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Meet Ajala, The First Nigerian To Travel Around The World On Vespa Scooter (PHOTOS)

Born Mashood Olabisi Ajala , Ajala happened to be the first Nigerian and African to tour round the world with his Vespa Scooter .

He was a freelance journalist born in Ghana and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. These is how he journeyed and was able to cover the world with his mini bike.

At 18, Ajala sailed for the USA arriving in New York City in August 1948. He had little money to live on, but earned a Lutheran scholarship with which he studied at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois then later at Roosevelt University in Chicago and Columbia University in NY. He supported himself with odd jobs; even as a Hollywood film extra.

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In the 1953 film ‘White Witch Doctor’, he was cast alongside Robert Mitchum, recommended for the part by his actor friend Ronald Reagan). 20th-Century Fox movies produced the movie. He was deported from the US after an angry girlfriend reported that his visa had expired.

On April 27, 1957, in London, Ajala, a 26 year old student of psychology, embarked on a trip across 40 countries through Europe, Asia and Africa.

This journey was actualized with his Vespa scooter, wearing his full conspicuous agbada regalia with a cap to match.

As a pre-medical student, Olabisi had previously undertaken a similar short journey four years earlier in the USA, pedalling from Chicago to Los Angeles on a bicycle, covering 3,800 miles in 35 days over ten cities.

His journey, which he nicknamed “This Safari”, covers 30,000 miles across 40 countries in nine months and return to London afterwards.A

In all, Ajala spent six years journeying through 87 countries. His accounts of his travels and his activities as a free-lance journalist brought him fame at home, and he became known as ‘Ajala Travel’, which Ebenezer Obey famously sang about.

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His remarkable story includes many meetings with the world leaders of the time. The journey opened many other opportunities to him. Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev ensured him a visa to ride from Berlin to Moscow. He also rode across the Middle East and Egypt. These were where he interviewed President Nasser before heading in to Israel to meet Prime Minister Golda Meir. Then he went to Iran meeting the Shah, then to India meeting Pandit Nehru.

His travels through much of Asia involved meetings with Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia and Chiang Kai-Chek in Taiwan. He wrote of the racism he encountered among Hindu’s, and of  Australia. These were where he found democracy and equal treatment for all, except Aborigines. Additionally Ajala was a known notorious philanderer. Ajala died in Lagos in 1999.

In his book “An African Abroad”, Olabisi narrated his encounter with the then president of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser:

“Every day at 6 am for the next two weeks, I was waiting directly in front of his presidential palace hoping he would come out. On the 13th day of my hitherto unpromising efforts, around 5 pm President Naseer emerged from the interior of his residence heading for his car.”

In his agbada, the heavily bearded Olabisi screamed as loud as he could and caught the attention of the president. He received heartily welcomed from the president.

Crossing Lebanon on his way to Israel, the Lebanese security force arrested him. The belief was that he was on an espionage mission for the Israeli. He knew crossing of any border between Israeli-Arab frontier would be a death wish. However, he dared to continue his journey as this was the heat of the Israeli-Arab war.

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The Story Of AJALA TRAVEL, Africa’s Most Legendary Traveler

• August 3, 2016

Europe had Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan, James Cook, and Marco Polo, Asia had its Ibn Battuta and Zheng He and Africa had OLABISI AJALA. He was one of the foremost Nigerian icons of cultural history, the quintessential explorer.

A very Nigerian man at heart and a proud African in soul, Ajala shattered all records of travel, voyaging into lands that no black person had ever seen not to talk of setting their feet there. Ajala had the world in his pockets and the world bowed at his guts. From the physical boundaries of nations to the piercing demarcations of racism, Ajala tore through them all.

Birth And Early Days

Born Moshood Adisa Olabisi Ajala in Ghana to an African Muslim father with four wives, Ajala grew up in a large family. He was one out of 25 children. In his own words in his legendary book, An African Abroad, he said: ‘I was born in Ghana, of Nigerian parents, and brought up in Nigeria, where I had my schooling at the Baptist Academy, Lagos, and Ibadan Boys’ High School. At the age of eighteen I went to America to further my studies. My father, a traditionalist who belongs to the old school…’

Ajala’s initial goal was to study medicine and as a matter of fact, he was the first black student to be pledged by the Delta Upsilon Pi ‘fratority’, a co-educational Greek-letter organization at De Paul University in Chicago in January 1952 where he was a pre-medical student. He was so active that he was made the feature editor of the campus newspaper, the De Paulian. Ajala said at that time that once he became a medical doctor he was going to return to Africa to in his words ‘wage war on voodoo and other superstitions.’ He said he was proud of his 24 siblings, one of whom was a student in England. He  never fulfilled his dream of becoming a medical doctor as he stumbled on something far more enchanting.

