Ayo Bankole
Ayo Bankole (An haife shi ne a ranar 17 ga watan Mayu, a shekarar 1935, ya mutu 6 ga watan Nuwamba shekarar 1976 ) ya kuma kasance mawaƙi kuma ɗan kodago daga ƙabilar Yarbawa da ke kudu maso yammacin Najeriya.

Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
Ayo Bankole an haife shi ne a Jos, Najeriya, a cikin dangin mawaƙa: mahaifin sa, Theophilus Abiodun Bankole ya kasance ƙwararren malamin kwaleji kuma Choirmaster a cocin St. Luke's Anglican coci da ke Jos. Mahaifiyarsa ta kasance malamar koyar da kade-kaɗe ne, sannan tayi tsawon shekaru a makarantar Queen's, Ede, Jihar Osun, makarantar sakandaren gwamnatin tarayya.

Bankole yayi karatu a London a Guildhall School of Music and Drama . A can ya hadu da dalibin wasan kwaikwayo kuma mawaki Brian Edward Hurst kuma ya sanya daya daga cikin baitocin Hurst, "Yaran Rana", zuwa kiɗa; wannan an yi shi a Makarantar Guildhall a cikin shekarar 1960. Ya kuma yi karatu a Kwalejin Clare, Cambridge kuma ya sami Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship don nazarin ilimin ƙira a Jami'ar California, Los Angeles .

Ayyukan waƙa 
Bankole ya dawo Najeriya a shekarar 1966 kuma an naɗa shi Babban Hadimin Kida a Kamfanin Watsa Labarai na Najeriya, Legas, inda ya yi aiki har zuwa shekarar 1969, daga nan kuma aka nada shi malamin wakoki a Makarantar Nazarin Afirka da Asiya, Jami'ar Legas.

Ya yi aiki a matsayin malamin koyar da ƙade-kaɗe mawaƙi, mai kiɗan waka, mai yi da kuma kiɗan ƙade-kaɗe tare da ƙungiyoyin mawaƙa masu zaman kansu, gami da Choir of Angels (ɗaliban makarantar sakandare uku a Legas: Reagan Memorial, Lagos Anglican Girls Grammar School, da kuma Methodist Girls High School), Musungiyar Musika ta Jami'ar Legas, ,ungiyar Al'adu ta Musicasa ta Nigerianasa ta Nijeriya, da kuma Majami'ar Maƙaryata ta alingwaƙa, duk a cikin Legas. Ya rubuta kide-kide da yawa na kide-kide na Kirista a cikin yaren Yarbanci kuma abubuwan da ya tsara sun nuna abubuwan da ke cikin kiɗan gargajiya na Najeriya da kiɗan gargajiya na Yammacin Turai. Ya kuma tsara waƙoƙin jigo don wasu wasannin kwaikwayo na talabijin na Najeriya.

Kisa 
A shekarar 1976, yana da shekaru 41, wani dan uwan mahaifin sa ne ya kashe Bankole tare da matarsa a garin Legas.

Manazarta

Kara karantawa 

 Euba, Akin . "Ayo Bankole: Ra'ayin Kiɗan Fasaha Na Zamani Na Afirka Ta Ayyukan Mawaƙin Nijeriya." A cikin aysa'idodi kan Kiɗa a Afirka, babu. 1 (1988), shafi na. 87–117. Bayreuth: IWALEWA-Haus.
 Horne, Haruna. Kiɗa na Kiɗa na Comananan Mawaƙa: A Bibliography, Greenwood, 1992.
 Omojola, Olabode F. (1994). "Wakokin Zamani na Zamani a Najeriya: Bayanin Gabatarwa kan Ayyukan Ayo Bankole." Afirka: Jaridar Cibiyar Afirka ta Duniya, v. 64, a'a. 4 (1994), shafi na. 533-543.
 Sadoh, Godwin (2007). Girman Al'adu a cikin Waƙar Ayo Bankole . Masu rarrabuwa. ISBN 0-595-46436-X .  .
 Mutuwan 1976