Dayo dedeke biography of rory

Dapo Thomas

Realizing that it would be very difficult to distance myself from any semblance of scuffling and rascality after two years of fraternizing with a popular gangster like Darasingh and undergoing intensive coaching under the same man, I went before GOD in 1974 as I was about to start my secondary school education, for special anointing to avoid trouble or, at best, to be delivered from frequent brawling.

There was no need to deceive myself that there could be any form of rapid exorcism without spiritual arbitration.

Most of the secondary schools in Lagos in the 1970s, particularly the ones I attended-Benevolent High School, Yaba, and Eko Boys High School, Mushin- were mostly “concentration camps” for juvenile pugilists.
Fracas was a common spectacle on Lagos streets.

In fact, street brawl was turned to gaming machine as fighters and spectators began placing bets on possible winners and losers. Sometimes, yo