In partnership with Metro Theatre. “Just an Ordinary Lawyer”, performance and songs by Tayo Aluko, Nigerian-born actor, singer and playwright, based in Liverpool, UK. This was a one-man show about Tunji Sowande, who left Nigeria to study law in Britain and who in 1968 became the first Black head of a major barrister’s chamber.
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