Art Alade

Modupe Afolabi Jemi-Alade popularly known as Art Alade was a Nigerian television personality and producer who was the host of The Bar Beach Show a weekly variety show on NBC-TV that aired during the 1970s. He retired from NTA in 1979 as acting Director of Programmes.

After he left NTA, he embarked on a career in music and established a club Art's Place where he performed regularly.[1]

Life

Alade was born in 1932 to the family of Babatunde and Abiodun Jemi-Alade, his father worked for the Department of Customs and his mother taught music at a girl's only school, she was a granddaughter of Mohammed Shitta Bey. Alade graduated from C.M.S. Grammar School, Lagos and then traveled abroad to attend Devon Technical College and London School of Television Production in the U.K.. Alade began his career as a musician on a cruise line, the Greek Line.[2] By 1964, on his return from U.K., he joined the staff of Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation now known as NTA.[3] At work, he was known for his humor and by the 1979s, he was host of The Bar Beach Show, a variety show that hosted musical guests. The title of the show was dubbed for the public executions conducted by the government at Bar Beach.[4]

Alade was appointed acting director of Programmes in 1978 and retired a year later.[2]

He is the father of Darey.

gollark: Hmm, that is indeed very weird.
gollark: But then reduced it to only *one* of the exercises after people had already done quite a bit.
gollark: They also told us to do the entire set of exercises in the first chapter of the textbook for... I think next week... so quite possibly.
gollark: They talked about how excited they were about... doing a hundred past exam papers in their spare time, or something?
gollark: I got a weird teacher quite like that this year, but fortunately managed to transfer away from having them quite soon.

References
  1. HILTZIK, MICHAEL A. (19 September 1989). "Musical Vitality Wanes : In Nigeria, Only the Beat Goes On". Los Angeles Times.
  2. "ALADE, Art (Modupe Afolabi Art Jemi-Alade". Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation. 1 November 2016.
  3. "The Passing of Arty Humour". New Spear: 13–14. July 1993.
  4. Soyinka, Wole (2006). You must set forth at dawn : a memoir. [S.l.]: Random House. p. 227. ISBN 9780307432902.
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