Love And Marriage

Charismatic and charming, Ajala was a man of so many women.

In early 1953, a baby boy weighing six pounds and eight ounces was born to a former Chicago nurse named Myrtle Bassett who was residing in Los Angeles. This lady said Ajala was the father of the baby and had previously filed a paternity suit against him when he flatly refused he was the father. But the mother of the child countered saying Ajala did not only name the baby (Oladipupo), he also signed the birth certificate. Ajala stuck to his guns and insisted he was not the father. He told Jet that time that: ‘1. The mother had refused to have blood tests for the baby so he could prove he was not its father. 2. He had contributed $300 to cover the medical and hospital expenses to cancel a restraining order against his $300-a-week salary at 20th Century-Fox Studio, where he completed work in the movie White Witch Doctor and 3. He had given her $150 after the child’s birth and promised $200-a-month for support, pending settlement of the case.’ Ajala was scheduled to begin work in Columbia Studio’s movie Killer Ape on the 2nd of February 1953 when all this allegations and court issues about paternity came. In fact, Ajala planned to launch a countersuit to the paternity case saying:

It is the only way I can prove that I am innocent of the charges. She refuses to submit the baby to a blood test. I think it is a trick.

Eventually, when the lady in question said she was ready for the blood tests, Mr. Ajala was nowhere to be found and the court had to rule against him. In March 1953, a Los Angeles domestic court ordered Ajala to pay Myrtle Bassett the sum of $10 per week for support of her baby boy, Oladipupo.

In August 1955 in London, United Kingdom, Ajala revealed to journalists that he and his American wife, Hermine Aileen were divorced and that he was planning to marry his 19-year-old white London radio-TV actress Joan Simmons in December of the same year. Hermine had divorced him over adultery and when Ajala was questioned about the philandering charges pressed by his wife, he said curtly: ‘This, I am not contesting.’

§  When Ajala passed through Australia in his trip, he met and fell in love with a local girl, whom he married. This union sparked the interest of many because as at that time, only about 100 blacks (Aborigines) had become Australian citizens and most of them did so via marriage.

In 1955, he married a British actress Joan Simmons aged 19.

Recall that Ajala had many children from his various romantic liaisons with women. One of the most striking stories of his children includes that of the child mentioned earlier on, the one he had with Myrtle Bassett. Ajala did not set his eyes on the child for 23 years and when he finally met him in December 1976, he was ecstatic with joy. This was how it happened. After the court ruled in Bassett’s favor, Ajala soon disappeared from the radar and when he turned 46, he was overwhelmed with so much guilt that he said of the meeting with Oladipupo (then called Andre). Ajala explained: ‘I was very happy to find Andre. He is my oldest son and he is so full of life. Im overjoyed that I found him.’

Ajala was just 24 and a student at Roosevelt University in Chicago when he met a student nurse there and later moved to Los Angeles with her and shortly gave welcomed the baby boy. But a couple of months after Andre was born, Ajala had ajala-ed himself back to Nigeria, leaving his family behind. But the shame was too much for him as a father and decided to return to the United States to find his son whom he found in New York already working as a musician and a guitarist. An excited Ajala said he would love his son to visit Nigeria the following year (1977) and perform at the World Black Arts Festival (1977).

Bicycling Across The United States

Fame came to Moshood Ajala in 1952 when he decided to embark on a lecture tour across the United States from Chicago to Los Angeles, all on a bicycle. Aged 22, Ajala set out on the 12th of June 1952 from Chicago on a bicycle tour covering an incredible 2,280 miles. He arrived the Los Angeles City Hall on 10thof July, two days ahead of his 30-day schedule. Upon arrival, Ajala was received by the city mayor Fletcher Bowron. While narrating his experience of the cross-country tour, Mr. Ajala said everything was generally fine and the only nasty incident was a time in Topeka, Kansas where he was jailed for 44 hours after the white YWMA refused him a room and called the police when he protested (kindly note that that was time when the United States of America was bitterly divided with segregation politics gaining ground).  A man not to be cheated, Ajala filed a suit against the Topeka YMCA and its secretary via the Nigerian ambassador in Washington. He was determined no one was going to mess with a Nigerian citizen and get away with it, not even a band of unruly Americans in Kansas.

