Femi Robinson (September 27, 1940 â€" May 20, 2015) was a Nigerian
film and television actor, famous for his lead role in The Village
Headmaster, where his stage name, "Village Headmaster", was coined.
Chief Eddie Ugbomah, former Chairman of the Nigerian Film Corporation,
called him "an icon of the industry".Robinson was born on September
27, 1940 at Bodo, a village in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State,
southwestern Nigeria, into the family of an Ifá priest. He obtained a
bachelor's degree in botany from Obafemi Awolowo University in the
early 1960s before joining the Nigerian film industry.He began his
acting career playing the lead role of Odewale in The Gods Are Not To
Blame, a 1968 play by the Nigerian playwright Chief Ola Rotimi. The
play was an adaptation of the Greek classic Oedipus Rex. He also
played the lead role in The Village Headmaster, Nigeria's
longest-running television soap opera from 1968 to 1988, scripted by
Olusegun Olusola.On October 11, 2012, Robinson called on the Federal
Government of Nigeria to ban Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart
in Nigerian schools, following the publication of Achebe's
controversial memoir There Was a Country: A Personal History of
Biafra.
film and television actor, famous for his lead role in The Village
Headmaster, where his stage name, "Village Headmaster", was coined.
Chief Eddie Ugbomah, former Chairman of the Nigerian Film Corporation,
called him "an icon of the industry".Robinson was born on September
27, 1940 at Bodo, a village in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State,
southwestern Nigeria, into the family of an Ifá priest. He obtained a
bachelor's degree in botany from Obafemi Awolowo University in the
early 1960s before joining the Nigerian film industry.He began his
acting career playing the lead role of Odewale in The Gods Are Not To
Blame, a 1968 play by the Nigerian playwright Chief Ola Rotimi. The
play was an adaptation of the Greek classic Oedipus Rex. He also
played the lead role in The Village Headmaster, Nigeria's
longest-running television soap opera from 1968 to 1988, scripted by
Olusegun Olusola.On October 11, 2012, Robinson called on the Federal
Government of Nigeria to ban Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart
in Nigerian schools, following the publication of Achebe's
controversial memoir There Was a Country: A Personal History of
Biafra.
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