Joke Silva
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Joke Silva MFR is a veteran Nigerian actress, director, and businesswoman.
Silva at the 2017 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards
Silva, with her husband Olu Jacobs at the 2014 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards
Saro people
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The Saro, or Nigerian Creoles of the 19th and early 20th centuries, were Africans that were emancipated and initially resettled in Freetown, Sierra Leone by the Royal Navy, which, with the West Africa
Joke Silva
…of the Federal Republic, one of Nigeria's National Honours, at the International Conference Centre in Abuja. Silva was born in Lagos, Nigeria, into a Saro/Amaro family of four children. Her mother, the pioneering doctor Adebimbola Silva, died in July 2015. Her father, Chief Emmanuel Afolabi Silva, was a…
An 1835 illustration of liberated slaves arriving in Sierra Leone.