The Obafemi Awolowo Foundation has announced that an HID Awolowo Foundation will be inaugurated soon to celebrate and commemorate in perpetuity the outstanding contributions of Mama, HID to family values, entrepreneurship and perseverance in the face of adversity.
A statement from the Office of the Executive Director, Dr O. Awolowo Dosumu said that the Foundation is being instituted under the aegis of the Obafemi Awolowo Foundation.
The statement said that though the details and fine points of the initiative are being worked out, but that it would focus on the synergy between the values that Mama HID stood for and exemplified and the legacy of the sage, Chief Awolowo, from which the Foundation has derived its core mandate and competencies.
“It is pertinent to recall Mama’s fortitude and exemplary forte in keeping the faith both at a time when her husband was unjustly persecuted by political authorities and in the years since the sage passed on. It ought to be remarked that her business acumen, organizational intelligence and hard work stood her in good stead throughout her remarkable life. It is in recognition of these virtues and the need to underline the careers of role models and visionaries in a morally adrift generation that the HID Awolowo stood for.”
HID Awolowo, who was until her death, Chairperson and moving spirit of Oodua, died on Saturday, 19th of September at the age of 99. [myad]
