfather was not an exception among those that used same. One day it just happened that roofing sheets started coming to town and my grandfather, Falade, felt challenged. He took his cocoa produce to Ilesha to sell. On his way back, he bought roofing sheets to the quantity that, after roofing his own house besides his father’s (Fayeye I’s) house, he still had enough to roof other houses. I am not aware whether he also roofed his father’s house with sheets but Papa Fayeye I was also as rich being a successful farmer as well. What I, however, gathered was that my grandfather took the remaining roofing sheets he bought with proceeds from his cocoa produce to the Iju Central Mosque, removed the leaf-roof and roofed it all with the new technology roofing sheets. This is the truth.
This is to prove the extent to which my grandfather was committed to his new religion of Islam. Upon embracement of Islam through Islamic rites performed by a group of Muslims led by Alfa Babatunde, my grandfather picked Sule (Suleiman) as his new name. One beautiful thing that he did that shows his great respect for ‘family name’ was that he kept his ‘Ifa’ related name (Falade) for family identity and, of course, he could not have changed his father’s name (Fayeye) at his own volition. He started thenceforth to be called Sule Falade Fayeye II (He is Fayeye Alagbe II because he was the heir apparent of the Fayeye Alagbe I).
Whereas Falade became a Muslim, his immediate younger sister, Fasehun and second child of Yeye Omoyeni, who married Papa Faparusi, the Sao, a chief in the quarters, the third born, Yeye Aina, and the fourth and last born, Papa Folaranmi became Christians all of them committed members of the Anglican Church Mission Iju (details of how they became Christians from Ifa Priest Family is currently not available to me). But those women among them who got married must have contacted Christianity by marriage.
Point of note must be that there is something about commitment to belief in the Fayeye Alagbe Dynasty as evident in the lifestyle of Fayeye Alagbe I and his immediate children. When they were with Ifa, they were so committed. As Muslim, Papa Sule Falade Fayeye Alagbe II (1897-1987) was so highly committed to Islam while, as Christians, all his remaining three younger ones by Yeye Omoyeni, particularly Papa Gabriel Folaranmi Fayeye Alagbe, were so committed to Christianity and they were sincere about it. No hate. They loved their Muslim elder brother and his Muslim children, grandchildren up till the moment and those Muslims also loved the Christians among them and they all looked and still look after one another.
That was how the Ifa priest family of Papa Fayeye Alagbe I became a religious family and it remains a matter of record that from the family emerged the first Muslim ever to go to Hajj in Makkah and Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from Iju, Ondo State and that came from among the children of my grandfather (Falade) that is my mother’s immediate elder brother, Dauda.
A WONDERFUL HOME WHERE ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY CO-EXIST
It must be stated here that Muslims and Christians in the Fayeye Alagbe Dynasty are a model and true example of Abrahamic Nation where members know – although their father, grandfather, great grandfather, great great grandfather and great great great grandfather was an Ifa Priest – that he was simply one of those in the long chain of progeny of Our Father and Prophet Abraham, Ibrahim Khalilullah (Friend of Allah). They love one another from the Fayeye Alagbe I (the Papa himself – and I imagine how so much he would pamper me, other great grandchildren like Aunty Grace, Brother Kolawole Ibitoye; Rafiu, Nurudeen, Rasheed, Aminat Adefaka; Tokunbo, Lateef, Sherifat, Risiqat, Abisola, Olufemi, Damilola Falade; Folasade, Adowole Adeniran; Olusola Owoyomi; and how so much we would love him, if fate had made him to live until he knew us and we knew him especially now) through the Fayeye Alagbe II (second generation led by my grandfather – Sule Falade – followed by his younger brothers and sisters including Fasehun, Aina and Folaranmi of same mother Omoyeni, and others including Ezekiel, Amos and Abiye of same mother (second wife) Atanleye among others), up to Fayeye Alagbe III (third generation led by my uncle and eldest child of Falade, Aliyu Adekunle Falade, followed by eldest child of Fasehun, Samuel Faparusi and his only sister of same mother, Victoria, wife of Ibitoye in Ado Ekiti, only known child of Aina, Funke, and the surviving eldest child of Folaranmi, Yemisi Folaranmi Ayodele), Fayeye Alagbe IV (fourth generation where belong eldest grandchild of Falade by his third child and eldest daughter, Sifawu Oredola, Prince Bashir Adefaka, eldest child of Aliyu, Falade’s first child, Tokunbo Aliyu Falade, Sunday, Titilayo, Grace, Kolawole Ibitoye, Morenike Olukuloye from Funke of Aina and grandchildren of Papa Folaranmi Fayeye Alagbe), Fayeye Alagbe V (fifth generation where belong Princess Sumayyah Adejoke Adefaka eldest child of Prince Bashir Adefaka that is eldest child of Sifawu Oredola Falade third child of Sule Falade Fayeye II, and children of all Fayeye Alagbe IV) and the latest generation that is of Fayeye Alagbe VI (sixth generation where belong children of all great great grandchildren of Fayeye Alagbe V belong).
