Afolabi Olabimtan | |
Office1: | Senator for Ogun West |
Term Start1: | 29 May 1999 |
Term End1: | 29 May 2003 |
Successor1: | Iyabo Anisulowo |
Birth Date: | 11 June 1932 |
Birth Place: | Ogun State, Nigeria |
Afolabi Olabimtan (11 June 1932 - 27 August 2003) was a Nigerian politician, writer, and academic.[1] He was born in Ogun State and was later the senator for Ogun West from 1999 to 2003. He died in a motor accident in August 2003.[2]
Olabimtan achieved a PhD at the University of Lagos in African Languages. He became an expert in the Yoruba language, and wrote a number of novels in the tongue, such as Kekere Ekun in 1967 and Ayanmo in 1973.
In 1999, Olabimatan was elected as a senator for the Alliance for Democracy party for Ogun West. He served just one term, standing down in 2003 in order to allow a younger successor to take his place.[3] Later in the same year he was killed in a motor accident.