But what was the purpose of his travel? Ajala was a psychology junior at the Roosevelt College in Chicago and his goal for the tour was to educate the American public on the progress made by his native West African country of Nigeria. The tour included stops to deliver lectures at 11 major cities. Ajala also did his tour wearing native Nigerian costumes described as ‘elaborately flowered robes with a felt-like head-dresses to match’, to which Ajala said:…will show and prove to Americans that we do not go about nakedly in loin clothes.’

Ajala The Actor

Following his daring bicycle trip across continental United States, Ajala became the darling of many. Newspaper journalists besieged him and he was made a celebrity overnight. Deals, endorsements and contracts came flying at him. One of such was the movie contract he signed with Eagle-Lion Studios in Hollywood in August 1955, the deal involved making a series of drama and spy films with European and African backgrounds.

After his deportation from the United States, Ajala proceeded to Canada and spent nine months perfecting his acting skills. It was while he was there that he starred in the stage play Lost In The Stars.

Brushes With American Law And The Deportation

A free-spirited individual known for crashing into movies amongst other interesting ways of expressing his liberty, it was not long before Ajala surfaced on the American security radar. In July 1953, things had taken turn for the worse for Ajala. But what happened?

In March 1953, the police of Beverly Hills, California arrested and jailed Ajala on three felony charges. He was accused on one count of forgery, two grand theft and three, worthless cheque charges. To add to his trouble, he had also been sued by a former Chicago nurse for refusing to accept paternity of his child. Back to the forgery case, specific charges against Ajala indicated that he made attempts to work a ‘bunko’ game by opening a savings account at a branch of Bank of America under the fake name of ‘Edward Hines’ then made deposits at other branches with worthless cheques. Officials said Ajala made five of such phony deposits of about $450.

He was eventually found guilty of forgery and deported from the United States of America, he was aged 24, an exchange student from Africa and an actor. Ajala was not really deported solely because of the grand theft charges (to which he pleaded not guilty before Judge Orlando H. Rhodes), he became a subject of deportation also because he failed to maintain his studies at the Santa Monica Junior College, thus invalidating his visa. For the forgery and grand theft charges, Ajala pleaded not guilty saying with all firmness and seriousness that he was duped by Arnold Weiner, a white male ex-bank accountant. Weiner said while it was true that he showed Ajala how to write cheques, he did not dupe him in anyway.

However, it must be stated that Ajala’s deportation was not without drama. After he was convicted of passing bad cheques in Los Angeles, Ajala was ordered by the American authorities to be deported to England from Ellis Island, New York but Ajala resisted and you know what he did? While awaiting deportation at the Terminal Island in Los Angeles after he was given a one-year suspended jail term, Ajala climbed an 80-foot radio tower and threatened to kill himself . From atop the tower, Ajala screamed that he ‘would rather leap to my death’ than be deported. Mr. Ajala was on the tower for almost 24 hours while the immigration authorities pleaded with him. Finally, Ajala fell to the ground from a height of 15 feet. He was examined by doctor at the island’s hospital and they said all he suffered was just a sprained back. Immigration authorities said Ajala made the death threat because he feared what they called ‘tribal execution’ if he was packaged back to Nigeria.

Immigration officials said Ajala dreaded tribal execution so much so that when the judge sentenced him to a one-year suspended sentence, Ajala dropped to his knees two times and touched the floor with his forehead saying he was ‘calling on Allah’ to bless the judge for the ‘mercy’ shown as the sentence might just save him from execution back home in West Africa.

When Ajala noted that his protest at the order of the immigration authorities did not work, he embarked on a 30-day fast which  the immigration officials translated it to mean a hunger strike to stop his deportation, while Ajala insisted he was simply observing his Ramadan fasting as dictated by his Islamic faith. Whatever the case, Mr. Ajala was deported and gallantly flown to London. Immigration officer Justin Bennett confirmed his deportation without any fear of any execution and also stated that Ajala’s request to be sent to Canada was rejected because Canada has refused to approve his application.

Upon arriving in the United Kingdom, Ajala said he was going to work on a new movie at the Ealing Studios in London and talked of his plans to return to the United States.