THE FAYEYE ALAGBE DYNASTY FAMILY TREE EXPLAINED
This work has been deliberately limited to Papa Fayeye for the sake of easiness, otherwise, we all know that none of the Fayeyes originally came from Iju as all mankind originated from the Middle-East (either from Israel, Jerusalem for example Adam, Nuah, Solomon, Moses and the last from that axis, Jesus Christ; Iraq for example Abraham peace be upon all of them or Saudi Arabia and only Muhammad peace be upon him came from here). An attempt, therefore, to stress upward further, from the generation of Papa Fayeye Alagbe I, would have required me to want to continue the links until I am able to make a point to the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). That is a supposed apex religious body that so much hate the Muslims thereby stoke religious intolerance in Nigeria. It would have required me to tell them why religious intolerance is unnecessary in heterogeneous as well as cosmopolitan Nigerian society being that Muhammad peace be upon him, Jesus Christ that is Isa son of Mariam, Moses that is Musa Kalamullah – Word of Allah, Solomon that is Suleiman – most favoured by Allah in terms of spiritual power of control, Nuah that is Nuhu among others, down to the generations of Papa Fayeye Alagbe I and all of his progeny, are all sons and daughters in succession of the First and Ancestral Family that Our Progenitors, Adam and Eve, represented.
To this end for the sake of time and fear of uncertainty, I will limit myself, to a little extent, within details only of the four wives of Papa Fayeye Alagbe I and their children that is direct offspring, then grandchildren by his first wife (Omoyeni), his great grandchildren by Falade the eldest child by his first wife (Omoyeni) up to his great great great grandchildren from the same Omoyeni family chain. IT IS A WORK THAT IS SUBJECT TO REVIEW. And so, I welcome my interested readers to the Family Layout that shows details of the Family Tree of Fayeye Alagbe Dynasty as follows:
Fayeye Alagbe I: It has been aforestated that Fayeye Alagbe I had four wives namely in order seniority; Omoyeni first, Atanleye second, Ogbebutu third and the Fourth wife name yet unknown (can be found out later).
1. HIS CHILDREN
Fayeye Alagbe I’s Children in order of wives seniority
Omoyeni (Four Children): Sule Falade Fayeye II; Felicia Fasehun Fayeye-Faparusi; Deborah Aina Fayeye; and Folaranmi Fayeye.
Atanleye (Seven Children): Ezekiel Fayeye, Amos Fayeye, Abiye Fayeye and four others.
Ogbebutu (Three Children): Names not yet available.
Other (One Child): A daughter but name yet to be available.
2. HIS GRANDCHILDREN
Fayeye Grandchildren (By Omoyeni)
Sule Falade Fayeye II: Aliyu Falade Fayeye III, Dauda Falade, Sifawu Falade-Adefaka, Lasisi Falade, Sikirat Taiwo Adeniran-Falade, Oseni Kehinde Falade, Musilimat Falade and Fatai Falade.
Felicia Fasehun Fayeye-Faparusi: Samuel Faparuri and Victoria Faparusi.
