See The 68-Year Old British Man Searching For His Yoruba Father

 

A 68-year-old Briton, Mr. Paul Bolton is on the search for his Yoruba father who he claimed he has never met.

The man, born by an English woman to a Nigerian man in an interview with PUNCH revealed that the family of her British opposed her relationship with her father, then an architecture father in the year 1953.

 

 

Paul Borton, a chartered structural consultant, living in Surrey (South-East England) said he was born in Leeds, with his father’s name given as Femi Odiendie or Femi Odeiwde and revealed his mother’s maiden name was Denise Rosamund Mary Williams.

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The man while on the hunt for his father assumed he is in Nigeria but cannot be certain exactly where exactly in Nigeria he i.

In his description of his father, he said:

 

“My understanding is that he completed his studies in the UK; apparently he was living in Preston (North-West of England) at the time of my birth. It was thought that my father had suggested that he would like to care for me and take me back to Nigeria; clearly, this did not come to pass.”

While asserting he doesn’t even know what his father looks like as he doesn’t have his photographs, said within three weeks of his birth, his mother handed him to an orphanage, and his father would not be able to know much about him.

 

 

“My mother’s mother sent my mother to a “Mother and Baby” home in Leeds run by the Catholic Church in order to keep the fact that she was pregnant a secret, with a view to returning to her studies after my birth.”

Explaining why his grandmother wanted the pregnancy to be kept as a secret said:

 

“Pregnancy outside of marriage in 1953 was considered to be very shameful, particularly within Catholic families, which they were. No doubt, the fact that my mother was white compounded the problem. My father met my grandmother, presumably, before my birth.”

He revealed his mother was just 19 years when she got pregnant for her father and added that the young couples met whilst they were both studying architecture at the city of Hull.  He affirmed that his mother was studying architecture at while  his father was most likely an engineer.

 

 

“I found a gentleman on Facebook named Oluyemi Odiende, who studied architecture at the Hull School of Architecture, but he may have died last year. My father was named Femi Odiendie and studied at the same place.

On steps taken so far to locate his father, he said:

 

 

“I have searched for my father by writing to various universities/colleges where he might have studied whilst in the UK, without success. I also wrote to the Nigerian High Commission in London and the Nigerian Institute of Architects in Lagos, but neither organisation responded”, he said.

While noting that his knowledge of Nigeria is shamefully shallow, he affirmed that he would love to know about his Nigerian heritage and his paternal family.

READ FULL INTERVIEW HERE