By September 1954, Ajala was back in the United States with his American-born wife, Hermine Aileen. He explained to reporters that the deportation order only banned him from stepping on American soil and his plan was to resume his acting career in California.

The Global Travel

He visited nations such as India, Russia (then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR), Jordan, Iran (not an Islamic Republic then but a monarchy and America’s greatest ally in the region headed by a monarch), Jordan, Israel and Australia using nothing but a motor-scooter (popularly called Vespa) and met with some of the most powerful people in the world.

These included personalities like Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa who was Nigeria’s first prime minister, Marshal Ayub Khan of Pakistan, Golda Meir of Israel (she was the first female prime minister of the nation), Makarios III of Cyprus, Jawarhalal Nehru of India, Nikita Khrushchev of the USSR, the Shah of Iran (Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi), Gamal Nasser of Egypt, General Ignatius Acheampong of Ghana, Odinga Oginga, former vice president of Kenya and others. Ajala released a book titled An African Abroad documenting all his experiences on the trip, the book was supposed to be the first volume of a trilogy. In all, he visited over 85 countries with his scooter over a period of six years.

Slide Into Penury

Ajala had seen it all, from the greatest displays of wealth to the stupefying corridors of power. But somehow, by the time death came knocking, he was one of the poorest Nigerians alive.

On February 2, 1999, the man fondly known as “Ajala travel” died. He died in penury. The world famous Ajala died unsung and unrecognized.

His grave in central Lags is no different from any other. For more than a year, Ajala suffered. He had a stroke which paralyzed his left limb. But his army of children were not there to give him succor. He only had two of them around, Olaolu Ajala, a 20-year-old student of Baptist Academy, Lagos and Bolanle Ajala, his 17-year-old daughter who had just finished her senior secondary education at the Baptist High School, Bariga, Lagos. With him also in his last hour was another teenager, 14-year-old Wale Anifowoshe. Wale was especially fond of him. He kept all Ajala’s money, the little there was.

Some of his children who could not be with him include Dante, Femi, Lisa and Sydney all of whom are based in Australia. They are the children of his Australian wife, Joan. Some of his other children are also spread around the globe. There are Taiwo and Kehinde in the United States as well as Bisola in England. But all were not around to bid their father a final goodbye except Olaolu and Bolanle.

Indeed it is a sad end for a man whose scooter is now a national monument. Noone oof his numerous wives was around to bid him goodbye to the world beyond.

His first wife, Alhaja Sade, could not find time during the year-long sickness of her husband until he finally died. She lives in Ikotun, a suburb of Lagos. “We told her that he was sick and she told us she would come, but we never saw her, “ Olaolu said. He was not sure whether she is aware that her husband is dead. Joan only got in touch with him through correspondence. There are also Mrs. Toyin Ajala in England and Mrs. Sherifat Ajala, mother of his last daughter, Bolanle. But they were not around to tend to the man when he was battling with his sickness. A neighbor in Bariga who spoke on condition of anonymity said “he could have survived if he had had adequate care.” Adequate care was indeed far from the late globe-trotter. In no other place was this manifested than his residence, a rented apartment in a two-storey building on Adeniran Street, Bariga . Climbing two flights of stairs to the top floor, one is immediately confronted with the way life had treated Ajala. A passage leads into a 16-by-12 feet sitting room.

The sitting room, devoid of carpet, has a table with about five locally made iron chairs in a corner which serves as the dining table. An old black and white television set sits uncomfortably in an ill-constructed shelf. The cushion on the sofa hurts the buttock as it has become flat. The curtains on the windows of the two bedroom flat shows signs of old age. It is indeed a story of penury.

Legacy And Honours

Ebenezer Obey immortalized him in his song below through which many Nigerians first heard of him.

Olabisi Ajala was more than an inspiring compatriot; he was the very personification of adventure. A truly thrilling a pan-African voyager who made the best of his time the way he deemed best, he remains a global citizen and a legend in his own right. At a time when millions of Nigerian youths are scared and utterly petrified of anything that even remotely reeks of exploration or adventure, the story of Ajala Travel should be more than an inspiration to conquer the world. He conquered the world the way he could, let us do the same and leave our marks in the warps of time.