Deborah Aina: Funke wife of Olukuloye
Gabriel Folaranmi Fayeye: Dupe Folaranmi, Yemisi Folaranmi-Ayodele, Mary Folaranmi, Makin Folaranmi, Temidayo Folaranmi, Bimbola Folaranmi and Olabisi Folaranmi.
3. HIS GREAT GRANDCHILDREN
a. Fayeye Great Grandchildren (By Omoyeni’s Falade in order of direct children seniority)
Aliyu Falade Fayeye III: Tokunbo Falade….Timilehin Falade and others.
Dauda Falade: Abdul Lateef Falade and Abdul Rafiu Falade.
Sifawu Falade: Bashir Adefaka, Rafiu Adefaka, Nurudeen Adefaka, Rasheed Adefaka, Odunayo, Dupe, Aminat Adefaka and Bukola Ojo.
Lasisi Falade: Sherifat Falade-Adewusi, Abisola Falade, Olufemi Falade, Mustapha Falade and Biliqisu Falade.
Sikirat Taiwo Falade-Adeniran: Folasade Adeniran, Adewole Adeniran, Wumi Adeniran, Olatunde Adeniran and Oladayo Adeniran.
Oseni Kehinde Falade: Risiqat Falade and others.
Musilimat Falade: Abdul-Wasiu Olusola Oriyomi, Sidiqat Temitope Oriyomi and Taofiq Adeniran.
Fatai Falade: Damilola Falade, Amidat Falade and three others.
b. Fayeye Great Grandchildren (By Omoyeni’s Fasehun Faparusi in order of direct children seniority)
Samuel Faparusi: Married abroad and had all his children there (list can be updated later).
Victoria Faparusi-Ibitoye: Sunday Ibitoye, Titilayo Ibitoye, Yinka Ibitoye, Grace Ibitoye and Kolawole Ibitoye.
c. Fayeye Great Grandchildren (By Omoyeni’s Aina in order of direct children seniority)
Funke Olukuloye: Omotayo Olukuloye, Olasehinde Olukuloye, Morenike Olukuloye and Ajiboye Olukuloye.
d. Fayeye Great Grandchildren (By Omoyeni’s Folaranmi in order of direct children seniority)
Dupe Folaranmi: All her children.
Yemisi Folaranmi-Ayodele: All her children.
Mary Folaranmi: All her children.
Makin Folaranmi: All his children.
Temidayo Folaranmi: All her children.
Bimbola Folaranmi: All her children.
Olabisi Folaranmi: All her children.
NOTE that there are Great Grandchildren too from the other three wives which details are not available for this article but can be updated later.
4. FAYEYE GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN
Great Great Grandchildren of Papa Fayeye Alagbe I are All the Children of his Great Grandchildren from across the four wives including sons and daughters of Tokunbo…Timilehin Falade – sons and daughters of Aliyu son of Falade son of Fayeye I; sons and daughters of Abdul-Lateef and Abdul-Rafiu Falade – sons of Dauda son of Falade son of Fayeye I; sons and daughters of Bashir, Rafiu, Nurudeen, Rasheed Adefaka, Odunayo, Dupe and Bukola Ojo – sons and daughters of Sifawu daughter of Falade son of Fayeye I and SONS and daughters of children of All Great Grandchildren of All Children of sons and daughters of Samuel Faparusi and Victoria Faparusi-Ibitoye – son and daughter of Fasehun daughter of Fayeye I; All Children of sons and daughters of Funke – daughter of Aina daughter of Fayeye I; and All Children of sons and daughters of Dupe, Yemisi, Mary, Makin, Temidayo, Bimbola and Olabisi – daughters and son of Folaranmi son of Fayeye I, AND all Children of sons and daughters of All Grandchildren of Papa Fayeye I.
5. FAYEYE GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN
All the children of his great great grandchildren. Notable among those great great grandchildren, as at the time of filing this article on Friday 27th January, 2023, are children of grandchildren of Samuel and Victoria Faparusi by Fasehun Faparusi-Fayeye Alagbe; children of grandchildren of Aliyu, Sifawu, son and daughter of Falade son of Fayeye I; among the Fayeye Alagbe I’s great great great grandchildren are the two by Falade’s lineage born to a Kwara State man.
