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Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo: Life and Times in Pictures

Awolowo and Dideolu on their wedding day in 1933

Hannah and Obafemi Awolowo

Hannah: as a young woman

Hannah Awolowo with her children and grandchildren in August 2015

Hannah with her children, in-law, Damola Aderemi and her chldren, great grandchildren

Dr Tokunbo Dosunmu,(seated) Awo, Hannah and Tokunbo’s sisters

Adisa Akinloye, left and The Awolowos on their way to India in 1952. Hannah, second left, Awo, first left

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Chief Olusegun Osoba with Hannah Awolowo in March 2013 after Oluwole Awolowo’s death

Obasanjo assisting Hannah on wheel chair

Hannah and Pastor Adeboye

Oluwole Awolowo, Hannah’s second son, who died in 2013 at the age of 70

Segun Awolowo, Hannah’s grandson, with VP Yemi Osinbajo, an in-law

Governor Abiola Ajimobi with Hannah at the inauguration of a printing Press for Nigerian Tribune in March 2015

Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, wife of Obafemi Awolowo, passed on today at the very ripe age of 99, few weeks short of 100 years. Here are some photographs of her life and times. May God repose her soul in Heaven!

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