• Olabisi Ajala, An African Abroad, (Jarrolds, London, 1963).
• Deported Nigerian Actor Returns To US With Wife, page 58, Jet, 16th September 1954.
• African Actor To Wed White British Actress, page 19, Jet, 25th August, 1955.
• Moshood Olabisi Ajala, People Profile, Jet, 7th August, 1952.
• African Cyclist Near End of ‘Cross Country’ Tour, Jet, 17th July 1952.
• James Olney, Tell Me Africa: An Approach to African Literature, page 47.
• Jet, 25th December, 1952, page 54.
• Pause For Globe-Girdler, Jet, 18th September, 1958.
• Oladipo GB Ogunseitan, Be Afra, Volume 1, page 528-530.
• Tunji, Bolaji. ‘Sad End of Olabisi Ajala.’, The Guardian, 20 February 1999, pages 8-9.

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THE LEGEND OF AJALA'S TRAVELS AND TRANSNATIONAL BACKPACKING IN AFRICA

The extended debate about postmodern realities as contrastive to the rigidity of modernism finds affirmation in the travel signification of mobility culture captured in backpacking. Backpacking, beyond speaking to the iconic avowal of tourism as an extension of the rootlessness and alienation of modern life, is about the freedom and independence of travellers. However, much of the backpacker research has been undertaken in countries where the impact of backpacking is particularly evident, notably in South-East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. This work, thus, proposed that backpacking as a practice, beyond the sparsely recent referential scholarship to Africa, has a historical antecedent practice by an African, situated within the legend of Ajala’s travels. The narrative of Ajala’s travels is, therefore, mooted to mobilise a review of the concept in a way to reconstitute its definition, motivation and designations. By examining such transnational questions like who a backpacker is, motivations for backpacking, destinations of visit, subjective patterns of travels, and the motivations for choosing specific destinations and travel routes, this work reflects how Ajala's evaluation and dissemination of the conceptual formation and practice inform a critical ideological agenda of his brand of travels for widening backpacking research. By relying on key informant interview (KII) and formal and informal interviews, as well as close “reading” of the texts, an extensive data collection was achieved. This was done by using Olabisi Ajala’s book, An African Abroad, and songs by Ebenezer Obey and Sikiru Ayinde Barrister whose testaments of Ajala’s travel differ from each other. Such reading provided a critical base to interrogate the different representations of Ajala’s travels and how such facilitate the richness of the polarised arguments on backpacking popular perception and critical research. Besides many other things, a major finding of this work is that the legend of Ajala’s brand of backpacking, much like other extolled backpackers, is a classic representation of the basic ideals of backpacking with subjective variations that capture the mood and time of his travels. The submission invariably offers a redemptive posturing required in checking hegemonic research intentions veiled in the apparent limitedness of backpacking forms and practices. Another is how backpacking can be deployed to evince not just a traveller’s idea of fun but a representation of his ideological temperaments too. The work concludes by investigating how legends are made and the role the music of Chief Ebenezer Obey and Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister played as tools of memory preservation in the canonisation of the Ajala legend. It equally affirms that backpacking research cannot exclude Africa either in its contemporaneous practice or historical manifestations. While noting that the debate of backpacking travel still persists, this work introduces Ajala’s travels to the fore of research relevance, arguing that when several transnational discourses like migrancy, flows, diaspora, backpacking, cosmopolitanism were not part of core critical considerations in travel research, an African backpacker had traversed the globe.

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""This paper interweaves my own personal narrative as a former backpacker with the way in which the phenomenon, and how it has been researched, has continued to evolve over recent years and so it takes the form of an explicitly reflective academic journey. In this it has some similarities to autoethnography where the writer metaphorically steps into the text. The paper has four main parts covering the last twenty or so years in approximately chronological order. The first part explores my own experiences on two major trips to Asia as a backpacker. The second part discusses the ‘academic tourist’ through the prism of several research trips to South East Asia as a researcher doing fieldwork (published as Hampton 1998; 2003; 2005, and discussed in Hamzah and Hampton 2007; Hampton and Hamzah, 2008). The third section explores what could be called way markers on the journey, that is, emerging issues as backpacker tourism (and perhaps its nature) changes over time. The paper concludes with reflections on the possible academic journey ahead, and makes some suggestions for further academic research concerning trends towards the massification but also the fragmentation of the backpacker market. Travelling, journeys, mobilities, personal stories and narrative, both grand and immediate: these are the metaphors that run through this paper. Key words: backpackers; economic development; tourism impacts; Less Developed Countries; India; Indonesia; Malaysia""

