A family house to the Olaiyas

Often forgotten in the story of Ilojo Bar is the fact that it was a family house to the Olaiyas for over 80 years. The family patriarch bought the house at an auction in 1933 but sadly passed away soon after. Since then, his offspring used the house to live in and for business, bringing music to the house on Tinubu Square. Read about the Olaiya family and where the name Ilojo Bar came from.

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Ilojo Bar of Casa do Fernandez was a landmark national monument in Lagos, Nigeria, which was illegally demolished in 2016. Ilojo Bar was designed and built by Africans who returned from slavery in Brazil in the nineteenth century. Legacy would like an English-language website that becomes a kind of virtual monument to this remarkable building and the many stories surrounding it.

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