Dawn Gibson

Travel has become an essential part of post-modern society, and backpacker travel is a reflection of this trend. Described as as a “metaphor of mobility”, who is “representative of a travel lifestyle and expression of identity”, which focuses on freedom and mobility, the backpacker phenomenon has evolved and is now an important tourism market. To situate the origins of backpacker travel within the broader history of tourism, this paper discusses the following: 17th and 18th century European Grand Tours; hiking and tramping; the youth hostel movement; non-institutionalised travel; drifter tourism; and youth tourism. This is not a homogenous market and can be differentiated in a number of ways which include: nationality, purpose, organisation of trip, age, gender and lifecycle stage (Cohen, 2004). Although predominantly Western in origin new markets are emerging from Israel, Japan, and China. Backpacker tourism has the potential to provide opportunities for rural and community develop...

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Scott Cohen

"Scholarship on backpackers speculates some individuals may extend backpacking to a way of life. This article empirically explores this proposition using lifestyle consumption as its framing concept and conceptualises individuals who style their lives around the enduring practice of backpacking as ‘lifestyle travellers’. Ethnographic interviews with lifestyle travellers in India and Thailand offer an emic account of the practices, ideologies and social identity that characterise lifestyle travel as a distinctive subtype within backpacking. Departing from the drifter construct, which (re)constitutes this identity as socially deviant, the concept of lifestyle allows for a contemporary appraisal of these individuals’ patterns of meaningful consumption and wider insights into how ongoing mobility can lead to different ways of understanding identities and relating to place. Keywords: lifestyle consumption; backpacker; mobility; drifter; identity"

Tourist Studies

Michael O' Regan

While the label 'backpacker' didn't originate in 1990 when first presented at an academic conference by the late Philip L. Pearce, its usage rose within an emerging academic discourse community that established shared interests, sources of information, terminology, and methods of communication, along with a certain level of expertise and knowledge on the subject. While the community internationalised and embraced interdisciplinary approaches, a review of the academic scholarship points to the communities increasing instability, as differential authoritative voices conflict over discursive conventions that regulate our understanding of backpacking. While once conceptual and theoretical developments in backpacker research were built through subject level consensus, distinctions within the community point to new hierarchies, with their own particular schools of thought and reinterpretations. As disparities, incongruities and deviations in backpacker research output emerge, this overview explores current research directions and identifies paradoxes, challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

Julie Wilson , greg richards

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Àjàlá Travel

• Genre: Afrobeats
• Year of Release: 2022

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Àjàlá Travel - Oladips

Omo iya aje (yh) ahn ahn

I gotta to trace mah trace, so i ran from home (mojapamojapa)

Middle of the night it was after one (eko ya ooo)

I enter lagos kinsishe jaramo (woos woos)

People think i don't have dad and mom (prodigal son)

I have to loose myself to find my purpose yh, me and hustle we be like couples yh agba baller to fi shot kan poss na every twiller too like crockcroach

Future mi bright o clear bi crystal ahh, see as i dey trend with freestyles ahh, now i have to work with pastor, cos my dream is big so my bed is king-size

Young boy to ni dreams to ni goals, ton wo dia to ni golds, same boy ti mummy e ma ta bata rubber to ja ta ma pe lomo iya oni go, miracle worker holy ghost ajepako ni but oti frosh oti pada relocate losi new area ati dubai loti poss

I came from a family of five now if you dey see me when everybody don dey school, this is how we living with our mama and papa room and parlor face me i face you

Moni lati jarami oo, Iran meta o gbodo toshi, olorun ma je ka resu o

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Oladips – Ajala Travel (Street Remix) ft. Portable

Oladips Ajala Travel (Street Remix) featuring Portable.

Omo Iya Aje and Omolalomi Join Forces To Deliver The Street Remix Of Ajala Travel, Enjoy Portable and Oladips collaboration.

Indigenous rapper, Oladips employs the services of street pop artist, Portable for the release of Ajala Travel Street Remix .

Portable add some street vibes to the Oladips’ hit song. As Produced by Chech , Listen and Enjoy below;

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[Music] OlaDips – Ajala Travel (Remix) ft. Zlatan

• Artist: Oladips
• Featuring: Zlatan
• Category: Nigerian Music
• Genre: Afrobeats
• Album: Àjàlá Travel EP (Track 2)
• Released: 2022
• Duration: 03:19

Nigerian Gifted artist, Oladips  renews his previous song Ajala Travel  with a better version.

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